Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 April 1869 — Page 1
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GOODS.'
SPRING,
1869.
CEMENTS'
.^.r —TO—
A-SH
SIXTY DAYS!
W S E & 0
Fripiritorj to moving, «tf«r
Large and Well Assorted Stock of
DRY GOODS
CJLBPETfil, .. .'rfJi
WILL PAPERS
,A' AND
DECORITIOVII, •\m
ParilM wlahlog goods will And all our diflerent *i A »v
DEPARTMENTS FULL
•ad whktUmoi to their advantage, will find
PRICKS EXTKEM£L1 LOW.}
STOTES! STOVES!
MOBTB-WBT OF THE OLD OOCRT HOCSB,
A*
OLD STAND.
The Largest Stock in the City
WI 61¥B FIFTI-TWO PIECES
With each Cook Stove 8old!
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Wa warraBt eTcry Btot* to baks well, stand tea. and biTi a good dransht. Onr stoves ait •ftka
BEST SMOOTH CASTINGS,
And aot liable to crack. We keep ou hand a good Stock of
MANTELS AND GRATES!
Alaa a ftiU Uae of tha most approved patterns of
PLOWS
And a fall stock of
FAIRBANKS SCALES!
We bay for cash, exclusively,.and pay no rents, ... and illU'fii M'iJ'5
_SJELL AS CHEAP ..A8IH,t',,.
E A E S
lCaii
and Investigate, at
SO Sc SS Main St.
Noi
C. C. SMITH A CO. aarilMwta
ERRORS OF YOUTH.
Ta-U
Men, theexperieacaof years bes dpi^on*,Tr5 .k. hc| that nlianoe Bay beplaocdin tkaaAeaey af
2)JR. BtSLISa SPECIFIC the aoeedr aad Uinaaaeat cure or seminal r.!.-JrViL resaTtof Youthfkl Indiscretion, "T .L.1-.U xmlns the kapplaaaa, and ante 5i^fc5r^t*sln«s, s«!ial society, or m»rrlxkey caa be used without detection or Interference wlthbiulnees pnrsnlts.
Prloe one DoUarper box, or Sour boxes tor three dallan.
Ir
c*anot procure theae pHto e^oae
»k| aeatj to Bavav A *., 64 Cedar streat. Maw Tatk. and tbay wUt be aeac by return mall, wen ™i3 Private ctrcalara to gentlemen sent free ii- ,niiiMllna Xncloae atamp.
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Consisting of
Harness, Shirting, Fair and Black Bridle,Collar Leather, Bag Leather, Line Leather Seating, Pad Ol'~~! Skins, Sc., Ac.
BOLE—Oak, Hemlock, Blaaghter, Bnenos Ayres, ^and Orinoto, French and American Calf and 8Un», Wax TJpper. Buff, Grain Leather, fPehble Grain, Spllu, Lace Leather, Chamois
Skins, etc.
EOANS—Cochineal, Haroon, Blue, Green,Tellow, and Cream. LIHING SKINS—White, Pink, Tellow and Bus-
Mt.
E S
IfOBOCeO—Tampleo, Onraeea, Patnas, Caps, Boot Leg. PebbUd, Simon Goat, etc.,,,, CAtf KID—French end American. PLASTIBEB'B HAlB. Lasting*,
Bindings, nri: CXStifilH
Boot, Web, Gaiter Web,
..Gariaga,
Cement, Shoe Kit,
OABH for Hides,
PERRE-
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LEATHER,
i- .sajgel tf anafactarer and Dealer in
Leatber, Hides, Oils* Shoe Findings, art Currier's Tools,
Xoa. 144 1M JUU 81-, TOM •ABTK. IKD.,
Would napaetfully Inform his old patrons, and the public generally, that he has on hand and solioits ordara for tha various kinds of goods adapted to the wants of •Ht awl BhM «»antoctM«rt, dto aad Haneta Bakers Bew»«
Laces.
Oalloom, Shoe Threads,' ShoeMek, Bristles, Byeleta,' Cork Boles,
Machine Wax, Gam Trafacanth, Edge Blacking, -Kaehlne Thread. Shoe BlacUog and Brashes, Nells, Awls and Tacks,
Lasts, Shoe Trass, hsitutm ?il jvSr •-h.r'i Crimping Boards, Wei
Clsmps, Boot Trees,
it: i( !(V0i Crimping Machines,
Bto., Etc., Etc.
