Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 November 1869 — Page 4

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lege.

installed therein.

MADISON

lc*

THE STATE.

THERE are sixty-five students in daily attendance at the Indiana Medical Col-

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.THREE lady students are in attendance upon the lectures of the Indiana Medical College. &>

PROF.

having previously voted appropriations the construction of the road is rendered certain.

LrEUT. G. V. MENZIES, United States Navy, was married in New York, last Thursday, to Miss Essie Ilovev, daughter of Major General Ilovey, of Posey county, in this State, Minister to Peru. Miss

MR.

AND

We should think not. If they couldn't revive Indianapolis, it would be vain to try New Albanv.

THE following are the officers of the Grand Encampment I. O. O. F., for the ensuing year: James Pierce, Grand Patriarch T. G. Beherrell, G. H. Priest Samuel Raymond, Grand .Junior Warden E. II. Harry, Grand Scribe Thos. P. Ilaughey, Grand Treasurer W. C. Lupton, Grand Representative Chris. Toler, Grand Sentinel."'i

TIPPECANOE

MICHAEL CONNELL, aged C'J years, was burned to death on his sick bed near Clarksville, between New Albany and ieflersonville, on Sunday night last, by a stick of wood falling out of the stove during the absence of his wife, and setting fire to the bed. When his wife returned home she found him burned almost to a crisp. The house was saved from destruction only by the greatest exertion of the few citizens of the village.

THE

Sentinel

wants more churches erect

citv. AVe wouldn't presume to dictate, £nst H'frh

of operatic music all this, too, in a Methodist church. Shadejof John AVcsley, what do you say to that!—New

Commercial.

THE New Albany <Commercial> states that

KOHOMO has been the scene of another awful tragedy: Lieut. AV. AV. Daugherty, of the regular army, on furlough visiting his parents, shut and killed Jo-eph Vail Horn, at the Sherman House, in that city, at noon on Thursday. It is alleged that A'an Horn circulated slanderous reports about Daughcrty's sisters, and oil Daugherty meeting Van Horn, he repeatedly requested him to recall his remarks, which the latter refused to do, and not, denying them, Daugherty shot hi in. Five shots were fired, tliree taking effect. Van Horn died almost instantly. Lieutenant Daugherty was instantly arrested and lodged in jail. This circumstance has caused great excitement, as both parties are connected with the first families of the place.

Grand Lodge I.O. O. F. held ssions on AVedncsdav and closed

THE

three finally at a late hour on Wednesday even ing. In the forenoon the unwritten work was exemplified. An animated discussion arose over the proposed adoption of the report of the Legislative Committee on the subject of enacting a law to punish, or to make it impossible for a man to hold membership in the Order and sell liquor. The Committee rejxrted that no further legislation was necessary, as the Subordinate Lodges already have power to deal with such cases. The report was referred back to the Committee with instructions to report a law upon the subject, by an almost unanimous vote.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:

James A. AVildman, Kokomo, R. AV. Grand Master, by acclamation. ,o "W. II- DeAVolf, Vincennes, R. AV. Dep- husband at home in the evening, uty Grand Master. v-t J. W. McQuiddy, Madison* R. AV.

Grand Warden. E. H. Barry, Indianapolis, R. \y. Grand Secretary.

T. P. Haughey, Indianapolis, B. ^. Grand Treasurer. Thomas Underwood, Lafayette, Grand Representative, G. L. U. S.

Philip Bfornbrook, Evansville, Alternate Grand Representative, F. L. U. S. The propositions toincrease the ratio of representation and to abolish the May sessions of the Grand Lodge were both Wbtpd down. Upon the latter question, the* older members generally voted for ilie proposed change and thojounger nes against it.

At the night session, the Grand Officer ect were installed.

THANKSGIVING was Very generally obIserved throughout the State,

Cox lias resigned the Chair of on the charge of bigamy, and committed Chemistry in the Indiana Medical Col- to jail. Sf? lege, and Prot.B. T. Brown has been duly ,, TT 7^ '.

REV. F. D. GEORGE, a Baptist clergyman, died at, Madison aTew days ago.

HALF the lawyers in Evansville have 'recently been engaged in a case involving six dollars worth of pigs.

JOEL BYED and Emma. Jane Byrd Kvere arrested in Evansville. on Friday.

I GENERAL

COUNTY, on Monday, voted

JSAT.

ARTICLES of Association have"L«n bouncing baby. We suggest that it be filed in tlie.pffice of the Secretary of State, christened "'Winchester." 0"E of the men employed at Furguson's pork house, Indianapolis, on Thursday made a misstep while handling a hog, and had his hand cut off at the wrist.

of the Fort "Wayne Gerifrnn Building I Loan and Savings Association, with a apifal stock of$100,000.

an appropriation of $135,000 to the White I WILLARD CARTENTKit, of Evansville, Pigeon, Wabash & Cincinnati llailrond, and his Straight-line Railroad, were in the terminus of which is at Anderson. Hartford, Conn., when last heard* from. Kosciusko, Wabash and Grant counties

KIMBALL received

Thanksgiving present in the shape of a

They seemed t0 be a [K)0r ffay

IT is estimated that the turkeys eaten

in this State on Thursday, if alive and formed in marching order, "Indian file," would make a procession seventy-three miles long. —————

THE Madison

Courier

IJovey has been residing with her father, I the United States Mail Line on account in Lima. M.* I of the collision and burning of the steamers America and United States.

