Terre Haute Daily News, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 September 1890 — Page 7

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THE REAL ESTATE WORLD.

EFFECT OF THE OIL WELL FAILURE OS PROPERTY.

Professor Waldo's Theory of tbe Oil Territory— Abaadanee or Lot* on tbe a»rket-fclo*»ip.

Another disappointment was this week added to the oil field. While few persons had any confidence in well No. 4, it was nevertheless based upon a theory that the oil anti clinal had an east and west tread. Professor Waldo was the first to arrive at the east and west theory, from data gathered from tbe drilled wells. This theory is not yet disproved, as the oil field may head at the present wells and extend northwest. With all experienced oil men, having prejudices from other oil fields, the belief will now be -confirmed that if there is an oil field at all that its tread is to the southwest on an angle of forty-five degrees. The anti-clinal will pass between the gas house well and the Idaho. The distance between these two wells is 6,500 feet, and between them the oil rock must rise 150 feet or no oil can be found. To say the most it looks very uncertain toward the southwest, especially as the lay of the bath house well puts the oil rock 100 feet higher than in the gas bouse well. There remains now but one direction where can be located an extent of territory. This is toward the northwest The Exchange, the Smith, No. 2 and No. 4 wells would seem to describe a circle about the foot of the oil belt. All these wells touched the anticlinal, but not high enough to get oil. If the oil belt leads to the southwest, on an angle of forty-five degrees, the gas house well must be explained awsy. The anticlinal must run with the« dip of the rocks and rise proportionally higher.

One probability remajss that there is a "pool" of oil and that uo field extensive enough to show a tread exists. The best location for a well at present would seem to be in the vicinity of theNormal school. But not until one well more has been drilled Southwest can that direction be condemned.

No higher credit fhas ever been due for patriotism to Terre Haute than belongs to the members of the Guarantee company. If ever afield is located surely to them it should belong.

Notes.

The new union depot, the Masonic block, the Hulman wholesale house and the E. & T. H. freight depot are all large projects, and from present prospects nothing will be done until next season.

Real estate interests in the southeast

fart

of the city are active at trying to lave the street car line extended. The talk of a public park continues. Next season the southeast may wear a boom.

Max Joseph has bought a small acre tract at the Southwest corner of the Boulevard and Twenty-fifth street, paying therefor at the rate of $300 per acre. The tract ban a large frontage on the Boulevard.

There is an abundance of lots upon the market, but nevertheless there are many lots as well as acres that are not offered for sale for the reason that the owners believe they are making money by letting the ground lie. Prices are "so low that the advance is believed just to have bein.

For the next decade, from present tendencies, all the cities of the United States will be pressed forward in population by an immigration from rural districts. There seems to bo no let up whatever in this tendency. In the census of 1900 the ratio between the value of city and of country property, and the ratio of population will be still more changed in favor of the city. Foreign immigration no longer plays as important a part as formerly in swelling the number of city inhabitants. Wbile this drift of population may bring forward social and moral problems, there can be no doubt but that it means enhanced city values, especially iu realty.

NOTES FROM THE COLORED PEOPLE.

Harry McCallister has goneto Chicago. Rev. Smith left for Marion, Ind., today.

Mrs. John Johnson was on the sick list this week. George Edwards, of Clinton, was in the city this week.

Miss Florence Jones, of Chicago, is visiting relatives in the city. The Afro-American League meets at the *A. M. E. church Monday night.

Miss Mattie Barber has returned from her visit to Louisville, Ky., and Indianapolis.

Mr. and Mrs. Matt Sanders have quit house keeping and are boarding at J. II. Walker's.

The colored boys are organizing a military company here, and Marion Cauthorn is captain.

A. K. Mevr.eek left Thursday night for Louisville, Ivy., where he will take the principalship of a school.

The camp-meeting has been largely attended this week, and we are glad to recommend the good order.

Professor John Brown will offer some of his new selections at the camp-meet-ing Sunday in the way of singing.

Rev. Tompkins, of the M. E. church on South Thirteenth-and-a-half street, has been very sick, but is improving.

Come out and spend a day in tbe grove, all of which will be for the benefit of the church. Rev. Taylor S. Johnson, pastor.

Rev. Alexander Smith, who has been pastor of the A. M. E, church, has been appointed to the charge at Marion, Ind., by the conference.

