Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 139, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 November 1875 — Page 6

TI-IE

Parisian Detective

on,

A DESPERATE DEED.

BV

ERSKINE BOYD,

Author of "Thb Stolen Child," "Drive? Fbom Home," &c., &c.

4, CHAPTER I.

THB CRIME DISCOVERED.

On Tuesday, the 6th flay of March, 1S62, the day following Ash Wednesday, in the above-mentioned year, five women, belonging to the village of La Jonchere, appeared at the police-station of Bougival, a small town near Paris, and situated on the banks of the Seine.

Having asked to see the commisHary of police, they informed him that one of their neighbours, a widow named Lerouge, who inhabited singly a detatched cottage .just on the outskirts of the village, had not been seen by any of its inhabitants for two entire days, and notwithstanding their repeated endeavours they had failed to gain admittance.

The shutters being up at each of the •windows, and the doors being bolted and barred, they had found it equally impossible to find even a crevice which might have given them a peep at the interior. Thie strange silence, this sudden disappear-, ance, had caused them great uneasiness and,1 fearing a crime, or at least an accident, they begged that the police would kindly break open the door and relieve them from their present anxiety.

Bongival is an agreeable sort of place, overflowing on summer Sundays with Pains folk, who have been pent up at the desk or an the counting-house, or kept prisoners behind the counter, on week-days. Small misdemeanours" are of frequent occurrence on these festive occasions but anything in the shape of crime had hardly ever been heard of. Therefore the commissai*y of police of this peaceable little town refused at first to accompany his five lady visitors, and somewhat pooh-poohed their solicitations. However, finding them to be so evi-dently-in earnest, and seeing no other way to rid* himself of their presence, the wearied magistrate at last gave in, and, sending for the brigadier of gendarmerie, two policeofficers, and a locksmith, set off for the cottagfe of the Widow Lerouge, the live women leading the way,

La Jonchere is an insignificant hamlet, situated on the declivity of the hill, which overlooks the Seine between Malinaison and jBougival. A steep path, unconnected with the embankment and high-road, takes you to it by a short cut, but the little procession, with the gendarmes at its head, followed the road by the embankment, and after a sharp walk of about three-quarters of an hour's duration, halted before a habitation of an unpretending yet respectable appear ance.

Tlii--* hou?e, or rather cottage, had probably been built by some retired tradesman, fond of an open view,'' for all the trees had 1 carefully cut down, and any inIrup'Ve or other creeping plant as assid-

Siiii.'hed.

T! consisted of two large rooms or. i! floor, with an attic or so -v 'wound it was a neglected garden, ...i.-rle'l from marauder*: by si styno

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a yard in height, which in

.•_ was crumbling into ruin. A rf« with an iion laieh opened into •?!. the place," said the women, 'j'h'.-vt'fnniissary of police stopped at the little wicket gats 'and turned round to his men. During their walk their suite had been considerably increased by all the idlers cf the neighborhood, and now consisted of about forty persons, all in a very inquisitive and talkative condition. "Let no one enter the garden," said the commissary. ,,

And to enforce his orders, he ine two gendarmes before the gate, while he advanced to the house, accompanied by the brigadier of gendarmerie and the locksmith.

First he knocked loudly with his loaded cane several time3 at the front door, then at all the shutters. After each blow he placed his ear to the wood and listened attentivelv. -Hearing no sound or movement in answer, he turned to the locksmith.

Force the lock," he said. The workman unfastened his bag and took out his tools. He had just introduced one of his picklocks into the keyhole, when a great uproar burst from the group of idlers behind.

A boy, playing with one of his comrades, had picked up a large key in the ditch by the roadside, and, pushed by a dozen officious hands, presented it in triumph to the commissary.

The key, on being tried was found to be that of the front door and as it swung back on its hinges, the commissary a.nd the locksmith glanced uneasily at one another. "This looks very suspicious," murmured the brigadier, as he entered the house, whilst :the crowd, with difficulty held^ in check by the gendarmes, stamped with impatience, craning their necks and crawling along the wall, in their vain endeavors to see or hear what was going on within.