Mits. PALMER, therevivalists,

will not visit New Albany, which, from what we can learn of their .success at Indanapolis, is not a sufficient cause for profound grief.—New

Albany Commercial.

says $75,000 is

the amount of damages recovered from

"CANIHALISTIC

PROPENSITIES" have

recently been manifested in Vincennes, as we learn from the

Gazette

of that city. AVe

trust the editor of the

COUNTY has completed

the new building at the poor farm for the use of the insane. It contains ten comfortable cells on the first floor, and the same number of rooms on the second floor, and is, throughout, a most excellent improvement on the old rickety log dwelling, in which they have for years been incarcerated.

ed in Indianapolis. That city already has more aiid better church edifices than any other city of equal wealth and pop1 1 W it a a 8 illation west of the Alleglianies and al- Suspensions 90 though such buildings are highly credita- l^aths'0"'" 22 ble and eminently desirable, yet there are other structures which almost equally of- I Now in membership feet the reputation and prosperity of a

Gazette

ger therefrom.

The Corydon

is in nodan-

REV. JAMES HILL, in answer to an urgent request from the congregation and Official Board of Ingle Street M. E. Church at Evansville, has consented to resume the pastoral charge of that church, which he resigned a few weeks ago.

Democrat

understands

that a young married man of Webster township, Harrison county, has deserted his wife and eloped with an unmarried lady.—Exchange.

A woman who elopes with a married man may pass for a "lady" in Harrison county, but we have another name for that sort of a female in these parts.

A new tribe of Red Men is about to be organized in this city.—Richmond

ium.

Pallad

Wc have a very large aud flourishing tribe, of black men, but the red article doesn't grow here to any extent. Doyour Red Men sport squaws and pappooses?

FROM the report of Grand Secretary E. II. Barry, of the Grand Encampment I O. O. F., of this State, we take the following extract, showing the workings of the past year in all the subordinate encampments except four, which failed to report: Encampments per last report 90 Instituted sincc 5

Total 95 Contributing members per last report 3,671 ... Initiations 307 Admitted by card 63 Reinstated 10

Acccssions 380

{aJ^Chi"^

•1,051

204

3,850 3 835 587

Resources of Encampments.18

but may be excused for suggesting that a Receipts of Encampments 10,520 78 ,, «I Expenses of Encampment"... 8,514 28 good hotel is, just now,

the

great want of

Du£g to }rand

Indianapolis. Patriarchs-relipvcd.... ..... r- --r qvjrrp Widowed families relieved.... Paid for relief of Patriarchs... 2, GOO 60 i- i- a I Paid for rolief of Widowed

AVllILEat Indianapolis last Sunday wc families 20 00 heard of the Mutest thing in'cliurch choir Paid for burying the dead 450 00 singing. A voung ladv sings the "volun- P"'cI for other charitable purtary" alone, and this "voluntary" consists

Albany

AVe don't know what the "Shade of John AVcsley" would "say to that," but we say, very good, provided the voting lady sings I it well and the operatic music is suited to the occasion, ns we have no doubt was the case in the, instance above mentioned.

suspicion has been fixed upon a man named Schwartz as the author of the terrible tragedy that occurred near Troy, Perry county, on Saturday last, but he had not been arrested up to Wednesday morning. The murderer, or murderers, consummated the crime with a revolver, knife, and a small axe or hatchet. Mrs. Geldrich was shot three times, and stabbed with the knife and gashed with the axe or hatchet in thirteen different places. Her little son, aged about ten years, received twelve stabs and gashes. Another child, four years old, received a stab in the neck and a cut in the shoulder, and was left for dead, but will recover. All suspicion against Geldrich, the husband, has been dismissed. —————

Encampment.. 818 30

Dofunct'sincc last report

Kebekah

171 2

poses Total for rcliof and charity S3,1S9 69 The actual condition of the treasury on the first instant is as follows: Balanco in hand of Grand Treasurer since last report SI,770 61 Paid to GiandSTreasurer S 1,201 01 Bill of (rami Scribe... 42 46 1,247 50

Total $3,018 11 Orders paid 1,093 96

Balance in Treasury $1,924 15 From Grand Secretary Harry's report to the Grand Lodge wc take the following exhibit of the aggregate work of subordinate lodges for the past year: Lodges per last report 290 Instituted since 12

302 2

Lodges now effective Contributing members per last report 16,391 Initiations 1 298 Admitted by card 319 Reinstated 100 1,717

300

Total IS,108 Withdrawn by card 427 Suspensions 583 Expulsions 39 Deaths 54

1,053

Whole number ofcontributing members Rejections Past Urands Ladies receiving Degree of

17,055 169 3,441

119

Resources of Lodges $59li,S25 90 Receipts of Lodges 79,752 35 Expenses of Lodges 59,233 4S Hues to Grand Lodges 3,706 11 Orphan Fund of Lodges 123,594 64 Brothers relieved Widowed families reliev-

822

l'aid" for relief of brothers 12,002/10 1'aid for relief of widowed families 1,103 74 Paid for educating orphans 897 32 Paid for burying the dead.. 2,000 23 Paid for other charitable purposes 923 SO

Totnl for relief charily

and

S16.9S7 69

HASH.

A nap-sack—A pillow-case. Sugared dates—Candi-datcs. Text for sinners—Pretexts.

A hand-to-hand affair—Marriage.

AVeleome lines to ladies—Masculines. (K) night of the Bath—Saturday night The auctioneer's motto—Buy and buy The best board of health—A light diet. An agricultural angle—A wheat-corner

The Wisest Statesmen—Dizzypated ones. A verse one don't want to read—Adversity.

Highly eolored work of art—A toper's face. The original Grecian Bend—The Grecian nose.

Boot makers always have a sole in their business. Men of mark—Those who can't write their own names.

Relatives that ought to make good pedestrians—step sons.

man with an "open countenance" always

read

in the face!|

AVhv is the sun like a good loaf? Because it's light when it rises.

The right man in the right place—A

AA'hen a draft passes througii a uank, does it give the clerks colds? '. AVhv is a convent like an empty house? Because it is a nuninhabited place.

AVhat a difference it makps whether you put Dr. before or after a man's name! Re temperate in diet—our first parents ate themselves out of house and home.

Most likely—If a mermaid wore a veil, wc suppose it would be a "water-'fall!'" The time to clinch aivargument—AVhen the attention of your audience is riveted.

