Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 240, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 March 1876 — Page 2

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A hunch of k*vs on stee' rin-r-

jOr.e of ihem was a Ion" st^el skeleton ]I3v, person return ng the"1 I" Wrun'i French

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by Vew^ri'M'. They Wtre probably Kst in "ii in'" alley.

MST—I'ockc-! Honk—( o' tnfjitnf twelve di-l'n's n.rd memorandum dopes)i in tbe Pra-'e d'y bai hppr'.'is.in

IP na^ po1 Thomas Milner. Return to this 0 'Bee and eel ve reward. y- dHT—Pool'tt book containing about 58 1 /Th^ ""f-* los"

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uib'- rr an-' C'lerrr. The find-r will be ur-rdf'il hy rcurninsr 1' to Mrs. np Mw r'Snn.vrc5!, s-id Fifth St., between Nul "ri-' ''Ii rrv

r* OST— Tji 'V* fur can^. on Chestnut- Ret' \tri St'okrider. at. t.'io house ot J. I niey. on Pbctnut s'.'eet, between Sisth iri "event1' s'reeto.

WANTED.

TTAK T.N—'"ituatlon either VV prrocerv or fee1 st,or° c-r divine d°1'vervwaaon or team. Have had rr:\n!° p~ner!e in th-s1? l'nns

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VV mall '•an una nppivinc at the four'h hou=e ist of bixth, =ii the south side of Poplars.,.

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owwhotn the-est, WHgPs nnd a liotnewili be given. App'S atthls

nfn^p o' Pro*" JonP.«. format School, or address Bos 202*0, giving location and price of boari orro'-rns.

ANTE cood tj'r', colored preferred. App'.y corner bird and Mul

berry. JI IF ANTED—Situation—by a jTonng man Vv ninet'-en vpars of agp at any Kind ot honorable employment. Good re'erpn^-s can be iurnNhed. Address A. HotchkibS •jiy p-nt iQce.

NT I- D— Kmploymen tin a Ktore as a clertr, to drive a delivery wagon or :n.ny labor which a person wiihout experience, but rendy and willing can do. Apply at o. 41 oith Fourt.i street or address ttiougu tlie postoflice, Jaox 117 AN TED A girl to (2 two and-n

W naif miles in the country to do housevo keood wages, and steady employment f- 'PU a girl who has livsd in tlio PI. ferred. A' SM Jacob Butz, Box -GJ or .]! at Furrows grocery fctore, KOUIU Fonrt.': street. -err ANTED—a girl to who is a good cook

W nrt can do general housework. Call at this office.

I IT ANTED—Two 'ood boy to learn the VV printing trade. Must live south of Main Htr-et. come well recommended and be able to read writing readilv. •IST ANT ED-Girl at the Exchange Hotel, */7 corner Tenth and Chestnut streets.

rANTSD—Some good dining room elrl'- Gjod wa-^es and ermanent si'tuatious given. Inquire of E. Brnning at tbe French restaufirit» on Main ttre6l

SETANTED—Washing. Apply on First W between Moiiatt and Kojprn^a bte. Sam'l Powel.

ANTED—Experienced millinery men who have a trade ill Indiana and Illinois, by an old and eKtahnshtd hous^ who are opening anew hence in inai&n nnoii8. Addrpss Griffith hros.. Dayton, O.

"i iMj—A GENERAL AGENT—For Vf the New Family and o. aud No. 7 Rotarv-Hoot, Lock-Btltch Wheeler Wil fou'sewing Machines. A Rood chance tor the right man. For terms, «ic., apply to J. T. Grayson, at ferre Uante House.

WANTED—Situation—By

a young man

willing to do any kind of work and able to furnish good rtcommtadation^. Adaress Henry Doble City. \\7"ANTED—Situation to work in a private iamiiy by a giri lo eaisold. Lall at the tilth house sjulh of awan, wtsl blue of Fust mreet.

MSTA^TICD— A FARM-The undersigned VV wishes to rent a far«". He has a g^od team, ana eau nm.iit it proCtab.G lor parties. Apply toW H. Cook, Cit.

v, aNI ED—Washwoman at the NationV'# a I Hont-e. iNTED—To know the whereabouts of omaa Evans, a retired coal-opera-tor and journalist.

i?.r ANTED—Everybody to know that W Mrs. C. A. Beard is prepared to make i)„vRRUitB. Worn promptly done and sat isfaction guaianteud.

