Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 155, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 December 1875 — Page 2

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Internaitonal Sunday School Lesson for December 12th, 1875.

TOPIC—''JESUS AND THOMAS."

Orthodox Oddities and Church Cal ender.

24. But Thomas, one of the twelve called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his handa the print of the nails in his hands, aud put my finger into

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26. And after eignt days again his disciples were within, and Thomas was

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being Bhut, aud stood in the midst anrlsad, Peace be unto you. 27. Then saith be unto Thomas Reach here tby finger and behold my bands and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side and be not faithless, but believing. 28. And Thomas answered and said unto him. My Lord, and my liod. 29. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas because thou bast seen me thou hast believed blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed 30. Aud many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31. But these are written,, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.— John xx 24-31.

Jesus rose on the morning of the first day of the week. Ever since that time, and to celebrate His rising, all Christians have kept the first day sacred, instead of the seventh. It is this unanimity and venerable practice of the Christian church, and that is sufficient to stamp the first day of the week as the Christian Sabbath. On that first day Christ showed himself either four or five times. The last appearance was probably ia the same "upper room" in Jerusalem whejre the Lord held His lone: interview with them before Bis death. Ten disciples were present when Jesus suddenly appeared and pronounced His benediction of peace, and added the gift of the Holy. Ghost. Thomas alone was absent. Yerse 24.

I.—REASONS FOR HIS ABSENCE.

1. No absolute reason can be. reached. It is wiso and seemly not to make the Scriptures responsible for more than their record or a reasonable reference from the record. 2. Some persons guess that he had giveu up all hope in the reappearance of the Lord, and had lost all faith in the nature of the case. Perhaps so, and only perhaps. 3. Others suppose he might have been absent on the memorable morn

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tancethan the "other disciples. Perhaps the news did not reach him until later, and when he started to go to the place of meeting, where he expected the disciples would likely gather in the evening, be did not get there until Christ had come and gone. He may have just missed the first meeting and no more. So when he entered the room the glad band, without a word ol rebuke, cry out (verse 25): "We have seen the Lord." "How sorry we are that vou should have not been here, as i. rr i._ rt. •. 11

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HIS ABSENCE.

1. Hi3 natural disposition to doubt was thereby strengthened. There are only two cases in the sacred record before this, in -which Thomas' character comes out. By both of these we are l«d to think of him, not as the skeptics do. They hold him up as a fine sample of a man whose independent turn of mind, and whose habits of intellectual investigation made it impossible for him to believe anythiug, except as it had tho support of his sifiht, and touch and understanding.

Dr. Arnold does his btst to exalt Thomas to the top of the disciples. Indeed, many laudjthis doubting disciple for his spiiit of free inquiry. But (1) his was not a case of inquiry, but of obstinate disbelief in anything but his senses.

And (2) Christ witholds his blessing from him, and pronounces it upon those who believe without seeing. Verse 29.

If we turn to the two instances which shed light on the true character ol Thomas, the cause of this tendency to doubt evidence, and rely only upon his senses rrjay more cleariy appear. (a.) When Jesus aforetime spoke of going to the grave of Lazarus, Thomas, thinking that Christ might soon die too, said to the others "Come, and let us go, that we may die with Him." This is the language of despondency. He loved Jesus, and believed aB far as he understood. But by reason of a low cast of courage, be was easily overcome and readily concluded, on the first unfavorable turn of affairs, that all was over and the cause lost.

