Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 January 1872 — Page 3

WEEKLY

EXPRESS

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Wednesday Morning, Jan. 3, 1872.

The City and Vicinity

GRAKD JUKY this week.

DIARIES should now be procured.

THE old year came and went on Sunday. POULTRY is scarce in this market )U8t

J»o more holidays until the Jbourth of July.DID you turn over that '"new leaf' on Monday.

THIS ia the last paper we will issue this year.

"COLD SNAIM" "eoft tnap."

afford coal dealers a

THE pork packing' season will about end this week. TURKEYS were very scarce in this market on New Year'e day.

FKKU DOCGLAS lectures at the Opera Jlouse oil the evening of the2Gth inst.

TUB Iadie3 should bear in mind that this ia leap year and make the most of it.

WE learn that the Sisters of Providence will not consent to admit small pox patients into Providence Hospital. .?

A WORTHY movement is on foot to organize a boja' temperance society in this city-

TUB severe winter weather prophets are chuckling over the fulfillment of their predictions

OWEN TCLLER goes to Washington tl)H week to look after some of his heavy mail contracts. i'ABBEKOEua are now carried to Chicago on the K., T. il. & ('. K. K. without change of cars at Danville.

WE learn that application has been made for a charter to institute a lodge of the Knights of Pythias in this city.

TIIE "Journal" states that the oil well on the Poor Asylum Farm ling struck

JAMFS Itoss and wife didn't go to Cuba, where the city papers Btarted them—having postponed their proposed visit.

JCIXJK C. Y. PATTERSON entertained Judge Petlit and members of the Bar at his residence ou Saturday evening.

TAX PAYERS are buying up county orders to pay taxes with. For this purpone they are taken at the County Treasury at par.

SOME of our boys have attained great nkill with the sling. They can hit an average sized nose, at a distance of one hundred feet., nine times out of ten.

WE heard one fellow "swearing off" on New Year's night. lie was beastly drunk, and such oaths seldom polute the atmosphere.

A VERY handsome specimen of typography is that executed upon the carrier's address of the Brazil "Miner," a copy of which is before us.

THE Savings Bank this morning declares a semi annual dividend of four per cent, on all sums over two dollars thai have been on deposit three months.

TREASURER SANKEY takes great pride in showing a heavy silver watch which was recently presented hiin by the members of Riley Masonic Lodge.

THE pork Beason is rapidly drawing to an end. W. J. Kieman &Co., have closed for the season. They purchased 7,200 hogs and did the work in seventeen days.

NOT MURDERED.—John L. Spring, the •old man in Nevins township, who was found dead on Christmas morning, was not murdered, as at first reported, but died a natural death of old age.

THE firm of llosford, Eoudinot & Brown has been dissolved. C. E. llosford continues at the old location, and lioudinot & Brown have taken an office in tho Opera House building.

IT is the First National Bank, Xcu port, that will commence operations this Celt. The omission of "of Newport" in

Jtern on Monday, left the reader to uffir that it was our First National "k.

CIRCUIT COURT.—Last evening the evidence was nil in in the case of Lockridge vs. N.Hudson. The arguments will be made this morning, and after instructions by Judge Pettit, the case will be submitted to the jury.

MR. JOHN W. HICKCOX retires from the County Auditor's office to day, after several years of very faithful service ns clerk in that department. The county has never had a more efficient servant than he.

ATjLockport, this county, on Christmas day, in a row between five men, Frank Palmer was stabbed in the side with a large knife. His thick clothing prevented the knife from penetrating far enough to endanger his life.

STATION HOUSE RECORN.-Superintend-ent Smith's Station House record show? seventy-seven commitments for the month of December and for offenses as follows: Drunks 21, disorderlies 12, larceny 3, assault 1, cutting 1, stragglers 39.

SIUKOR BSITZ.—The original, simon.piire Jerome Bluz wili beat Dowling Hall, on Wednesday evening of next week, for four nights. Billy Harrington, the advance agent, was in the city yesterday making the preliminary arrangements.