The Sttnd%y School Institute will meet at the M. 11. Church on South Third street, on the fourth Sunday in the month. A good program has been piepaired.

Rev. Tucker Wilson, formerly of New Albany, has been appointed to the charge of the A. M, church for this conference year. May his labors be crownW with success.

Rev. who has been assisting in the camp preached a goal sermon Tbomtay night to a good congregation and left Ftulay for his church at Indianapolis.

The camp meeting 'at Blakefc' grov«-to-«aomw wilJ be the last day. Then* will be preaching by able minister* Then# wttl be four song services consisting of old religion melodies led by John

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Brown whose fame as the greatest singer of these sweet melodies, and he will also sing several new ones assisted by the choir. The ladies of the church will serve dinner and supper on the grounds and refreshments in abundance. Admittance free to all..

Diphtheria.

Of those who were attacked by yellow fever daring the prevalence of that disease in Florida a year or two ago only about one in eleven died. In the same year there were 1,423 cases of diphtheria in Boston, of which 470, or one in three, proved fatal. During the last eleven years there have been 14,867 cases of diphtheria in Boston, with an aggregate of 4,825 deaths.

Such a fearful prevalence of this deadly disease with

ips

incessant desolation

of homes is not by any means necessary. In Glasgow, Scotland, its ravages have been greatly checked by means of enforced isolation and disinfection, and there is no reason why our own boards of health, if they were armed with the requisite legal power and backed up by a wise public sentiment, might not be able to accomplish a similar result.

Diphtheria is much more fatal than smallpox, and the fact that it is less contagious only increases the necessity of compulsory isolation, for many persons expose themselves unnecessarily to diphtheria who could not be induced by any consideration to expose themselves to smallfiox.

It is a fact of public interest that diphtheria does not go from house to house apart from personal communication. Except in tenement houses, therefore, the patient can be safely isolated at home, provided the public is duly notified by some simple but familiar signal attached to the door. For such as cannot be safely isolated at home adequate^nunicipal accommodation should be x^rovided. Youth's Companion.

Nutmegs.

Nutmegs grow on small trees which much resemble our pear trees of six or seven years* growth. The tree is of a pale hue much resembling in color the weeping willowi is very fragrant and hardly ever attains .the height of more than twenty feet. Nutmeg trees grow both the nutmegs and the mace of commerce, the nutmeg being the seed of the fruit and the mace the Jthin covering over the seed. The fruit itself is about as large as a good sised peach,

and

when

ripe breaks open and exposes to view the fragrant little nut so highly prized a$ a spice bv all good cooks.

The tree, which is indigenous to several countries, grows most abundantly on the island of Asia, but few growing in America, these being confined to the tropical parts. After arriving at maturity a tree will bear nutmegs for from 70 to 100 years, having ripe and green fruit upon its branches at all seasons of the year. One Of the finest nutmeg trees in the world grows in a public park at Kingston, on the island of Jamaica. As high as 5,000 nutmegs have been gathered from it in a single year.

A century ago the Dutch controlled the nutmeg trade of the world, as they then owned the Banda islands, the only place it was known to grow. Ten thousand bushels of nutmegs were burned at one time by the Dutch traders, who were making a wild effort at keeping up prices.—St. Louis Republic.

Paper Shell Clams.

Of long clams, or paper shells, as some term them, there are several varieties. For these there is also a ready market, but the choioest lands never find their way to the New York dealers, as not enough are dug to supply the home demand. When long clams are dug for shipment to New York, the clammer goes to a bar which fails bare at low tide and digs the ground over with a garden fork, having a boy to pick them up. In tliis way from two to four bushels may be taken in a tide, and for them ho gets a dollar a bushel. When he wants a mess for his own table he goes out to the extreme low water limit, and digs even then in water afoot deep.

Ho can get no more than half a peck, and never offers them for sale. These clams are large, and sometimes t^reigh eighteen ounces apiece. They are young and tender, and the sweetest morsel, when properly cooked, that a man ever laid on his tongue. The clam catch is estimated at 75,000 bushels a year. The best time to go clamming i& after a heavy west or northwest wind, for then the tide falls very low and new grounds may be reached. At Guilford, after a northwest storm, many of the workmen leave the foundry and shops, and lose half a day's time to get a small mess of the delicious bivalves. Summer visitors hire cheap cottages, dig tip the clams, on which they largely live, and then go back to the city and brag how cheaply they can live at the seaside.—New York Sun.