Again, when Jesus in his discourse before his crucifixian was explaining the future, and promising that they and be should be united in a better world, Thomas broke in with this perplexed and hopeless expression. "We known not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way?" we see, therefore, a man whose confidence in everything about him was feeble. He was a type of the people who are often ready to think the cause of Christ will yet fail, their owh|church go down,and their own souls perish. Any low spirited Christian is the last edition of Thomas. Had he teen present with the woman or ready to run to the sopulchre, as Peter and John were or had he been present on that first Sabbeth evening when Jesus appeared, his doubts would have been disipated. Therefore, by being absent his natural disposition of depression and doubt wa9 strengthened. 2. Result: He went weeping and uphappy for another entire week. He gave his brethren cause for sorrow. Because, while they were finally delivered from doubt he was established in his unbelief. Perhaps he did during the week, by telling of his unbelief in the resurrection as he went about the city, confirm in infidelity naany who were never afterwards convinced of the truth. As long as a man if not openly and all for Christ, he is giving comfort to the other side, and sowing seed that may bring-forth in the ruin of souls. Qlad we are that the curtain is down on the doings of Thomas during that week. No one can afford to spend a week is a wavering mood about the reality of the resurrection and redemption by Jesus Christ

N E N E A S O N A E N E S S O IS DEMANDS.

1. He doubted witnesses whom he accepted upon all.other points cf evi-

2. He rejected the unanimous opinion of ten persons who had seen the Lord at five different times. 3. He demanded the kind of proef that could not be granted to all—yerse 25. How could Christ have given ali his people such evidence of his resurrection? Impossible! Then why should Thomas have demanded such partiality in his lavor? 4. His demand for evidence to prove the. real presence of the Lord Jesus was more than he ever made to_prove a thousand things of common life. He had always acted as if eating good food would produce physical strength, although nojsientilic formula ever showed the Becret process of digestion and the transformation of food into flesh aud blood, and fueling and affection.

There is nothing so absolutely unreasonable as the popular demand for mathematical demonstration in order to believe. There is not one per cent, of all the things that interest us that has the process open to our senses. Thers is an office l'or intellect in religion. There is a larger office for faith.

IV.—POINTS OF PALLIATION. They must bear iu mind tbat the other disciples did not chide Thomas, so far as Jolm informs us. Aud we think if they had, the entry would have been made. Moreover, Jesus was mild in his judgment. To account for this, I remark— 1. Thomas temperament may have been hereditary. And although he was not free from great blame for his dereliction and absence and obstinacy, yet Christ did not visit the full deserts of it upon him. He afterward gave him the blessing of the Holy Ghost. 2. Thomas may have' been no more incredulous than the other disciples were, Until Jesus had been seen by Lhem, they too doubted and dreaded. When Christ came to them they were, women and men alike, slow to see in him the risen Son of God. 3. We must not forget this historical fact: There was full faith in ghosts among the Jews at that day. Hence Thomas may have said, "It was only his spirit or angel which you have seen." We remember that long after this, when Peter was freed from prison aud came to the gate of the house where good people were praying for his deliverance, they denied the announcement that it was Peter, saying, "it is his angel.1' Acts xii. 15. V.—CHRIST'S TREATMENT OF THOM

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1. He yielded to the uniea9onable demand of the doubting disciple. To this day we say, "If Jesus will only grant this or that, then I will be* lieve and very often he mercifully consents. What condescension he has shown in answering our prayers. 2. He did it without a word of reproach. Here let the censorious, who have no patience with doubting minds, draw near and take a lesson in the merciful mildness of the dear Lord. 3. He did not utter one sentence in approval of Thomas, but explicitly uttered a promise of blessing upou such as believe on the evidence of reliable witnesses. VI.—HOW CHRIST CAME INTO THE

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has ever been a subject for free speculation. Some good authorities say he may have knocked and entered as any other person. Others, and more'in number and greater iu name, in the light of the assertion, that the 'doors were shut," and hia appearance seem to have been sudden, say his coming was miraculous. He coulj have ccme through without opening the portalf. He may have entered with the company or after them in a natural way. And it wont keep any soul out of heaven, no matter which view he takes. The last two verses, 30 31, appear to have this import: That after that night Jesus went on showing his disciples many proof3 tbat it was a real resurrection. But, as the Bible was, for good reasons, made to be a small book, there were only proofs enough given of the great truths of ruin, redemption aud regeneration and salvation, to satisfy a fair and docile mind.

LESSONS.