Those who had suspected foul play were, unfortunately, not deceived in their conjecture, for the practiced eye of the commissary detected the awful priesence of crime the moment he placed,his foot on the threshold. "'"7V,

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The disorder that reigned the room they entered, denounced with a dismal eloquence, the traces of its footsteps. Chairs, tables, a chest of drawers, and two large trunks were overturned, and thrown pellmell on one another.

In the second room the contusion was, possible, still worse. It seemed as if the hand of a madman had taken a wild pleasure in tojssihg everything to right and left.

Near the fireplace, her face in the midst of the ashes of the burnt-out logs, lay the corpse of the Widow Lorouge so near, in fact, that one of her cheeks had absolutely been scorched by the heat and a portion of the long, gray hair consumed, though by some miracle the fire had not communicated with any portion of the unfortunate woman's dress. "The cowardly dogs!" murmifred the brigadier of gendarmerie. Couldn't they have robbed without murdering the poor \ropaan?" *But where has she been struck 1" asked tfee commissary. I don't see any blood."

HeiG, sir," answered the gendarme "•Just between the shoulders. Two steady fjfows&rid no mistake. I'd wager my next fbonth's pay that ehe hadn't time to utter feyen a groan."

He bent over the body, and touched it *»th his hand. She's as cold as marble," he continued, gg he proceeded with hia examination "and ray experience go«c for anything, mora

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than one day and night have elapsed sine® the poor creature got her death-stroke." The commissary shrugged his shoulders, and, producing his writing implements, placed them on a corner of the table, and proceeded to draw up the necessary judicial report.

It's no use making long speeches, or wasting our time in suppositions," said he to the brigadier "we can do that when we have discovered the assassins. All we have to do at present, is to inform the justice of the peace and the mayor of the facts in the case. The next, to start for Paris, and present this letter at the ofiiee or the public prosecutor. Before two hour- have elapsed, the examining magistrate may be here. In the meantime I will make a provisional inquest, and endeavor to gain some additional evidence."

Am I to take the letter inquired the brigadier. "No send one of your men. I shall want you here to keep back the crowd, and find me the witnesses I may require. I shall leave everything as yon now see it, and take up my quarters in the front room for the present."

A gendarme was at once started for the nearest railway station, and the commissary commenced proceedings according to the law.

Who was this Widow L°rouge From whence did she come 1 What was her occupation How did she live—and upon what What were her habits—her conduct—her acquaintances 1 Had she enemies Was she miserly 1 Had she money, or was it reported she had money

These were the inquiries that it was the duty of the commissary of police to make, in pursuance of the French law.

But the witnesses, though numerous, gave but little information. The depositions of the neighbors were empty, incoherent, and unsatisfactory. Nobody knew anything of the victim she was an entire stranger to the place. A gardener's wife, who had been friendly with the Widow Lerouge, and a milk-woman, whom she dealt with, were the only people who could give any information of a precise and tangible nature.

At last, after three weary hours of questioning and cross-questioning, after having listened to all the vapid gossip of the village, received the most contradictory evidence, and heard the most ridiculous tittletattle, the following contained the only reliable statements gathered after so much difficulty by the commissary of police.

CHAPTER n.

SEARCHING FOE A CLUB.

Two years before, at the commencement of 1860, the woman Lerouge had arrived at Bougival with a large van full of furniture, clothes and other property. She stopped at a small inn, where she took up her quarters for the time being, informing the people that she intended settling in the neighborhood, and at once set about finding a house. This cottage being according to her tastes, she had taken it at the yearly rental of thirty pounds, payable every six months, and in advance, but refused a lease, although offered at *ore advantageous terms.

The agreement being drawn up, she had entered the same da}', after having spent five pounds in repairs.

She was a woman of about fiftv-fonr or fifty-five years of age, well-preserved and enjoying rob«st health. Nobody knew why" she had settled herself in a plac9 where slio was a stranger. It was supposed that she had come from Normandy, because in the mornings she wore linen cap-, common to the women of that province.

This rather homely sort of cap was. however, discarded in the afternoons, v/^ien the widow burst into bloom in the shape of very bright-colored dresses, gaudy headgear, and showy jewelry.

In all probability she had come from some naval port, for allusions to the sea and ships were of constant occurrence in her conversation.

She had a dislike of speaking of her hueband, who had died, she said, in a shipwreck but upon this subject she had never been heard to enter into any detail. Once only she had said to the milk-woman, in the presence of three other persons, "Never was there a woman more unhappy in her married life than I was."