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(.'all at tbe soutuw eat corntrof Thirvl ana iiwau streets.

purchaser for a Wheeler

& VVUson Sewing Machine. It is a baigain. Inquire at tnis office'

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ANTED—A position as housekeeper, by esoericed person. Appiy at tho liouco nortii of locust, on Ihlid street.

ar,A Is TED—Everybody to know tbat Brunker'rf Carminative ^ais»amib iulallio.e lor diarrnte, flux, pain «r GO ^eslion of the stomacn, or cholera morbus, children's teething chUic, ^CCI?P?* ei lomulaiut, or cholera iniantum, Curea without debilitating alter ajil othei remedies fall. Pleasant unci sate to late, Inquire lor it at sur druggist 6.

WAM'B.'SS1 5S8M.?"rS ft-cs ill the world. Single package, with *,.gant prize, postpaid, 25 cents. ior other oveltien send stamp. Address, t. r. utiUCK, Mew Bedford, Mass. mi

FOE SALE.

T^ORSALE—A. Testaurant and dining JH room with an establishsd bnsmeEK, centrally located and making money. The proprietor proposes chan&li his business Hinl this is his only re»son lor desiring to quit. Address P. O Box G2 city. a ""ORSALE—Some colonies ot bees and

Becoud band hives. Apply at onee to T- Huiman, near the Provluence Hospital.

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SAr E—An account ol S25 against Thomas H. Evans, lormerly of Terre Haute,an ex-coal dealer and an embryo editor, now in retirement. A liberal discount for cash.

I,1UR SALE-A merchant, mill with three run of bnns. Is in a good wheat couLtrv. For particulars address, A. k. ^"iteman, 1611 Jackson street, St. Louis, Mo. S I»"R VIA I E A Whetler & Wilson Sewine Ma'^Tne, almost new and lately peS order and as gocxl new. li will be sold at a baigain. *or prrucuiars nquire ai this office

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nuK KENT OKSALE—A good house oi x* 9 moms, suitable for .boHrding OCKid outbuildings, etc Apply on the premloc Ohio, between Urst and becoua tnek

FOR TKADE.

rTo^S ADE-A gricL'sTddlTTt^T^p 1 work 8Ingle P^donblei fcr a eocd noise W1U pay dlflerphce in cash. Noitli east fwn' of Third o-ndlMnlbfrry streetF. .,o«. xttADis—A -vacant, lot, 10(1.leet, on south Filth street, between Wilson and rrnwford street®,Tor a house and lot on Fifth or Sixth streets, between Ohio and omwford streets, worth five or six thousand dollars, the difference paid in cash, inquire at this office. ioR TRADfc—Some town property in f'ofleeville, Monteomery county, Kan «Q It 1B stoie hoUBS and dwelling valuable and clear of lncumbiinci. VIII traded for property here tn Terre Haote. jioMONIS LE,

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,.,„ c,re lot w"it'i three room hoase 'and oo I- Si.aole ,,P p". Other h. tiff 1-s v^tI»qj parts *he nitvof from two to nlnenomsi 'so tot these house* are suitable tor board!,,,g lions-1*. Apply «t once «o WUllam Joab rorjl' T"t t^rnrfpbi'th"nni1 ^'It-'Oro gfrePts

RENT—A two stoiy brick store room and dwelling three rooms be veand bark kitchen. Call on F. Wol «n in pi cm si?::, corner of Eleventh an Poplar ftieets. «"iOR RENT—Ulfilj ROOMS—Six nice comfor!able bad rooms, for young men. Centrally loca ed, provided with the best venti atioii and water from the water works mains. Apply to Oism, Mr.in St.

,^OR RV NT—On thp corner of Kiist and f1 Mulberry, two rooms fur/ii-hed or not fu:nisbed, with, or without, board Call on tbe premises ai see Mrs R. Scoit.

SjOR RKN r—Dwelling house. VV^st sldoot Fifth Rte-t. second house sonth Locust: eight rioms. we.l, cl.^t.rn, ^0, Rent reasonable Inquire at tUe St« arles ilntei

J'TOUND-In tbe First Presbpterian Church last, nlaht a pair of etoves which the owner can have by paying for tni notice. MUEAS.HJLWH—1 IIUBIMJUI—mUlMJW—°

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aeob Behirgsr. City poHoflice bos 17..

HXf -VNTKD— BO DTCRS- Four W man '•an find first-class board

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The Gazette Is authorized to announce tinname of JOHN E. LAMB as a candidate the ofllce of Prospcnting Attorney of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, compos fd of'the counties of Vigo and Sullivan, subject to the decision of the Democratic District Nominating Convention.

The GAZETTE is authorized to announce the name of C- w. ROTTMAN as a candidate tor tbe ofllce ot County Treasurer subject t.o the decision of the Republican nominating Convention.

TheGaZ3 t" 's authorized announce the name of J03HUA VI. HULL as a candidate for the ofil^e of Sheriff, sut ct to the dads-Ion of the Republican County Convention.

The GAZETTE is authorized to announce than ane of Louis iy. as a candidate theotllne ot Suerifl subject to th? Dstmlratic County nomlnatiug Convention.

