Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 2, Number 114, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 October 1871 — Page 1
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1871.
A KEROSENE lamp, taken by a careless boy into a frame stable, and kicked over by an unruly cow, lighted the fire which had laid wuste the most thriving of Western cities, destroyed three hundred million dollar*' worth of property, and which will move the fltyincial world to its center.
WE give to-day much of our space to accouots, from different sources, of the great fire. It i3 the all-absorb'ng theme, and every one desires to learn all he can about it. An account of the great fire in London in 1666, which will also be found in another column, will be read with especial interest at this time. Human nature invthose days, was much the same thing as now, and by reading thi&, account It will be seen, that the terrible calamity operated on the people then, about as it did on che people of Chicago a few days ago. It is only once in a long time that the world is visited by such an awful catastrophe, and it becomes historic ever after. The time will hardly come in the future, when the Chicago fire of 1871 will be forgotten. Let us fervently hope that the time may never come in the future when such an occurrence will again take place.
Additional Local News.
THE County Auditor's clerks are now engaged in summing up the delinquent tax accounts.
NUITING parties go out of the city every day. Nuts are plentiful this season, but this fact is of little importance to the parties.
THE treasurey of the Typographical Union of this city now contains about eight hundred dollars. The enterprise and economy of the various members did it.
SEVERAL families in the southeastern part of the city took their coffee "clear" the otber day on account of the accidental upsetting of their dairyman's milk wagon.
THE postofflce department of this city has not as yet issued a single money order on Ireland, although it has been some time since provisions were made for such orders.
MAJ. JOHN E. SIMPSON, Superintendent of the Vaudalia Line, has issued orders for all Chicago sufferers from the late fire to be transferred over all parts of that line, free of charge
THE work of repainting the cars of the Terre Haute Street Railway, has commenced at the Vaudalta shops. The first repainted car will make Its appearance on the streets in about two weeks.
MARTIN KALEHER, who drives a dray for pastime, and guzzles poor whisky for his health, fell asleep on the sidewalk in frout of the Mayor's office, this morning, and was carried by a couple of policemen to the Station House to finish his nap.
Two cases were tried in the Mayor's Court to-day, both for disorderly conduct. The first, Mrs. Sarah Hutchinson, was fined $10.15 for which she gave security and was released the second, Wm. Decamp, was found iunocent and released.
J. F. DOWNING, General Agent of the Insurance Company of North America,* sends a circular to his agents in this city, Grimes & Royce, that "the old bulwark of 1794" is still strong and vigorous. Their losses are heavj*, but do not exceed half the net surplus of the company.^'
THE total amount of money subscribed by the oitizens of this city for the relief of Chicago sufferers, up to this time, amounts to nearly five thousand dollars. The committee of five, appointed at the citizens' meeting will send a sub-com-mittee to Chicago with the donations, this evening.
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THIS IS the season of the year when woman has her own way at the house, while the "old man" takes his solemn repast from the top of the flour barrel, and in sleeping enjoys the freedom of the interval between his bed room and the front fence. It is a season for meditation, whitewash, and calm, unimpassion-, ed profanity.
A SERIOUS accident occurred at Hunter's Switch, seven miles east of St.Louis, on the VandaliaJLine, on Monday night. An eastern bouud train had switched from the main track, in order to allow the freight train going west to pass. Unfortunately, the switch had been left: open, and fhe traius collided. The engine of the western train and seventeen cars were badly wrecked, and the conductor, engineer, fireman, and one bnikeman considerably injured. Goo-is were* scattered in every direction, and damaged to some extent.
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The "Home" will not be effected, policy-holders are all safe. A. C. M. BAKER.
THET TBRBE HAUTE TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, NO. 76, at a call meeting last night, appropriated oue hundred dollars, all the money at their immediate command, for the benefit of the suffering members of the Chicago Typ«.graphical Union. Harvey Carr was appointed to carry the mouey to Chicago.
WE don't believe anything of a lady's kiss unless we have it from her own mouth.—La Fayette Journal.
We don't believe that the local of the Journal will ever "believe anything of a lady's kiss" on such a condition as practical experience of his own, entertaining the high opinion we do of the good taste of the ladies.
