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MISSOURI INGS.

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You will see much evidence of enterprise •iuch as improvement and thrift, though -6u see no energy exerted. At Chilliothe, which is not a great distance from the Nebraska line,- I saw a new school 'Vhouse, the cost of which was $30,coo.

RUN COUNTRY

is rolling and hare low hills, undulating .in regular waves at distances of-a mile iapart. Only occasional patches oi tiin-

v»ber

are seen, The soil is black cla\, of .. t'" most impervious variety, without a grain of sand, close and unyielding, absorting no water, and only moderately fertile. From the complete drainage and the absence of trees to hold moisture, we tind

unusually healthful climate. The

chief enemies of the fanner here are the I .* 1 1.1.. ««r] rUinf7 htinrc I ITJIAS* droughts and the chintz bugs. Grass poppers like a driving snow storm passed pver this region in a steady stream lor four days last summer, making the grangers tremble and causing their knees to knock together, but did not alight exiccpt to clean up a few fields here and there .'as a reminder. This is a fine fruit jceuntrv, and just now the snowy blossbms are everywhere. After being established a few years, the average farmer takes in a thousand dollars every season 4V01H the sale of his apples alone. $ I am now at Kirksville, forty miles !Huth of Macon, and only a little way %m the Iowa line. It is where the tampion cows reside. Adair county '16ok thn premium last year for cheese, at the big St. Louis fair. Several extensive cheese factories are located hereabouts.

The "rass is green, and in riding about one sees "fat cattle npon a thousand hills."' In some places blue-grass grows finely oven in the woods, which, however, are i,'' nowhere very thick with trees.

The Missouri people seein to appreciate paint, as is shown by the handsome towns where there is scarcely a dingy house, all being white-and pretty. 4,' ITEMS.

The Capitol at Jefferson City, is 011 a hi"h hill, and visible ten miles away. As oiir boat approached the city I observed a number of buildings and factories surrounded by a stone wall. In the enclosure was a file of men, marching. Coming nearer I noticed that the men were dressed alike, in dirty drab uniforms. It was the enitentiary, and that was the day Mc-

Jonald anil Joyce arrived at the prison. iv llere at Kirksville is the Missouri State h.1 Normal School, which I have visited. ,S' The structure is far from being as large |"i' and handsome as the Indiana building at sg'-'Terre Haute, being one story less in height, plain in architecture, cheap in finish and furnishing, and of about half the width of ours, though nearly as long. However, it is attended 1 over three hundred students, and the grounds arc enclosed by a FENCE!

My father was very recently at Louis"v. Mo., a town some distance aiove ^eino ready to go he went to

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TO THE ECONOMICAL

Clothing bought of us which we guarantee we keep in repair, free of charge, six months from date of purchase, this is an item well to be taken in consideration in hard times like these.

MOSSLER'S

147 Main street, Square Dealing.

MISSOURI MUS-

Letter to the Gazette from Northern Missouri by the

Explorer.

Something of What he sees in Eight Hundred miles of Travel.

Descriptive Sketches and Random Glimpses in the Conntry of the Pukes.

Kirkville, Mo. April 2S, 1S76.

To the Editors of the Gazette. promise to "write for the GAZETTE 1 I:IS not heretofore been fulfilled as I have not had the opportunity, having been busilv engaged in staring at everything there is to sec in this region. ]n a ride ot 300 miles 011 the Mississippi and Missouri river, I enjoyed the sight of some rare seenerv. The views of hills f.Tclc^ 1ore.sl.s-, inlands -and Hpcky cliffs bordering the last named stream, excel anything of the kind in Indiana, unless it be on the Ohio, below New Albany, where the scenery somewhat resembles tin's, though it is much less wild and picturesque. I could have made my desired trip bv rail, but preferred the pleasure ot a steamboat ride. Hut I was repaid, lor a part of my way was by railroad. Arriving at Brunswick. I found that a mile of track on the north road had been washed uwav. Therefore, in order to get to Chillicothe, thirty-eight miles away, I had to go around" by Moberly, Macon -nd Brooklield, changing cars three times 1 a distance of one hundred and thirty •fviles.

THE IMIOIM.K.

..' It makes one lazy to see these Missoit,rians. In business {hey walk about as last .as a sick mule. The average tradesman goes about selling ,you a dime's worth of anything with 'more circumspection than would be expected if you were buying a corner lot.

Shoe leather don't wear out rapidly. Men stop to talk on the streets, with U_hands.in pockets. Boys h.ave not'enough energy to play. I saw one man driving his horse in a" smart trot, but it was because a thunder storm was impending.