OILS—Cod, Straits and Bank. Sicily, sumac and Japonlca. THREAD, NKKDU8, AND BKWlNfi MlCHINK THKKAU sAJSD SILK.
farit
Bheep Pelts, Deer
Skins, Tallow, and Leather lfc tM Bough.
Consignments atomy* Receive Prompt Attention, Tebfidwtf •••.
SIMPSON'S COLUMN.
JJUFUS H. SIMPSON,!r.11
ATTOBJOET AT LAW,
MOXABT WBUC«^:^"
Comirisgioier «f Deeds for Western States,
Fire and Lire Insurance Agent,
Torre Haute, Indiana. ,--us
OFflOB—In Itott'r Bolldlng—tip.rftalrs—opposite the Saw Court Home. NOIIOX.—Collections made In and ont of Court, at reasonable cammiasions.
ISPXOIAL ATTENTION given to settleme of Estates and Onerdians in the Probate Court. ii«fsw"i i- ).•.(
"'~t ni^Aut FOB8ALE.
A nice little House Qf four rooms, and the lot, in Bible town, at a bargain. 40 acres of good land- in Washington county, Illinois.
Two and aAree of groun^well set In frnit treee and shrubbery, with a goW 1^ story house and out'buildlnga, known aa the Gllmore property, near Mont Boas School House.
Several first olass dwelling bouse* ranging from 93,000 to 912,000 in price. A bran-new house aod nice lot on Mala street, east of the railroad.
A good Piano, aearly new, at low figure*.
Continental Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORIC •i«M,eoo,e« .8,167,178 49 6,004
CAPITAL, paUia ....
ASSETS BOLIOIES Issued iD 1869
R. 11. SIIIFSOV, DISTBI8T AGENT.
Mnrlldwlf wyws
UJSA
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THE
CAST CAST-STEEL PLOW J! {.SMITH'S PATENT,) Wears as long as Four Other
PLOWS! tfi
Made by running Melted Oast-Steel, as fine as the metal in yoar Bazor,-*-INTO IRON MOTTLIfc I Can bo "laid," drawn," "pointed," and "sharpened" as any other
Warranted to SCOUR anywhere, andj every Plow Warranted to salt the Fnrehaser
_, Exaedy, or no SIILE
L,. ^, ,I»A
Has a Standing Cutter, "T ii» Rolling Coulter, fig. Or, no Cutter, or we6 ^Rolling Coulters, ii AMD
CUTTERS,
To at any Plow I
All Kinds Other Plows, AND Langrs Patent Cast Plows,
With Extra POINTS, at »ui daUe .a
loirsfli a JoiBi
Farm Implementa, Pvblio [Square,
«1 J-i.' •&•> XaatfHe «.Mi Sow wum HATITB. IHD. J1 ,1a1 5«i"S aji it-tsmxr*: i'l» 1 Mil. tpitAritlialftal.'JSfca i"
THX Cincinnati Timet• cruelly rexnltrks that G&AST'B admlniitr&tioti is likely to '•well the pauper list coniiderably by the dkcharge of government clerks.
Tax New Yo^k World is shocked at the suggestion to remove the National Capital to that city, sinca "our foremost "barglars would learn new tricks."
TH* attention of the Grand Army of the Bepublic has been called by General LOGAN, its chief, to the fact that the 20th of Hay is the time set apart for visiting and decorating the graves of our soldiers. This will be the second public observance of Decoration Day, which, it is hoped, may be held as a sacred aod tender holidav in our political calendar.
THE St. Louis Democrat mentions, in connection with the appointment of W. A. HOWARD, of Michigan, as Minister to China, the fact, wheih will be gratefully remembered, that as a member of the Thir. ty-fourth Congress from the Detroit District, he was chairman of the investigating committee which so thoroughly exposed the Kansas outrage)
I"BOM statistics recently published, it appears that England's import of wheat, last year, was not so large as the previous one, the home orops being Bomewhat improved. Still, ahe had to pay out a heavy sum for breadstuffs. In 1868 the total amountpaid was£22,000,000, as compared With £25,000,000 in 1867, and £13,000,000 in 1866. She took £6,300,000 worth from Russia last year, against £9,750,000 in 1867, and £4,800,000 in 1866. From Prussia she bought £3,350,000 worth in 1868, compared with £4,350,000 in 1867, and £2,800,000 in 1866. And from the United States she purchased £4,390,000 worth, as compared with £3,250,000 in 1867, and £375,000 in 1866. It will thus be seen that while the import from other countries has fallen away, that from America has steadily increased. The day ia probably near when we will almost onopolize the British market In breadstuffs, as we are certain to monopolize it in cotton.