On another occasion shehad said,"Novelty alorie pleases the men. My husband got tired of me after the first year."

Widow Lerouge had the reputation of being comfortably off, if not rich. She was also generous with her money. Had once lent a woman of Malmaison sixty francs to enable her to pay her rent, and afterwards refused repayment. Another time she had advanced two hundred francs to a fisherman of Port Marly. She loved good living, ordered her wine by the dozen, "constantly gave excellent dinners to her friends, and was fond of patronizing them. When complimented on being rich was never known to deny it. Was often heard to say, I have nothing in the funds, but I have all I want. If I wished for more, I could have it."

Apart from what has been mentioned above, she never allowed the slightest allusion to escape her concerning herself or her past life. At night she barricaded her house with bolt and bar, as if it had been a fortress, and never went out after sunset. It was said she habitually drank too much at her dinner, and generally went to bed immediately afterwards.

It was very seldom any strangers visited her. Four or five times a lady and a young man were seen to enter the cottage, and on one occasion two gentlemen—one very old and wearing several orders the other young, and evidently "a great swell." These last had come in a handsome carriage.

A pork-butcher of Bougival, in pecuniary difficulties, had been known to propose marriage to her, but had been summarily dismissed, with the observation that she had had one husband, which was quite sufficient, and that she was by no means disposed to repeat the experiment.

Nevertheless, on several occasions men were seen to call on her. At first, a young man having the appearance of a railway guard then, a tall, dark, elderly man, in a blouse, and of a sinister and disagreeable aspect. After tlie incident of the porkbutcher, the village gossips put these men down as the widow's admirers.

Whilst the commissary was collecting this evidence and putting it to paper, the examining magistrate arrived. He brought with him the chief officer of the detective police, accompanied by one of his agents.

Monsieur Daburon, the examining magistrate, was at this time about thirty-eight years of age. In figure he was tall and well-made and, notwithstanding a certain coldness and hauteur in manner, with a gentle and melancholy expression of fade. This melancholy had remained indelibly marked on his features after a severe illness, which two yeara before had nearly proved fatal to him.

He had held his present important position since 1S59, and had rapidly acquired a brilliant reputation. Hard-working, patient, and endowed with a sort of subtle common sense, he could unruveLthe nicsl tangled

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litem in the most puzzling law case, and ftl the midst of a thousand threads pick out the right one.

With so many rare qualities, he, however, hardly seemed fitted by nature for his terrible office. He never condemned without a shudder, mistrusting his own judgment, and fearing to be led away in spite

self by the extent

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of

him­

of

the

authority

placed

in his hands. The chief of the detective police was no other than the celebrated Gevrol, wno has played so often a prominent part in the criminal dramas of our time. A very able' man. wi hone fault, an obstinate persistency whether right or wrong,in his own ideas. He never confesses hims1 wrong, and,the scent nnce lost, stubbornly refuses to retrace his cVpc fo take up another which a subordinate mur'nt have discovered. With this exception, he is the beau ideal of a police officer cool and courageous, gifted with a hercule:m strength, notwithstanding'his meagre ••wnranc". and ever ready to confront a 'h'Tv.r-'r, and arrest—often single-handed— ih. most desperate criminals. But his •pe'-ial peculiarity, his glory, his triumph, is an xtraordinary memory for faces. A far-e once seen by him is never forgotten. In (he most unlikely places, under themost

disguises he never fails to

recognize i!- This remarkable and unerring precision, he explains, is due to his -ver troubling himself about any other part, of a man's face but the eyes. He could remember a glance, or detect a look, when the other features often escaped his memory. To quote an example: A few weeks before the occurrence we are now treating of, a question of identity had arisen concerning three malefactors, accused of a grave offence. Draped with heavy coverings, so as to utterly disguise both height and fisrure, their faces were hidden by thick veils, in which openings were so man aired as to show only their sinister eyes, and in this state they were placed before the keenvisioned detective. Without a moment's hesitation he recognized each of the three rascals, and pointed them out by name.

Gevrol's assistant in the matter he had now in hand was young, but, at the same time, one of the most promising of his staff. Keen as a razor, and loving the profession he had adopted, he saw the one great fault of his master, and never failed, when opportunity offered, to take advantage of it. But Gevrol, on his side, regarded his younger colleague with a jealous disdain.