1. The first is that we must not require tests ia religion above what we do in every-day affairs. We believe and trust our dearest things to men of whom we have almost no knowledge. We do not demand to touch and handle all whom we trust with money treasure. 2- To miss a single service

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God's people of your company, church or religious circle meet, may be to miss one of the most blessed manifestations «f the Master. 3. When we see Jesus in his true character we will neither doubt his reality nor his duty, but with Thomas, call him "my Lord and my God.'' Verse 28. 4. Christ never rejected worship, nor the name of God. If be was not God, why! When John himself offered worship to an angel on Patmos, tne angel forbade. Christ was God, very God, one with the Father. Otherwise he was not so much as a good man, but a deceiver!

vf Orthodox Oddities. It is understood that Mrs. EmmaC. Moulton will become an active member of the Reverend Doctor Storrs' congregation.

Mrs. Moulton seems to have got the better of Plymouth Church. When a woman wills, she does. J'

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Henry C. Bowen still drags his coattails on the ground, before the doors of Plymouth Church and exclaims, "Will only giutleman be keind enough to shtep on me coat?"

Mr. Moody's religion is not a comfortable one. He said last week that he wished it understood that there was a hell—a terrible hell.

The Rev Phoebe Hanaford is said to weigh scarcely one hundred I^umls. "But every word she speaks," adds the writer, "weighs a ton."

A crustv old bachelor says that the reason a woman puts her finger in her mouth when she thinks is because she can not talk and think too.

A Brooklyn skeptic, who has been endeavoring for some y0ars

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that in nature which he could worship as the Christians worship a personal God, frankly admits that it is a good like trying to see through a knot hole ha a

Chicago preachers gain popularity on

suchr pitful stuff as this "Robt. Colliyer says that when he read the last steamship disaster he could not swear for there are some privileges denied to a clergyman which a good, sturdy layman often found very handy.

The Rev. Charles fisher, of Hartford, Connecticut, has married 1,600 couples, He would have retired from the business long ago, but the kissing of brides has become such a confirmed h^bit with him that he can't quit it without suffering,

The R6V. J. M. Puilman is an active worker in the Universalist meetings in JSew York. Mr. Pullman does not believe that Jordan should be made a hard road to travel, and advocates the palace-car line to glory.

A clergyman who was urgently requested to come and pray at the bedside of a d* ing milkman, demurely remarked: "I'll go, but it isn't any soit of use. I never knew our Heavenly Father to forgive one of that class yet."

The Rev. Mr. Noble is a Portage (Wis.,) Free Methodist preacher, who is carrying on his evangelistic work in an independent and original way. He has purchased a steamboat, atid with it he travels up and down the Wisconsin river, holding revival meetings and blowing the Gospel trumpel at every landing.

Spurgeon has no religious gush about him. A correspondent who heard him lately says, "His voice is rich and melodious, his delivery iervent and eloquent, and the subject of his discourse calculated to do good to any well-meaning citilen."

A party of Cleveland ladies, going from house to house in that city, to inquire after spiritual health of the inmates, dropped "all unbeknownst" into the residence of Rev. Dr. McLaren, Bishop elect of Illinois, one day this week, and propounded to him the stunning inquiry, "Do you attend Mr. Earle's revival meetings, and are you positive that you love the Saviour?"

There is a Chinese priest in Pekin who is well nigh crazy to convert the heathen of America to the true Asiatic religion of Buddha. Every time the Emperor takes an airing this benevolent Daddhite throws himself flat before His Majesty |and shouts: "The heathen, sire, the heathen in America, send me over to convert their souls The imperial body guards in vain try to bottle up bis zeal, but he refuses to be bottled. He should be allowed to come. There is work for him in Washington.

-Chnreh C'alndar.

ST. BENEDICT'S CHURCH—Corner of Ninth and Ohio streets. Rev. Father Pius Katterer.

GERMAN REFORMED—Fourth st., bet. Swan and Oak. Rev.Praicbschatis,. pastor.

ST. AGNES HALL—Preaching on Sabbath by J. W. Greene and J. C. Reed. Sabbath school at 2:30 P. M. J. A. Marshall, Superintendant. W. M. Darwood will preach on Saturday evening.