THE PBIMARY ELECTION, on Saturday last, a report of whioh will be found in our local columns, resulted in the selection of nominees, both for the general ticket and for Counoilmen, who combine, in a rare degree, those elements cf personal popularity, and fitness for their several positions, which constitute a strong ticket. This all Republicans will concede, and none more readily than the gentlemen who failed to secure a plurality of votes and thereby lost the several prizes for which they were honorably contending. We say honorably contending, for, whatever may be said of office-seeking, it is a list and laudable ambition that impels a man fairly to seek a position of honor among his fellow-men and if all who desire official station would strive lo obtain it, in the same manner that was adopted by the gentlemen who came before their party as candidates last Saturday, the odium that sometimes attaches to office'seeking would soon give place to sentiment of opposite character.— We shall take a very early opportunity- to show—for the benefit of that small portion of our local readers who may Rot be personally acquainted with the nominees—tho qualifications which each one possesses for the office to which he aspires, and the claims which they severally present for universal Republican support. In ihe meantime^ we urge all who desire to promote the best interests of our city, and who aro for the success of the Republican party, to go into the brief contest, now opening, with a determination not merely to elect our ticket, but to do so by unprecedented majorities. United effort will do this, and nothing else will.
A small frame bnlldlng, corner of 6th and Cheatnat atrtete—cheap—pnrchaeer to remove the building.
A city lot, adjoining thb residence af John D. Murphy, on North First street. A beautiful bnlldlng lot, corner of 8th and Walnut streets—fenced—shade and fruit tree*. 120 aorei of good timber land, 1% miles from Martlnsburg, county^seat of Blpley County, Missouri, at a bargain. Will be sold for part cash, and good trade for balance, Call at Simpaon'a Real Katato Agenty. y'jiJE 4
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WAITED.
FABMS AND HOUSES I
TO SELL AND BENT.
THE Indianapolis Journal very confidently expresses the opinion that "if the people of Texas really desire reconstruction, they can do nothing that will go so far toward satisfying Congress and the people that they intend to faithfully observe tha laws, and become good citizens, as by electing Genoral JOSEPH J. RETNOLDS to the Senate of the United States." We think that "if the people of Texas" really "intend to faithfully observe the law$ and become good citizens" they can furnish no bettor evidence of such a praiseworthy intention than by electing their own bona, fide Union citizens to represent them in both houses of the National Legislature. There arenow quite too many Southern constituencies represented by men who have no local interest 1q or attachment to, that section of our country. They care nothing for their constituents and this feeling is duly reciprocated. Such representation is a miserable burlesque, fraught with many evils, not the least of which is its strong tendency to bring our system of government into contempt.
General REYNOLDS is a good man, and would make a good Senator, but he is not, in any sense of the word, a Texan, and, therefore, should not aspire to represent Texas in the United Slates Senate. There are enough tTue Union men who are bona fide citizens of that State, men who have reside'd there long enough to become identified with hor interest and known to her people, to fill her Congressional delegation. And if there were not/shehad better go unrepresented than to perpetrate the wretched farce of electing citizens of Maine, Alaska,.Idaho or Indiana to the Senate.
States that are so hard pressed for suitable material for Congress as to be obliged to import Union men are better off under a military government than they can be tinder any other. In the early efforts at reconstruction there was some excuse for gentlemen from Ohio and Connecticut representing South Carolina, but that sort of thing has been carried far enough, and should bo dispensed with in the reconstruction of Texas, Mississippi and Virginia. Better wait till they can grow native material, than resort to importation. it
THB Express of Saturday, givea the Bockville Republican to understand that it wants no more sass from the Parke county Radical organ. Terre Haute Journal.
But for the above we might never have learned the "wants" of the Express. In our opinion the editors of that paper ex. hibit a very great "want" of common courtesy in attacking us and withholding the number of the paper containing the Earns. So long as they continue to conduct it in a manner so uncourteous, it illy becomes them to complain of their breth ren of the press.—Rocboille Republican.
No tuch article as the Journal mentions has appeared in this paper. The lecture of our Rockviile cotemporary is, therefore, misapplied. •aasaasisaB
Personal and Political.
WALTER G. OVBBTON, has purchased the Louisville Democrat, changed the name to the Evening Express and brought the paper out in a new dress.