JOE YATES says he has "Lucy" in training now, and that Pat Tully must either "put up" or stop talking about the speed of "Silver Tail"—"Joe" says 3:88J is not her best time, that she went into the race out of condition, (the boys bad her out hauling walnuts) but that when she appears on the track again he will have her in fine fix. More fun "for the boys."
EVERY citizen whose heart throbs with sympathy for one hundred aud ten thousand suffering and starving men, women and children, from the Chicago disaster, should patronize the vocal and instrumental concert to be given by the Mrennerchor and Independent Music Club, assisted by Miss Kellogg and other superior vocalists, on Saturday night at the Opera House.
A crowded house should greet the Vienna Lady Orchestra?^!o-night. All exchanges unite in pronouncing it a first-class troupe in every respect and all who avail themselves of this opportunity to hear such a rare combination of female voices, and witness such a display of musical talent, may expect to be delightedby one of the most cbarrnentertainments that has ever taken place in this city.
THE quarry of the supposed lithographic vne recently discovered near Spencer, Oiven county, Indiana has attracted sufficient notice at Washington to cause the request for another specimen brick for critical examination, to be seut at the expense of the General Laud Office. This may develop another source of Indiana's wealth, which seems to be becoming more and more apparent every day.
THOS. H. BARR & Co., are still doing a large business in the patent medicine line. Their ague medicine is having an unprecedented sale, the only trouble being to manufacture it fast enough to fill orders. It is said to knock the "shakes" out,of a man in less than no time. The Reason for coughs and colds is near at hand, and they are fixing up the Piectoral Elixir which has proven itself a very popular remedy, and is prescribed by many of our physicians. 5
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BBIONOLI was so much disgusted with the reception of hie first song at the Nilsson concert, in Pittsburg, this week, that he became" suddenly "ill" and went home. Miss Nilsson and Miss Cary filled his place with dueWs. The Pittsburg Gazette says in reference to the matter "Mr. Brignoli's voice is not what it was, and he has aged a great deal besides, Pittsburg audiences are not quite ready to forgive the insolence perpetrated during his last visit." It is about time Brignoli had ceased flying off at a tangent. He is uot the chicken that he used to be, but is fust becoming a tougb old oock, and the" public will whistle'him down if he does not behave himself.
We consider Bwgnoli a petulent and disagreeable "old cuss," aud for our part we never care to hear him sing again.' He is too "fine-haired" for this Western country.
THE last number of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly contains the following notice of the Female Orchestra troupe, which will appear at the Opera House this evening: "It is artistically a very brilliant orchestra, and presents us with some firstrate orchestral players. Miss Leopoldine, the leading first violin, is an admirable member of it, and a first-class soloist on her instrument, while the violincello of Miss Elzer is toathe ftfll as purely played. Upon the first evening, scarcely any doubt can exist but that the feeling of the audience was merely one of curiosity. This was, however, soon dispelled. The overture to Nabuceo was admirably given, and the waltK by Miss Weinlich, the condctress, and the fantasia on the violincello by Kummer, translated by Miss Elzer, settled the question-as to their success. A lovelier uroup of musicians has never appealed to any audience, atd if Mr. Rullman had to encounter many difficulties in getting them to visit the United States, we honestly believe that 4iis trouble will be well repaid by the attraction they must produce, wherever they appear."
FIRE IRSUKANCE.—We have taken considerable pains to talk with our leading insurance men, aud they all agree that only the local companies of Chicago, and some few Western companies will be compelled to suspend. The Eastern and foreign companies will all pay their losses promptly. Below we give an extract from an article published soon after the great fire in New York, which fully illustrates the feelings of all first-class companies:
After the great fire of 1835, the "JStnfr." of Hartford, now t«»e largest, strongest, and most successful Fire Insnrance Company in America, received notice of their _osses, and the President called a meeting of the Board of Directors, and in a few words told them tuey had lost, probably, all their capital. After a few momenta sileucd, iri which the -President brought from the fire-proof_ vault all thdS^tocks and bonds representing their capital, and iaced them before them, when one of the ftoard asked him what he should do. 'Do!" said the President, "Go to New York and pay t&fetoaj&8,if it mikes' eveiry ollar there," pointing to tfie packages, and my own fortune besides."