MAYOR'S COURT.—Michael Cain, who keeps a whisky shop at the west end of Main street, was committed to jail yesterday upon failing to give bond in the sum of $200 to keep the peace. The warrant was made on complaint of his wife.

THE DAILY 'EXPRESS now goes out on the early morning trains of six railroads, and is read in all the neighboring towns, except Rockville, at an early hour each morning. We are thankful to many friends in these towus for their unsolicited efforts to increase our circulation.

THE "Mail" states that a modified case of small-pox has made its appearance at the corner of Water and Swan streets. The patient is a colored man who very recently came to the city on a visit. He is doing well and the Board of Health is taking the necessary steps to prevent the spreading of the disease.

JOHN REA, the grandfather of Mrs Frank Paddock, of this city, died in Philadelphia, Pa-, on Friday morning last. The deceased was well known and highly respected by many of our old citizens. His age was nearly a hundred years, eighty of which have been spent in the citv where he died.

CONCERT.—Our neighbors at Brazil on Thursday evening will be given a taste of our amatuer musical talent. On this occasion Mrs. C. D. Carrington, Miss Kate Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, Profs. Paige and Shide will take part. An excellent programme has been prepared and we can say that a highly meritorious and enjcvable ctccert will be given.

SATURDAY evening Warren, Hoberg & Co., proprietors of the Opera House Dry Goods Store, invited their employes to an elegant supper spread at the "Terre Haute Dining Rooms." As the happy clerks gathered around the festive board, all united in exclaiming—"Success to the generous proprietors, and may they live to repeat the same in many years to come."

ROBBERY.—On Saturday night four men with blackened fac sand otherwise disguised, entered the house of Henry Harpold, an old citizen of our neighboring village of Elbridge, Illinois, and with a drawn pistol demanded his '"hog money." Fortunately he had deposited or otherwise disposed of the money be had rea'ized from the sale of his hogs, and the robbers got only $25, a pistol and a pocket knife. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the deed. .*•

PERSONAL.—We had the pleasure, yesterday, of meeting Mr. A. W. Heinly, late of Vincennes, who has removed to this city and purchased a half interest in R. Garvin's Commercial College. From a Jsngthy article in the Vincennes "Times," we extract the following:

Prof. Heinly has been conducting our Commercial College for a number of years very successfully, and his leaving us will be a serious loaa to our community. He ia a gentleman of ability, courteous and affable in his deportment, and will take a high position in the society of Terre Haute. We very much regret to lose him, but his interest will doubtless be best subserved by the course he has taken.

PRESENTATIONS.—At the installation of the officers of the several Masonic bodies -the three Lodges, Chapter and Commandery—on Wednesday evening last, the members of Social Lodae, No. 80, presented Past Master Simon Wolf with a handsome gold watch. The presentation address was made by Col. Cookerly. At the same time W. M. Phil Schloss was the recipient of a similar gift from the members of Humboldt Lodge. Those gifts were worthily bestowed.

Speaking of watches, if it is not too late, our friend Jos. H. Blake, showed us yesterday one of the most elegant and valuable gold watchs we have ever seen— a Christmas gift from his brothers and sisters.

ON THE WITNESS STAND.—There are various kinds and styles of witnesses who make their appearance on the stand in the police courts. There is the knowing witness—the cunning fellow— with the catch-me-ifWou can expression,' who generally leaves with the smirk of satisfaction gone from his face, and o^ a generally dilapidated appearance after cross-examination. Then there is the preternatually stupid fellow, who can't or won't understand the plainest questions. The swift witness, who is over-anxious to tell his story, and answers short questions with immensely long and irrelevant replies. Then there is the fair witness, who quietly tells just wh?t he knows, and no more and that's the kind that are fewest in our courts.