The GAZETTE is authorized to announce the name of George Kruznn n/? a candl date fort "-e office of Sheriff of Vigo Coun. ty, subject to tne decision of tbe Democratic nominating Convention.

The GAZETTE is authorize:! I announce thatGeorgeW. Caric:»wil be a candi tute for renouilnatlou to the offlca of Sheriff of Vigo Cnupty.subject to the Democratic Couuty Convention.

Tiie iZSTTK is authorized to announce that. John IS. Woodruff of Plerson Township will ba a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the decisiou of the Democratic Con ventiou.

The GAZETTE is authorizad to anuouoce the name of WILLI AM till SICK of Sugar Creek Township as a candidate tor the of• flee of County Ceik subject to the decision of the Democratic Couuty Couventloo.

We are Authorized to announio the name of BUGO DUENWEG as a candidate for the office or County Treasurer, suhjes ". t.o ho decision of the Republican Convention.

We are authorized t,- announce the name of JOHN S. JORDON for County Commissioner from the Second District subject TO 1 he decision of the Democratic County Convention.

The GAZKTTK is authorized to announce the name of CHRIS. F. RODERUS as a can't id ate for County Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Democratic nominating convention.

The GAZKTTB is authorized to announce the name of W. H. STEWART as a candidate for the nomination for County Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention.

The GAZETTE is authorized to announce the name of J. K. DURfCAN is a candidate for Clerk of the Vigo Circuit Court, subject to the aeclilou of the Democratic County Convention.

The GAZETTE is authorized to announce the name of ASA M. BLACK as a c.indl date for Clprk of the Vigo Circuit Court, subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention.

The GAZETTE is authorized to announce the name of ALBEttT J. KELLKY as a candidate for Pro-ecutor of the Vigo Criminal Court, subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention.

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WM. C. BALL & CO,, Prop'rs,

WJI. C. BALL 6PENCEKF. BALL.

Office, South Fifth Street, near Main.

The DAILY TTE 1B published every afternoon, except Sunday, and sold by tho carriers at SOc per fortnight. By mail 8S.OO per year 84.09 lor months $2.0© for 3 months, The WEEKLY GAZETTE IS issued every

Thursday, and coatains all the bent mat .. ntv... Wu'ii'iyf

Friday Evening, March 24,1876.

BOTH parties in New York are for hard money. Bo much for the Empire State^^—

IF the ram oi interest is too high, save your money and lend instead of borrowing.

IT is actually aaid mat Ben Hill is preparing another speech. Good Lord deliver us.

MORTON IS more anxious about the person for whom those votes for President shall be cast, hen abaut how they shall be co

THE yellow of Clay county would be a vastly batter investment than any thing in the Black nills of the Rocky mountains.

A CIRCULAR from Ciias. W. Greene State Agent for the Centennial is published in this issue of the GAZETTE. Vigo County does not appear to have done her share.

IF investigations continue, the presidential candidates for both parties will have to be taken from men Who not only never held office, but never did anything in their livts We suggest the Cardiff giant.

FROM the wild way in which unx» •ious fortuDe hunters are turning their attention to the Black hill? it °would not appear as if the high prifsts of paper money had driven from the popular mind all belief in the intrinsic value of gold.

PARSON NEWMAN, Vicar General of the Administration and. keeper in ordinary or the conscience of Ulysses and his kitchen cabinet should go to Jericho and tarry there. He had made a mess of his disciples, training. The forty thieves wouid pass muster at the gates of Paradiso better than 2iewmaa with his ragged regiment of Government officers, who have turned the department buililiugs from houses of honest business, into dens of ihieves.

THE Elkhart .Review says: "A grtal deal of fu»s is made because Mrs. President Grant carries watch tuat coat $4,800. One of our citizens carries a gold watch thaf cost him the modest sum ot §26,000, Where is Mrs. Grant now?" The Eikhart citizen's watch was probably pay for a very bad debt, whereas Mrs. Grant's wateh was pay for a very bad appointment. There is no telling how much Mrs. Grant's watch cost the country. It is represented by what Ingalls stole while in office.

AT present, the able editorial mind on radical papers is engaged in holding up to scorn Democratic attorneys that have been so fortunate as to have clients who rated their abilities high, and were willing to pay them liberally for their services. And ail this is supposed to be an offset to plainly proven thefts by public servants sworn to protect the revenues and not to rob them. The case lacks thick sa.

Grant vs. Picrrepoint.