The anxious looks gave way to those of settled determination, and the Boardunanimously said: "Good! and we will stand by you with all our individual
jejYesldent wtattb 3tew York, ad# justed the losses, and in a years' time the company, so bold to act and ready to fulfill its obligations, had their capital more than returned by premiums, and a better reputation thau any company in the
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LATEST NEWS.
A Card from the Mayor of Chicago.
The Supply of Cooked Provisions Sufficient.
Blankets, Cloth insr and Needed Most.
Money
The Business Men Determined Rebuild the City.
All railroads leadingmit of Chicago are carrying free of charge over their roads such of the homeless as have friends ih other places, and this kindness on their part is being largely availed of, and many are leaving the city. Our own citizens are doing everything that it is possible for men toclo, feeding the hungry, and our women nursing the sick and clothing the needy, aud doing what they can to relieve the distressed. Many private houses are accommodating all the£ can shelter.
Governor Palmer seut a special messenger with $5,000 yesterday, and came here himself this morning to assist in affording relief.
He has called a special session of the Legislature to convene at Springfield on the 13th iust.
Many Governors of States have been heard from^nA all tender their assistance ou behalf of their respective States.
At a meeting of citizens at St. Louis last night, $290,000 were subscribed. Cincinnati piedges$250,000 New York will probably assist us wit^h half a million. As our city is without water, by reason of the destruction of its water works, the greatest care is being exercised to prevent fire from breaking out, as in our present helpless condition a fire might inflict untold additional misery upon us, and in consequence, large num-
bers of special police are being sworn in, to watch aud patrol our streets and guard all places which might be in danger of incendiary attack.
The Common Council yesterday passed an ordinance fixing the price of bread at eight cents for a loaf of twelve ounces, and in the same proportion for loaves of a less or greater weight, and fixing a penalty of$10 for each violation of the ordinance, which is to remain in force for ten days.
The damnably depraved character of some of. the ruffians of the city was perfectly illustrated on Monday and the ensuing night by attempts made to promote pillage by fires set by incendiaries in different parts of the city. To the credit of the inhabitants of the city, be it said, the villians generally met with the fate they deserved. The foliqwing are some illustrations, rumored and authentic:
A boy attempted to help bn the conflagration by ignitinga clothes line saturated with kerosene and tnrowing it into a building on Thirty-second. He received his deserts at the hands of the firemen, who saw the act, and "no ft sleeps in the valley."
A man, name unknown, was shot by a negro at the corner of State and Thirty-second streets. His offence was that he set fire to a building to obtain better opportunities for pillage.
Bridget Hickey was arrested for feetting fire to a barn in the rear of ar house on Buruside street. By some mistaken idea of clemency she was not hanged.
Two men who were caught trying to set fire to the Jesuit Churchl:on the West Side Were disposed of without ceremony, and the lookers-on were pleased to say, served 'em right.
About noon yesterday, a barn on the corner of Burnside and Twentieth streets WtMB. observed to be on fire. Knowing th&t it miist have been the work of an incendiary, the neighbors united to extinguish it, filling their coats and hats and everything they could get hold of with's&nd. The fire was extinguished in giod time, and a man found in there captiired. It is stf fied tjjaat he was gh0k Whether the report is or is not cdrrect is not known.
About eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, a man also residing on Fourth avenue, caught a man in the basement of number uodoown, armed
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CHICAGO, October 11—4:40 P. M. To Everybody: The Mayor of Chicago, on behalf of the citizens of Chicago, sends thanks sud blessings to all who have so nobly aud generously aided the city in its great and appalling calamity.•
Cooked provisions should no longer be sent. Blankets, clothing and money are most needed.
There is no fire'now raging, aud no great fear of any further conflagration. All is quiet and orderly.
Our business men are not demoralized Our merchants already have large quantities of goods ordered and en route to the city. AH are filled with hope, and determined to raise the city from its ashes. R. B. MASON, Mayor.