A lady advertises that she wants a gentleman for breakfast and tea. The cannibal! "P'lice don't!" as the thief said to the constable when lie was about to arrest him.

THE BROKEN HOME.

TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION.

In San Francisco, on the north side of Folsom street, overlooking Mission Bay, Btands a palatial residence.

The interior of this house is even more beautiful than its exterior, every apartment being in its way a gem of magnificence and refinement.

The library especially realizes the most perfect ideal of an elegant and cultured home.

And yet, at the moment we look in upon him—one August afternoon, a,s he occupied his library—the proprietor of all this wealth appeared of alJ, the mo.-t mis-

He was Mr. Morton Preble, for many years a leading banker of San Francisco. It was ijt vain that the broad bay-win-dow at the south end of the room had been opened, giving ingress to the sunshine and the fragrance of rare flowers— in vain that the walls were lined with richly carved book-cases and paintings— in vain that soft couches and luxurious chairs had been gathered around him.

He was wretched. He lay on a sofa, in the depths of the great bay-window, the wreck of a once powerful man. His figure was thin and gaunt his facc white as marble his eyes having an expression of woful apprehension, of harrowing anxiety, of dreadful expectancy.

It was evident at a glance that no merely physical ailment had made him what he was.

By what withering secret, by what destroying affliction, had he been thus agonized? thus haunted? thus liuntqd? he so noble and good! he so wealthy and distinguished!

As he moved restlessly upon his luxurious cushions the pretty clock on the mantel-piece struck five, every stroke seeming to fall like a hammer upon the heart of the nervous invalid. He aroused himself, struggling feebly to a sitting posture. "Oh, will this fatal never, never pass?" he murmured "nor bring us lelief?

Noticing with a nervous start that he was alone, he touched a bell upon a table before him, and called:

"Helen, Helen! where are you? Before the echoes of his voice had died out a step was heard, and his wife entered his presence. "I left you only for a moment, Morton," she said, advancing to the banker's side. "You were dozing, 1 think. I wished to send for the doctor!"

She was a beautiful woman, of some six and thirty years, graceful, with broad white brows, and loving eyes, in which the brightness and sweetness of asunshiny nature were still perceptible, under a grief and anxiety no less poignant than that evinced by her husband. "The doctor 1" he echoed, half-reproach-fully.

Yes, dear," she said, in a calm and cheerful voice, as she drew a chair to the side of a sofa, and sat down, stroking the corrugated forehead of the invalid with a magnetic touch. "He will be here immediately. Your last nervous crisis alarmed me. You mav become seriously ill!"

Mr. Preble bestowed an affectionate look upon his wife, but said ]y"The doctor! He cannot 'minister to a mind diseased!' Oh, if these long hours would only pass! If I only knew what the day has yet in store for us!" "Look up, Morton!" enjoined Mrs. Preble, with a reverently trustful glance upward through the open window at the blue sky, and as if looking beyond the azure clouds therein. "Let us appeal from the injustice and wickedness of earth to the goodness and mercy of Heaven!"

The banker gave a low, sobbing sigh. I

cannot

look up, Helen," lie answered

with a passionate tremor in his voice— "only down, down at the grave that is opening before me!"

Mrs. Preble continued to stroke his forehead softly, while she lifted her pale face to the sunlight streaming into the apartment. "Look up, Morton—always look up!" she a^ain enjoined upon the invalid.— "During all these fourteen years of agony, I have not once doubted either the goodness or the justice of Heaven.. 'Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted., I believe that we shall yet rejoice more keenly than we have mourned, and that we shall eome to a glorious day of joy beyond all this long night of sorrow!"

The face of the invalid lighted up with an answering glow, and he murmured: "Glorious faith! My wife, you are indeed a blessed comforter! Perhaps after all, you are right!"

A knock resounded on a side-door, at this juncture, and the next moment Dr. Ilutton, the family physician, for whom Mrs. Preble had sent, entered the room.

He was an old man, portly in figure, with white hair and beard, but with fresh and ruddy complexion, a pair of shrewd blue eyes, and with an exuberant boyishness of manner that sat well upon him. He had a kind heart and a clear head. He approached the sofa, after greeting the husband and wife, and lifted the thin restless hand of the invalid, feel ing his pulse. "Quite a high fever," he said, after brief pause. "AVorrying again, eh, Mr. Preble? You are wearing yourself out, Medicine will do you no good so long as your mind is in its present condition. I must give you an opiate—" "Not now, doctor," interposed the banker. "I cannot—must not—sleep today I need to be broad awake now, for 1 cannot tell at any moment what the next may bring forth. I am looking for the culmination of all my years of anguish— for the crowning agony of the whole. Perhaps even now— Ah, what was that?

He started up wildly, and then, as the sound that had disturbed him was not repeated, lie sank back again on his cushions, palid and panting.

The doctor looked at Mrs. Preble with anxious, questioning glance. "It is the anniversary," she replied to his unspoken inquiry—"the anniversary of our loss." "Ah, yes,"said the doctor, "I remem her." "Yes, it's another of those terrible days," cried the banker, in a hollow whisper. "Sit down, doctor, and I will tell you the whole storv. I can think of nothing else to-day, and am almost wild with apprehension and anxiety. Sit down."

Dr. Ilutton drew up a chair and seated himself, his face expressing the double solicitude of a friend and physician. "You knew us fourteen years ago, doctor," said Mr. Preble. AVe lived then where we do now, in a cottage on the site of this great mansion. There were but the tliree of ns—Helen and I, and our three-year old Jessie. And it was four teen years ago to-day that our little Jessie was stolen from us." "I remember it," said the doctor softly "Yet might she not have been last, Mr, Preble? She went out to play in the gar den, if I remember rightly, and was never seen by you again. She might havi strayed away—" "So we thought for a whole year, doctor,"' interrupted the banker. "AVe never dreamed that she had been stolen. AV searched everywhere for her, and offered immense rewards for her recovery. "I employed detectives, but all to no pur pose AVhen our little Jessie ran down the steps into that flower-garden," and he pointed to the front of the house, "'as if the earth had opened and swallowed her up, we never saw her again." "She must have found the gate open and wand wandered out," suggested Dr, Ilutton. "She might have strolled down to the waters and been drowned."