This agent's name was Lecoq. The commissary of police who was beginning to feel uneasy at the responsibility of hit present position, received the magistral and the detective officers as a captive receives his liberators. He gave them a rapid recapitulation of the facts, and read the depositions of the various witnesses. "All this is very satisfactory," said the magistrate "but 1here is one fact you have omitted to ascertain." "And what's that, sir?" inquired the commissar}'. "On what day was the Widow Lerouge last seen, and at what time?" "I was just about to inform you, sir. She was met returning from Bougival on the evening of Shrove Tuesday, with a market-basket on her arm." "Are you quite sure of the hour?" asked Gevrol. "Perfectly, and I'll give yon the reason why. Two witnesses, whose depositions I have taken—the woman Tellier, and a winecooper who lives close by—were getting out of the omnibus that leaves Marlv every hour, when they saw the Widow Lewicre crossing the road in front of them. They quickened their pace, and, joining her, walked with her as far as her door." "And what had she in her basket?" asked the magistrate. "The witnesses can't say, They only saw the necks of two bottles of wine, each one with a red seal. She complained of a bad headache, and rnmarkc-c! that.though it wa* customary to entertain and 'keep it up' on Shrove Tuesday, sho intended to go to bed directly." "I've got it!" suddenly interrupted the chief detective. "What?" said the magistrate, eagerly. "Why. it's clear as the day. We must find oiit the tail, dark, elderly man in the blouse. The widow expected him to supper—that explain* Cue wine.'" "Oh," said the brigadier of gendarmerie, with great disgust, "tho widow was old and Urrlv!" °Gevrol looked with in air of much contempt aUhe simple-hearted gendarme. "You don't know the world, my friend, or you'd have known that a oman with money is always young and beautiful." •'Perhaps you may be on the track," said the magistrate, reflecl'vely. "But what has struck me the most, were those words of the widow, 'If I wished for more I could have it.' "I must own I was struck by those words, also," repeated the commissary.

But Gevrol did not stay to listen. He was on the scent, and was. inspecting minutely every hole and corner in the room.

Suddenly lie turned toward the commis-

Sa«rve

just remembered," he cried,f"that

there was a change in the weather on Tuesday. It had been freezing for a fortnight, when it turned to rain. At what time did the rain commence here?" "At half-past nine," answered the brigadier. "I'd just finished supper, and was going my rounds, when I was caught in a regular shower close by the bridge. In less than ten minutes half an inch of water had fallen on the roadway." "Very good," said Gevrol. "Now, if the man had been here at half-past nine, his boots would have been covered with mud, unless he arrived earlier, lou ought to have been able to ascertain this, as the floor is oaken, and has recently been waxed. Were there any marks of footsteps when you first entered?" "I'm sony to say we never thought ot looking." "Ah!" grumbled the detective "whit a pity—what a pity!" "Wait a moment," said the commisstry. "It's not. too late to see the marks—not in this room, but in the next. Nothing has been touched there. My footprints ina those of the brigadier can^be easily diainguished. Come along."||||

And so saying, he

was

opening the door

of the second room, when he was stopped by Gevrol. "May I ask your permission", sir, saidne, turning to the magistrate, "to be allowed to examine everything before any one else is allowed to enter? It is a matter of great importance to me." "Certainly—certainly," acquiesced M. Daburin.

Gevrol passed in first, and all those behind him paused on the threshold, luus he took in at one glance the scene before him.

CHAPTET III.

THB MAJI WITH THE EARRINGS. j.

Everything appeared, as the commissary had already stated, to have been scattered pellmell, as by the hands of a madman.

In the middle of the room stood actable covered with a fine damask cloth, white as the driven snow. At the farther end was a magnificent antique goblet^of, cut glass, an

fvory-handled knife and a plate. Next to these was placed a bottle of wine, hardly touched, and a bottle of brandy, from which about five or six liqueur glasses had been taken.

To the right, along the wall, stood two handsome oaken presses, one on each side of the- window. Both were empty, and their contents strewn about the floor. These latter consisted of wearing apparel, linen, and other articles of clothing, all rumpled, unfolded and thrown in a heap together.