COLONEL THOMAS B. VAN BUBEN, tbe new Consul General at Florence, is a New Yorker, though appointed as from New Jersey, where he has recently rested himself at night.
JULES FAVBE made a bold speech in the Corps Legislatif of France on the 5th( in opposition to the Imperial regime, in whioh he deolaredthat "France no longer fears the Revolutionary spectre-"
THE Boston
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TERRE-HAUTE,INDIANA^14PRH?28,1869.
A FOBCE of workmen £*ve gone to Monnt Vernon to commence iep*u!
on
the mansion there, under tbe direction of General MICHIKB. In view of the urgency of this work, and at the earnest appeal of the Ladiee' Mount Vernon Association, tbe last Congress made an appropriation of $7,000 for this object, to be expended under tbe control of the Superintendent of Public Buildings. The wood work of the mansion ia to be entirely renovated the house will also be painted and furnished, and the whole appropriatinn will be used to place the old home of WASHINGTON in the condition it was during tbe life-time of its illustrious occtipaht.
shocked be
yond measure at the solemn fact that the first Federal officer turned out in that city by the new Administration was the man who acted as "Cnief Marshal of the magnificent political demonstration" which took place, there last autumn 1
THE appointment of a colored man as an Internal Revenue officer in Georgia has settled tES vexed question as to the right of negroes to hold office, so far as the Government can do it. The example will not be without its effect among the people of that State, in which, by an arbitrary exeroisel of unlawfu power, the colored members of the Legislature were unseated, merely on account of their African descent. The sooner Georgia sets herself right on this subject the better for her own interests. .,-:
DR. BENJAMIN AYRB, of Georgia, recently assassinated, was tho oldest member of the Georgia Legislature, a staunch Republicap, and one of tha delegation which recently visited Washington,whoBe members the Atlanta J\ew Era wished might "perish by the wByside." The editor of tbat paper has the satisfaction of knowing that his instigation of murder haB cot been without effect. Though the cowardly deed was committed in the dark, there is no difficulty in ascertaining the name of one who is at least morally guilty of the crime.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer is horrified becauso Hon. Reeder W. Clarke, Third Auditor of the Treasury, has appointed two educated and worthy colored persons to clerkships in his Department. Mr. Clarl? has done a meritorious act in turning out lazy rebels and filling their places with industrious and intelligent representatives of the loyal colored citizens. If it were possible to effect another revolution, viz: to fill the place ot editor of the Enquirer with Fred Douglass, the father of one of tbe above mentioned clerke, the tone of that journal would be greatly improved.
ALLUDING to Senator Cameron's wrath because ffe has not been consulted by the administration in the matter of appointments, the St. Louis Democrat suggests that the President may have very good reasons for not consulting the Pennsylvania Senator. It is within the memory of man that this same Mr. Cameron made his way into the Senate chamber by a bribery at that time almost without precedent that he so conducted in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet as to be desired at an early day to leave it that he returned to the Senate the second time with loud charges of bribery ringing in his-ears and that his railroad and other private interests have not suffered at all by his action as a Senator. If General Grant does not care to consult such a man to any great extent, the people of the country will probably conclude that Grant is at least excusable.
SKNATOR ABBOTT, of North Carolina recently read a report of Sprague's speech, in which somebody was compared to a "puppy," and Abbott was exceedingly anxious to know whether he was the "puppy" alluded to, as if he was he would either have a full retraction before ttie Senate, or "take satistaotion outside the Chamber!" It was not very polite in the little Senator from that little State to talk in that way, but the Senator frem North Carolina seems to go far for the conclusion that he is entitled to swell, like the frog in the fable, to the dignity of a bull-dog, simply because some one was compared to a puppy I Poor Mr. Abbott completely broke his muzzle on that occasion, and created the most ex« citing ten minutes experienced in the Senite for a year. It seems that Sprague got an intimation of what was to occur, and dodged in time to escape being torn to pieces by Mr. Abbott, umts#
•«j*l a THE STATE. aui c.
SMALL-PAX has nearly disappeared from Evansville. -MI* sifcJ S
THE BOTBL QUESTION, again excites Evansville. 'tf' nl e-'iS "if for
SMALL-POX is prevalent .extensively throughout the State.
SOME "LARKS" in Evansville Stoned house of ill-fame jon Wednesday night.
PEACOCKS
are used as barometers ra
Evansville.
MADISON pays her annual salary of $48.
Councilman an
A HOOSIEB, named Willets, was fatally shot in Austin, Texas, a few days ago.