CHICAGO, October 11.—No disturbance has occurred during the night. A great deal of suffering occurred among" the people on Monday night who were obliged to camp out on the prairie or the northern extremes of the city, and quite a number of deaths resulted in cousequenceof theexposure, fright and fatigue endured. The committe in charge in the name of the city have impressed omnibusses, carriages, and wagons of every kind, aud set them to work carrying provisions to them, as also water, and bringing them into the churches and school houses on the south and west sides, where they have been sheltered and made comfortable, and last night it was believed but very little suffering existed. With the assistance of Gen. Sheridan and Col. Forsyth, the various committees have been organized and set at work carrying out their various duties very quickly and effectively.
Immense quantities of provisions have arrived. Many car loads being cooked, ready fordistribution, and the committee have telegraphed to several places to ston sending more at present. Twenty car loads of provisions and ten thousand blankets came from Cincinnati, accompanied by seventeen of her citizens.
St. Louis sent in twenty car loads of provisions. The first supply of provisions received came from Milwaukee. Allegan, Springfield, LaFayette, Burlington, Racine, Madison, Kenosha, Ripon, Urbana, Sycamore, Allegheny City, Jacksonville, Davenport, and Plymouth sent one car of provisions each Elkhart and Fort Wayne seut three cars each Cleveland six cars Otihkosh and Logausport two cars each.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad brought eight car loads of provisions from Nepauset.
The various cities throughout the country have almost all telegraphed offers of money and supplies of every kind.
New York has made tenders of large amounts of money, and many of her private citizens have given ten tbousaud dollars each. J. Gould has telegraphed the use of fast trains and free transportation over his road.
with hay and matches. He gave the alarm aud the incendiary was caught and stoned and battered to death. He lies on the avenue yet, near Fourteenth street.
From Commissioner T. B. Brown the following incident was learned. On his authority it is correct without a doubt: At about one o'clock yesterday afteruoou a colored man, name unknown, observed a white man sneaking round his house on Fourth avenue. He fired the barn in the rear of the house, and was instantly sbot dead. 4"
Among thd special policemen svfroru in on the South Side yesterday was a negro named "Dick" Costello, who was assigned to a beat on Wabash avenue, near Hubbard Court. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon a white man, whose name is unknown, was lookiug upon the ruins, when Costello warned him off. He answered that he was only a spectator and was doing no harm, when the negro raised a piece of lead pipe with which he was armed, and smashed in the man's skull, killiug him on the spot. The crowd followed the negro aud would have hung him but for tire intervention of a couple of policemen who rescued him aud locked him up in the Cottage Grove Station.
Another man was shot last evenjng by a police officer, who detected him in the act of attempting to fire the Jesuit Church on Twelfth street.
An excited crowd gathered around the West Division Police Station, about o'clock yesterday afternoou, intent upon making application, of lynch law to man who was alleged to have tried ot set fire to a house on Milwaukee avenue. Three or four ropes were flourished vigorously in. the crowd, and several speeches were made by parties, urging them to rescue the incendiary from the hands of the police, but the latter were firm, and at the last accounts the man was still a prisoner in the cell.
Chicago Fire.
Isaac Errett, editor of the Christian Standard, in a letter written for the Cincinnati Commercial, gives the following of what he saw of the great fire
I reached Chicago on Sunday morning at 7:30, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, in time to witness the devastations of the fire of Saturday night' The enormous piles of live coals left in the desolate lumberyards were so many fiery demons, threatening the safety of the city, and wanting only to be lashed into excitement by an angry wind to spread mischief and ruin everywhere. The exceeding dryness of the season—the large number of frame buildings contigu-. ous—the high elevators within reach— the unworthy character of the roofs and cornices of many of even the brick and stone buildings of the business portion of the city all, to a discerning eye, revealed that the city was at the mercy of the winds and the flames.
Moreover, even the so-called fire-proof buildings of Chicago were not fire-proof. I doubt if the stone they use in building can ever be relied on. It is limestone. The best of it has more or less lime in it, aud cannot stand before the heat of an immense conflagration. Their brick are also inferior.