CHRITSIAN CHAPEL.—G, P. Peale. pastor. Services at 11 A. M. and 7 P. M. Morning subject, "Honor Crowned." Evening subject, "Our Mediator." Sunday school 9:30 A. M. W. B. Wharton, Superintendent.

BAPTIST CHURCH—Service at 11 A. M. C. R. Henderson pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 A.M,

ASBURY M. E. CHURCH.—Preaching at 10|A. M. by the pastor Wm. Graham. Subject, "Conversion." Sabbath school at 2£ P. M. W. W. Bannister,-Superintendent.

The Wife of Henry Wilson. Mrs. Wilson, whose maiden name was Harriet M. Howe, died iu May, 1870. She was a lady of unusual mental and personal attractions, At the time of her death Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames thus wrote: "Within the last week the body of one has been laid in her native earth, whose lovely presence will loug be missed in Washington. Mrs. Wilson, the wife of Senator Wilsen, went out from among us in the fair May days, and the places which have known her here so long and so pleasantly will know her, save in memory, na more forever. She was a geutle, Christian woman, I have never yet found words rich enough to tell all that such a woman is. My pen lingers lovingly upon her name. I would fain say something of her who how lives beyond the meed of all human praise that would make her example more beautiful and enduring to the living. For, in profounder intellectual development, resulting from wider culture and larger opportunity, are we in no danger of losing sight oi those grades of the spirit, which, however exalted her fate, must remain to the end the supreme charm of woman? There is nothing in all the universe so sweet as a Christian woman as she who has received into her heart, till it shines forth in her character and life, the love of the divine Master.

Such a woman was Mrs. Wilson in this gay capital. When great sorrow fell upon her, and ceaseless suffering, the light from the heavenly places fell upon her face with an angel patience, and a childlike smile, and an unfaltering faith, she went down into the valley of shadows. She possessed a keen and wide intelligence. She was conversant with public questions, and interested in all those movements of the day in which her husbandtabes so prominent a part. Retiring by nature, she avoided instinctively ail ostentatious display but where help and encouragment was needed by another the latent power of her character sprang into life, and she proved herself equal to great executive effort. No one can praise her so eloquently as he who loved her and knew her best. To hear Senator Wilson speak of his wife when be taught her, a little girl in school when he married her, "the loveliest girl in all the country when he received into his heart the fragrance of her daily example when he watched over her dying, only to marvel at the endurance and sweetness and sunshine of her patience, is to learn what a force for spiritual developement, what a ceaseless inspiration was this wife to her husband Precious to those who live is the legacy of such a life."

AGE OF THE SEXES.

HOW TO TELL THE LONG FROM THE SII0RT-L1Y KD.

The Ears and the Fingers Indicate Titality.

From the Boston Post.

Dr. Lambert, President of the Popular Life Insurance Company, of New York, gave an interesting lvcture in the Bay State Course, at Music Hall, on woman and, her nature, dutiesneeds and entitlements.

Dr. Lambert, in good-natured manner, spoke of his peculiar treatment of the subject, said it was anew lecture, and gave a little sketch of his own his tory. Coming directly to the lecture, itself, he discussed the question of the co'mparative length of lile of American men and women, and between people of this country and those of Europe. He showed statistics to prove that,contrary to the popular opinion, the people of the New were longer-lived than those of the O.'d World.

The English girls, so often spoke.n'ot for blooming cheeks, and robust forma, owed these qualities to their out-door life, the damp coldness of their native island, and their fondness for the na tional beverage, beer. The fact was the women of this country wero longer lived than the English women. There probably was no place iu Europe where so many people could be found in proportion to the population as iu New Hampshire, and three out of evry four of the people who had reached the age of ninety years in New Hampshire, were women.