If the Washington paper which has heretofore always been regarded as Grants peraoual organ, speaks by the eard in sayiDg that the President had not advised Pierrepoint to write this letter to the District Attorneys con* cerning witnesses in th^j whisky trials then the lie is out between the President and his Attorney General. The Attorney General yesterday testified before the House Judiciary Committee that it was done by the Presi dent's order. This is not the first time a question of varacity has beeD raised between Grant and others. The President has been ofteu commended for Sticking by tils friende. We propound this question "Was he right in standing by his friend, to the extent of lying for him We assume that it wa3 the President who did the lying for Pierrepont is not so warm a friend of Babcock as is Grant, and as far as we know has never on a question of veracity differed from five or six reputable witnesses as has Grant.

MARCH4th 1877 is coming on apace and Grant, who is great among ye greedy ones has not been impeached.

THE New York Sun has been provoked at Blaine's bloody, shirt as being a dirty piece of linen, and "goes for" that gentleman in the following vigorous style:

There is no mystery about the way in which Mr, Blaine kept out of the army. Like many other patriots who would have made admirable Briga-dier-Generals, he successfully struggled against his martial temperament,1and continued to grow rich in the service of his country at a safe distance from the front. Then, in the dark hour of need, which he "can not even now as he says "after the lapse of thirteen years recall without Ma shudder," Mr, Blaine was drafted.

terUofthe'^x^dcdiyissues. T&WKKKLT Again he mauaged to master his beSAZXTTE is the largest paper printed in ligeraut propensities, and hiredasubTerre Hanto, ac is sold lor: One copy, g^ute. This substitute, it maybe Months,^Ocf'Ali^ubseHpUon^ must be added, was comfortably provided for paid for in advance. No paper disenn- in the Provost Marshall's otnee at —j —4. Augusta, Me., but was soon transferred to the county jail for forging soldiers' certificates of discharge. Mr.

P»1U IUJ 111 OUIAU..^. t'"t tinned untl'allthe arrearages are paid unless at the option ot the proprietors. A failure to notify a discontinuance at the end of the year will be considered a new engagement

Address ail letters, WM. C. BALL A CO GAZETTE, Terro Haute, Ind

Blaine did not procure an other representative. Hi* military record ended, by proxy, behind prison bars and it was not uutil a dozen years after that he himself began to fight the battles of the rebellion. And even now he Gannot recall them without a shudder!

ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.

Event that Will Occur next Satnrday Afternoon,

Til E TI«E AMD PHASE 4T CHICAGO. A»l» NEAR THIS CITY*

Th» Mathemaiics of an EcIiimv-IIow ami "II lien it is Amiolar.

From the Chicago Tribune. An eclipse of the sun will oceur next Saturday, which will be visible from all parts of the United States (except Florida) and Canada, unless where the sun is obsenred by clouds. To people who observe it from a position nearly on a line from Vancouver's Island to the northwest shore of Hudson's Bay, it will be seen as an annular eclipse (annulus, a ring)—I he sunlight shining out all around tbe dark body of tbe moon. To places south of that line tbe eclipse will be only a partial one, tbe moon obscuring the northwestern edge of thesnn.

The sun's angular diameter being OA.VU UllUUVCo w* O* scured portion will be 12 minutes so that, measured on the line joining: the apparent centres of the sun and moon, the illuminated part,will be to the dark portion of his diameter as10 to 6.

A PARTIAL eclipse of the sun oo- minuses? °s( curs to-morrow afternoon. The obscuration will begin at a quarter of three o'clock, and will last about 1 UUUi auu til uiiuuicoi »VWVMUV iLie au^uiai

hour and 57 minutes. A full account Tbe angular distar.ee between tho #.« inon. onnriQ nf fliinliirbt is 25 minutes, ana

of the pbenomenonis published in an* WH other column taken from the Chica- degrees of arc on the solar di«c. Tbe co Tribune Tt will- be found" very atlrkened area is about one quarter of .««. and in it the whole or the moon will seem, to readable and itteKstJlig,- &bd hide almost exactly one-fourth part the attention of lbereader is directed of tke sun's aaxfaee.

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THE HME WHEJC. I bodies also describes an eclipse around At minutes past 2 o'clel£riie sun the

will be 47 degrees above the-'horizon Within two or three seconds of tliat titne the eclipse .will begin, with a slight indication of darkness on the sun's edge,-at a point which is 55 decrees to tbe west, reckoned Irotn thn lowest point on tbe solar surface. Astronomically speaking, "the finest contact will occur 88 degrees west from north the line of astronomical north and south being then inclined 36 decrees from tbe perpHndicular. During the nex' 57% minutes the defect of sunlight will iucrense and it will then decrease during 59 miuutes, the eclipse lasting nearly I hour, 57 minutes.

The last speck of darkness will fade out from the sun's surface at a point wliich is 29 degrees west from the highest point of tbe solar disc, and 17 degrees east from the northern point, as reckoned by astronomers. The sun's altitude, or angular distance above the the horizon, will then be 18 degrees.