At

the other end of the room, near the chimney, a large cupboard, containing crockery, was wide open, and next to it an old secretary, with a marble slab, had been broken open, and then smashed in various places, evidently with the intention of discovering its innermost grooves. The shelf, half torn away, still 1 ng by a single hinge, while the drawers had been taken out and thrown on the ground. The bed also, on the left hand side of the room, was completely unmade, blankets and sheets lying in a disordered heap beside it, even to the mattress, which had been half ripped open, and the horsehair strewn about like straw in a stable. "Not even the faintest footprint," murmured Gevrol, with ill-concealed annoyance. "He must have arrived before half-past nine. We can enter without disturbing anything now."

And so saying, he walked, right up to the corpse, and knelt beside it.. "Well, there's no denying but this affair has been neatly done," he grumbled. "The assassin, whoever he may be, was no novice. This is the work of a master and not of an apprentice." Then, glancing from right to left, "Oh, oh!" he continued, "the poor old girl was busy with her cooking when the blow was struck that sent her into kingdom come in so unexpected a manner. Yes, there is the l'rying-pan on the door the rashers of ham and the eggs that were to have made the omelette. My srentleman was in a hurry, or he wouldn't have done the little business on an empty stomach. He hadn't even the patience to wait for his dinner. At anyrate, he can't plead in his defence that his head was confused by the gaiety of the dessert." "It's very evident," said the commissary of police to the examining magistrate, "that robbery has been the motive of the crime." "I should rather think so," answered Gevrol, with a slight sneer. "And perhaps it was for the same reason that the forks and spoons have disappeared from the table." "I-Iilloh! here's some gold in this drawer!" exclaimed Lecoq, who was rumaging about on his own account.. "No less than three hundred and twenty francs." "You don't mean that," said Gevrol, somewhat abashed but recovering quickly from his astonishment, he continued, with his usual confidence. "I've heard of queerer things than that. I knew a man once who so completely lost his presence of mind after he had committed the murder, that he ran away without taking anything, and forgot his hat and gloves into the bargain. Our friend, on the present occasion, must have been nervous. Perhaps he was interrupted by some one knocking—who knows? I'm inclined to this opinion the more readily from the appearance of the candle. You see, he didn't leave it burning, but. took the trouble to blow it out." "Fudge!" said Lecoq. "That proves nothing. He may have been a man of economical tendencies."

The investigations of the two detectives were continued over the whole premises but after the minutest researches they discovered nothing that gave them the faintest clue. Even the papers of the Widow Lerouge, had she ever po-^e^sj'd any, had disappeared. Not a loiter, or an envelope, or a scrap of paper of any kind could be found.

Every now and then the disappointed Gevrol paused to swear at the world at large, and himself in .rti'::dar. "Well, what do you make of it?" asked tho judge, out of patience at the slow pace of the proceedings. "We are sold,'' 'replied Gevrol, with a despairing shrug of tlie shoulders—"completely sold! For th.-* present, that is. The scoundrel has taken no end ot' precautions but wo shall have him yet. Before the evening I will set my hounds oil the scent and he'll be run down to a clearl certainty." "Then, as it appears to me," observed Monsieur Daburon, "we are no farther advanced than we were this morning?" "One does one's best, and the best of us can't do the impossible," said Gevrol ly"If Old Corkscrew, now, were only here," muttered Lecoq, in a low voice, which, however, reached the ears of Monsieur Daburon, "he'd draw the cork, if any one, could." "Y\rhat could the old fool do more than we have done?" asked Gevrol, darting an angry glance at his subordinate.

Lecoq turned away, secretly glad to have wounded the vanity of his too confident chief, but too wise to bring his anger upon himself. "What's all that?" demanded Monsieur Daburon. "And who is this person—Old Corkscrew, as you call him—that he is likely to succeed where experienced men have failed? I somehow fancy I have ho frd of him before." "He's a wonderful man," replied Lecoq, not sorry to be thus appealed to. "To use his own words, he c.m get at the heart of a mystery as* easily as another would draw a cork from a bottle." "He was formerly a poor clerk in a lawyer's office," added Gevrol. "The old fellow has come into money now. His real name is Tabaret. He has constituted himself a sort of detective for his own amusement." "And to augment his revenues, I suppose?" sneered the commissary. "Not he!" answered Lecoq. "It's a labor of love with him. He's never so happy as when he's ferreting after some difficult case, that 'ud make another chap's head ache for a week. We call him Old Corkscrew, just as well as we might call him Old Gimlet, because he can worm himself into anything. Why, it was he in that business of the robbery at the bankers you know, sir, who asserted that it was the wife who was the thief, and proved it too." "That's all

