Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 3, Number 68, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 August 1872 — Page 1
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1872.
Additional Local News.
THE organ announces that the tGran candidates will hold a meeting at Cheek's grove, Saturday A. M. A more appropriately named place could not be selected for that purpose.
A PET coon belonging to the Decatur Magnet got loose the other night, and came back two days afterward, bearing around his neck about a dozen bills for damages done by him, amounting in alj to $45.
THE next election of general interest •will occur in Vermont, September 3d. State officers and members of Congress are then to be selected. The Liberals and Democrats have formed a fusion that will doubtless give them the State.
ARRANGEMENTS were perfected this morning, by which all the townships are to be organized into Greeley clubs,as Hon. A. J. Hunter reaches them in the canvass. See published notice in our local column.
AN important meeting of the Democratic Central Committee, will be held at headquarters, O'Boyle block, Saturday, August 24, at 2 o'clock P. M. A full and complete attendance of members of committee and county candidates is desired.
A LAD named Kennedy was instantly killed near Rockville, a few days since, lie was playing on the track of the L. C. &S. W., when some other lads playing about some empty freight cars on the track on the grade above, accidentally witndrew the pressure of the brakes, letting the cars run down upon him, crushing his young life out instantly.
WE are under renewed obligations to Dooley for the Papular Science Monthly, for September. This is a most valuable publication, and since, the "doins'"of the A. A. A. S. in this city, is becoming very popular, indeed.
It is from the house of D. Appleton & Co., which is a sufficient guarantee of its worth.
SCRIBNER'S for September is on our table, through the courtesy of the publishers. The number before us is a good one extra, even for Scribner, which are always good. J. G. Holland, author of the Timothy Titcomb letters, is the managing editor, and whatever he writes or admits to his columns may be counted on by his patrons as worthy of public attention.
BILLY EDWARDS has challenged Dick Hollywood for a fight, "according to the English prize ring." —Indianapolis live. Journal.
Upon observing the above item in the Journal, we were constrained to make serious inquiries whether or no the Edwards alluded to was our own "Billy." "We were not long in coming to the conclusion that it was not, for an obvious reason.
THE Postmastei's little hand organ grinds out the following sensational song this morning
There is a movement in local politics, the development of which, in a few days, will strike the Polliwogs with consternation.
If you have reference to the Journals supporting Grant, your movement in local politics will neither create surprise or strike consternation anywhere.
THE friends of Mr. A. T. Whittlesey, of the Courier, were very much alarmed ou Saturday on account of that gentleman being prostrated, about 11 o'clock in the morning, with an attact of apoplexy. He was reported to be out of danger yesterday.—Evansvi'le Journal.
THE parents of the runaway children from Danville, Illinois, came to the city yesterday, aud, after thinking the matter over, concluded to tie the young coupl* together and let them float down life's rough stream in the same boat. The County Clerk issued a license, and Mayor Macauley finished the job up in his best style. Success attend them.—State Sentinel.
TIIE Railway Water Supply Company made a trial of their apparatus yesterday afternoon at the crossing of the St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute Railroad over White river, raising 1,600 gallons of water forty-five feet high to the tender in about one minute. The great value of this system is demonstrated beyond a doubt, and cannot fail to take the place of all other systems, doing away—as it doe9—with the objectionable features of the old system, and materially reduciug the first cost, and doiug away entirely with the expense of pumping and employment of men at water stations.— Indianapolis Journal.
THE Indian delegation went through Stewart's store, at New York, and the Herald reporter says: Mrs. Thigh took a great liking to some patterns of striped summer goods, and Mrs. Two Strike wanted her husband to buy her a love of a walking-dress. Her ooble husband is short of funds, and simply answerd like an Anglo-Saxon gentlemen. "Ughi gtjuaw damned fQ9lf"
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Very Latest News
(UP TO 3 O'CLOCK! P. M. TO-DAY.)
By the l'ncilic and Atlantic Teleyrrai
A Daring Jail Delivery.
The Bottom Knocked out of a Chicago Wheat "Corner."
Texas Cattle Fever in Illinois.
A Yimng Lady Dangerously She'.
A Terrific .Boiler ExfHosiou in Indiana.
One Mail Killed and Another Blown Fifty Feet.
Frightful Freaks of Lightning.