PIKE COUNTY rejoices in the possession of a horse that weighs 2,300 pounds.
WORK on the Mt. Vernon and Grayville Bailroadls to be commenced in two or three weeks.
T6E highest number of students in attendance at Asbury University ibis yeai is 330.—[Putnam Banner.
SHEBP-KILLINQ DOGS are inflicting great slaughter in several parts of the a,.., '!*i if .«.«»*a Stale--.Ah h-: ..... -U wi-.M.
THB RINK at Indianapolis ia to be used a portion of each day during tbe summer for tbe accommodation of velocipedists.
A DRUNKEN MAN, named Arnold, residing in Ohio county, recently cut off his left hand while trying to decapitate a chicken.
STEALING a horse, was the peca'dili'o that recently sent John Rathbone, a native of Indiana, to the Arkansas penitentiary. v-ioiiv s'tteolfifcH
A CHALLENGE has been sent by the Fort Wayne Chess Club to tbe Chicago Club, to engage in a friendly game by telegraph.
JAMES BAKER has discovered a valuable mineral paint on his farm, one mile west of CarpentersviUe.—[Putnam Banner. ji $
THE Madison
Courier
C0UDty jaiL
says toe Demo
cratic party is the fossil remains—the debris—ofall the parties, that ever existed in this country.
LON. WATSON, an escaped deperado, was captured at Cairo, last week, brought back to Evansville, and lodged in the
THE LEGISLATURE has very nearly completed all important business before it, except the disposal of the. Fifteenth Amendment.
SAMUEL P. JUDAH, aged 75 years, during 50 of which he was a citizen of Vinceanos, died at his residence in that city on Saturday last.
The largest income tax paid in Indian apolis is by S. A. Fletcher, on $25,895. Moses Fowler, Esq, of this city, pays on :,679, and Adams Earl, Eeq., on $39,300.—[LaFayette Dispatch.
H. C. NEWCOMB, Esq., late1 political editor of the: Indianapolis Journal has resumed the practice of law, wbejein we hope he will find much profit.a
IT IS though, that the cars will be running to Freedom in about four weeks, if the weather should prove favorable.— Worthington will then be within nine miles of the "outsidq world."—Worthington Times. ..
THIRTY DOLLARS WORTH of stationery and stamps, for each Senator, is the final settlement of that great question in our State Senate. This will buy lots of calico.
IN Boone county, a few days ago, a child of Mrs. Snell fell into a well thirty feet deep, and its mother, in attempting to rescue it, also fell in. Both were taken out without permanent injury.
A WOMAN named Sarah Dillon, formerly residing in Greene county, Indiana, now constituting one of sixteen wives in the harem of a Salt Lake City Mormon, writes that ahe would like "to get back to the old place." Very probable. -----
THE Indianapolis city schoola^fre now dismissed half an hour earlier than usual to allow the scholars an opportunity to attend Mr. Hammond's meetings.— Wouldn't it be as well to'employ a regular chapilan for the public schools_? 1 v.4i-
LAST FRIDAY, Davis Pollock, an old citizen of Washington county, went into the woods near Milltown, to chop, and while engaged in his work a dead limb fell from a tree upon him, crushing the skull, and catising immediate death.
GOSPORT has a blind printer whose average day's work is five thousand ems. although on several occasions h« ui» eei from seven to nine thousand. His letter is distributed for him, and his copy is read by his partner, his memory being so perfect that he can retain from four to six lines when this is finished, be cries the last word "set," when another sentence is read, and thus continues during tbe day.
DE.R. 8. HBISKELL. of Jeffersonville, was nominated by the Republican caucus last night for Director of the Southern Prison, vice M. P. Ghee, resigned. It now remains to get the Democrats into joint convention, in order to elect him, as they seem to have a teat, upon such occasions, that some trap will be sprung upon them, and the amendment ratified before they knew it.—Journal.
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A FELLOV in Deaborn county 'adyertises a fugacious wife who, he
expense of wintering
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left him just as his summer'', work'is be. ginning, notwithstandinghe
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THE Fir**, Presbyterian Church, Indianapoli'^
congregational meeting on
Tblirsflay night, unanimously called Rev. R- D. Harper, D. D., of Xenis, Ohio, to the pastorate of the Church.
A CASE of scan, mag., in which a clerical gentleman is implicated as one of the principals, has been reported to the editor of tha Muncie Times. If the facts aro as stated a welf in sheep's clothing has been loose a long time.