Three hours is the very least allowance for a game of croquet. Happening to '2- walk fast yesterday, I found people looking after me in wonderment. Everybody slow from habit. Telegrams are delivered next da\\ Business don't become fairly started in the day until 10 o'clock in the morning. Yet with nil their easy .^twavs, the people seem to do very well.,

trifling Return-

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sence, so trait?

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whither he was wi*"—. providential hinderance, for and sunk at the were drowned.

Ten persons

Mr. Blain on the Subject of Another Scandal.

What He Has Not Explained. From

the

Now York Herald.

Washington. April 29, iSfCt.

ANOTHER SCANDI.R ABOL.'T MR. I'.LA IX HIS COXXKCTION' WITH THE ARKANSAS PACIFIC RAIT.ROAD AND POS

SESSION OF rt:Nns. It is generally, and indeed universally, conceded here by impartial people that Mr. Blaine's statement of Monday last in the House of Representatives was a complete and satisfactory answer to all the charges which he discussed but one criticism which has been made is that this statement omitted all reference to a story that has been for some time circulated here, and deubtless in other parts of the country and of which it is hardly conceivable that Mr. Blaine is ignorant. His omission to reter to it has, therefore, attracted attention, and has been thought by some people to mean that Mr. Blaine found it too embarrassng to answer and therefore took refuge in°silcnce. This story, which has been hinted at in some Western journals, takes as a whole this torm It is said that Mr. Blaine has long held an interest in the Kansas Pacific railroad, acquired many years ago, when that road was known as "the eastern division of the Union Pacific. The precise amount or extent of this interest is not definitely stated, but is said to be known to several persons, chief among whom is named Joseph B.Stewart, "a well-known attorney, for manv years living here in Washington. r. Stewart is said to have had confidential charge of Blaine's interest in that road, and to know all the "bottom facts" about the case. It is further said that a suit in the courts of Kansas, conducted bv Stewart as attorney, shows that Blaine was a party in interest, and specifies the amount of bonds he got. General Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, who was for some years a resident ot Kansas, is also said to be in full possession ol all the facts of the case. Ewing is a relation of Blatne, but he is a Democrat, and it is said here that he is not unwilling in this matter to see Blaine pushed to the wall, though he does not care to take an active part in the matter, and prefers to remain silent.

It is further said that Blaine received several years ago certain bonds of the Kansas Pacific Railroad from Stewart, which were delivered to him in the law office of Stewart & Riddle, 011 Pennsylvania avenue, in this city. A. G. Riddle, of this firm, still lives here, and is said to know a great deal about this transaction, more than, he cares to tell. Another principal witness of this affair is said to be lames \Y\ Knowlton, nhw dead. lie was a student in the law office of Stewart & Riddle, and was afterward a newspaper correspondent here. lie is said to have witnessed in some form the delivery of the bonds to Blaine, and to have spoken of it to several persons. Finally, in some not very definite way,: the name of lllaine's brother appears at different points in the narrative, though in what precise relation or connection does not clearly appear. The name of this brother is John E. Blaine, and he is now a paymaster in the regular army.

Different parts and versions of this story have been in circulation in Washington, not only this winter but last. Occasionally fragments have appeared in the papers, and it was reasonably expected by those who had heard of this scandal that Mr. Blaine would have made some allusion to it last Monday. As he did not it has been thought proper and not unjust to Mr. Blaine, who ought to explain these things, to put 'these fragments together. It will be observed that the names of supposed witnesses are mentioned, and means are thus at hand to substantiate the story or to meet and refute it. Of course it is to be hoped that Mr. Blaine may be able to refute it, but in any case he must meet it. It cannot be overlooked.

Forty-Fourth Congress

HOUSE.

SATURDAY SESSION.

Washington, April 2i).

llurlbut, from the military committee, offered a resolution discharging the committee on military affairs from further inquiry into the charges made against Horace Boughton, its clerk, for the reason that if tiie investigation- was pressed, a large number of witnesses would have to be summoned from Texas, and as the wrong-doings, if any such occurred belonged to a remote time, he would be barred from criminal prosecution. Adopted.

Mr. Harris, chairman of the committee on elections, called up the contested election case of Lemaine and Farwell, from the third congregressional district of Ills. —the majority of the committee supporting the ciaims of Lemaine, and the minority those of Farwell—and made an argument in favor Lemaine.

Mr. Brown, of Kansas, spoke in support of the claims of Farwell, a sitting member. Thompson followed supporting the majority, and Baker, of Indiana, advocated the minority side, when the matter went over without action and the House soon after adjourned.