&c.§ &c. Ac.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—A dariug case of jail-breaking took place at the county jail last night. As the keeper was locking up for the night, four prisoners slipped upon him one struck him over the head with a slung-shot, aud another struck him with a revolver, and demanded of him the keys. He finally did give them up, knowing that, unless be did so, he would be killed and they cooly unlocked the door and departed, throwing the keys behind them. One of the men was in jail for shooting a policeman two years ago. The others were in for burglary aud larceny.
To-day is an exciting one among the wheat buyers, as it is believed that the corner which so long excited the market has been broken. Wheat dropped yesterday from $1.56 to $1.80, aud large amounts are still on the wa,y from the northwest, and from Buffalo.
CHICAGO, August 20.—About11 o'clock last night, a young lady named Maria Sophia, aged 19, was shot in the right side by some unknown party, while [sitting on the door step in front of her home, No. 141 Farquhar street. Her injuries are dangerous, but not necessarily fatal. The result is exceedingly doubtful. The young men who are supposed to have done the deed have not been apprehended, and their capture is rather precarious, as they cannot be identified by the girl.
WINNEMAC, IND., August 20.—About 8 o'clock yesterday evening the boilers of the flouring mill owned by W. C. Barnett & Son, of this place, exploded, instantly killing James Coults, the engineer. The son-in-law of Mr. Coults came in the engine house at the time, who, by the force of the explosion, was carried some fifty feet,'Striking near the railroad track, breaking his arm and otherwise injuring him. Mr. Coults had recently come here from Cincinnati, where he had been engaged in running an engine for several years. Yesterday the pump worked badly and the water had run down very low inlhe boilers, and, being fired up, and there not being a sufficient amount of water, and a very high pressure of steam, caused the explosion. The boiler and engine were entirely destroyed, some of the pieces being carried a quarter of a mile. The engine house was completely demolished. The main building was not badly injured. The loss will probably amount to $8,000.
SPRINGFIELD, III., August 20.—The Texas cattle fever has broken out among our native cattle in and arouud this city, and already fifteen head of valuable milch cows have died. It is feared the fever will become epidemic. Adjoining the field in which the cows of the city are pastured is another large field iu which there are over 50 Texas cattle, owned by Mr. Hunter. It is understood that Mr. Hunter will be compelled to pay all damages with suit.
BLOOMINGTON, III., August 20.—A stack of hay belonging to Wm. F. A. James, was struck by lightning early yesterday morning, setting fire thereto, consuming about forty tons of hay. Mr. Chorn, of Towanda, had four horses killed by lightning yesterday.
IJBW YORK, July 20.—No new cases of yellow fever have been reported, and all the patients in the West Bank Hospital are rapidly recovering. The health authorities express the opinion that there is not the slightest cause for alarm concerning yellow fever.
The Times special from Utica says, that numerous delegates to the State Convention, on Wednesday, are arriving hourly. General Dix is freely spoken of to head the Electoral ticket. The Hon. E. D. Morgan, is also favorably mentioned.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Spencer Pettis and Dr. Park were taken before the Toombs Police Court yesterday and committed without an examination. The attorney of the bank is on his way East to prosecute them.
Louis Angusse Marie Elides, Duke of Saxe, and son-in-law of the Emperor of Brazil, arrived here last evening with a small suite, by the steamer North Star.
NEW YORK, August 20.—The Herald's special from Charleston, West Virginia, says, the result of the contest in that State on Thursday next, is very doubtful. The Democrats have the advantage of the regular organization with a legitimate majority of 12,000 in the State were there no disaffectation in its ranks. The Republicans have no party nominees or organization in this early contest and are looking to gather in from their opponents enough names to elect the independent candidate, the present Democratic Governor of the State, Hon. John J. Jacobs. Hon. J. J. Davis, the preseut Democratic Congressman from the first district, expresses the confident belief that Jacobs will be elected over Camden, the regular Democratic nominee, and the new candidates will be defeated. ^SHJNGTWJ AUS- 29-Tbe Post-
master General has decided on a style of postal cards, and states that proposals for furnishing the same will be invited.
The Government has been promptly in formed of the proceedings of the Geneva Arbitration. Everything is conciliatory aud harmonious.
The Navy Department sends out another Darien Ship Canal expedition in November.
PARIS, August 20.—Washburne, in his interview with Thier at TrouvHIe yesterday, proposed the conclusion of a postal treaty between France and America.