There is often an uncertainty of a few seconds regarding the times of beginning and ending of a solar eclipse, especially tbe former. The ordinary eye does not recognize the fact till the eclipse is well in progress, and even astronomers do not always agree precisely, some eyes being keener ttiun others. These differences do not, however, amount to more than one or two seconds while thoy may differ as much as fifteen to thirty seconds from the time as noted by an unscientific observer.

THE CAT F'PR,ATION

of a solar ec'ipse is a v. .rk of 'considerable labor and no little intricacy the computation of an eclipse of the moon is mere boy's play in comparison with it,—starting in each case, with the already computed positions of the sun and moon as referred to the earth's centre. The moon is, relatively, so near to the earth that her place as com pared with that of the sun, varies rap idly with a change in the point of observation on the earth's surface. How much this difference amounts to may be inferred from the following statement, by the aid of which the limiting times of this eclipse may be found, ap proximately, for any other place not very lar distanr from Chicago:

For 100 miles further south the eclipse will begin two lfiinutes and three seconds later, and end nearly so much earlier. For places further north tbe eclipse will begin earlier and end later. The proportion in both cases is nearly twelve .^conds ot time for 10 miles.

For 100 miles further west the eclipse will begin 3 minutes and seconds earlier, and for th» places further east it will begin nearly so much later. The proportion in both cases is nearly eighteen and a half seconds of time for 10 miles.

In each case the time referred to is Chic-tgo mean time. If tho local time for any other place be desired, a fur ther correction must be made for the difference in longitude between the named place aud this city.

Tbe precision with which the time and phase of an eclipse can be calcu lated and announced,years beforehand, is really wonderful wben we consider tba difficulties of tbe case,—and the magnitude of those difficulties can only be appreciated by the astronomer But, although human skill has aimost achieved the miraculous in tbis direction, it is not yet able to predict tbe -«3c»ot Aioie. at which the event will occur. The prediction MD-bo depended on only to within a lew seconds of the time. Calculate as closely as we will, there is still a small margin of uncertainty,—not as regards th£ event, hut tbe moment of its happening. The magnitude of the forces which sweep the moon hither and thither from the main place in her orbit as she swings around the BUR in company with the earth have been measured very closely bnt we not infrequently find her to be a very small angular distance away from the place indicated by calculation. And there is another difficulty, arising from the shape of the moon herself, which is, perhaps, the greatest Of all. The moon is not a perfect globe. Her surface is diversified by mountains and valleys alike tbat of the earth, for which reason her outline, as presented to us, is irregular, when viewed through a telescope. Aud that outline is perpetually vaiying, owing to the phenomenon known as the Moon's Libration. Hence if we calculate the apparent contact of the edges of the sun and moon, on the supposition tbat both are perfect circles, the result will differ slightly from the calculation, if the outline of a lunar mountain or valley meets the apparent edge of the sun. The moon moves, on an average, through about 0 6 mile per second so that a depression or elevation of I mile below or above the average surface, would involve an error of nearly two seconds in the time. We have also reason to believe tbat the visible contour of the sun, himself,is continuously changing, introducing another source of minute (seconds) error.

For these reasons, as well as because of the difficulty of noting the exact instant of appparent contact, the calculation of the beginning and end of a solar eclipse cannot be depended upon to within a few seconds. With this proviso we may state that calculation for tbe Dearborn Observatory, iu North Latitude 41 degrees, 50 rninntes, I secand West Longitude from Greenwich, 5 hours, 40 minutes, 20 8 seconds, in 2b. 42m. 7s. P. M. tor tbe beginning, and 4h. 38.m 42s. P. M. for tho ending. The business portion of Chicago is a little more than 3 miles north, and about 1 mile west from tbe Observatory. Applying tbe corrections, as noted above, we find that for the neighborhood of The Tribune office and the Custom House the calculation gives 6 seconds earlier, and 4% seconds later: or the eclipse should begin at 2b. 42m. Is. P. M., and end at 4h. 38m. 49s. P. M. Tbat is. 2h. 42m. and 4b. 38%m.

We have dwelt more particularly upon the matter of time contact, because the partial eclipse of the sun, however interesting it may be to the casual observer, is of value to the astronomer only in a mathematical way. It furnishes no special opportunity for studying the "flaming" protuberances, as they are called and the coronal •burst of glory is absent so long as a mere thread of the sun's surface remains uncovered by the moon. Tuis eclipsejwili not be total to any part of the world—being annular along the central line. This statement of the conditions of the problem may also serve to disabuse the minds of some people who fancy that every astronomical even can be cyphered out beforehand, to the hundredth part of a second of time, and that if the one does not precisely conform to the other it is because of an error in the calculation. Those people remind one of the rustic who had obtained possession of a watch and, proud of bis timepiece, pulled it out one morning, coching to the audible conclusion: "If the suu isn up over that hill in a minnte and a hal from this, he'll be late:." The time and talent expended in calculating the beginning and end of a lunar eclipse to fh9 nearest second are employed in al* mosl equal ignorance of the conditions which limit the value of. the calculation.