MORNING SESSION.

Washington, May, 1, 1S76.

Under the call of States to-day, bids were introduced and referred relative to the punishment of witnesses adjudged in contempt by either Housd of Congress and "to repeal the law which required the speaker to ccrtify cases of recusant witnesses to the district attorney for criminal prosecution.

Mare Island Frauds.

San Francisco, May 1.—The Chronicle this morning printed a column of charges against Chief-of-Naval-Construction Isiah Hanscom, J. O., his son, and J. E. Delamontague, for frauds perpetrated on the government in the purchase of timber for use at Mare Island, amounting to a quarter of a million dollars, in the last four years, and detailing many cases in/which contracts were put through at prices a hundred and fifty per cent in edyyance^of market rates and some instances "'which isiah Hanscom ordered'purchase* be sent pussin:

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fi.seven coaches."' fhis^ •iwith much foresight, has taken.

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VOL. 6.—NO. 269. TERRE HAUTE, IND.:—MONDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1876.

MARY MERRIT.

Continuation of the Examination of Bristow,

And of His Connection With the Remission of the Forfeture of This Interesting Young

Female.

Washington, May 1.—The Committee on expenditures in the Treasury Department to-day, examined Webster El ins, chief clerk in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, who testified that he had a copy of all the papers in the Mary Merritt case, and wrote a letter reoommending the remission of the forfeiture never saw secretary Bristow in relation to this case by conversation or otherwise.

Joseph II. Robertson, assistant solicitor, testified to Gen. Bristow's appearing in April, '74, before solicitor Banfield, asking that the case be examined on its merits, and Bristow read his opinion. At that time he had had no connection whatever with the case, so far as witness knew.

After he became Secletary of Treas urv, he declined to have any thing whatever to do with the case. He thought Edward E. Johnson made a mistake in saying the Secretary informed him he was going to Philadelphia, lie was in New Vork from the iSth to the 26th of March under treatment for his throat when the remission of the forfeiture was granted. He did not think the case came up at that time, and did not learn that it was decided until sometime afterwards.

Conant during his absence was acting secetarv of the treasury and the papers in the case were brought before him. Parties had a right to be heard and his former position would not have excluded them from presenting their case to the acting Secretary. He never, at any time, expressed to Conant or to any other official of the Treasury, what shoiud be done with the case, although Solicitor Wilson approached him on the subject. He declined to talk about it. He didn't refer to the case to. any one declining to take any action whatever. He did not wish to be understood as even implying that any wrong was committed in the settlement of the case and he wished to say explicitly that he had no knowledge that the informers in the case had been settled with before this investigation was ordered. Had never examined the in the case untilhe did papers so here, in case it was not true as stated in the resolution, that one of the attorneys in the case applied to Secretary Bristow for the remission of forfeiture. 1 le replied that lie wonld do nothing himself, but his private secretary could fix it up, and said the attorney met his private secretary and had had the forfeiture recalled. He did not believe any of the attornsvs ever met his private secretary at all. The private secretary was quite a young man who acted as his amanuensis and stenographer, and had nothing to do with the transaction of public business.

Secretary Bristow then made a sworn statement to the following effect: He had no connection with the Mary Merritt case, except in the capacity of a friend of Felon Evans, attorneys for the Trice brothers, all of whom were his neighbors at Hopkinsvill, and his personal friends. It was true as stated by Evans in his testimony that that man had a conversation with him in Philadelphia, in relation to the case, and that he declined to take any compcnsastion whatever for any service he might perform, and that subsequently he went to ttu- ''-1—L" at request of Felon who though a good lawyer was unacquainted with practice of department and their presented qurstion on legal grounds alone. Being satisfied it was a clear case for remission on that occasion he had expressed himself earnestly against the practice of the informers going before the Secretary of the Treasury and resting power conferred on the Secretary of the Treasury by act of Congress. He also expressed himself against Hazelton, at that time a member of Congress, appearing there for similar purposes.

His Impeachment trial before the Senate.

Speeches by tbe counsei and the Senate retire to Consult.

SENATE.

MORNING SESSION. Washington, May 1. 1876.

The resolution submitted by Hamlin 011 Friday last, to amend the rules in regard to impeachment trials, so as to provide that deliberation 011 questions submitted shall be in public, was discussed, but no action taken, anil the impeachment trial was resumed.

Pending the question, was the motion of Mr. McDonald, to rescind the order agreed upon in the conference Friday, allowing the respondent to open and close arguments, etc.

Blair, of the counsel for tho respondent, spoke against the motion to rescind.