The banker fixed his burning eyes upon the physician's face, and whispered: "1 said we never saw the poor child again. I did not say we had not heard of her. She was lost on the 9th of August, 1S54. For a year we thought her dead. But on the anniversary of our loss we received a written message concerning her." "A message!" cried Dr. Hutton, starting. "A mere scrawl—a single line in a hand evidently disguised," said the banker.— "Here it is."

He produced a dingy scrap of paper from a drawer in the table, ana held it up to the view of the physician, who read as follows: "August 9, 1S55.

Jessie, ha, ha.' Jessie."

Dr. Hutton looked, with a puzzled air, from the scrap of paper, which he turned over and over, to the countenance of the banker. "I can make nothing of this," he declared. "It is merely a Sate, with the name of your lost daughter. It tells me nothng." "Nor did it us, at first," said Mr. Preble. "Then that name and that date, with the demon laugh connecting them, set us to thinking. A whole year we agonized over the deadful problem, and then received another message, which vou shall see."

He thrust a second slip of paper, identical in shape and appearance with the first, before the gaze of Dr. Hutton, who read it aloud. "Aug. 9,1856.

Your Jessie stiil lives."

The physician started, as if electrified. "Ah! this is something definite-—some-thing decisive," he muttered. "It convinced von that your daughter was still living." "Yes, doctor," said Mr. Preble, "and every anniversary of that day has brought us some message. The disappearance of the child, mysterious as it is, does not seem to me half so strange as that the villain who took her away could contrive to commuincate with us every year since, and always on a particular day—the anniversary of that on which she was stolen —without our being able to discover who he is. And a s.ill greater wonder to me is what can be his motive. It seems incredible. If it was stated in a novel many people would not believe it. But 'truth is stranger than fiction.'"

Mrs. Preble drew from her husband's breast-pocket his nBte-book, opened it to the proper page, and presented it to the physician. Dr. Hutton adjusted his spectacles, glanced over the page, and then slowly read the group of entries aloud.— The entry the first year is as follows: "Aug. 0,1855.

Jessie, ha, ha! Jessief

And the next year it is— "Ang. 9,1856.

Your Jessie still lives!"

And the next— "Ang. 9,1857.

She is in. good hands!"

And the next— "Aug. 9, 1858.

She is well as ever!"

And the next— "Ang. 9, 1859.

saw her yesterday!"

And the next— "Aug. 9,18ti0.

She's growing rapidly

And the next— "Ang. 9,1861.

She continues to do well!"

And the next— "Aug. 9, 1862.

rve seen her again/"

And the next— "Aug. 9,1863.

She's becoming a woman/'

And the next"Aug. 9,-1864.

*Your child is thirteen!"

And the next— "Ang. 9,1865.

She's lovelier than ever!"

And the next— "Aug. 9,1866.

She's really charming!"

And last year it is— "Aug. 9,1867.

My reward is at hand!"

And what shall we get to-day! The physician looked up and fixed his thoughtful gaze upon the. bereaved husband and wife. "How did these messages come to you?" he demanded. "Invariably by post," replied Mr. Preble. "Usually to the house, but sometimes to the office! "And you have never seen their author?" "Never!" "The last of them is dated, I see, a year ago to-day!" "Yes, yes," faltered the banker, "and the time lias come for another message.This is the 9th of August, 1868!" "I see," said Dr. Hutton. "And this is the secret of your terrible excitement!— You are expecting to receive to-day another of these strange messages!"

There was a brief silence. Mrs. Preble's hand fluttered in its task, and her face grew very pale. The banker breathed gaspingly. The physician regarded them both in friendly sympathy. "AVe shall hear of her again to-day," said Mr. Preble "and what will the message be?"

The mother averted her face. Her brave heart faltered as that question echoed in her soul. "The writer of these letters is unquestionably the abductor of your child!" said Dr. Hutton. "Have you any suspicion as to his identity? "Not the slightest," said Mr. Preble. "AVe have puzzled over the problem for many years, but we cannot guess who he is." "Think," said the doctor. "Have you no enemy? I do not mean people with whom you are not friendly—everystirring man has plenty of these—but a downright enemy! Is there no man whom you knew in the East who liated you No one against whom you were called upon to testify no one whom you possibly injured?"

The banker shook his head. He had asked himself all these questions repeatedly. "I have no such enemy, doctor," he an swered with sincerity of voice and manner. "And Mrs, Preble?" suggested the doc tor, turning to her. "Have you no reject ed suitor who might be revengeful enough to desolate your home?" "No," said the lady. "I was married early. Norton was my first lover!" "This is strange—very strangel" muttered the doctor. "You are not conscious of having an enemy in the world, and yet you have an enemy—a hidden foe—a fiend in human form—who is working out against you a fearful hatred! And you have not the slightest suspicion as to whom he is?" "Not the slightest," declared the banker." "Not the slightest!" echoed Mrs. Preble "My husband had a step-brother who might have been capable of this infamy —but he is dead!" "The handwriting is not familiar?" "No. It is merely a rude scrawl, as you see," said the banker. "It sugests notli ing—except that it is evidently disguised!"