But the confidence of the people in the fire department, and their cheerful trust in good luck, silenced their fears, and when the fire broke out afresh in the evening, there seemed to be no fear that the engines would not be able to master it. Near miduight, moved by fears was unable to suppress, I ascended to the roof of the house of my host—H. H. Ho nore—on Michigan avenue, to note the progress of the fire. It was evidently spreading extensively, and the gusts of wind, which were sometimes so strong as to compel us to brace ourselves on the roof, threatened immense mischief. JJut as the wind bore rather west of north, we felt that our part of the city was net in danger, and we ventured to seek rest and sleep.. Within an hour we were roused with the information that the flames were approaching us. A hasty glauce satisfied us that the river had been crossed, and the lire was moving diagonally toward the lake in a northeast direction. Still it was hoped, from the northwest bearing of- the wind, which had risen to a gale, that its eastward pro gress would be stayed before it reached the most valuable portion of the city. It was painfully interesting to look at men whose whole fortune, in magnificent buildings, was at the mercy of the fire, trying to persuade themselves that by some streak of good luck the fire would be arrested before it reached their treasures. "The wish was father to the thought." But in spite of these agoniz ing wishes the stream of devouring flame kept moving on, even against the wind, or only tacking sufficiently to pursue its course diagonally toward the lake. Now ensued a scene of wildest excitement. The people, aroused to a sense of danger, made frantic ef« orts to save their property. The streets were soon thronged with frightened aud frantic crowds of ail classes and descriptions, and th^ mixture of the solemn and painful with the ludicrous and diverting, was such as is seldom se$n. Horses, carriages, wheelbarrows, sleighs, some wi,th men harnessed for horses, and Women and children pushing behind—the vehicles loaded with every kind of house hold treasure—striving to get beyond the reach of the onward moving river of flame, that surged and swelled and beat relentlessly against every obstacle and forced a channel through even the solidest walls of stone. Little boys aud girls dragging trunks tiirough the streets with tne hand, holding on with the other to some cherished picture of the loved and lost. Huge Irishmen leading goats through the crowd, carrying the kids in their arms, and leaving the children to make their own way. Women loaded down with bed-slats, and carefully bearing them to places of safety. Big men carrying mirrors for squares, and laying them down only to be shivered in a moment. Barefooted and almost naked women and children gathered around their piles of furniture, many of them falling asleep in the street from sheer exhaustion, only to be roused to gather up their goods and rush farther aWay from the approaching danger. Millionaires of yesterday, looking in pale silence at the fire demon, sporting recklessly with their fortunes, and witb-ering-to ashes in an hour the toils of half a lifetime past, and the only hope of the half of life left that lay yet in the future. The air is filled with sparks and burning splinters, which the cruel winds in their wantonness lash into fury, aud send them leaping and darting, with fiery tongue, like enraged serpents, to strike at the first object in their way. Some light on roofs, some stick their fangs into woodeu cornices, or windowframes others dart, as if with demoniacal intelligence, after awnings and directly another magnificent block is wrapped in flames. Soon the gas lights go out—the gas works being destroyed the winds start up with fresh howling vengeance just as men's hopes revive of checking the onward sweep of the fire the moon looks out of the sky with a hue as of death-sitfitness^ utterly
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flames, high up into the air, to burst into a deluge of sparks and blazing splinters, aud descend in fiery torrent on some near object of vengeance, make up a scene of tumult and desolation and awful magnificence that no words can describe. Then word conies that the Court House is in flames—that the Tremont and the Sherman are gone—and when you lift up your eyes, look which way you will, it is evident that the lire-fiend•* are holdiug high carnival, aud that no earthty power cau arrest them.