Hoar, of the managers spoke in favor of rescinding. He claimed that the managers had the right to close, and cited English precedents in support of his views.

The discussion was continued at some length by Hoar, Carpenter, and Pond, when the Senate retired for consultation.

Public Debt Statement. Washington, May 1.—The public debt statement shows a reduction of $2,781,181 coin balance $77,005,425 currency balance $5,161,186 special deposit held for the redemption of certificates of deposit $33,665,00° outstanding legal tenders

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The Centennial.

Philadelphia, May 1.—As the Centennial commissioners were in session here on Saturday, reconsidered the Friday's vote of closing the Centhnnial building, hut keeping the grounds open on Sunday and unanimously voted for the closing of both the building and grounds.

The Central Pacific.

Salt Lake, May 1.—The Central Pacific train was six hours late to-day, arriving at Ogden. The track washed out a few miles east of Ogden, and the freight train ran in the river there this morning.

Crimes and Casualties. .HOTEL BURNED. Sing Sing, May 1.—The California house was burned to-dav. Loss, $25,000 partly insured.

BOILKR EXPLOSION.

^Reidesheim, May 1.—A boiler explosion on, a ferry boat between here and Benger

killed

thirty persons. ..v

His Farewell Sermon. New York, May 1.—Rev. Dr: Galusha Anderson called from Brooklyn to Chicago and preached his farewell sermon in the former city last evening.

A Veteran Walkist.

New Albany, May 1.—George W. Deitz. a western veteran 79 years of age, started this morning from this city to walk to Philadelphia to attend the Centennial exposition, lie was escorted from the court house to the east boundary of the city by a large concourse of citizens, headed by the Lever Comet band. He is a young old man, full of pluck and vigor, and is confident of success.

M. E. Conference.

Baltimore, May 1.—The seventeenth delegated general conference of the M. E. Church assembled this morning, and was called to order by Bishop Janes. After religious services, Geo. W. Woodruff was chosen Secretary. Bishop Ames made an address of welcome, and Bishop Janes responded.

THE BARRIOXE'S ERROR.—A young baritone who volunteered to sing "The heart bowed down," at a church festival in Indiana, got very much embarrassed when the time came, and started off in this style:

The heart boiled down—

The congregation thought he was ridiculing religion, and rose and shied him through the window.—[Brooklyn Argus.]

WISK BOYS.—Thus talks an old farmer about his boys: '-From sixteen to twenty they knew more than I did, at twenty-five they knew as much at thirty they were willing to hear what I had to say at thirty-five they asked my advice and I think when they get to be fort}' they will acknowledge that the old man does know something."

LIMITFD.—Elderly agriculturalist has season ticket helper in the train)—"You don't have 110 ticket?" "No, I travel on my good looks." "Then," after looking him over, "probably you ain't goin' very far." General smile.

QUARREL. WITH CONSEQUENCES.

How Messrs. Blain and Conkling- Came to Hate Each Other. rrom the Pittsburg Gazette.

We arc often asked if it is true that the distinguished statesmen whose names heads this article arc unfriendly to each other, and if so, the cause of it and if it is of such a character as would be likely to prevent the cordial support of one by the other for the Presidency, in ease of his nomination in Cincinnati. We have been compelled to answer that Ave do not know but to enable our interrogators to judge as well as we, it may be stated for their information the cause of the quarrel, and leave them to form their own opinions, The Chicago Tribune says: We believe that these gentlemen have exchanged no courtesies for the past ten years, but a common danger to the country, it is quite likely, would bring them together again. On the 24th of April, 1S66, while the Army Appropriation bill was under discussion in the House, Mr. Conkling reflected severely upon Gen. Fry, Provost Marshal General during the war. Blaine defended Fry, declaring that there was not a more honorable and high toned officer than he. He further said: "That officer, I doubt not, is ready to meet the gentleman from New York, or anybody else, in the proper lorum.-. r— 1 ow nut vrnnTCTTRft it is any very creditable proceeding for the gentleman from Now York, here in this place, to reduce Gen. Fry as a military officer, when he has no opportunity to be ahard.

Conkling responded "If Gen. Fry is reduced to depending for vindication upon the gentleman from Maine, he is to be commiserated certainly. If I have fallen to the necessity of taking lessons 'from that gentleman in the rules of propriety, or of right or wrong, God help me.' On a subsequent day Mr, Blaine read a letter in the House from Gen. Fry, which closed as follows 'l ie (Conkling) can therefore only escape the charge of deliberate and malignant falsehood as a member of Congress, by confessing an unpardonable breach of duty as Judge Advocate. He held both officers and took pay for both officers and took pay for both at'the same time he has certainly been false to honor in one, and perhaps, as the sequel may show, in both.'