Clergy In Russia.

The clergy of the Russian church are divided into two classes, according to their means of sustenance. One portion receive their regular salaries, the other have to work in the fields which the church apportions to them, aad to depend on the gifts and collections from their parishioners. The latter are known as the "white" Clergy. Now tie synod Is working out a plan for putting the entire clergy on regular salaries and abolishing the system of church collections. The sum of 82.841,600 rabies will be required annually for the salaries of the "white" clergy, which will be graded according to their respective offices. A special tax will be imposed upon the "orthodox" to raise that sum.—-St.

Petersburg

Letter.

Origin of Cholpm Infanta m«

Professor Vaoghan, of Michigan uni*«rsity, thinks that he has discovered the origin of cholera infantum. It is, according to bis theory, the reseat of Sttisoa generated by germs in alimentary canal. He has extracted and testedinhislabor,u ryiVs '^spoisoo In'qaest&n^afti I rest to prodocean antidote w-tji-v± ti. patient may be He calls the pigeon tyrotoxicon, and finds it in chei and all product*

milk.—Xew

Picamum

Our Checker Colatno

Writing: from Chicago, 111, to the Torf, Field and Farm, Messrs. Reed and Better gay: Inclosed please find articles for the Wyllie-Rcod match. The oxact date of the commencement of tho match most be left open until Mr. Wyilie arrives.

Mr. IUingvorth suggests, and we acquiesce, that the timo rule be changed to "so many mores per hour." Almost all experts advocate the ohange, and if it meets the approval of Mr. Wyilie, we would bo pleased to have him name the number of mores per hour.

In order to avoid any delay, we will cheerfully agree to any reasonable alterations in the articles that Mr. Wyilie may deem accessary. Yours truly, Charles Hester, for James P. Bszn.

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.

It is herely agreed on the part of James Wyilie, of Sootland, and James P. Reed, of Chicago, 111,, to play a match of draughts at Chicago, 111., for the championship of the world on the following conditions: 1st. That the match consist of thirty games, restricted wins ancl draws to count, for a stake of 8500 a side. Mr. A. J. Dunlap, of New York, draughts editor Turf, Field and Farm, shall be stakeholder. 2d. That a forfeit of $100 shall be deposited by each party at t.ho time of signing these articles. A final deposit of 8B00 from Mr. Reed and 8400 from Mr. Wyilie shall be deposited with the stakeholder at least ten days before the cdm mencement of the match. 3d. That Mr. Wyilie be allowed $100 for expenses, payable on receipt of his final deposit of *400. r" 4th. That Mr. WyUie select seven and Mr. Reed eight openings and forward them to Mr. Dunlap at least forty days before the commencement of the match. Mr. Dunlap will mail to each player a list of openings selected thirty-five days before the commencement of thfimateh. 6th. That all tho fifteen openings, each written on a separato paper, be placed in a hat, to be shaken by a mutually-appointed party, after which the player whoso turn it is to draw from the hat does so, and the opening drawn must be played by each player before another opening is drawn from tho hat, and so on until the fifteen openings are drawn. 6th. That the match must commenoe within sixty days after Mr. Wyllie'-s arrival in America, the hours of play being from 2:80 to 5 and p. riL, from 7 to 10 p. m., and must continue every day except Sunday, until the match is finished. 7th. That the match shall be played accord' ing to the standard laws as laid down In Janver's "Anderson." 8th. That the admission money shall be divided equally between the two players after deducting rent and other necessary expenses. 9th. That the selection of referee shaU be mutual, and each player may choose his own umpire or time-keeper. 10th. That the games played become the exclusive property of the winner of tho match, and that no game nor ending be published in any draughts column or periodical, except by the written consent of both players. 11th. That the party failing to perform this agreement shall forfeit all money deposited with Mr. A. J. Dunlap, the stakeholder, to the player performing or willing to perform the same.

Chas. Hefter, witness. Jas. P. Rehd.

PROBLEM NO. 212-BY ISAIAH BARKER. CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS. Black—12, 15, 16, 20, 22.

White—13, 27, 28, SO. KiagS. White to move and win.

BLACK.