The burning of the new Houore build ing, oue of the most magnificent business houses on the continent, and of the new hotel op the opposite corner, was terrible in its grandeur. The new Mansard roof, not yet completed, on the Honore building, no sooner caught a spark than it burst forth like a suppressed mountain, and the fire leaped high into the air with an exultation of fury that seemed sub limely diabolical. Then, beaten by a fresh gale of wind, it rushed in a river toward the postoffice—a turbulent river —wave succeeding wave, dashiug against stone walls, beaten back for a moment in sullen defeat, then gathering strength for a more furious onset, and breaking in a spray of fire that rushed like an army to scale the walls and carry the torch within the ramparts. The new hotel, whose name I forget, almost ready for occupancy, furnished new material to feed the fury of this assault. For a time a column of flame rose up from the north side of this buildiug from the ground to the roof, perhaps thirty or forty feet in breadth, which, in its occasional spiral curvings and with thequickened motion imparted by every fresh conquest of fire within the wails, seemed like an enormous fiery serpent writhing in agony, and frantically struggling to make a terrible leap iuto the air. But it is useless to attempt description. It was sublime—the noble and daring struggles to beat back the flames and save the buildings—but the wisest and bravest efforts of men were the struggles of Lilliputians, and the engines seemed absolutely contemptible in their feebleness, even when doing their best. A broad river of flame, reaching miles in length, could not be resisted.
An Eye-Witness Tells His Story of the Chicago Conflagration. During the day several business men from Chicago arrived in our city. Their story of Uie heart-rending scenes they had so lately witnessed was listened to with the most attentive sympathy, and gave rise to au almost endless round of questions. An Enquirer reporter was introduced to oue of these gentlemen at the Bu.rnet House last night, and learned from him many facts that have not been published in the telegraphic reports.
This gentleman, who is a partner in a mercantile house there, says that a large portion of the people were not made cognizant that a great fire was raging in their city until Monday morning. They heard the alarm-bells ringing with their wild clangor during the Jgight, and knew that afire was raging somewhere, but did not fancy that any considerable portion of the city was in danger. Early in the morning, however, they began to realize their peril, and a wild scene of dismay followed. In the neighborhood where it originated people were seen moving their goods out into the streets. Some who had placed their property in wagons for removal saw the •horses, frightened by the fierce flames, dash madly down the street, overturning whatever was in their way, while others, in their wild terror, dashed into the flames and were destroyed. Women, half-dressed and barefooted, were seen rushing through the streets bearing children in their arms, while children who had become separated from their parents went moaning piteously in search of their natural pro tectors. The crackling flames, traveling with the speed of the wind, would occasionally dwindle to almost insignificance, awakening hope in the hearts of those around that their fury had spent itselfhopes.that a moment later were dashed to atoms by the redoubled fury with which they returned to the attack.
Stately four and five-story buildings, whose appearance would indicate that they would stand for all time, would crisp and writhe under the flames, and in a few moments fall with a crash to the ground like the toys of a child. The Court House, a structure of tjiis class, in whose construction it was supposed that every appliance of modern invention had- been expended to render it fireproof after resisting the flames for an hour, took fire, aud in an hour's time was a smouldering ruin. The Nicoison pavement of the streets caught fire, and the flames from it joining with those of the blocks of buildings on either side made a vast wall of flame a mile and a half long, which, impelled by the swift gale of the lake, marched over the city like a fceson of destruction.
Frenzied men and women, maddened by their losses, hungry and despairing, stabbed themselves to the heart, or threw themselves iuto the lake to drown. Oth ers went through the streets singing wild maniacal songs, or raving disjointed fragments of thought. The flremen, worn out by the twenty hours' labor, sank to the' ground exhausted, to snatch a few momeuts rest, and be aroused by the approaching flames. The vast stores of hose with which the Department had been supplied was burnt until barely three hundred feet remained of the miles which had been on hand but a day before.
No one had the temerity to blow up buildings to save the city. Had this been done at the proper time there is no doubt but a great part of the calamity might have been averted. But no one would take the responsibility of ordering it. Thus matters stood on Monday afternoon when General Sheridan arrived. He was willing to assume the responsibility, and issued the order. It was obeyed, and the remnant of the city saved. The fire subsided for want of material to feed upon, and the remainder of the once beautiful city was saved.— Gin. Enquirer. $.
WE have often heard ladies express a desire to knoV by what process the fine gloss observed on new linen, shirt bosoms, etc., is produced and iu order they may possess the secret, and thereby please their husbands twice a week with a white and glossy shirt front, we append the recipe: Make a gumarabic powder —put it into a pitcher and pour on it a pint of boiling water (according to the degree of strength you require), and then having covered it let it stand all night. In the morning pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork it and keep it for use. A teaspoonful of gum water stirred into a pint of starch that has been jnade in the usual manner will give to lawns (either white or printed) a look of newness when nothing else can restore them after washing. It is also jgood (much diluted) for thin white muslin and bobinet.