The constitution of woman was substantially the same as the constition of man, and the duration ot their earthly existence, as a general rule,, on the American continent, was the same. Gliding into the peculiar marks and formations of the body as indications of long or short,life, the lecturer said that if a lady wore hea^vy earrings, and the ear was pulled down in conse quence, presenting a distorted appearance, this indicated a short life to the owner of the weak member. On the contrary, should the ring retain its natural position over a heavy ring, the strength of the gristle pointed to a long life to the owner.

And so with fingers. If a hand had very short fingers that was an indication of longevity, whereas, long fingers were indicative of a short span of life. It was not found that the proportionate number of men and women dying at the different ages varied materially. After reaching the age of twenty a girl was as liable to live to a good ripe old age as a man at the same period. As a rule, female beauty and longevity were not companions those azure eves and very fair faces that carry off young men are not long lived.

Another wonderful fact was the constant change going-®n in the body. The air of the hall was at that moment full of the brains and organizations of those present. Every day, every hour, aye, every moment, worked a change in every living form. The peaker said that he would like to see women withdraw from the postoffices, count-ing-rooms and other positions of labor where tbf»y were half paid, and young men put in and paid double tho amount paid women. Then the men would support the women.

Every man had a woman beside him and should work for her instead of hating her earn her living outside of the household. The young man he thought ought not to be crowded out of the places and sent West. Men of long life usually had some great and strong principlo in their characters, some stamina which symbolized a vigorous and enduring vitality.,

WHIT HE THINKS OF IT.

Suppositious Letter Froml Edptir A I»oo—The Mightiness of Truth. Spiritual Cor. JN". Y. Graphic

CITY OF SPRING GARDEN, SPIRIT LAND,

November

18.

MY DEAR FRIENDS: Yes, I have seen the comments of the paper ou my monument. What do I think of them I am disgusted—disgusted with their unanimous and monotonpraise. Has the editor degenerated into a mere machine of mimijkry? jes he think no longer? Has Americi entered on her moral decline, like Rome and Athens, Carthage and Thebee, when they lost their "origiuality and become worshippers of the feast? The fact is, my dear friends, my earth-life is over-estimated.

Why look at the facts. Instead of being "nursed in the lap of penury," as my friends declare, I was adopted when an infant by a wealthy man, and supplied with every necessity and luxury. Didn't Mr.Allen pay for nineteen broadcloth coats that I gambled away when I went toscuool at Alexandria? Didn't he pay my bills even after I was expelled from West Point?

They speak of me as a great. I lived to be thirty.eight years old—and see'how little creditable work I turned out! "The Raven" I wrote merely as a study of versification, and I never knew the meaning of it till I read a recent review of it in the New York Times. I picked up a cheap habit of mystification, and transmitted my mantle to Mr. Browning, "The Bells" I constructed after much labor as an instance of ingenious rhyming, I really think, still, tbat it is very clever.

Yet, as I look back, it is impossible not to be disgusted at the small amount I turned off. Why, Henry Kirke White died before he baa half my age. Byron wrote "Child Harole" at twenty-six, and perished at thirty-six, two years younger than I. Dear Shelley was younger still, Alexander expired at thirty-three, after overturning the planet and longing for means to get at the rest of the solar system. Frederick the Great had had doubled his kingdom before he was thirty. Napoleon was passing around crowns to bis most intimate acquaintances before he was anywhere near my age. Bryant wrote "Thanato{.sis" at eighteen. Before they were thirty Dante had written the "Divine Comeca," Milton "Comus" "Lycidas," and "II Penseroso" and Shakespeare "Venus and Adonis, "Love's Labor Lost," and "Hanilet!"

The fact is that I was a melancholy mope. I did not do what I should or I should. I was a spoilt child and an indolent and dissolute man. From this altitude I can see, as you can not, that I did 88 well as I could under the circumstance that I was, as everybody is, the victim of preponderating motives, and that I fell because my power of resistance was weaker

then my temptations. I always did What seemed to me at the moment to be the bpst. Thks perhaps, of all the tTriug, in jail anduu* but I solemnly rj-vrionftrate against either my life or vork he n£r heli! »n example to the rising generation.