MRS. SUSAN CHRISTIE, aged 89 years, committed suicide by drowning heneif in a cistern, at Fort Wayne Wednesday night. Her body was found next morning, when one of tbe family was drawing water. Derangement of mind is the supposed cause. 1
THE Commissioners of En ox bounty on Thursday last made an order rejecting all bids and propositions for building a new Court House, and indefinitely postponed the whole matter until the tax-pay-ers of the county give expression in favor of building.
THREE of the scoundrels who placed obstructions on tbe track of the Chicago & Indiana Central Railroad, two weeks ago, by which an engineer was killed, have been arrested and indicted Two more of the villains are still at large. It is supposed the object was plunder.— Crown Point Register.
AT INDIANAPOLIS on Friday a little girl named Ella Smith, aged 11 years, in attempting to cross the track of the Illinois Street Railroad, was knocked down and run over, the car wheel 4?arly cutting her body in two she died in a few minutes. The driver was arrested
THE Episcopal Bishop of Indiana has approved the sentence of the Bev. L. W. Ruas, rector of St. John's Church, Lafayette, convicted by an ecclesiastical court uf "scandalous and disorderly conduct," in going to see the "Bhck Crook," and the admonition to the offender was pronounced yesterday.
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION of the German Building, Loan and Savings Assoc!" ition No. 1, of Fort Wayne, have been filed in the Secretary of State's office.— Tbe Association his a capital of $100,000, and its ofject defined by its name.— A.lso, of the Union Building and Savings Association of Newcastle, capital $100,000.
TH« APPRISERSON the line of theBellefontaine Railway met at Muncie,- on Thursday laBt, and appraised the road at' $7,500 per mile. There aro 84 miles in the Stato, which will inako an aggregate of $470,000. The last appraisement before this was $7,000 per mile. Tho Vincennes Railroad, which ia anew one, and doing very limited business, was appraised at $3,000 por mile.
THB Treasurer of State has, upon the requisition of the Agent of State, forwarded one hundred and thirty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars to New York. One hundred and thirty thousand dollars of this amount will be used in reducing War Loan bonds, and the remainder in paying the interest upon them. If tho bonds are not presented for redemption as is quite probable, the money will be used in the further reduction of the five per cent, stock debt. J"
THE election bill camo to the Governor in so imperfoct a form, yesterday morning, that he had to sand it back for reenrollment. Upon its return, in corrected form, it was signed, and is now a law. As one result of tbe passage of this bill, the candidates for the office of County Clerk, of whom there were several, have retired gracefully from the field.—Ini. Journal.
This is the most important bill during the regular or special session
JOHN SIMPSON, a slightly colored individual of Washington Township, was •sentenced to tho- penitentiary for two yearg at tbe recent term of our Circuit Court, on a charge of committing a rape on a little girl four years of age. We doubt very tru:h whether she is capable of testifying in a Court of Justice—at least we think hor evidence ought to be taken with a great deal of allowance.— We learn that an appeal will be taken in ibis case to the Supreme Court.— IPorthington Times.
THE National A«ylum for Disabled Volunteers, at Dayton, Ohio, proposes to take tho inmates of our Soldiers' Homo at Knightstown, and care for them. The Superintendent of the former institution in letter tn Hon. A. P. Stanton, Representative from Marion county, says:
We have eleven hundred men on our rolls, but we are not full. We can easily take nil your men, and care for them better than it is possible for you to do at your Knightetown Home, well conducted as I know it is. And to prove this I would much like to have your body send over a committee to BCO what we aro doing and propose to do in tbe future.
The Chicago and New Jersey Homes have just been broken up, and all tbe men iraosterred to ue. The Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Detroit Homes have transferred nearly all their men—ail I believe but tbose loo sick to be removed. Tbe Albany and Rochester, New York Homt8 are also preparing lo transfer their men to us.
Why should Iodiana alone, of all the States, continue to keep up a Stale institution Ought she not at least to see whether there really be any occasion for such an expenditure?
But white the General Government enres for tbe soldier she has made no provision for the widows and orphans, and here is the work, as you suggest, whict your State ought to do, and can well do at Enightstown. At best it will not ao-
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commodate, if given up wholly ^o them one-half of thoee who in your State really need auch aa aaylunr.