Discretion is the better part of valor— Tom and Arthur have been rude to their mamma. Mamma has complained to papa, who is heard coming up stairs. Arthur—I say, Tom. here comes papa: I shall pretend to be asleep. Tom—l shan't: I shall get up and putftometbtug «M.-Vwdy. ...
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Mr. Frederick Rullman lias the honor to iutrodnee to the citizens of Terre Haute the worldrenowned
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Lady Orchestra
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Thursday Eye., October 12.
Tiiis is the only Lady Orchestra in the World, consisting ol over Twenty Instrumentalists, all youi g, handsome aud highly talented ladies, iucludiug a number of distinguished Solo Performers on the Violin, Flute Violincello, Harp, etc., assisted by M'lle Anna Elzer,
The Wonderful Child Soprano, Mr. Jacob Mailer, The Unrivaled Baritone,
Prof. Mulder Fabbri Pianist.
PRICES OF ADMISSION.
Lower Floor 75c Reserved 8eats S1.C0 Family Circle 50c Gallery 25c
The sale of Seats commences on Monday at B. G. Cox's Book Store, Main street.
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FQUNDBY.
F. H. M'ELFRESH. J. BARNARD.
Phtienix Foundry
AND
MACHINE SHOP!
McElfresli & Barnard,
Cor. of Ninth anl Eagle Streets,
(Near the Passenger Depot,)
TERRE HAUTE, IND.
jdrftNTJFACTORE Steam Engines, 'Mil!' MiTX chinery. House Fronts, Fire Fronts, Circular Saw Mills, and all kinds of
IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS!
REPAIRING DOSE PROMPTLY
All parties connected with this establishment being practical mechanics of several years'experience, we feel safe in saying that we can render satisfaction to our customers, both in point of Workmanship and Price. 211dwly McELFRESH A BABNARD."
MEDICAL
PISO'S CURE
'V
1
FOR
CONSUMPTION WILLcure
pulmonaay complaints, difficult
breathing, throat diseases and COUGHS which 11 neglected terminate in serious and too often fatal diseases of the lungs.
Try it If it fails to satisfy you of Its efficacy the agont will refund your money.
A. FAIR OFFER,
,£ 1
The Proprietors of Piso's
CURE FOB CONSUMPTION
Agree to repay the price to all who try the remedy ana receive from It no benefit. Thus if ltdoes no good it COSTS NOTHING, and If It cures one is satisfied.
PISO'S CURE is very pleasant to the taste and does not produce nausea. It is intended to soothe and not irritate. It aures a Cough much quicker than any other medicipe, and yet does not dry it up.
If you have "only a Cough," do not let It become something worse, but cure it immediately.
Piso's Cure for Consumption
being a certain remedy for the worst of human ailments, must of necessity be the best reined for Cough and diseases of the throat which 11 neglected too olten terminate fatally.
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Danf That 50,000 persons die
J.I IB ill til/1 nuallyin the United State of Consumption.
That 25,000 persons diean-
JLB Xtlvt nuallyfrornneridatoryCon
from
sump'tton.
Tf ia a Fn/ii That 25,000 persons die anAt lo UA/I nually from Cough ending in Consumption.
Tf la a n+ That a slight cough often XL IB ill/l terminates in Consumption.
It is a Fact
cured.
Tf ia a Pa/it That recent and protracted 11 18 -E tlvv coughs can be cored.
Tf Ifi a That Piso's Cure has cured All cltl and will cure these diseases.
It is a FactSSLf"0''
Sold by Druggists everywhere^'•»«* E. T. HAZELTINE, Proprietor, Warren, Pennsylvania.
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W O E S E A S S
Mann&ctarere of the Genuine
Manufacturers and dealers In
CABINET & TRUNX LOCKS,
TRAVELING BAG FRAMES A
TRUNK HARDWARE,
Hamilton street. Corner Railroad Avenne, Idly NEWARK N-J.