The Shenandoah has anchored oft' Trouville. A number of distinguished officers of the French navy will give a reception to the Americans, who will respond.
PHILADELPHIA, August 20. -At the meeting of the backers of Mace and O'Baldwin last night, McMullen, representative, nj^ned the place eight bun dred miles from here. The fight COUKS off Thursday. The locality is secret to avoid the interruption by the authorities.
GREENSBITRG, August 20.—At the Democratic Ratification meeting, last night, the Democrats and Liberal Republicans, of West Moreland county, turned out iu a grand torch-light procession. The occasion beiug the Ratification of the Nomination of Greeley and Brown, Buckalew and the balance of the ticket. About 500 torches were in the procesion. The sight was one of the most magnificent ever witnessed in Greeusburg.
[Special DI-patch to the Chicago TI ibune.l
Liberal Appointments for iudiana. SPKINGFIELD, III., August 17.—The Liberal Central Committee has arranged to send the following gentlemen to Indiana, to speak as follows: Governor John M. Palmer, beginning August 22, will speak one week Hon. Lyman Trumbull, will make a few speeches on his return from Maine, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Hon. Samuel W. Moulton, beginning after September 1, will speak ten days Hon. J. C. Stoughton, after August 26, one week General Black, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, in Indiana now Governor Kcerner, after September 10, one week Hon. J. C. Robinson, after August 22, ten days.
From the New Albany Ledger.
Mr. Yoorliees' Consistency. Some journals and speakers that supported Adams and the Reform movement until the very day of Mr. Greeley's nomination at Cincinnati, exposing Grant's unfitness and condemning his Administration in no stinted terms, are now glibly rolling under their tongues the name of Mr. Voorhees and "the public display of his shame," because that gentleman prefers Greeley to Grant.
If the charge of "inconsistency" (that bugaboo of little minds) can properly be urged against Mr. Voorhees, how can his detractors hope to escape What shall we thiuk of Stanley Matthews and his sympathizers, while professing to be above party and to scorn its obligations, yet approve a candidate whose only reliance is party organization, whose administration is an admitted failure as shown by the Philadelphia platforch, whose example has been pernicious in the extreme, and whose incapacity is as incurable as the color of his skin
Mr. Voorhees has consistently accepted a nomination tendered by his par*y, and proposes to support a candidate after his endorsement at Baltimore, whom, before that time, he had strenuously opposed. He took counsel with the dictates of patriotism alone. His own Congressional nomination and election were abundantly assured even before he declared his intention to support Greeley in preference to Grant. He might have remained, neutral without any abatement of public honors, or of public respect. He chose differently. He found a corrupt ring attemptiug to force again upon the country four additional years of currupt rule. When he opposed Greeley neither had Greeley been nominated at Baltimore nor Grant at Philapelphia. In the then aspect of affairs, he, like thousands ot other Democrats aud Liberals, preferred a straight nominee, or at least another leader, even if of the same politics with Greeley. But now the die is cast. It is either Greeley or Grant. Either upon the ground that Greeley has more virtues, or fewer vices, than his opponent, he is bound in honor and good conscience, as a man, and as a citizen, to support him, however hitterly he may have opposed him heretofore, when the alternative of "Grant or Greeley" did not exist. And in this choice he hae displayed as much of that doubtful virtue, misnamed "consistency," as it is possible for any man to lay claim to.
Fruit Trees For Ornament. It is often thought that nature is usually sparse of that leaf-beauty where the flower is highly ornamental, and stingy with flowers where leaves assume large proportions and elegant outlines and, to a smaller extent, that she is apt to exhaust herself in an malogus way upon fruit. Nothing can be further from the fact than this supposition. When we consider the flowering charms of the greater portion of our fruit trees, we are struck with astonishment that there are not more planted for the sake of their beauty alone. Take the apple tree in*its countless varieties, and just consider that, if it did not give such crops of fruit, beautiful to look upon, aud more delicious in flavor than half the boasted fruits of the tropics, we should seek after- it for its blushing cups, which turn the formal orchard into a sceue of fairyland. Then we have the pear, which comes in earlier, and furnishes snowy masses of bloom and with a more picturesque and handsome habit than the apple, but, unhappily, with the same fault of bearingdelicious as well as ornamental fruit. From nearly every hardy fruit we may reap a loug harvest of beauty—almonds, apricots, cherries, crabs, medlars, peaches, plums and quinces, being more or less ornameutal. We have nought to do but place these objects, usually bidden in the orchards, on any opeu spot, in pleasure grounds, by wood walks, in the fences at intervals, instead of the worthless stuff that now too often occupies them—and, in a word, in the many positions where many trees, neither good for timber nor flowers, may take up valuable ground.