This drew an explanation from Conkling of the manner he was employed by the Government. Blaine charged that he violated the law, which he quoted, prohibiting him to receive compensation while holding the office he did. In th progress of the discussion Conkling said: "If the gentleman from Maine had the least idea how profoundly indifferent I am to his opinion upon the subject he has been discussing, or upon any other subject pertinent to me, I think that lie would hardly take the trouble to rise here and express his opinion, and as it is a matter of entire indifference to me what the opinion may be, I certainly will not detain the House by discussing the question whether it is well or ill-founded, or by noticing what lie says," and concluded by "calling Blaine's conduct '•ungentlemanly, impertinent, and having nothing whatever to do with the question." Blaine closed the discussion as follows: "As to the gentlemen's cruel sarcasm, I hope he will not be too severe. The conduct of that large minded gentleman is so wilting his haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut has been so crushing to myself and all the members of the

House, that I know it was an act of the greatest temerity for me to venture upon a controversy with him. But, sir, I know who is responsible for all this. I know that within the last five weeks, as members of the House will recollect, an extra strut has characterized the gentleman's bearing. It is not his fault. It is the fault of another. That gifted and satirical writer, Theodore Tilton, of the New York Independent, spent some weeks recently in this city. His letters published in that paper embraced, with many serious statements, a little jocose satire, a part of which was the statement that the mantle of the late Winter Davis had fallen upon the member from New York. The gentleman took it seriously, and it has given his strut additional pomposity. The resemblance is great. It is striking. Hyperion to a satyr, Thersites to Hercules mud to Marble, dunghill to diamond, a singed cat to a Bengal tiger, a whining puppy to a roaring lion. Shade of the mighty Davis, forgive the almost profanation of the jocose satire!"

That passage at arms between the two distinguished gentlemen ended their per sonal and social relations, and to each other they have never spoken since%

MRS. N. E. MAYFIELD.7 s". iwJi' Dress Fitting Emporium, over Wilson Bros. &'Hunley, corner of Fifth and Main streets, Terre Haute, Ind.j is now receiving the very latest styles in Dteis aking, and is Headquarters for

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A SAINTED HINDOO.

Reminiscence of His Career. From tlio Philadelphia Bulletin. The following memorial conies to us from a writer in the interior of the State. We do not precisely like his method of speaking of tragic things, but the facts supplied by the narrattve are interesting, if not instructive:

You may have noticed in the papers that Beluchius Jamsuttacheheebhoy was mortally wounded the other day by the Nawab of Dada in Ahmeddnugger.'

And thus another one of earth's great est and noble ones passes away. I knew him well I refer to Bclchius Jamsuttachcebhoy, of course. II was in some respects a very remaikablc man, even for a Hindoo. I remember that in his earlier years his mind assumed somewhat ot a devotional cast and in the first impulse of his religious fervor he undertook to give his feelings expression by standing upon one leg for sixty-seven years. After he had lie-Id that other leg in the air for about thirty-two months, however, his views underwent a change, and he concluded to put it down. It seems but yesterday he came to me and said that, after

turning

the matter over in his mind,

it struck him as somewhat absurd for a man to hope to secure eternal felicity by holding up his- toes, and that he was now convinced that if he hoped to get into the path of duty, lie should have to engage in the work of pitching babies to the sacred crocodiles.

I never knew any one to fire his whole soul to a work as Beluchius did to this. To sec that saintly Hindoo take a baby and chuck at a hungry crocodile, was to have your respect for mankind increased, He was an unusually conscientious man. and he never caused the animals any unnecessary annoyance. When one of them would prop its jaw open, Beluchius would takihaiiy odd twins that he had in his collection and heave them into the animal's mouth, with a precision that was little less than marvelous. He acquired dexterity by practicing with a rag-bacy on a stuffed alligator, and it was a comfort to see the good man going through his exercise with that scrupulous fidelity which always distinguished him.

But he wearied of it at b.st. lie told me that his soul craved something which would develop his higher powers, and so he joined the Thugs. I Jere the same lofty devotion to duty characterized his conduct. He had a way of garroting a man which brought the instincts of his better nature into play, and his friends never could sufficiently admire the artistic manner in which he disposed of the various members of his family. It was not that lie brained both of his parents with a single fling of the boomerang' although that was spoken of at the time as something a little above the average, and it was not that he choked off his grandmother by slipping the clothes-line over her head and tightening it by fixing his grandfather to the other end and dropping him out ot the window. But when he pinned his aunt to the cellar-door with the toasting fork, and drove the cook through the roof by putting blasting powder in the stove, people said that the man's services were entitled to some kind of recognition over and above what he deserved for putting his little brothers and sisters in the well and then dropping grindstones 011 them.