A "WORD TO YOUNV MEN.—There sere many young men in this city who in a few years will be its active, leading business men. Are they preparing themselves for their responsibilities? Are they employing their leisure hours, especially their evenings, in reading and study, and the acquisition of knowledge and the influence which il exerts in all the departments of life? There is no occupation in which intelligence does not pay and the clerk in a store, and the boys of all work, have each one hour a day to devote to study. Here are seven hours a week, twenty-eieht hours a month, three hundred and sixty-five hours, or fifty-two days in a year, for study. This opportunity should be improved in useful reading, and acquiring information. Young men to rise in the world must be intelligent.

WHAT a difference there is in those girls who wait on hotel or restaurant tables. Some are nice, neat, trim little women, who come up to you lady-like and quietly, and ask von in a pleasant way what you desire for the repast. You give your order and enjoy the meal. In contrast to this we remember a case. While traveling some time ago, we entered a hotel dining-room, and after sitting at the tabic at least five minutes, a sourfeatured little mix rushed up behind us, and, in a smothered screech, said, "B'l'stakh'mn'gs." We looked round and asked her if it was catching. She acted as though she wanted to bite our head off, and repeated, "B'fstakh'hn'gs." Then we began to see it. It was a conundrum— beafsleak, ham and eggs. Fearing the steak might be as tough as herself, we decided on "h'mn'gs," and left the unpleasant place as quick as possible.

RAILROAD ELECTION.—The stockhold ers of the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company, met in this city on Monday, and elected the following directors. C. Rose, W. R. McKeen, D. Deming, W. K. Edwards, F. Nippert, A. McGregor, and Jos. Collett, Jr.

On yesterday the Directors above named, met and elected the following officers:

W. R. McKeen, President. W. H. Buckingham, Secretary. J. H. Ilager, Treasurer.

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M.S. Durham, Auditor. John E Simpson, Superintendent. C. II Peddle, Superintendent of Motive Power, &c. 11. \V. Hibbard, General Freight Agent.

C. E. Follett, General Ticket Agent. The former Secretary, Mr. M. A. Morris, was not an applicant for re election to the position, having, some weeks since, tendered his resignation, to take eflect on the first inst., when his successor was elected.

VALUATION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. —The Board of Assessment, composed of Comity Auditor Royse, and the various Township Assessors, have agreed on the following basis of valuation of personal propeity for this year: Aged Horses Horse* 3 years old Horses 2 years old Horses 2 year old Colls Mules and Asses same as horses. Oxen, per pair Cows and Steers Two vear old Cows and Steers One

....$100 00 60 00 .... 35 00 .... 25 00 20 00

60 00 25 00 15 00 10 00 5 00 1 00 3 1 00 50 25 20 00 2 00 60 1 00 1 50 2 00 10 00 50 20 1 00 1 00

Sheep, per head Stock Hogs, per pound Wheat, per bushel, average Rye, Corn, Oats, Clover Seed, per bushel Timothy Seed, Potatoes, Green Apples, Dried Poultry, per dozen Hay. per ton Wool, per pound it Maple Sugar, per pound Dressed Hogs, per hundred lbs... Domestic Wine, per gallon

Sorghum Molasses, per gallon...k 25 l'iano Fortes ?75 500 00

INTERMENTS.—The following interments were made in the City Cemetery la.-t week:

Dec. 24.—W. Shcwuiaker, age 24 years—Billions fever. Dec. 26.- Rachael Morrel, age 36 yeras— Pneumonia.

Dec. s7—Phillip Gerold. ape 23 years and 5 months—Paral»U. yl)cc. 28—Emm* G. Philrs. age 29 year*— ^ngestioa.