As THE worthy town-crier of Nantucket was going his rounds on Tuesday afternoon, when in front of one of the boarding-houses, he overheard a young man request one of the lady boarders, who was seated under an open wit dow, to ask him where bis bell came from. The crier rang out and gave notice what was to be sold by auction, when the lady, in a queaky voice, said, "Mister, where did your bell come from?" "My bell," retorted the crier in no gentle voice, "came from the same 'piape your manners did—from a brags foundry.'" The young lady asked IJO.further questions.
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VOL. 3. TERRE HAUTE, IND.: TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 20, 1872. NO. 68.
From the St. Louis Globe.
Work ou the tlreat Bridge. Those not familiar with bridge work are unable to appreciate the progress daily being made on the great Illinois and St. Louis bridge, which, before our public are hardly aware of it, will span the mighty Mississippi, and not only connect two great States, but give an impetus to the pursuits of commerce of the nation. Those passing any portion of the bridge work, look with wondering eyes at the labor already performed, yet few of them can comprehend the magnitude of the undertaking. When completed, we shall not only ha *e one of the biggest, but one of the finest bridges in the world.
From the west a! utment, on the levee, to Third street, at the tuuuel entrance, the superstructure is ready for the track, and the upper roadway is in course of construction, the planks for which are being sawed on the spot by a portable saw mill. The planks are fitted together by dowel9, an ingeuious method having been devised by Mr. Kattle for drilling the holes, and cutting the pins, with the same machinery which cuts the planks in the saw mill.
The west pier is completed, aud the workmen have all been withdrawn from it, being transferred to the east pier, upon which there are. now about a hundred men employed. The east pier will be up to its full hight in about three weeks. Ou the Illinois side there are some four hundred men employed on the bridge work. The whole structure will be finished in less than two months.
There have been delivered In Pi ts burg, up to July &5, by the Butcher Steel Company, of Philadelphia, 3,231,128 pounds ot cast steel, which material the Keystone Bridge Company of that ci'y works into its various shapes, ready lo be fitted and put up.
Besides this quantity of steel, there has been manufactured in Pittsburg, 1,808,139 pounds of wrought iron, mostly in bars and round iron.
In addition to this, forty-eight ponderous skewbacks, each weighing over thr^e tons, have been focgM-in solid mass and delivered in Pittsburg. They were manufactured by establish men tstn Hew York and Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Of cast iron, over 5,000,000 pounds are now in the bridge work, all manufactured by our home foundries.
Of the one thousand tubes which comprise the arches, there are two hundred and eighty-seven finished, aud over twothirds of the material for the balance is on band in the Keystone Bridge Company's works, which are employed, day and night, turning them into shape. The other material is correspondinglyadvanced.
The first big skewback, with the tube properly attached, was shipped on the 30th from Pittsburg for St. Louis, and it will be put in position as soon as it arrives
The Colored Kn-Klux of Cinc!nnati. A most extraordinary thing has happened. Mr. Tabbs Gross, a colored mau, a citizen of Arkansas, formerly a resident of Cincinnatij jKas-waited upon by a deputation of^aoSjn of his o^riKColor, at two o'clock-yesterday morning/^and ordered not to remain in the city after nine o'clock A.M., on Deri!
of-his life. Those
whom he consulted afterward prudently advised him'to act upon the Warning, which he did, and fled to the sovereign State of Kentucky for .protection- -Mr. Gross' statement is printed-^lsewhere.
Mr. Gross has been driven out of the city because he dared to eiercise a right common to all men in this country—the. right of free speech. He is a Liberal Republican, and a public advocate of the election of
Greeley
and Brown. That is
his offense. The proposition, as he has been made to understand it, is yiat any colored man who champions the Liberal cause, or proposes to vote for its candidates, deserves death, and will be killed if hands can be laid on him/
Some'time since a young man of color, one of the most intelligent and cultivated of his class, called at this office and stated that he would like to vote the Liberal Republican ticket, but he should not do so, because it would be at the peril of bis life. He had been assured by his own people that they would violently put out of the way any one of their color who betrayed what they consider to be their rights by voting for Greeley and Brown. The statement seemed so incredible that we endeavored to reassure him as to the extent of the danger. The conduct of the colored Ku-Klux last night, however, shows that he had a clearer apprehension of the consequences than ourselves.