There was something about the man thrt warmed the hanrt towards him. After he resigned from the Thugs, he found relief for his yearning after truth by exercising upon the sacred swing. Often have 1 seen him run the iron hook through the small of his hack or through the calf of his leg, and go humming round and rouhd. scolding the man at the crank for turning so slow find thfn lxo— _urntrncrwn and runthe car of Juggernaut over the ribs of 300 or 400 common people, and scrunch them up, and go home feeling all the time that lie hadn't done anything near his duty, and wasn't half good enough to associate with thoroughly moral people.

But it is all over now. The alligators may go hungry now as far as he is concerned. Who will go prowling around picking up stray babies for them now? Who will butcher superfluous people in the hearty fashion he used to be so fond of? Who will make slip-nooses of clotheslines and suspend old people out of the windows and shoot unnecessary cooks out through the shingles and up toward the stars? Nobody about Ahmeddnugger, any way. One town can't very well grow more than one such man as he. And now that his simple, and modest, and unpretending life is ended, I offer him this little testimonial of my esteem, and sigh to think what a man lie would have been to our little community where the coroner might have followed him up and held about fifteen inquests a day, and where he would have given the undertaking business an impulse that would have put it right upon its feet, and enabled some of us to get up corners in coffins."

Royal Whims.

Writing of Queen Victoria's desire to be known also as empress of India, Moncure D. Conway, in his London correspondent of The Cincinnati Commercial says: It is well known that the main interest which the Queen had in the new title was the addition it would make to her grandeur in Europe, and Disraeli is at his wits' end to discover some way in which her ambition in this respect may be gratified in consistency with his pledge that the word "empress" shall be suppressed in all state papers not relating to India. There is yet to be a scene at Windsor Castle. There has already been one, if gossip is correct. It is said that the prime minister found the Princess Beatrice pouting, and even moist-eyed, because he had certified parliament that the new title would not affect the children of Her Majesty. Some of her friends had already addressed notes to her inscribed, "To Her Royal and Imperial Highness." And now she would have to correct them—it was too bad! Disraeli tried to console Trix as well as he could, but at latest dates she was anything but happy. There is a serious side to all these ludicrous gossipy whispers about the royal family. They are talked about as^ if fhey were a family of children crying for a new toy. There is a smile on every face as one and another repeat the stories of their furious sensitiveness about all the little forms and ceremonials of dignity investing a throne from which" real power has ebbed away. An actual instance of this occurred on tho occasion of the queen's last drawing-room. It is considered indispensible that ladies introduced at court or received there shall wear qery low-bodied dresses. Just before the last drawing-room, Lady wife of a very distinguished nobleman, wrote to the lord chamberlain saying that. she had recently been ill and

her

shoulders had become so thin that she was ashamed to show them! The cn em berlain khowing how strict the qeaha was, referred the matter to her, anu-a grand consaltation was held. After long and serious debate,the lord chamberlain was instructed to write to the pettioning lady that Her Majesty would for once give her consent to the innovation, but it was intimated that the dress must be a compromise that is, cut down in front, The court papers-referred vaguely t6 this exception to the rules of court dress, stating thatjt was by her majesty's gracious attd specwl iconcession, in order that it might nqttifecome a precedent!

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A Man Whose {Feelings Were Wounded. "Is the editor in?" asked a pensive individual as he closed the glass door inscribed, "Editorial Rooms." "He are," I replied." Several of him. What style of an editor can I show you, sir? We have fine samples of fighting, Centennial correspondent, spring poetry and—" "I want to see the political editor." "Next room," I said, and the man, who evidently had some silent sorrow, interviewed the first person lie met saying: "I presume The Free Press is opposed to the Grant administration?" "Yes sir: you may take'that for Granted." "I am glad of it," said our sorrowful friend, "but are you aware of the deep enormity of that administration's doings?"

Well, we try to keep ourselves posted "I suppose so Now what's the worst thing that administration ever did?" •'There'# thatBellknap busiuess. and—\ "Yes, but I mean that affects Detroit." "Well, the whisky frauds."