Again there was profound silence. "Our child is seventeen years old now," at length murmured Mrs. Preble, her voice trembling. "She is on the threshold of womanhood. No doubt, during all these years, she has yearned for us, wherever she may be, as we have yearned for herl"

But where is she?" asked the physician —and now his voice was broken by his sympathy with the agonized parents. "AVliere can she be?" "Heaven only knows," answered, the mother. "Perhaps in San Francisco— perhaps in some rude hut in the interior, with some obscure farmer, and under a name that is not hers! I think her abductor would have carried her to some lonely region of the interior, among the valleys and mountains. Yet I never see a young girl in the streets without turning to look at her. I never hear a girlish voice without listening eagerly, half fancying that it may prove the voice of my last Jessie!" "Oh, pitying heaven!" sighed Dr. Hutton, dashing a flood of tears from his eyes. "AVill this long agony never be over?" "AVe hope so, and even believe so," answered Mrs. Preble, with the firmness of an unfaltering trust in God's mercy.— "The last message we received from our enemy seems to point to some kind of a change.', "True," assented Dr. Hutton, looking at the message question. "It is unlike the others. It says that his 'reward is at hand.' He means either that he intends to niarrv your~daughter, or that lie-in-tends to demand money of you for bringing her back—or both." "AVe shall soon know," said Mrs. Preble with forced calmness. "To-dav we shall have another message, no doubt. What will it be?

The banker turned restlessly on his sofa, and his face grew even paler. "AVhatever it is, let it come!" he murmured. "Anything can be borne better than this awful suspense. Let it come!"

As if his impatient words had precipitated a crisis, a step was heard on the walk at this moment, and a ring at the front door followed. message!" breathed the "Another banker.

A servant soon entered, bearing a letter, which he extended to Mr. Preble, saying: "The bearer is in the hall."

AVith an eager gaze, the banker glanced at the superscription of the missive. "It is from

him!"

he faltered.

He tore the envolop open. It contained a slip of paper, of wellknown shape and appearence, upon which was scrawled a single line, in an equally well-known handwriting, which the banker exhibited to his wife and the physician.

This line was as follows: "August 9, 1868.

It is

At six I will call!"

A shock of wonder and horror shook the three simulaneously. AVill call!" cried Mr. Preble, stating to his feet, and glaring wildly around. "It seems so," said Dr. Hutton, his eyes again reverting to the message. "He will be here at six o'clock, and see! it is six already!"

Even as he spoke, the clock on the appointed hour, and at that instant heavy footsteps resouned in the hall, appoaching the library.

he!"

cried the doctor, also arising.

As the last stoke of the hour resounded, the door leading from the hall again opened.

One long and horrified glance cast the banker and jhis wife in that direction, and then sh^fell heavily to the floor.

Her senses had left her. The above we

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not within reach of a news office, Vou can have the Ledger mailed to you for one year by sending three dollars to Robert •Bonner, publisher, 182 William street, iNew York. The Ledger pays more for 'original contributions than any other ^periodical in the world. It will publish |none but the very, very best. Its moral tone is thepurest, and its circulation the largest. Every body who takes it is happier for having it. Leon Lewis, Mrs. Harriet Lewis, Mrs. Southworth, Mr. Cobb, Professor Peck, Mary Kyle Dallas, •Fanny Fern and Miss Dupuy] will write only for the Ledger hereafter.

Mr. Bonner, like other leading publishers, might issue three or five papers and magazines: but he prefers to concentrate all his energies upon one, and in that way to make it the best.. One Dexter is worth more than three or five ordinary horses.

One science onlv can one renins fit. So vast is art, so narrow hnman wit.

ft* LIST OF LETTERS

REX AIXIXti IX THE HOST OFFICE, on Saturday, Nov. SO, 1869.

LADIRS' LIST. if

Anderson MissRcbeeeaMoUoway Miss Eliza Black Miss Mary Holmes Mrs Aon Berrill Miss A 'VJohnson Mrs MR Bickering Mrs A -i Kelly Miss Betty Bandy Caroline Lee Miss Kate Brumitt Miss Sarah March Mrs Julia Byers Mrs Julia A Mewhinn?y Miss Flora Carol in Miss ElizabethModesitt Mrs Serena Clemons Mrs Mary McFee Miss A Collier Mrs Rcbecca McWilkins Miss Mercy Crook Mrs ME Nichols Mrs Dolan Miss Bridget Newkom Miss Jane Dolson Mrs Henrietta Puckett Mrs Jennie Dnddley Mrs Sarah Rowan Miss Mary Dunlap Mary Random Mrs 2 Ezard Miss Martha Sanders Mrs Sarah Forster Mrs E Sage Miss Sarah Gray Katie Sarris Miss Lottie Garrison Mrs Anna RStewart Mrs S Gotwold Mrs Amand Stemen Mrs Sallie Goshaw Catherine Specht Miss

Schmidt Gerhard5 Smith Smith & Sons N Si'tton S A Sturgeon Ransom Sullivan Thos Taylor Taylor AV II Terrell Jack Thomas Allen

Sets splutter, Beforo snore, more AVill highest price butter.

The Churn is of wood

goods

no metal

No crack,

RKDJACKET CHURN

back

dirt f:s (settle.

The

burn

cheap

known

mother weep.

kiss

bliss

41 4

urn

mother, plain old fashioned

Dasher.

the

REDJACKET CHURN.

Money raise it

41 41

light work.

all praise it

The above would havo been a goed thing, but our poet's attention is taken up with an ode on the

American Chopping Machine

¥,

AVith which a child can CHOI-(not grind) five

fies.

iounds of meat in three minutes. ForFami Hotels, Restaurants and Butchers, all sizes are made. It can be seen at

JONES A JONES,

East side Square.

9 5

05-

2 2 ft

3 P3

3 1

I fs

1 Hi Hi

SPECTACLES.

EASE AND COMFORT.

THE BLESSING OF PERFECT SIGHT. Thero is nothing so valuable as PERFECT SIGHT, and PERFECT SIGHT can only be obtained by using PERFECT

SPECTACLES. The difficulty of Procuring which i^ ""',

WKI.L KNOWN.

Messrs. LAZARUS A: MORRIS,

Occiilists and Opticiausyr

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT,

Manufacturers of the celebrated

Perfected Spectacles!!