Now, it is well for colored people of this and all other communities to understand that this must be stopped. Any attempt to suppress free speech and free political action among themselves, is an encroachment upon a right common to all, white or black, and will be resisted. If there are white men who encourage them in this course of action, they are of the class of scoundrels who, twenty-five years ago, would have volunteered to mob an Abolitionist, or stone a public speaker for advocating, universal freedom. They are bad advisers, and should be shunned.—Cin. Commercial,
7 Tfc«ji Negro Vo4e.'l All over the country the negroes are banded togetner in secret lodges, and by the most terrible oaths bouna to vote for the re-election of General Grant j*nd all the rest of the candidates who.run upon his ticket. They are sworn to inflict terrible chastisement upon the person of any member of their race who defies the decree of the oath-bound league. It is as much as the life of any colored man is worth to take a stand in opposition to these KU-K1U2C negro lodges. Said an intelligent colored man in this city to a friend of ours the other day, "I would like to vote for Mr. Greeley, who has alwas been the friend of our people, but if I did so I am afraid I should be murdered." This is the spirit of intolerance manifested among the negroes, even here in Cincinnati. Iu the South the danger is infinitely greater. Several col* ored men who have come out for Greeley aud Brown have been assassinated. Others have had their corn and growing erops destroyed, their horses and cattle maimed or poisoned by persons of their own color, who have done the bidding of the fiendish midnight conspirators. Now, this is nof exactly what those who have contended for negro suffrage contemplated. They never expected such use would be made of it. They supposed the negroes, like the whites, would be devided, part of them voting
one
ticket aud
part of them another. But if they went together no one could have conceived that it would be by organized terrorism and ruffiianism, which make the ballot in their hands far worse than a sham, for it becomes a menace to our political security. It is admitted by all who are well-wishers of the negro race, that the position it has taken in this campaign is most unfortunate for its interests and welfare hereaftar.—Gincicmati Commercial. r,
THE Louisville Courier-Journal, shows Its hope for the future bv saying: St Louis Is swept by tornadoes, Chicago is carried away by conflagrations, Cincin natians perish by thousands from poigoned whisfcy, Louisville the future great city,
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THE speech of Mr. Greeley at Port land, on Wednesday, sweeps away at one stroke athousand
petty
and outrigh& falsehoods, painfully elaborated and reiterated by the organs and orators of the Administration. The Bingbampton fabrication receives its quietus. He entered into no bargain for the nomination he has promised no office, nor pledged himself to appoint any oue to office. No man or woman in the South has asked him, directly or indirectly, for pledges of any sort, or hinted that the rebel debt should be assumed, or •that the rebel soldiers should be pensioned and those who have by letter intimated that the promise of a postoffice, or some such place, would increase his chances of election, are notified that they will be the last served, should he be elected.
Mr. Greeley does not dodge a single point. He will treat all as political brethren who subscribe to the principles of the Cincinnati platform. It embodies his political convictions, and whoever is of the same faith is entitled to communion. He does not deny that he advocated legislation to suppress Ku-Klux outrages, but he believes in a policy.that makes such legislation Unnecessary. To suppress wrong and crime is well to prevent them is better.
The speech, in short, is a clear, candid ap ea' of an honest mail to honest men, aud makes small and contemptible the pitiful pettifoggiug of the demagogues who use the name of patriotism to stii the fire of old sectional hatre I, and prolong the reif/n of misrule in the South which Mr. Greeley so maguificently denounces. Though not a political'argument, but a statemeut due to those who have put him in nomination^ it may Le said of this Portland utterance as ot Rhoderick Diiu "One blast upou his Inglfe horn
Were worth a thousand men."
Cincinnati Commercial.