WHITE

PROBLEM NO. 213-BY G. H. SLOCUM, t.aite geneva, wis. Black—15, 20, 23. King 27.

White—24, 30, 32. King 3. White to move and win.

SOLUTION TO 210.—BY L. M. STEARNS. Black—9, 12. Kings—22, 23, I Black to play. White—21, 24, 32. Kings—11,20.|and W. to win 23..18 9..13 18..11 83..10 28.-S4 32..28 11..15(a 84.. 19 W. wins, (a) 80-16, 12-19, 24-15, 23-19.

GAME NO. 313.—"LAIRD AND LADY." BT F. TESCHELE1T, OF LONDOS. 11..15 17..14 13..17 SS..24 S3..19 10..17 19..15 *5" ,5 8..11 21..14 4.. 8 25..21 1..10 23..17 15..13 84..19 2.. 6 9..13 26..23 6.. 9 32..28

And we have the accompanying problenu Black—3, 5, 7, 8,10, 11, 12,13, 17, 18.

White—14, 19, 21.23, 24, 87, 28,80,30,8L White to continue and win.

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TERKE HAUTE DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, IS90.

SSPTKKBKB 4, 1890.

Address all communication* for this dopartmeat to John T. Demvih, 621 If. Fifteenth Street,

Chicago, Ilu

THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP.

REFERENCE BOARD.

At the commencement of a game, tbe Black Men oo» cupy the squares numbered 1 to 13, the White Men ihOBe numbered 21 to 33. Put tbe men on a board, number it as ohart play over ono of the games below tvrioe, and then you can In one sense of the word consider yourself a checker player. Try it 11

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GAME NO. 314.—' 'AYRSHIRE IaASSEE." Played at Urcmsem, Mich.,Jtetweea J. W. fiaddns and P. Barms, of Jacfcsoa, Mich. 1.. 5 88..28

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THE CHESS CLUB.

Tbe Xeetinff aright Changed From Stat, urday to Monday. The Terre Haute Chess Club baa changed its time of meeting from Saturday evening to Monday evening. Tbe next meeting will be field at the residence of E. W. Ross, September 8. AH players in the city are invited to attend. Communications for this column should be addressed to A. K. Armstrong, room 4, Savings Bank block.

Answers to correspondents: W. H. B.— Play in the tournament games will soon be resumed and the contest decided. J. R. C.—Wm. Steinitz is tbe champion chess player of the world. His residence is in New York.

IU REGULAR

OPKXIXG. Black. R. H. Jenkins. ... 1..P to 4. ... 2..P to Q3. ... S.J'loKS. ... 4..Q Kt to 3. ... 5. .B to 2. ... ..B to 3. ... 7..P to Q5. ... S..PxP. ... 9..PxPch. ...10..Q B. ...H..KtloKR3. ...12. .Castles. ..13..R to Q2. ...14..KttoQ Kt5. ...15..Q to IS 6. ...16..BxB. .. .17. .Kt to 2. ...18..QtoP5ch. ...19..Q to Q2. .. ,20. .Kt to 3. .../1..Q to R. ...22..K to sg.

White.

Dr. O. Oerstmever. l..Pto 114 2.. to 3 3..I* to Kt 3 4..Bio Kt 2 6..Q Kt to 3 6. .Kt to 11 7..U to 3 8..KttoK

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10..Q ll..Castics lv!..Ktto KRt 3 13. .B to 4 14..Q to 2 16. .Kt to 5 16..Bx I' ch 17..Q ch 18..Kt to Kt 5 19..K to 6g 20.. to 4 il..R to sg ""..QxKt ch 23 .Q to mate

Evil Island Anticosti.

The island of Anticosti has always held an evil reputation to mariners lying close to the course of navigation to the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Its long, low shores were the scene of many disastrous wrecks, and the sufferings of sailors who succeeded in gaining the land were grievous and terrible from the absence of water and means of subsistence. Since it has been properly lighted its dangers have been greatly diminished but from the fact of its desolate and lonely position and its absence of population the island lifts long been the resort of characters who have found there a refuge from justice.

It is evident that of late years this criminal population must have been largely increased, for we now hear that the wreck of the Idaho has been taken possession of by a gang of pirates, upward of 100 strong, who have set at defiance the Canadian cruiser Wakeham, and that it had been necessary to -send her majesty^ steamship Comus from Halifax to copo with them. It may be hoped that her operations will result in the complete breaking up of this gang of desperadoes, who constitute a serious danger to the crews of vessels that may be cast upon tho coast.—London Standard.