The subjjKt ia now receiving attention in our General ••emUy. mal
THB community waastartled yesterday afternoon by the announcement of the decease of Sheriff Colegrove. It leaned but so •bmiYtnarstMiSift had been MOB on tbe street full nf health and vigor, that the announcement .waa painfully sudden. His disease, we learn, waa pneumonia, ultimating in congestion of the liver.— Mr. Colegrove had nearly completed hi* second term in offloe as Sheriff of this county, and had performed the arduous and often unpleasant duties of bis position with rare ability and fidelity, and to the perfect satisfaction of all with whom thoee duties threw him in contact—[La Fayette Joornal.
IT WILL BK remembered that on laat Sunday week aa item appeared in these columns to the effect that the Hon. F. B. C. Honeus bad been placed under $6,000 bail for attempting a rape on a lady in Clark county, Indiana, while attending her in the capaoity of a physician. Tho whole affair proves to be a malignant slander, and was circulated by his political enemies. The Doctor demanded an investigation, but the parties refused to appear before the Joatice of the Peace and prosecute. The statement that he waa put under $6,000 bond was an outrageous falsehood. Our informant, however, was innocent, as be only gave the statement as he received it. The case was taken before the grand jury, which took the testimony of the woman, but refused to find an indictment against tbe Doctor.— The whole affair grew oat of political animosity.—Louisville Cornier. |f» __j,i
CITY NEWS.
THE country roads aro becoming as good as turnpikes.
Yousa SQUIRRELI are abundant in tho woods adjacent the city.
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THE ACTUAL DEBT of thie-city is only $14,8l0.1G.,jn tf
BRICK.—Several south of tbe city, menced operations.
or the brickmakfra have already com-
THE PERSON that sent Ave dollars to Bryan & Co., 64 Cedar streot, New York, will bear of something to his Interest, on calling at this office. 'SI— —iliftiCl
ACTIVE WORK will commence this week for the Opera House building.
CHILDREN grow weary of the school room this beautiful spring weather, so
MORE candidates are disappointed over Saturday's election than were elected.
THE RIVER is again at flood height and the whole bottom land Is submerged-
THE ELECTION on Saturday may be claimed as a dccided Republican victory —at least it was largely Republican.
THE Saturday evening markets are now largely attended, and the supply of moats 45*4 and early vegetables very good.
THE EXPENSES of the Fire Depart* ment of this city, during the past year, have been only $6,445,77, showing a degree of economy in its management worthy of the highest commendation.
HARD CURRENCY.—A subioriber to the WEEKLY EXPRESS yesterday paid on his subscription a silver half dollar. This pleasing memento of "auld lang syne* we propose to keep until it is as good as
Doas.—The City Council is seriously contemplating a war of extermination upon the dogs of the city. It is now almost a nightly occurrence for a pack of dogs to worry near to death a cow or two.
THE new Postoffice at Evansville, will, in its internal arrangement, be as nearly a duplicate of our elegant and commodious office, as the room will admit of.— Col. Foster, the new Postmaster of that city, has recently inspected our office, and, like all intelligent observers who have seen it, pronounced it the nearest practicable approach to perfection. i'
THE LAST ODDITY in the freaky world of fashion is wooden parasols, made of thin strips of wood and decorated some thing after the Chinese fashion. They are pronounced handsome by fashion critics
FAREWELL, TIGHTS!—The chaps who make the fashions in the East have "busted" up the tight pants, ao fashionable last siimner, by putting three-quar-ters of a yard more cloth in them this season. Farewell, visions of leg, as "hefty' as tbose of a katydid I Vr JiJ-.VVit*
TBE APPRAISERS of tbe counties along the line of tbe Torre Haute & Indianapo. lis railroad have appraised that road, for taxable purposes at $12,000 per mile.— The length of tbe road is seventy-three miles, which makes the luUl valuation $876,00,0. In Vigo county there are about ten miles of road, amounting to $120,000:
PARKE COUNTY offers a premium of $15.00 for the fastest time on a velocipede, at its fair in September. Sullivan county also offers a premium to velocipedists, as does the State Board of Agriculture. We are not advised as to. what action our County Agricultural Society has taken on this matter.
GLORIOUS growing weather.
ICE WAGONS now perambulate.
THE FARMERS are busy as bees.
SODA FOUNTS are getting ready to spurt.
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aspetMfialtefer It is now bis duty to send hii boad to Washington, when, if •ppntti, Ms cotttftMoa will be forwarded and he will take immediate
TH* Directors of the Western Iron Company, of Clay oounty, have filed affidavits in tho office of the Auditor of State settiog forth the agreement of more than two-thirds of the stockholders, to increase the capital stock,of the company to $150,000.