Special Dispatch to the St. Louis Republicans-
Runaway Cars—Au Exciting Clure^. SEDALIA, Mo., Aug. 14.—Last night, at twelve o'clock, some dozen or more of Barnum's flat cars became detached, near the Ives House^ while being run upon a side track. They were loaded with show wagons, in which were part of the animals, &c., and upon' which twenty,or moro showmen were asleep, and as they were on a heavy down grade, the detached cars were soou in rapid motion, the breaks for some reason becoming unmau7 ageable. Jas. Hooten, the yard-masteri of the Missouri Pacific road at this poiut, noticing that two of the Lexington passenger couches were..on the same track, and that a collisioh'was inevitable unle&s he could reach an intef&ening- switch and turn them upon the iiiaaln., .track, which was clear at the time, at the risk ot his life, ran for the switch, crossed /the track in front of the detached cars, add closed it just in time to turn them on to the' main track, and on they went at a fearful rate down the grade, and by the time the brave and daring Hooten had got got back to the detached engine the cars had disappeared in the distance,, and were heard thundering across th6 bridge a mile away. Nothing daunted, but haunted with visions of a fearful wreck, he mounted the engine and bounded fiercely away after the fugitive cars, and .foynd them^ uninjured upon the track beyond Muddy Creek, three miles from this city, with only a few men missing who had jumped off while going up the grade, and these were picked up on returning, unharmed. The train left at oue o'clock for Kansas City, with fifty-one cars.
From the Honolulu (Hawaii) Gazette.
Rapid Growth of Corals.
An interesting fact has recently been discovered respecting the growth of corals. Somewhat less than two years ago Captain McGregor, of the steamer Kilauea, moored a buoy in Kealakekua Bay. Last week he was ordered to hoist the anchor and examine the condition of the chain. The latter, which is a heavy two-inch cable, was found covered with corals and oyster shells, some of which are as large as a man's hand. The larger corals measure four and a half inches iu length, which represents their growth during the period of two years that the anchor and cable had been submerged. The specimen that we have seen shows the nature of its formation by the little eoral insects more distinctly than we have before examined. When taken out of the water, it had small crate on it. A query arises whether these crabs live on the coral insects, or whether they simply seek the branches of the coral for protection. The popular supposition is, that corals are of extremely slow growth. Here we have a formation of two and one-eighth inches, equal to over seventeen feet in a century. These facts, which are reliable, will be valuable to- naturalists.
HERE'S YOUR DEAD RATTLESNAKE.— A protection has been found against the bite of a rattlesnake, and if we are not mistaken, a means to destroy the noxious creatures at the same time. As this is too important a discovery to keep from the knowledge of an anxious public, we hasten to lay it before them. _Th© agent is Cincinnati whisky, and it is doubtless a powerful and an effective one. The manner in which its_ wonderful efficacy was discovered, is as follows A man in Kentucky purchased a quart of this liquid flame on a steamboat coming from the Queen City and drank it all. On his •way home he got lost and lay out in the woods all night. In the morning he was found with a dead rattlesnake near by. The reptile had bitten him several times. The man wa9 not hurt but it was fatal to the snake. This extraordinary discovery may be utilized in many ways for the extirpation of these pests, but we can think of none more effective than to- get a number of men drunk on Cincinnati whisky and set them as snake traps where the Crotalus Horridus abounds. The result will be death to the snakes without harm to man. ri *r
"Jugg" Recollections.
"Jugg," of the New York Star, has these thoughts on a recent surgical feat— or leg rather—in that city
Speaking of beets reminds me of the neat little skin game just played by Dr. Mott on the unfortunate young woman at the hospital. ,tt
It is positively shameful. It seems the girl was very badly burnt about the breast, and no application did her good. A happy thought seized the doctor, who in turn seized the ieg^of a male patient and cut it off. Then he took thirty-six pieces of flesh from the leg and mosaicked the young woman's breast.
And it healed So she now goes,about rejoiciug with a man's leg across her chest all the time
It is positively awful, and besides, w^hat do you dupp'dse th'6 poor man thinks about it-? He is «aid to be married, and a v«rymce felloWT too. HaW-caJxhfiJofife his wife in the faceT ^en he hobbles home, and when she asks hJf^ Wherei that other leg Jn
What can he say What can he do '15 I bet that leg brings about a qjvorce.
"'TiVlly-'Mii »|l
insinuations
A YOUNG lady in Delaware, suing for breach of promise, finding that the lover', letters did not come up to the legal marks offered to put in a lot written by herself, to show how she understood his missives, whereupon the Judge emphatically said: "No, no that will never do. If such things were, germ it ted no man would be safe."