•al« of til* Paraphanniia of the Bar* ntim Univ rs Exposition Comp:itiy.

Tn« New Y'.rk Sun of Saturday siiyv The imeiiorof the hippoeronie bildinu trembled a gigantic •'fl uey hazzuar e.-tvniay. Displayed li around the imiuensu ellipse wee r:nur, t-addie- harness, curb bits, military hats, eoatn and boots, guns, swords, and uucieut. pikes and battle® axes, banners, aid pennons, in short, "tlieenUre wanliobn of the P. T. Barnum Universeal Exposition Company." It was to bo sold at auction without reserve. The veteran showman's face looktd as solemn as he ever allows it to look wheu he saw how few buyers the sal© had attracted. W. C. Coup. James Nixon, George Bunnell, Whit taker, and a few other old hippodrome attaches wandered di.n'.obsolateJy, taking a last farewell ol rhe old show trappings. The gentlemen who were there to buy were mostly "show meu," among tliem W, W. Csle, the young proprietor of a Western circus who was once a rider, and ha.s worked his way up Messrs. J. J. Nathan aud Avery Smith the proprietors of the unfortunate Big Bonanza snow George T. Bailey, Walter Waterman, the old ring master, Hyat Frost, proprietor of the Van Amburg show, John Murray, Jas. Melville, the Australian horseman, aud his partner.-1, McGinley and Cook, the latter the well known English clown E. D. Colvin, of the Queen's show Levi North, long a famous bareback rider Egbert Howes, of Howes' London show and T. A. Iveeler, with the Big Bonanza show Mr. Henry D. Palmer, of Booth's Theater: Mr. Johnson & Co., the Bulfalo printer.- It. J. Morgan, of the Ann of Russell, Morgan & Co, the "show" printers of Cincinnatti and A. A. Stewart, from Cincinnatti, wlio, represeiited "Old John Robinson." The goods were sold by boxes, the contents of each box being displayed on the seats of the hippodrome. Thd first '.en lots contained dresses of almost every nationality. The buyeraof these lots gave their names as Fleuoming, Furuaw aud Faye, but neither Mr. Barnum nor any one but Auctioneer Scbenck seemed to know them. Mr. Barnum thought that the three names belonged to the same buyer, and that ail meant Forepaugh, the great showman. The goods were sold at a ruinous price. Lot number eleven, a great variety of dresse.n, including silks and saiius, many of toem new, two Goddess of Liberty dresses, Roman chariot dresses, red, blue and green togas, with no end of spangles, went to Avery Smith for S153, not one fourth of the cost. Mr. Barnum groaned, but said, "Go ahead I can stand it if he cau." J. J. Nathan got a bargain in box 12 for $180. It had, with other costumes, the dresses of "The Queen of Ireland" and the "Indian Life" dresses. He also bought the 52 red band coats, with belts and blue'troupers, fhr $140. The box containing Napoii-ou'.* suit was bought for $85. Box 28 held the finest suit of armor in the 'collection, that which which was worn by the beautiful girl on the car representing En tjlaud in the 'Con»ri?ss of Monarchs."

It is very beautiful. The unknown Fave paid $235 for it. "It cost me 300 pounds sterling," said Mayor Bar num. Mr. Palmer invested $50 iu a collection of wigs—Indian, Chinese, continental, blue,white, brown acd blonde.

The collection of banners was large and fine, they af the best satin, silk and velvet, and heavily embroirdered in gold and silver. Toe English ban ner brought $14 each, the Roman $12, the Turkish $10, and an American $10. Mr. Nathan bought largely. The collection of bsnners brought $657.25. Sixty-live rouskets with bayonets, apparently in good condition, brought 65 cents each^and 62 cavalry aud officers swords brought 90 cents each. Two double handed swords, about feet loug, real antiques, were bought by Mr. Charles Drake, the proprietor of the old curiosiy shop" in chambers street, for $25.