The man of grief shook his head. "I thought you woulden't know about it, it refers to the postofflce." "Oh the shutting off the gns, coal and water." "Worse than that, this is it. In the postoffice building the window sills are broad and low—just the place to sit down 011, and read a letter. I sat down 1111 it about half an hour ago thatis, I partlly sat down. This Republican administration has had4hose windows set with six inch arrangements of pointed steel. So I thought I'd step up here and let you know about it, and get you to go sharply for 'em: for they went sharply for me," he remarked sadly, as he felt the extent of the rent in his garments caused by the Rip-up-lican act. "Put a good heading 011 it," he added "such as, Arc. the feelings of our people to trifled with?" 'A point, our rather several points for our citizens to pounder over,' 'Sharp practice in the postoffice,' Fix it in that style and public indignation will rise up as quickly as I did from that window."

Here his emotions cvereaine him and he silently shook hands with all present and with a deep-sigh departed.

LUKE SHARI\

The Casey Band.

This afternoon the brass band from Casey, III., paraded the streets, making some sail* music. The band will assist the "Union Band" to-night at Turner Hall.

W. II. Levering, of LaFayctte, President of the State Sunday School Association, is in the city, the guest of Rev. Mrs. Henderson. He will be present tomorrow at the Sunday School Convention and deliver an address.

Mies Maria Turner, who has been visiting friends in Clav county, returned home on Saturday.

PROMPT AN RELIABLE. Chas. L. Feltus paper hanger and decorator gives especial attention to paper hanging, decorating and calcilming Fine work a speciality. Shop No. 610 Main street, between Sixth and Seventh, under the old Forty-Nine Cent store.

N. B. Prices as low as any shop in the city.

S. R. Baker

eceived this morning a lot of maple ugar direct from Vermont. Nowhere is tich sugar made as in the "Green Mounain State." The lot that Baker has is imply delicious.

Muoio.

Miss Luetta Hedges, who is conducting a class in instrumental music at her residence, over Wilson Bros store, will also give vocal instructions. Call and see her.

H. HELMCAMP.

Boot Maker.

Located on Fourth street, between Ohio and Main up stairs, half soling ladie's bootees 50c half soling boots 75c. Satisfaction guaranteed in all work done.

N. B, Work left at my residence, third house south of the Nail Works will receive prompt attention,

A FARM OF YOUR OWN —is—

THE BEST UE9IED1' 1'OU II Alt ...... TIMES.

Free Homesteads

—AND THE—

Best] and Cheapest Railroad Land

:.o't Are on the Line of the

UNIONif PACIFIC RAILROAD,

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SECLRE A HOME XOW. Full information sent FREE to all parts of the World. A(ldre,-ri, U. I*. It. E. Omaha, Nebraska.

Agents Wanted.

CENTENNIAL MEDALLIONS,

Struck in solid Albata Plate, equal in appearance, wear and color to

SOI'I SILVER OBGOLD.

Presenting a large variety of beautiful Designs iii Relief,

These Medallions are larger than a silver trade dollar, being inches, in diameter handsomely put up and sell rapuUy at sight The most valuable Soveniers and alememto. ever issued. A completeoutflt of magnificent samples for agents, velvet lined Morocco case—including,, the Bust of "George AVashington." Grand Entrance International Exhibition, Memorial Hall (Art Gallary). Horticultural Hall. Main Building, and the

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resresentation of the Signing of the eclaration of Independence (designed by Trubulis), in gilt—sent by mail on receipt of draft or Post'Office order for |8,500, or will ship by express C. O. I. upon rebeipt of express charges. Agents' Circular and Price List and one sample sent upon rcceipt of 60c. Immense profits. Sell at eight. Extensive fields for enterprise. Auaresa (J. S nEDALION CO.

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JUST SO.

If yon have any ragged, dirty, torn, mu

tilated almopt worthless 'scrip' notes' or bills which no one cares to take don't burn it. We want it, and for it will give you good clean books, notions, or even cash. Send it along ana select what you want. Knowledge in a nutshell. Inflation, 80c Life of a Wi

ife of a Washington Bollee, 30c Pocket Alain, 24 cards,"25c 50c do 50c Transparent laying bards only 75c. Photographs, 10c. 12 50c 25 for $1 Superb 8x11 French Chromo rosses, perfect, beauties. 1,.Cross and Ros2, Cross and leaves, 3, Cross and "Lily, 4, ross and Flowers—-worth 50c.—our price 15c 2 for 25c, 6 for 50c. 17 for $1.50 styles. Agents clear $10 daily selling these. Also 100 Elegant'Col'd Engravings, size 13x16. Beautiful Girls —any name- you wish—Comic Religious,.and other subjects, only16c. eacn. W.lor $1,00. Send for our catalogue. Deal -only with a reliable house. Sena on your dtrly money (not counterfeit) and sendfor an£ thing yon want to HUNTKB 4- CO., Hinsdalffi. H. -1- -T-

Playing bards only 75c. Photographs for 50c 25 for $1 Superb 8x11 French Chromo Crosses, perfect, beauties. 1,.Cross and Roses 2, Cross and leaves, 3, Cross and Uly, 4, Cross and Flowers—-worth 50c.—our price 15c 2 for 25c, 6 for 50c. 17 for $1.50 styles. Agents

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REJUVENATED.