CAUSE OF THE ANNUIAIt PHASE,

The earth and moon swing round each other at the average distance of a iittle less than 239,000 mile* bnt owing to tbe eccentricity of the bit that distance is increased aud diminished to about 13,000 miles, and tbe sun a distributing jorce sometimeswiaens this deviation to about 18,000 miles. The oommon center of gravity or two

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miles each way from tbe average of 92,050 000 miles. Compounding these two variations we find that: tl)e distance bf tho earth from the sun, expressed' in terms ot the moon's actual distance, vane* hetween 808, and 422.the average being 3SaK. The actual dimensions Of the two bodies remaining the same their apparent magnitude increases in the distance, and vies versa.

The average angular magnitude of the (fuh) moon is a little less th«n that of the sun. When both are at their average distance from us, if the moon pass directly between us and the sun her shadow reaches very nearlv as far as that point of the earth's surface which is then nearest to her. If the relative distance of the sun be greater than 385%, the shadow is longer than the moon's distance, and the eclipse i» total to all parts of the earth's surface which are swept by the shadow, If the relative distance of the sun be less than 3S5%. the shadow does not reach the earth, and the sun appears to be larger than the moon, lhat is the case in the present instance and to all per sons who watch the eclipse from anv part of the surface which .s momentarily in line with the centres of the moon and sun, the former will appear to be surrounded by the ring of sunlight which is the distinctive feature of the annular eclipse.

The eclipse will be watched from the Dearborn Observatory, weather permitting probably bv Prof. Proctor. In that event the members of the Astronomical Society will be invited to meet him at the Observatory on Saturday afternoon—of which due notice will be given.

THE NEXT.

There will not be another important eclipse of tho sun after that of next Saturday till July 29, 1878. That eclipse will be total, but not at Chicago. It will be visible here as a partial eclipse only. The totality will cross the Pacific Railroad^not far from Fort Bridger, and pass a few miles southwest from Denver into the Gulf of Mexico. It will probably be watched by Astronomers with equal interest as that of 1869, though the path of the central phase will be much less favorably situated for observation than that of six and a half years ago.

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CLIFF & SON,

ManufACturers of

LotQuiotivc, Stationary and Marine

O I S

MASONIC

—2 New Masonic Works, Unique atiU

THE :J~»

nington, redar Rapids

& Minnesota iiy.

PASSENGER TRAIftS EACH WAY DAILY. (hUNDAYS EXCEPTED?,

Connecting with Trains from the Southeast and West at

BURLimXOX.

GOING NOETH. 8:10 am 7:45

Accommodation 2:30 Palace sleeping car?, owned and operated by this line, accompany all nlglit trains.

CONNECTIONS ARE AS EOLLOWS At Columbus Junction with Chicago & Southwestern Hallway for Washington and Leavenwoitb.

At Nichols, with Muscatine Division C. R. & M. for Muscatine. At West Liberty, pith Chicago, TJock Island & Pacific Railroad, for Iowa City, Des Moines and Davenpart.

At Cedar Rapids, with Milwaukee Division of B. C. M, for Independeece, West Union, Postvllle and McGregi r: wlth Chicago, & Northwestern Railroad, for Omaha, Couucil Blnfts and Chicago, apd with Dubuque & Southwestern Railway for Dubuque.

At Waterloo and Cedar FaM?, with Illinois Central Railroad for Indepente, Fort Dodge. Dubnque and Bir-ux Cily.

At Nora Junction, with Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway, for Mason City and Cha-Jes City.

At Austin, with Milwaukee A St. Paul Railway for all point* in Minnesota. At st Paul, for all points on Northern Pacific Railway the great Lake Superior region, and all pints North and Northwest.

F. W1NSLOW, Gen*1 Manager.

C. J. IVES, Gen'I Pass. & T'k't Ag't. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

S IS HERKBY GIVEN THAT W® willanoly 1o the Board of .Commissioners ol Vizrt couixty. Tndlann, at their Marsti term, 1876y for a license to sell "apiritous, vinous an malt liquors" In less qualities than a quart at a time, wit.h the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on our premlsas for one year. Onr place of business, and the premises whereon said liquors are to be sni/i and drank,are locatcated in room No, 226, the west room In the building, situated on the north side of Main street, between Second and Third-, In 51 feft- off the east side of in-lot No. 122 In. the First Ward of tlie city of Terre Haute, Vigo Co., Ind.