APPLE PABEBS.
D. 11. WHITTKHOKE,
," MannlaotBieror
APPLE PARERS, And Paring, Coring A Siloing Moohinea,
id? WoiwrtCTi
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MEDICAL
SPECIAL NOTIC E.
The Unparalleled Success!
OF
ItlUTXKER'S
Carminafiye Balsam!
IN CURING
Diarrhea, Flux, 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 Ever}-other Remedy lias Failed
IT IS INFALLIBLE I
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 Tor Children Teething.
It will allay all Inflamatica in the Gums and Stomach, and remove every cause or tear of Summer Complaint.
It is P- rfectly Harmless, very Pleasant to Take, and will not produce Costl veil ess, nor any other least possible objection.
TKKRE HAUTK, June 25, IS
MIT. W. BRUXKKB: Please forward me one gross of 23c and some 50c and $1 size Balsam. I nave only one dozen left,and they will begone belore night. Your Carminative Balsam is giving unparalleled satisfaction. It is has saved life in four canes in this city in the past few lay8. I can send you th,e certificates if you dere it 8 at el I in ha it I cannot do witliput it. IRA GRUVER,JB.
F. om Dr. McClary, Casey, 111. Your Carminative Balsam gives unbounded satisfaction here. It hascurea in every case.
J. M. M. McCLARY, Druggist.
From Drs.EdwardsAEaton, Hutsonville,111. MH. BKUNKER—Your Carminative Balsam gives uiibounded satisfaction here.
E W A S & E A O N
From Messrs. Williite & Reid, Sullivan, Ind. We can send you manycertiflcc.es of cures at this place, including our own families.
WILHITE& REID, Druggists.
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Indiana.
MR. BRUNKKB—YourCarminativeBalsam haa effectually oured me of a protracted and violent aitack 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 ur little girl of a most violent attack of Cholera Infantum, after we had given up all hopes of its life, and all other medical aid had failed.
JOHN CRITCHFIELD
EVANSVILLK, Ind., July 5,1871.
MR. BRUNKKR—Your Carminative Balsam ail sold. Will be pleased to receive another, consignment. Yours, Ac., ,T KELLER A WHITE,
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Wholesale Druggists. ,-•*
it in' I mi i'J MANHATTAN, Putnam Co., Iild. July 5,71. MR. BRUNKBB—Your Agent lett some of your Carminative Balsam at our store last .Vail. I flu beats all the medicines that have ever been solely in thisragion for diseases of the Stomach and Bowels. It is all sold, and'we have daily calls!'? for more. Please sencMi8 more immediately, .J.
Yours, Ac., B. G. A S. PARROT, awri *wrt vrtJ ii!U £1*1
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General Wholesale Agemts,
BtNTIK MADISON,j tj
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TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA.'
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Between the two Railroads. 188d &
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COES SCREW WRENCHES
With A. G. Coes' Patent Lock Fender* mtnhU»hed in 1G».
LOCKS.
CORNELIUS, WALSH & SON,
,c
STEAM BASEST.
Union Steam Bakery.
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•'FRANK HEINIG & BK0.
ihWt -Manufacturers of all fclqdsol.
•i tteSM-
Ctackers, Cakes, Breadj
$1Kv
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A N
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Dealers in
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OHIO STREET,
Bet. 5th and 6th,
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Foreign and Domestic FruitB,^
FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES/ .... Al.-'5 'M. V4* LAFAYETTE STREET,
•*$s-
SST v, Terre Haute. Indlaaa.
O'BOTLE,
Dealer In
it
Leather, Hides, Oil and Findings,
178 MAIN STREET,
Terr* Haute, Indiana. ,t|
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A.BIEFdCO., GAS AND STEAM FITTEB,
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J. L. LIND8EY,
COMJUSSlOS tPMBER DEALER
Office, No. 482 West Front Street,
CINCINNATI. OHIO.
SOMETHING NEW.
MEDIKONE8—A
Z'rm if
Book, {tent free), containing
a newly-discovered Cure for Medietas
*£,
Terre Hante, Ind. 4
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many Dis-
of interest to all. No. *r mwi