very

a

irmiM

well," retorted Gevrol

but how about the poor little tailor whom he accused of having killed his wife, and nearly got him condemned? He's too clever by half, that he is!" "Come, come!" interrupted the magistrate, impatiently, "we are wasting time!" Then, turning to Lecoq, he said, "Fetch me this Monsieur Tabaret. I've heard a great deal of him, and should like to see him at his favorite employment.]' r*.

Lecoq was gone in an instant, wnue Orevrol looked much mortified. "Of course, sir," he commenced, you have every right to employ any one that you may think proper but "Don't be offended Gevrol," said the magistrate, good-humoredly. "It was not yesterday that I made your acquaintance —I know your value. Only to-day we differ completely in our opinions. You suck to the tall, dark, elderly man in the blouse, and I am convinced you'r© on too wrong"

^till think I am right," answered the detective, "and I hope soon to prove it. .11J hunt up the rascal wherever he is." .j ,' a in liiiriA U-

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In th" ViKO Circuit Court. [No. 6,804. Maggie \. Bttkdine vs. Theodobe C. Bttrdine.—in I) vorce.

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kn that on the lSth of Sep-tt-mh. r, I875.it. was ordered by 1 he Court in it the ierk notify by publication said 'i lieo Burdineas non resident defend ant of he pendeaey of this action against him.

Said fvndant is therefore hereby notified of t! pei de"cy of nid action against hln. and

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NOTICh.

Wedding and Party Older- a

ipecialty which we are prepar to fill at tiort notice, and to suit all classes of cus nvters. Goods delivered to all partsof the it.v tree ofebarge.

All orders jeft at our store,

Between tbe Two Railroads, ton LaFajeUe Street.

OH OUR BRANCH STORE,

Nsigned

Proprietor*.

legally obtained tor 'nc

patibility, etc. residence unr'C' as ry f-e after d^ciec. Address P. O. Box 1-37-Chicago, 111.

the same willstan for trial

at the November Termol said Court in the yea roi 187'. MARTIN KOLL.IJSGER, Clerk.

Royse* Otiimks.

Attorneys.

oiHiniHNioner'd Hulo. rjiHS undf'Bignf'd will sey at rufolic sale, JL on Saturday, tbe 4th dny of Lif cemb^r, 18T5, at the court Honse door in T- rre ante, t.e fol owing described real estate, in Visro county, State of Indiana, to-wit:

Lot'No. 125, on which are two good brick welling house-*, on the north *-e*t corner •f Eleventh and Mulberry streets, in Chauncey Rose's subdivision of 47.32 acres, of the east side ol thewestlialf of seciion 22, townehin 12 north, ot range 9 west.

Also all ihat ttrip of land between tho sight ot way of th« tOvansville& Crawj'oidsviile Railroad aud the Wabash .t K.rie canal. in the southwest one-fc-urth of section LI. tou nship 11 north, ot range 9 west.

TERMS—one f.-urth cash and the balance in thri several payments, in six, ine, and twelve months, the purchaser glviug notes lie-ring interest at the rate ot eight percent, per annum, securfd by treehoid surety. MakBOS SCHCEMI1.HL),

Commissioner.

a 0111 11 sira Notice.

NOTICE

1* hereby given that the under-

igot dhaw beeu appointed adinlhistratrixof the e.-ts.t!j of Calvin C. Lieachu an, late of Vigo county, Ind., deceabed. The estate is probabiy solveut

J1'LI A LEACH MAN, Administratrix.

Atimui'Mianix issde.

Nsigned

OTICE is hereby given that Ihe underadministratrix of the estate of (Jaivin J. Leachman, deceased, will sell at public auction on Saturday, .November 27, 1875, at the late residence of the decedent, in Prairietoii lownship, Vigo county, md„ th* personal property olsaid estate consisting 01 oue sorrel horse, one black horse, two phtetons, one open buggy, both nearly new, one set of doable bug*y harnes-:, one set of single harness, one sulky, two cows, one lot hogs, one piano, one fall set of parlor far ltare, household and kltohen tarnltureand divers other articles. Bale to commence at 1' o'clock A. M.