ENCS STROOSE, & BRO.

lilve on the Fat ortlie£aiil Withoat Worh In tbe Aim of Traveling Asrents. We don't employ them, but sell to tne user at. facLory prices. Send for our free nrice list flitch will clve you the price Freight paid by us to your nearest rail load station, to be paid for alter you have tested and found satisfactory, to that the puchaser ahsolutely runs no risk whatever. Thcs is the wav the best

Scales In the world

are sold by JONES of Binebamton. £lfl iSjAft invested in Wall Ml fflfl'/'i often leadsto fortunr A 72 pase book explaining every thin and a coov of the wall. Street Revie»

NENTFRE8

A CO., Bankers and

7u ({rfmilway. New Tork.

'he most eautlful w°rk of the kind In tbe world, it contains nearly 150 pages, hundreds of fln« illustrations, ana four CftwinQ J'lutesof jflowert, beautifully drawn and colored from nature. Price 85 cents in paper covers. 65 cents bound in elegant

CiOt 1)4

•lek'a Floral ttalde, Quarterly, a year. Address, %. JAMEB VIGK. Rocheiter, H.

The following articles we offer at hard times prices to open the Centennial year with goad £ood8 at low figures-

Men's Calf Boots at 83.75. *3.50. Kip Plow Shoes 82.00.

Boy's CalfBoots at S3 00. $2 75. Men's Con. Gaiters $2-25.

CITY CLKKK'S OFFICE,

TKURK HAUTE, IND., Jan. 19, 1875. To all w?iom ir may concern

NOTICE

is hereby given that at a regn-

Jar meeting of the Common Council of the city ol Terre Haute, Inu., beldai the Council Chamber, on the evening t,f the 18th day of January, 1876. the annexed resolution was adopted:

Resolved, that the Boara of Public Improvements require all persons now building, e,r wbo may build in future, any house or make any improvements, to comply with the piovisiors of an ordinance ap proved April 2Gtli, 1870.

Tbe above resolution ordered to be pnb liehed in all the papers of the city for ten (10) days under the signature of the Mayor and City Cierk.

Bv order of the Common Council, Jan 18,1876. JAMES B. EDMUNDS, Mayor.

JOHN B. TOLBKKT, C'ty Clerk. I City paDers copy as above ordered.J

St. Clair House.

WEST IIA IN ST.

Eligibly Situated!

and lowest rate ol charges of any first-class hotel In town.

J. J. CARSON,

l'BOPBIETOB.

Tho Wabash Hotel,]

Corner First and Ohio sis.,

Hus been purchased by the old and well- I known citizen,

B. MAYERS,

Completely BeaoTsted tt, And after adding a. WAGON YARD,

Wil "unit as a

First Class Farmers' Hotel..

THE OJL,l_

TERRE HAUTE, JO NTTFACTtTRBS

Steam Engines, Coal Shafts, Flour aud Saw Mill Machinery, Bank Cars, Koad Scrapers,

Building Fronts, Cane Mills,

Yarious Patterns of Fencing, School Furniture, &c., and having the LARGEST ASSORTMENT «»F PATTh RNS IN THE STATE, can give its cuEfcmers the advantage of repaint without cost of patterns.

J. A. PARKER & CO., Prop'rs.

$2,000,000 Stolen!

In fi7e years from

JB. T. BABBITT, of New York,

Who still makes

Babbitt's Best Soap.

J. 1.

R1SII ON, CITY Bill Poster.

OFFICE

Agents Wanted.

CENTENNIAL MEDALLIONS,

Struck in solid Albata Plate, equal in appearance, wear and color to SOLinSII'VER OK GOLD. vrpsentlng a lnro variety of beautiful

These Medalliohs are larger than a silver

trade

dollar, telng Inch, in diameter hnndsottiely put. up and sell radily at sight The mo't valuable 8 .v.enirs and Mementos

ever

Ladles Kid Box Toes Side Lace $3.£0. Lasting f3,C0. ,r'.. Kid Side Lace »3^0. liadiesPebbieGoat Side Lace £3.00. x, rr,d Pal Wo 83.00.

PebHle Goat PolUlc $}.C0.

If. i, impossible to namepri^e« «t a]|j our goods heiice wc Saiviteyou to Gall and gPe for your selves. J- Is-

Opp. Opera House, between Fourth una Fifih.

OEN, BABCOCK

May be gulify or not gull y, and Prosecutor Lyer may be

Forging FALSEHOODS

ngalnst hlm, but neither proposl ion is of so rnnoh in iciest to the pui lie as the Kuny (ORtiK of

Burnett & Watson,

where herse shoes are being constantly shaped, and other wortr (lone. Cherry Bt. hot een Third and Fourth

.Notice to PiirtjUis Contemplating Building.

rTXj'xfjp#

AMUSEMENTS.'