Have, after years of Experience, Experiment, and the erection of costly machinery, been enabled to produce that GRAND DESIDERATUM.

X*ei*lect Spectacles

AVhich have been sold with unlimited satisfiaction to the wearers in Massachusetts, New York, tKf

New Jersey, Rhode Island, .. Ohio, Pennsylvania. Connecticut, Michiprn,

Illinois, New Unmpshire,

A'ermont, Maine, and the British Provinces, during the past nino years.

These Celebrated Perfected Spectacles neTer tire the eye, and last'many years without changc. j-„-

S. R. FREEMAN,

publish as a specimen chapter: biitUe con- I''tv?teh«.D F*ine J^welr"/. DuS^S tinuation of this story will be found only I vet and Plated ware. Clocks, Fancj in the N. Y. Ledger." Ask for the number tx., .tc., Ac., dated December 4tli, which can be had at ^NationMHoMhiulding, any news office, or bookstore. If you are Sole Agent forTcrre Ilnute, Ind

THE CHEAPEST PLACE

•U

ATO

Bmr

,r, •'Xi7?u~. o- i.l

MILLINERY

vVlilf ,1 18 AT

The New Place,

JUST OPENED, AT

No. 10 South 4tli Street

The Stock is all new, and having been bought for cash, exclusively, will be sold the same way, and at prices that must be satisfactory. I offer all standard Prints, such as Mcrrimacs, Spraguos, Americans, Dunn els and Aliens at 12 cents even common makes at 8 to 10 cents: Standard Sheetings at 16)4 cents, all other goods in proportion.

NO^'HUMBUe!

Hadley Miss Jennie Selvcstcr Miss Mary 2 Harris Mrs Schoonover Mips MS Hale Miss Ella 1 Wall Mrs E S Harris Mary AVesley Mrs Mat Hogue Mrs Kate Williams MissS E

GEXTLKMKN'S LIST.

AdairStephen Lewis Guins Breidfeldcr FerdinandLinfordJonathan".', itS Brannins Peter Ball Geo Blake BcrgJasM Beans W "5 Beck BeillyJohn Boodwee Orion Burtod Bryand Danl 2 Bruns A Meenkcn Crayen John Carter Wilson Carter Campbell Alfred Callaghan Thos Caldwell John Creasy W Costelio Michael Cooler John Cooper Wm Cook Collins Robt Dawson Joseph Devore S W Dickerson W Edwards Jas Ellis E Fay AV Fraker John 2 Fcrrell Jackson Fisher Isaac Fowler James FokeJos Glass Hiram rr, GarrigusWB Griffin Mr Gofif Norman llamill Jas Harkness Geo II Hawcs Ed Harding Abo -i Hill Geo Holmes it Bennett Hovey AVilcy HudarfDr Hughes Joel Autton John N Hub Ingalls us Jewell W Jewell John Johnson Thos Knapp S KatzlingcoN .. ... Keith W Kcyes W Kendall W Kimberle I Kiely John

Katie

Lloyd AVm Luther AV Miller Chas Maxwell Wm ,7.' Morgan Thos •""Si.-i! McNelis Jas ij-iv.'-v .McGee Geo

In prices of Dross Goods, Millinery Goods Cloaks and Cloaking Cloths, I defy competi tion- To this class of goods I invite your es pecial attention.

My Stock of Millinery goods conprises everything in that line, and is in the hand, of Airs. S. C. Jenkins, an experienced practical Milliner, who will take great pi urc in showing customers her stock. PI drop in and sec us, at

No.

Vandager Jas Aranblpricum John NarnerJII AVareBH AVatsodJ ."i AVciscrSatnl ,, AVelch AVebb AV AVolch Jas AVhite II AVillis Peter AVrightCokc2 AVhittaker Jas York II Zoin Jos. L. A,

BURNETT,

P. M.

SAY

"STIES!

AN ODE.

AVith the

RED JACKET CHURN

South Fourth Street,

Tc.rre Haute, Indiana.

Nash Wm 'Norton John"* Norris N J-J

oct20wtf

O'Neal Frank Oakley Asbury Pierce Michael

P'J-M«

Porter Phillip Raymond Geo Rentrn Alonzo Reed Thos Riley CL Robinson AVm Rouse E AV Rostoe Fred Ross David Rugger Henry RossellAVH Soltcn AVm SowardAVmT ,i Jtone A Standley Jacob Swank Geo

EAGLE IRON WORKS,

CORNER FIRST ASD lVALM'T STS,

TFAl liK UTE. INI).,

WM. J. BALL & CO. Proprietors (SUCCESSORS

Spencer ,ri:i Shadley II Stevens E Sherlock 1'

ORDERS SOLICITED

janl3d3inwly

JUST OPENED!

People'sBoot

AVhcrcas a writ of attachment was issued by me against the goods and chattels, rights credits and effects of John Baxter, ant. whereas a return of defendant not found has been made on tho summons issued in said case, upon which return the said cause has been continued by mo until the 22d day of October 1869. at the hour of one o'clock, M. Tho said John Baxter is hereby notified of the pendency of this proceeding, and to appear and answer the plaintiff's complaint at my office, Harrison township, said count and State, nt tho day and hour above named, or in default whereof the said cause will be heard and determined in his absence.

Given under my hand and seal, this, tho fifth day of October. 1809. [SKAi.] L. B. DENEniE, J. P. oct(iw3t

THE MARRIAGE GUIDE

BY WILLIAM YOUNG, M. 1).,

Containing 220 pages of reading matter, engravings of tho male and female organs of generation the child in the womb from ton days old to the time of its delivery diseases of the womb and of a private and secret nature tho productions and preventions of offsprings.

Self-abuse in both sexes, and its treatment on Love Marriage, and, in fact, every secrot that is requisite to be known by Single and Married People.