Terms—All snms under 85, cash. On all sums of 9a aud over a credit of one year will given, Ihe purchaser giving a note bearing -ix per ceiit.. ait-eiest, waiving valuation and appraisemen. lawd, with approved securiiy.

JULIA LEACHMAN, Administratrix.

Administrator's Sale.

is hereby given that I wi'l seh

at public auction, on Saturday, the 27th day of November, 1875, at the late residence of the decPi.s d, one-half mile eaB* of West Liberty, in Fayette township, all the persoual prop* rf.y of St. Clair Taylo ate of Vigo county, Ind., deceased, consisting or two goo horsts, a good wagon, a spring wago". farming implements, hous hold furniture sonif coru and wheat. A credit otlO (t. ni mon'hs will be given on all *umsote 3 (three) dollars, ihe purchaser givinghis note with approved securtj and and waiving valuation and appraise- ent laws. WM. T. PITTE N "ER,

Nov. 3,1875. Administrator

AUiji'iiisirator*Notice,

'H CE is hereby given that the underhis been appointed administratort tue estate of St. Clair Taylor, late ol VijiO couniy. In lana, oeceased. Thj estate is pr by solvent.

W Ii iS N E A in is at or ov. 3.1875.

4k invested lu Wall t" »re#l*V stree often Iead-tto foitusie. A 72 p'gi book explaining uveryihinj! and acopy of the W -li Street cevew (.

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ft1 JOHN

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HICKLING

I* libli. AI o.. Banker and

Brokers. 72 BROADWAY, NEW, YORK

ICE 5 CFNTS

iY GOODS.

EW STORE.

ritES CO.,

I W. Washington St.

1NAPOLIS.

500 500

FEICES PEIOES

'EW

Embroideries,

Sir per ynrJ-marked extra low. "il

aed, an extra line of

jorsets, Bustles,

ED FRINGES, Ac.

leces A11-SI1U CloaUIn* doitn *14. Two pieces at Best Bargain® 1b tbe

souse.

y,

November

23,

ECTURE ON

.tain and Ireland

-BY-

E, F. HOWE, the barest of XJTH CJ HAPEL

'ill narrate th°i interesting idents observed during his rest Brltain and Gem any, ollowiog.

viz:

•Queenstown, Klllarney, tho —House of Barns, Glasgow.

-Oxford, Westminster Ab-

—Dresden Art Galleries, the

le at* Button A Hamilton's. Ictr, children 25 cU. Fain

is Midland.

Ira of time.

Arrangement.

November 21, the Illinois ged its time table. Ihe folives the correct time far the parture of tralnB until iar*

ARRIVE.

tk Fast liine 1 Ex Dress 3. na Frefiht reight.!..... 0,00

BIFABT. Exnres'...! 8,20 am Accomodation 4,10 pm

Freight 2'Oaw 'might V°

WANTED

Girl'to do general house-.. .pplyto MTSf-S. R. Bender-' reel, between Gulick and

is are ripe.

•i

Opera" House to-night,

to Opera Hon9e to-niRht.

still' attracts attention tiori| •.

,bi is to ba opened soon ^theatre. the sbootist will be in 25th inst.

end reading club ia wrestak«Bpe«re.

andiader boys will have e6tb prox.

evening Theodore Tilton House. ked boys went gunning'^, id came back safe.

team will sliootl^

Handout of the way.

eateiil amount of reading. price-take the Gazette*.

promising young orphans Jeremiah, are coming. «.•- teling makes turkeys and ni kind towards each oth?.

^eighteen members of tbe •ce, "Chief Shewmaker

orary

learns that the lit*

'orthington is to have

36.

team hold forth at the •use promenade hall on ing night.

crossing at Sixth and low by several inches, oh city dads. jiety order and association lied,to be determined, to before spring.

•f time on all the railroads ffect yesterday. No mages are noticed.

to be in your shoes" said to another. '"You couldn't was the quick reply.

inte policemen receive a *pay than the officers of $ The latter receive but iv

Whereas our men

are

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