SPectacular ''Burlesque Qrg&niz&tiea"

In the magnificent spectacular burlesque of

The Female 40 Thieves

with costly wardrobe—new scenery. n«fw music, introducing new songs and dances, ballet, burlesque, variety, the Amazonian inarch, lemale warriors etc.

Twenty Star Artists.

Ballet! Burlesque! Variety Minstrels AD1KWISSION, T5c, 50c, and 2Sv.

No extra charge for reserved seats. Reserved seats on sale at Button & Hamilton's Book Store. Doors open at 7 p. m. PerformanceatSp.m.

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Two Daily Express Trains leave TOl. ISVILLEonthe arrival of trains from

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EVERY ONE

Who lias called at the Opera House Clothing store is delightod.

First, not on|y at the elegant and handsome arranged room, but

second, particularly at the idea to find the handsomest and largest

line of of Men's, Boy's and Children's Clothing ever exhibited in this

city, and the Third: to find prices way down below their expectation

Look to your interest, examine goods and prices all around, and

then convince yourself that the best place is

FRANK & ROTHCHILD'S,

Opera House Clothing Store.

A.P.LEE&BR0.

having refitted their store room on the CORNER OF SIXTH AND OHIO, have fiiied it full of goods. Thcir's is a

A WHOLE MARKET HOUSE IN ITSELF,

An experience of several years in the business has taught them all of the ropes.

HEADQUARTERS, Reagan & Lorey

proprietors 1

trade and built up an additional host of friends.

in the rear.

0PEKA HOUSE.

SAMPLE ROOMS

"rnroAY-fc-SATURDAY EVE'S, MAY5& 6 '^"""pOSltivcW orc nirjVit V?ti\y

A WORLD OF SHOW.

Attractions Extraordinary

T. II. ICE CO.

WHOLSALE AND RETAIL DEALERS Oflice and Retail Supply Depot, 155 MAIN STREET.

ror ninety davH from April 1st, M76, tho rate for ice will he 00 cents pur hundred pounds, for hotels, restaurant*, saloons, butchers, and all large consumers iinil 65 c«nts per hundred to families, after which date and for tho balance of the season the. rate will be Tfi cents and one dollar per hundred

PAT

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obtained in tli« United States

Canadas and Europe terms as low as those of anv other reliable house. Correspondence invited in the English and foreign languages. with Inventors, Attorneys at .Law, and others Solicitors, especially with those who

WHEN YOU GO

have had their eases rejected at the hands of other attorneys. In rejected eases our fee« are reasonable and no charge is made unless we are successful.

INVENTORS,

want°a

Patent, send! u? a model or a sketch and a fyll description of yonr invention. We will make an examination, at the Patent Offica and if we think it patentable, will send you papers and advice, and prosecute year ease, Our fee will be, in ordinary

rcases,$25.'FREE

ADVICE

written in all matters relating to Patent Patent Law and inventions. REFERENCE—Hon. M. D. Legzet. ex-Com-missioner of Patents, Cleveland, Ohio: O. H. Kellev, Esq., Soc'v National (irange, Louisville, KentucKv, tne Sweedish and Danish Foreign Ministers Washington, D. C'. llenrv Co flood, Esq., Haifa*, Nova Scotia-mxy-Send stamp for are "Gi DEFOKOBTAINING PATENTS, a book of 10 pages.

Adcress, EOIIIS BAt*CiER 6c ^O. Solicitors of Patents and Councilors at Patent Law, Washington, I). C.

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Close connections made at Oddgnsbur«r with Grand Trunk Railw for all points East and West. Also with Rithliew and Ontario Navigation Co's., and Northern Transit Co's., Steamers to and from all points on the Lakes and the West and Northwest.

Close coniicction also at Mont rea, with Grand Trunk Raihvay foi il points and west Soutfi.

All trains (equipped with Miller Platform, Coupler and Buffer and Westinghouse Air Brakes. ,,5.

Pullman Drawing Rootrrapd. Sleeping Cars on all through trairip.

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