ALSO

THE POCKET jESCI LAPIS

Every One His 0\ro Physician Being a confidential silent friond and pri vatc advisor followed by observations on tho treatment of venereal diseases, gonor rhca, gleet, strictures, etc. illustrated with cases, plates, and diagrams, from Dr. Young's Private Practices.

Persons nt a distance enn have a copy of either of tho abovo books forwarded to them by enclosing fifty cents and address

DR. \V. YOUNG,

scptlwly -tlC Spruce St., Phila-, Pa.

SCommon

TATE OF TXT I \N,\ I'l

A'IGO COUNTY. SS

Court, December term, ts vs. George E. Watts—

18(39—Margarcl Divorce. On this day to-wit, the 2d day of November. A. D. 1S09, comes the Plaintiff by Leonard F. Muzzy, Attorney, and file their complaint herein also an affidavit, showing that the Defendant is a non-resident of the State of Indiana.

Notice is therefore hereby given to the said Defendant of the filing and pendency of this proceeding, nnd that tho same will be heard and determined at the next Term of our said Court, commencing on the Third Monday of Dcccmbcr next, A. D. 1869. Attest: MARTIN HOLLINGER, Clerk. n3-w3w-prs fee 80,00.

APPLICATION

dersigned hereby gives notice that he will apply to the County Commissioners at their regular session in December, 1809, for license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time, for the space of one year. The premises on which said liquors are to be sold are located on 4th street, lot No. 73, between Main and Cherry streets, in the city of Torre Haute, in Harrison township. A'igo county, Indiana. novl2dltw3w F. FRANZ.

"w.

Xo.O Main Street.

The highest cash price for all kinds of Country Produce, such as Eggs, Butter, Poultry, alive or dressed, Rags, 1-eathers, Apples Potatoes, Onions, Dried Fruit and Smokce Meat. AVill also buy Seeds of all kindsTimothy. Clover, Flax, Arc. AVith a large stock of Groceries always on hand, our motto to sell at a small profit and quick sales. Call nnd see for yourselves. 3wly

WOOLEN MILLS.

VIGO WOOLEN MILLS. Fine Scarlet Flannels, Fine White Flannels, Fine Twilled, Fine Plaid Flannels. All kinds Jeans,

Heavy Double Warp Jeans, Heavy Fulled Cloth, Double

All made at the A'igo AA'oolcn Mills and sold Cheap COLORS AVARRANTED. So Shoddy goes in the make up of these goods. Customers will do well to examine our goods before buying

octl4dlmw3m S. S. KENNEDY &C0.

STOVES.

DRY GOODS. D*Y 6000S. DRY COOD8.

FAJfCY ODOOS siU AND J,

WEand

J. W. GASKILL.

JOSEPH GROVKR.)

MANUFACTURERS OF

Portable & Stationary Engines FLOURISH AND SAW MILL 31ACIIIXKRY, CORX-SIIEMiKRS AXJ) CANE MILLS, AND MA

CHIXEKV (iKXESALLY,

Iron and llrn.ss Castings,

Smith Smith Thos

Ac.,

Having an extensive Establishment, well stocked and in full operation, wc are prepared to do all kinds of work in our line, in tho best style, and at short notice.

Shoe

Store:

15 FOURTH ST., NEAR MAIN, One door south of Henderson's Tin and Stov Store,

TEBRE HAUTE, INDIANA. The subscriber announces most respect fully to his old friends and tho public gen orally that ho has resumed his old business at the above stand, where he solicits tho patronage of all, and promises, in return, tc give full value for tho money recoivcd, as he is determined to Sell Cheap For Cash Only

Ladies and Gentlemen's wear made te or dor. Repairing neatly and promptly done. 25dltwlm AV. II. ISAACS.

a single slow turn

ATTACHMENT NOTICE.

Stato of Indiana, Arigo county, SS-'Jamcs AVatts VH John Baxter—Attachment before L. B. Denehio, J. P., Harrison township.

—————

ARE recsivinf daily our Fall Stock offer great bargains in

Uresis Goods, ., Broehe Shawl*, Heavy Winter Shawls,

Single Shawls, Breakfast Shawls, Dress Flannels,

irShirting

nwtms-i

We will not bo undcrsold^on jjsiii

Bleached A. Brown Muslins

Prints,

'^Checks, siripcsr*^"'' *j*«v I*/** jf 'miin"t-v

Ticks,

AVe have a fine stock ot

BROADCLOTHS, Cassimeres,

Tweeds,

Jeans,

AVhich we will soli at very lowost prices.

CORNELIUS

HAGGERTY,

Cor. Main and Third Sts.,

Cooper' Tools ir

121

Twist Casimeres,

Plain Casimeres, Tweeds,Stocking Yarns,&c.,

Main

THE ,i

CONTINENTAL The Cheapest and Best Cook Stove in the Market. Some

thing new. Everybody should sec it before buying the old styles. Please

ca?l and see

this

Stove. To he had onll at headquarters.

R. I. BALL.

TEBRE HAUTE, INDIANA. !ii a-: •'•Mimrtjii

A W A E

Tools! Tools!

Just received a Large Assortment of ,i

Carpenter's Tools! Wagon Maker'sTools!

AND

Blacksmith's Tools!

Mechanics to save moncyjin buying^TooU should give us a call. 1

Cory

FOR LICENSE.-Thc un

DeFrees,

WhoUsale and Retail dealers in 'M-

HARDWARE,!

and 1 & 2 Fifth

Sts.,

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

MUSICAL.

L. KISSNER'S

Palace of Music,

PIA1TOS.

itcck'jt,

Kuabe'w,

«(. J. (Jhickering'ft.

The Celebrated Patent Cycloid,

and other well-known and reliable Makers.!

CABHABT & NEEDHAM'S Parlor and Chnrch Organs and Melodeons,

Sheet Music, Instruction Books, and every variety of Small Musical Instruments and Musical Merchandise. 'ii t'J

PIANOS FOE RENT,

Also,old Instruments taken in exchange or jart pay on new ones..