A Very Fortunate Lord.

Lord Northampton is a vastly fortunate personage. In 1879 his eldest son, the late Lord Compton, borrowed £10,000 from the National Life Assurance society on the security of his reversionary interest in an entailed estate, but if lie died before his father (as happened) of course the security was worthless. The society proceeded to insure Lord Compton's life for £34,000. the understanding being that it was to pay the premiums and add them to the amount of the loan, and the policy was to be transferred to him if ever he paid off the debt. He died three years ago, by which time his debt to the society had risen to £14,000. The society therefore congratulated itself upon having made a profit of nearly £20,000 but, lo and behold, Lord Northampton as executor of his deceased son demanded the balance of £34,000, and in spite of the agreement between the society and Lord Compton his claim has been sustained by the court of appeaL The result is highly satisfactory for Lord Northampton, who gets nearly £20,000 from a fund which neither he nor his son nor any of his family paid a penny to create.—London Truths

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Tlie Girder Ever Iadw.

The Keystone Bridge company, of Pittsburg, Pa., has just complete# a girder for the new city hall of San Francisco which is the largest ever made in the United States, so far as the firm knows. It is 105 feet long and weighs 70 tons. A contract for two girders was given the company last November, and they have been working on it ever since. The materials for the second one are now being prepared. The girders are intended for the ground floor of the building. The great problem now is to transport it to the Pacific coast The Chicago and Northwestern and Union Pacific roads have undertaken tho job. The long monster is loaded on three of the largest freight cars obtainable.— New York Telegram.

A Big Rattler.

The boss snake is a monster rattler on exhibition at J. P. Bolton's store, in Americus, Ga. His snakeship is more than six feet in length and measures twenty inches in circumference in the middle, while his caudal appendage is ornamented with fourteen rattles and a button. The 1" object was killed in a sedge field ..i_- Huguenin plantation by Alfred fields, a colored laborer, who. after a lively fight of several minutes, knocked him on the head with a fence rail. Mr. Bolton had the snake's hide stuffed and hung up in front of his store.

Shelley's centenary, Aug. 4, 1892, is to be celebrated by the publication of Mr. F. S: Ellis' "Lexical Concordance" to his poems, which is to be printed at the University Press of Oxford. It will be remembered that Shelley was an expelled Oxford student, and thus time brings about an odd amends. The concordance is said to be as large as Mrs. Mary Cowden-Clarke's Shakespeare concordance.

As the law of Aberdeen required it, a cab driver was prosecuted, convicted and fined five shillings or three days' imprisonment for smoking a pipe on his cab, not while driving a fare, but .while

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By the municipal law and regulations of Aberdeen the smoking of a pipe by a cab driver is a criminal offense.

A Feline Clock.

Every one knows that cats can see in the dark, and the reason they can do.

Per annum.

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is because of the peculiar construction of their eyes. You may have noticed that in a moderate light the pupil

black part of pussy's eye is small and

an oval shape, while in a full glare

light it becomes narrow. Now in the dark it expands to a circle and nearly fills the surface of the eyeball. This peculiarity of the cat's eyes is turned to account in a curious manner by tho Chinese.

The Abbe Hue relates that when he was traveling iu China he asked his a^ tendant what time it was. The man went over to a cat that was quietly basking in the sun, and examining its eyes told the abbe that it was about two hours after noon, and on being questioned how he knew that he explained that the pupils of a cat's eyes were largest in tho morning, and that they gradually grew smaller as the light increased till they reached their minimum at noon: that then they began to widen again, till at night they once more became large.

The good abbe was filled with admiration for the ingenuity of a people who could nsfe cats as clocks. But it must bo admitted that this way of telling tho time of day is rather a loose one, and could only be trusted in very, very clear and serene weather, for temporary gloom or the darkness of a storm would sadly derange your four footed clock and put it all wrong.—Exchange.

Rev. Dr. Bnrchard* is summering in Saratoga. He is a well preserved, handsome and affable old gentleman. A correspondent §ays that the venerable doctor fits well into Saratoga life, and tlierp is nothing he likes better than to sit down in the evening to a game of cards with some bright young ladies.

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