^AIT *A*M*ao, and even residents of ®ity, whoarosofoMunato as to possess "potato pateh," are buying the "Early Rose" potifo at Foote's Seed Store, for whioh they pay 75 oents per pound. It believed to bo tho best and most prolific member of the potato family. orf'
BOBBERY.—Sage's oonfectionery waa broken into some tinge during Wednesday night, and rohbed of fifteen dollars in the money drawer, a box of cigars and a small lot oT candies and nuts. The en. trance was effected by climbing upon a shod In the rsar by which a seoond story window Was reached. No arrests have been made.
NIGHT or two ago a squad of dogs •ado a raid on Doctor Gifford'a cow near the oorner of Sixth and Saglo streets.— The owner drove them off before the animal waa fatally injured. On Wedaesday night the same oanino marauders killed a lsrge number of chickens and turkies at Miller'* wagon yard. Wo hear of many other forays on poultry yards and chioken coops. It is time that some serious effort Was made to check such demonstrations.
MABBIAOB LICBNES wore itsued last week by the Oounty Clerk to the following parties: William Maloy and Catherine Rloo. James Camper and Eliza E. Richie. Earnest Beiman and Haitie Wlttemberg. Joseph W. Minter aod Ad»l?ne vV lisou. Daniel Myers and Clarissa R. EMridge. Wm. M. Knight and Thersey F- Purdue. Znobary Taylor and Emma
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James G. Swisher aiid Arminda Hale. Daniel Ginsioger and Sarah E. Larow. George Misner and Sarah Bailey.
DIVORCED AND MARRIED.—At the laat term of the Clay County Court a married couple resfdlngfu^BraiTl were divorced. The divorcod wife, resuming her maiden name, Came to this city last week reside with a sister, The husband soon after follow,ed, old courtships wero renewed, past differences forgotten and forgiven, and among the list of marriage licenses published last week their names appeared. "It is not good for man to live alone,"—nor woman either, it no doubt their firm conviction, after a short month's separation.
HYDROPHOBIA.—It may be that Usher Wilkinson, son of John E. Wilkinson has had a narrow escape from that horrible death—hydrophobia. One day last week, while in the aot of driving off a dog that oame into the yard to attack his own dog he was bitten in the hand by the strange dog, inflicting only a slight soratoh. A day or two after he crushed a finger and while hiB mother was binding up the same, he spoke of the dogbite, and said it pained him to hig elbow. In alarm the parents took him to Mrs. Taylor's and applied the "mad-stone."— It. firmly adhered for eight hours and on being taken off a spoonful of poison was extracted. It is asserted by tbose having faith in the virtues of this stone, that if there is poison in a wound it will adhere to the same when applied, but if not it will fall off. This would indicate a case of hydrophobia.
"THB 8U*SHINES POR ALL," and Is therefore a pi*oper subjeot for "the looal' Infactthfro Is perhaps nothing else in whioh our people take so great an interest or are in the habit of looking up to. It may be interesting to know tbat the solar orb is just now making an exhibition of his spots, which may be observed without any other aid than through tbe defensive' medium of smoked glass. A large group of these spots appeared upon the eastern edge of the solar disc legs than a fortnight ago, and when examined by the telescope on the 13th inst., it was found to consist of five distinct nuclei, all included ini one penumbra, and its diameter in the longest direction extended about one-sixteenth across the sun's disc, or about 65,000 miles, while the breadth was about 20,000 miles, making a superficial area of about 1,500,000 square miles. This obscuration of the sun's face will be visible but a few days longer, it having already passed the centre of the disc, when it will be carried oy the er.n's revolution Out of view from our standpoint. Spot, on the sun are of frequent occurrence, and it is now held that, as In tbe case of tbe the November meteors, they have re«ular periods at which tbey exhibit greater number and size. Tho time of tbelr maximum appearance occurs at intervals of about eleven years, and this maximum has.itself a period at which it raacbes it* most striking exhibition. The cause of the appearance of these spots ia not known, but tbere are thought to be grounds for associating it with the phenomena of meteoric showers (whioh bare also aperiodicity in their maiimum and minimum occurrence), and also with tbo aurora borealis, and what is known in astronomy its the lodlacal light,
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A LADY, apparently a stranger. att raotod marked attention yesterday morning,, coming down Main street in a suit, some-' what ot» compromise between male and female costume. Tho lower limbs were clothed in loose fitting pants whioh came down to the tope of neat Polish boots.