THES play of "Black Friday," which was first brought out at Niblo's Garden, and against which so much has been written, will be produced next week in Cincinnati.
I'HF/ MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Chicago Market. CHICAGO, August 20.
WHEAT—Spring wheat is greatly unsettled owing to the bursting of the corner and tne price is rery irregular and fully 38 @39c lower for August than on the regular Board yesterday. This is due to the abundant offerings for future delivery. Seller August reached $1.11. Seller September and seller year also declined 7@20c seller August sold at [email protected] seller September $1.07(2)1.13 seller year $1.06@ 1.10 closed at $1.14 for August and $1.10 for September.
FLOUR—Dull and nominal. OATS—^Quiet and lower No. 2 sold at 27@28c cash 26}£@27c seller August 26c seller September.
CORN—Active and excited but 2K@3c lower No. 2 cash 37M@38%c cash September 38@39Me.
RYE—Dull at 54c for No. 2, cash, and 56c seller September. BARLEY—Good request for No. 2 sold at 60]4fcCMc'. cash.
HTGHWINES—Steady and firm at 90\ LARD—Quiet and nomin tl. PORK—Inactive and-prices nearly nominal at $1-150.
HOGS—Quiet and lower: sales at 4.85. CATTLE —Dull ari noinin il.
OiraSUS LINE^*
Omnibus and Transfer Co.
GRIFFITH & GIST, Propi's.
OFFICE—Mo. 142 Main Street,
WE
will attend to all calls left in call-boxes, promptly, for. Depots, Balls or Pic-Nics, and convey passengers to any part of the city at reasonable rates. Also, baggage promptly oalled lor, and delivered to any part of the city. Teams fnrnfshed -for heavy hauling, on short notice. Please give us a call. apr4dtf GRIFFITH & GIST.
AMUSEMENTS.
O W I N A
A N O
'In honor-of the members of the
Old 14th Indiana Regiment*
WT
DOWLOG HALL,
Wednesday Eye., August 28,1872.
ADMISSION, ONE DOLLAR.
-T
Haste tty Pi"ot Toute's Band.
Every one is invit^d^to attend.:
The Hibernian Benevolent -S O I E
Will Pic-Nic at
v.a
,iU:V
OltbvE,
Opposite Early's Grove, on
Thursday, August 22,1872. BLEFCEIMG'S BAND I::
Will furnish music. 't'_"
MSr.Ali are .invited, and a. good tune is anticipated.
Soldiers' Reunion!
THE SURVIVORS OF THE OLD
tTII REG'T IS 1). VOLS.,
Will celebrate their Reunion, at!
TERRE IIATJTE,
Wednesday, August 28, '72.
A GRAND PIC-MC!
., ,Will
be held at the
FAIR GROUNDS
During the day.'
GEN. NATHAN KIMBALL, GEN. WM. HARROW, COL. E. H. C. CAYINS,
Prominent efflcers of the old organization, -will dedver addresses on the Occasion.
COL. BI W. THOMPSON
will make a welcome address to the members of the regiment In behalf of the resident mem^ bers as well as citizens. .»
A I N S
will be run on the Vandalia Line during the day to the Fair Grounds and return. Ladles are respectfully requested to prepare baskets for the occasion.
Music furnished by Toute's celebrated. Silver and String Band. By order of he
8
ITITTIG DICK,
Wholesale Dealers & Commission Merchants in
Notions, Fancy Goods,
... WHITE GOODS,
HOSIERT, CIOARS, ETC.,
\o. 148 Main Street,
Bet. Fj fth and, Sixth, augldly
PBOFESSIONAL.
Dr. C. McKENZlEDINSMORE.
IIOJMEOPilTHIST, Office, southwest cor. Fifth and Main sty „V_ (Over National State Rank)
B®"Residence, southeast cor. Eighth p,nd Ohio XgRfyE gATJTE, INDIANA.
JEWELRY,
Ball, Black & Co.,
565 and 567 Broadway, New York,
Will continue the sale of their IMMENSE STOCK of SILVER-WARE, DIAMONDS, JE *r-
ELRY, and FANCY GOODS, during the Summer Months. All Goods will be sold WITHOUT RESERVE, at a GREAT REDUCTION, to
CLOSE THE BUSINESS. auglT
MACHINERY.
lAJfE •& BOBI-ET,
JOXIN A\D WATER STS.,
CINCINNATI, OHIO,
MANUFACTURE
Stationary and Portable
STEAM ENGINES!