—EY-

KEV. E. F. UOW£

At the Cougregational Church

Thursday Eveniug, March 23rd.

Pric3 of Tickets: moults 50 cents Children 25 l'ctuilly Ticket 81.S0

Keats can be fcecured in advance t»t Page's iViuslo Store.

E A O S E

Saturday, March 25,1870.

Two Performances—Afternoon and Night Matinee at. 2 P. M. Evening Concert at 8

First Appearanc® in Four Years of

BLIND TOM!

The Musical Phenomenon of the age, renowned ihrougtu tbe world as the Oreatnt Natural Pianist LtTlng

Blind Tom will give two performances only,in which he willexbibit tb« marvelous gift which Las gained him world wide aeleority, and which has both astonished and delighted the greatest masters of music.

Admission—50and75 cents children under ten, 2-5 cents reserved seat6 for chiidrcn 50 cents.

Reserved sea.s on sale at Button & Hamton's. ADMISSION TO MATINEE, 50 cents Children, 25 ceils. «WNO UNSERVED SEATS AT THE MATINEE.

PERA HOUSE.

"Ihere's JllliUiu in It!"

Col. Mulberry Sellers

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY,

Sfondny Even'g, March 27.

The InimitableComediai:, 3IR. JOHN T.

RAYMOND

—AS—

COL. SFXLUKS,

In 'MASK TWAIN'S," famous AMERICAA DRAMA of the GILNED AGE," supported by

MR. C. W. COULDOCK —AND—

SPLENDID DRAMATIC COMPANY

Under the management of MR. HEN RYE. ABBY.

Appropriate Scenery and Appointments^ Admission 50 Ii and Si. Reserved snats cents extra. Sale commences at Bntu Jfc Hamilton's on Thursday, Match ieitrd, a' 9 A.M.

I \d

Eagle Iron Works, ra

Gazette

Building.

Issued. A complete outfit of Mag

nificent samples for agents, in Velvet lined Morocco case— Including the Boat .of

"Oeorgo

Wa'hibulon." Grand Enfrar-oe

Interuf tior al Exhibition. Memorial Hall (Art Gallery). Horticultural Ha'I. Main

:Bulldlng,

and tbe grand representation of

the Signing of the Declaration of Independence (designed bv Trumbull), in gl't— sent by mail on reoeipt ot draft or Post Office order for S3,50, or will ship by express O. D. upQn receipt of express ehargep. Agents' Circular and Price List and one sample sent upon ceipt. 50 s. Immense profits. Sell at sight. Extensive fields tor enterprise. Address

JOHN RICK A BY, Agent-

E A O S E

ONE EVESISG ONjLY.

Wednesday, March 29lh.

H. T. PADDOCK Manager The Supreme Favorite and Fearl of the Amciican Stage,

Maggie Mitchell

Supported by the Sterling Actor,

WM. HARRIS.

-AND A-

FIRST-CLASS COMPANY. Wednesday Evening, March 29.

Moggie Mitchell's Brautifal

DOMESTIC DRAMA.

PEARL OF SAVOY

-OR-

A MOTHER'S PRAYER.

Sale of seats will commence at Button A Hamilton's Bcok Stcie en Tliuisduy March 2Sr.l,1876,pt 9 o'clock A. M.

Admls-sion 81.. 7oc.,and 50c. No extia charge fi.r reserved seats. THOS. BROWN, Agent-

Mate of Indiana, Vigotiouuty. In tbe Vigo Circuit Court. [No. 7,474. WAKKEN SOULE* V9 ISAAC W. EVANS, and SARAH A. EYAS» who are impleaded with -ZACHABIAH M. ANPKRSON, WILLIAM CLAKK, HARDIN HARRIS ami HARRIS bis wife—in Forclosure.

it known, tbat on tbe 18th day of March 1876, it was ordered by the Court that the Clerk notify by publie cation said Isaac W. Evans and Sarah A. Evans as non-resident defendants tbe pendency of said action against tbem.

Said defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendencj of gttid action against tbeii and that the same will stand fot trial at the April term of said Court in the year 1876*

MARTIN HOLLIKGER Clerk.

pRAIRlE CITY.

PLANING MILLS.

CLIFT & WILLIAMS, MANUFACTURERS OF

SASH, BOOBS BLIND,

MOULDING BRACKETS, ST .1 ).).(. LITJfcQIRS, EWELL POSTS, FLOORING, S1DIG and all descriptions of

FINISHING LUMBER

LSO

Wholesale and Retail Dcalersin'

I N E E

LTH AND SHINGLE^

Slate Roofing and

ROOFINGFELlb,

CUSTOM SAWING*

PLANING & WOfcfd TURNING DOSK TO OKDER. f.v

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Manuf^ctorenof

ALLWOn£mk&gi£sTEL i?

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