Pianos, Melodeons,

And all kinds of smaller Musical Instruments repaired by

COMPETENT WOBKMEN.

SKSD OBDKBS TO

Kissner's Palace of Music, No. 48 OHIO STBEET,

(Opp. the old Court House.) TEBBE HAUTE, MS*

=====

STOCK.

,„vFALL~

Flannels,

fVi.u. Canton, j-^.« •=.

AndJPlainFlannels

of all Kinds.

——

DRESS GOODS!!

of the

r, li ~y 4-f hflilKJ

TERY LATEST STYLES.

S I S

IRISH & FRENCH POPLINS,

BOMBAZINES,

BARETZ,

\u^mpressu:ClotJi,l^

SATIN ^DE CHINE STRIPES

**9 Diagonals,

CALICOS, FLANNELS, ..Vf

nnd Denims.

SHEETINGS & SHIRTINGS,

jidsxja'KirT

Ladies llnncmcar,

'COLLARS'2'' CUFFS*

... (New

Styles.)

GLOVES

(Of

every kind.)

DRY GOODS.

TIIE.i!

New York Store,

73 Main Street,

Terre Haute, Indiana,

IS NOW IN FULL BLAST!

OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE

Sold Cheap!

We Have but One Price!

Any child can be sent to the Now York Store and will buy

AS CHEAP

Dry Goods! Thus

Remember the Si^n:

CW5l®S?SI TDE"

mmu

siffgg

STORE

And try the New York Store!

you will be convinced that the place for

za^iR/a-A. insrs ihf

In Dry Goods, is the

73 Main Street,

DRY COOD8.

MKRLTOS,

20e

,f?!

Tucll, Kiplcy & Dciniiig,

Main St. Cor* 5th,

TE11BE 11AUTE, IND.

18%c

Sf "!lS Hlf-1 Ml.- J-.-Ji.* Stff V(j ..I.! etwt In fact, ovorything calculated to kcot our stock as it is, tho most complete in the State.

GIVE US A CALL. y: „, -h-i!'.'.

Best Bargains'Yet Offered!

AT PRICKS BKLOff

in every

pnrtmcnt, and wc can show our patrons an immense variety ot all kinds of

DRESS GOODS,

Domestics,- ,,v

Cloths, -,)' CJassi meres,

"Sliawls,

anne

Blankets,

r,.'i etc., Ac., Ac. .-'s

ALL BOUGHT FOR CASH AT THE

LOWEST PRICES!

And which will bo

DRY GOODS

... HEADQUARTERS,

CORXEB OF FOURTH 1KB

r, 2f,0'if0 Yards"

Printed DeLtiine

19#

per yard

kaT®

boon soiling at 25c.

10,000 Yards

Plain Lustres,.

per Tanls, roftular pqioe every--

_. .where iia iior yard-_

A new Lot of -nr .-H'

Handsome Prints,,

8, 10 xiY^-

if" 3,000 Yards

Canton"" Flannels,

Sol last Winter at

20e.

50 Doz. all

LINNEN TOWELS,:

150t

per Dozea.

50 pieces Brown and .Half. Bleached"""

TABLE LINENS.'

Very Cheap.

A Big Lot of

Miners' Flannels,

At 92%r. Formerly sold at

40e.

A Pull Stock of

Fall and Winter" Goods^l

CO*PKTITIO!r.

^.'Vt (Su®cessors

Warren, Hoberg & Co.,

to Edsall

DRY GOODS.

A BABE BABGAIN.

KID GrLOYES!

0. Wittig & Co's

1.0 MAIX'STRKKT.

DKMING BLOCKi

———

We open tliin..week

all

1000 (One Thousand) Fairs of KID GL0YK8,

Shades of Color and all Sizes, at th* Low Price of ti -•di 't-i rS'/lf'fni/f' .ip",

75c (Scventy-Fiye Cents) a Pair.

These Roods were bought of a house that recently failed. They are a Kood article,fully as good as any that are bought at

a pair.

fl.25

AVe

truth ef our advertisement.

as the best judge ot

Justice is Done to All!

$1.5©

invite all to try a pair to proro the

-V s, .4 We also open our line oP-K

CAI.T,

tvt ZFTJIR/S. "Xrti trbflg -tt:i -nn

All fresh and well made to give entire satisfaction.

C. WITTIG & CO'S,

I'.trfSU'l 1& 170 MAIN ST MEET,

Dcming Block.

dwtf ,/ ii

C. K. OIFFORD, V. S.,a

TREATS ALI,

Diseases of Horses and (Ja ttle

Hospital and Office, comer 5th and Eagle streets,Terre Haute, Ind.of octSwly

PPLICATION FOR LICENSE.—The

corner

New York Store,

HII-

dersigned hereby gives notice that ho will apply to the County

-or

|CommL--

the space of one year. The

their regular session in December,sioncrs

1869,

license to sell spirituous and intoxicating ino'rs in less quantities than

quart at a time,li-for

premises on

which said liquors are to be sold are on the

of Second Walnut streets,inlocated

the city of Tcrre Haute,and in Harrison township, Vigo county, Indiana.

nov9dltw3t

STATE

Attorney,comes

Terre Haute, Indiana.!!

Wittenberg, Baschhaupt

Co.

B. Mi ER.

OP INDIANA, VIOO COUNTY SS.

Circuit Court, March Ann Walter Theodore Walter-Divorce.Mary18/0—,Term On day,vs.-wit,the to 15th day of November, A. D.this

1869,

the Plaintiffby

R. H.

Simpson

and file their complaint heroin also

an affidavit, that the Defendant is a non-residentshowing of the State of Indiana.

^Notice

therefore hereby given to the said

Defendant of the filing and pendency of this

proceeding and that the same will be heard and determined at the next Term of our said

Court, commencinic on th0 Fourth Monday of 1 Attes?? AMART&

HOLLINGER. Crerkt

prs fe°16.00 nol7dltw3w