BOILERS AND MILL WORK,
CIRCULATC SAW MILLS!
With Solid Iron Frames, Wrousrht Iron Head Blocks a id Friction Feed,
Ij.\TII AND SHINGLE MACHINES
Wooil Working Mcicliiiiciy,
Shaf/bitj, IJanf/crs, Put c.'tf Ort'pfi
S4FKT R.MVL]
O.irIVs ihe most & A ii W' iHK J«t Sic l.OWKS"
The Wheat
and
niic!-
I:iu im- 'I Ca ii'vgu:.' f.Vf'in a{|i.Lt\.tio:i to
asm I"
I, \NE 'IJL••".V.
FOR SALE.
OF AMERICA.
Healthful Climate, Free Good Harkets.
THE
Homes,
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD offers for sale its Lands in Central and Western Minnesota, embracing: 1. The best of Wheat Land 2. Excellent Timber tor the Mill, the Farm and the fires: 3. Rich Prairie Pasturage and Natural Meadow, watered by clear Lakes and running streams—in a Healthful Climate, where Fever and. Ague is unknown. drain can be shipped hence by lake to market as cheaply as from Eastern Iowa or
Central
Illinois. Cars now run through the Lands from Lake Superior to Dacota. Price of land close to the track, to S8 per acre further away, 82.50 to 84. Seven Years' Credit Warranty Deeds: Northern Pacific 7-30 Bunds, now selling at par, received for land at 8110. No other unoccupied Lands present such advantages to settlers.
SOLDIEBS' under the New Law (March. 1872.) get 160,acres FREE, near the railroad, by 'One and two years'residence.
TRAITS AXIOM AT KEDUCEn BATKS furnished from all princ'pal points East to purchasers of Railroad Lands, and to Settlers on Government Homesteads. ^PurChasers, their wives and children, CARRIED FREE over the Northern Pacific Road Now is the time for Settlers and Colonies to get Railroad Lands and Government Homesteads cloise
to titi tr&ck* Send for PAMPHLET, containing full information,lihap and copy of New Homestead Law: Address, 'LANDDEPARTMENT, NORTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD, ST. PAUL, MINN., augJ7 Or 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. *5
1U
'ORNAMENTS.
P4RK AND GARDEN
'oBKAMENTS!
8TAT1IA^T,^ASES,: FOUNTAIN and
SETTEES.
The largest and most vafriB assortment of the above'found ih the Uirttpd States. Illustrated. Catalogues, and ^te.sent free by
THIJ. TL
I O N W O 90 Beekmau S*., cor. Cliff, 5^
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FINANCIAL.
JAY OOOKE^& CO.,
bankeus,
SEW YORK,No. 20 Wall Street PHILADELPHIA, 114 South Third St. 'WASHINGTON, Fifteenth St., Opposite
U. S. Treasury.
Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co.
41 Lombard Street, London. ..
FOKKKii^ TBAVEIi.
Circular Letters of Credit issued upon deposit of Gold, Currency, or approved Securities, which the Traveler can thus make available in *ny part of the world. Letters can be obtained through our Correspondents, Banks and Bankers throughout the United States and Canada, ers throughout as well as at our office. aug!7
WATCHES.
Crescent St.
Crescent St.
Crescent St*
Crescent St.
Crescent St.
COMMITTEE.
NOTIONS.
Crescent St.
Crescent St.
Crescent St.
WALTHAM WATCHES are the best Railroad Time-Keepers.
WALTHAM WATCHFS are used on all roads which run "on time."
WALTHAM WATCHES are indispensable to Engineers
&•
Conductors.
WALTHAM WATCHES should be worn by all Traveler. WALTHAM WATCHES are not affected by heat or cold. WALTHAM WATCHES have extra tight-fitting Cases. WALTH AM WATCHES are the cheapest as well as the mostdesirablei WALTHAM WATCHES are described in full in our Price-List.
Send for a copy. We send them by express to any place, with privilege to examine before paying.
HOW1BO A CO., 865 Broadway, New York.
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TERRE HAUTE, IND.
WANTED^
CANVASSERS WASTED for
HISTORY of NEW YORK
•owth.of.th6
GT
lastrated'
will sell very rapidly tion. Bound copie* nearly plication will secBre^boWBO,
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Sr.