He paid $60 for a lot of pikes, bat-tle-axes and halberds among the halberds were three that Mr, Barnum said cost him eight pounds sterling each. Mr. Paliner bought for $325 a chime of bells that cost $1,800. A goop leoking coupe- brought $100, and the "coach of the Lord Mayor of London" $60. The whole sale yielded less than $5,000. This morning the silver armor and the harness are to be sold, and on Monday the wild animals aud horses are to be sold in Bridgeport.

AMUSEMENTS.

O W I N A

Friday and Sat, Dec. 10 and 11,

Frank MacEvoyV

Newallibernicon!!

introducing a talented comdany of Irish comedians, vocalists, dancers, and special artists. In a highly amusing and novel entertainment, as played by them for 109 consecutive Bights at St. James' Theatre, Mew York.

General admission, 50c, Gallery, 25, Children. 25. MATINEE Saturday Doors open at 1 o!clock, curtain rises at 2 30.

Matinee

prices—Adult--, 2oc'.s, Children,

lOcts. FRA.NK GIBrON, Agent.

"$1,500,000"

is the average monthly profit estimated to be paid to holders of Mock privileges by varioasbankers in Wall street. The house ot Messrs. Alexander FrothlDgham & Co., 12 Wall street, .New Yor** who possess a world-wide repmation for their strict Integrity, offer to seed gratuitously lor one year their Financial Weekly Report, and a book explaining how sums from ten dollars to thousands may be Invested. Those who invest little have the same advantage as large operators. Send for their Weekly Boston Port Nov. 12. Address

Alex. Frothingham & Co., BANKERS and BROKERS, Opp. Stock Exchange. 12 Wall St., N. Yi.

EDGAR A. FOB.

IE 5 CFNTS

POPES.

VEN

'or This Week

56s of handsome 19 [new dark shades) at rth |2.50. pieces of magnificent I inch, -Lyons Faille il evening tints, at rth $2.50. pieces of extr», rain Silk, now dark orth $2.25 to $2.50. ces of regular make double-faced Black ts, worth 60 cents, ces, 3ame make, in qualities, at 50contf,

ieces of Extra Dia.ifkish Crilllantines, Warranted, at 65 cts,

Cashmeres, which color, quality and

anything in these to their interest to exipecial bargains, spectfully,

RES & CO.)

5, Ac 37

liiiton Street,

"fAPOLIS. Trimmings just re-

SALOON

ly, Proprietor.

between Ohio and alnut.

of Cigars and Tobacco, fines, Liquors and Beer e«.

3 from 9 to 12 A. M.

NUAL BALL

THE-

IRNIAN

nt Society,

GIVEN ON

BTe'ng,

Dec, 15.

AT—

inn A .T IITTEF—Patrick SbauMd, Dennis Barrett, M. James Walsh. COM.—J. F. Bronnaa, '•trick Hlckey, Martin O'Sullivan, IS—Daniel Lynch, T. A.

Sirney8.

ui, P. Crouln, Patand Jamas Hoband has been engagisle.

tlico Ball!

ATSCt HALL, ng, December 20.

the Family of the late

EL RINK. PRIZES OF

I ahti $ so

'FFERBD.

JSS10.V. lady $1.00

CLOSETS, a tU'iHtitute tor the common privy are better can be used in ary nvalids. Send for cirATCII A BREEZE, 14.50 State St.,Chicago.

Iclde. :he Gazette. IOCKVILLE, Dec. 12. a whose name, from is possession, is sup-

Williams, of Iona, id killed bimsell in to E.i. Marshall' est of this place. He the same man who, rom the Crawfordson bis person three money, It is not hetber the deed was or by accident* .is quite dead, t*

ROCKET.

)urnal is willing to wing is true: ent for the United ^Insurance Co., tbat )ned by Mr. Mossier just paid another taura Cox, who had demolished by some

short duration is Verejbeglnnlog to be !'er of our jail birds, the Chicago Post discounting our list,

j,as 220 prisoners un-

|, CI arles. rietors of the St. aub, Fox

Staub,

price for traocieat per day. This is a ji direction, and we -3 .11 bring icor I iae.