NEW YEAR'S DAY passed as most other opening days of the year have passed before. Most of the larger stores, the banks, newspaper offices, city and county offices were closed, giving a semi-Sunday appearance to the city. A cloudy sky and mud under foot caused outdoors to be anything but inviting, and while the younger people in plug hats, carriages and lavender kids made their ronnds of New Year's caiWi most of the older people made tbem" selves comfortable at home. It ia not a bad idea, either, for a man to call on himself on the first of January, to see what he has done during the old year and what he proposes to do in the new. He may by a few hours of intimate companionship learn some disagreeable truths but we can -never better ourselves so long as we fancy ourselves perfect. It would be vastly better for all of us to get acquainted with ourselves on New Year's day than with the wines and punches and liquors of our friends. However, we are pleased to learn that a large majority of ladies rereceiving calls on Monday set the praiseworthy example of using tea, coffee and chocolate as the only liquids placed before their guests. This is right. There is no reason why families who k^ep the wines and brandy safely locked in the sideboards three hundred and sixty four days in the year, should turn their drawing* rooms into restaurants, or worse, on the three hundred and sixty-fifth. It is not judicious to give encouragement to a class of persons, more or less of whom are to be found every where, who go from house to house not to greet acquaintances or to pay visits of friendship, but to consume whatever is set before them, especially if it is a bottle, anu whose manners grow freer without acquiring additional elegance as the sum declines. A .day of friendly intercourse and social enjoyment is one thing a saturnalia is another. The first is a mark of refinement, the latter of barbarism. .The,one leaves' behind il a hostiof pleasant recollections the other can'feiy to be remembered wii"h regret.

USEFUL AMUSEMENTS.—Assuming the necessity of both the social and secular elements, in any attempt to attract and guide the young in the right way for innocent and beneficial diversions and amusements, it is obvious to remark that one of the purest and simplest ways of interesting and leading forward theyoung aright, in this matter, is that of private social parties, in which the old and young, parents and children, girls and boys of suitable age for receiving the common benefit, mingle together for the sole purpose of friendly intercourse and mutual pleasure and improvement, by conversation, music and such other things, with or without refreshments, as may be appropriate to a Christian home and to Christian people.

To some excellent persons, the time, labor and expenat. slight as each miy be, may seem of little importance, if not a positively culpable waste, but we are persuaded they greatly err in their judgment of the effect of them upon the young, and their usefulness to all. In the country, where the villages are small and the population comparatively sparse, social gatherings as a means of strengthening the ties of home and its virtues, and of filling the young mind with wholesome food for its cravings, and the young heart with increasing love of the pure and good can hardly be exaggerated. The time passed in these home ''sociables," in which friends and neighbors mutually greet and enliven each other, is well spent. In many instances it returns an hundred fold in advantages tJ the growing character of the young, ana rn fresh courage and good cheer to these who are bearing the heavy burdens of the day..

SURLY PEOPLE.—This busy, rushing world is full of surly people, who would not be so disagreeable if they only knew the art of being social and agreeable. There are some peoples© thorougly cross that it seems as if they were born into this world with their tempers in such a snarl and tangle that no gleam of sunshine has ever had a chance to penetrate the labyrinth. These people act on your disposition in the same manner that a thundercloud does on your intention of "dressing up." A cross, constantly fretting disposition marks the face even more surely than the small pox for there has been discovered something to smooth away the unsightly touches ofthe'ingers of disease but science takes up her books and slinks off before crossness. A desert is a source of comfort in comparison with these people for even in the sandy sea you can dig down, and at last strike the cool, bubbling water, that will bring a pleasant brook on the stern earth, and make it blossom as the rose. But the more you dig on cross people, the more they won't blossom, and the only reward for your trouble is your implements of good nature with their edges broken and turned, and all over your whole being a dry burning of sand it may be, or coarseness, for these spasms are contageous. Think, when you meet these people, how much to be pitied they are, and how much of the "joy of the whole earth" they voluntarily put out of their lives that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and goon your way determined to use that best of cosmetics, "a merry heart," which "maketh a glad countenance." .-4.

A LAWYER in Terre Haute lately went to an editor's office to cane him. The doctors have dug three bullets out of his frame, and say there is another one that they can't find, which will probably kill him.—[Exchange. When will a reckless public learn that it is dangerous to come foolin' round newspaper men.

The above we find in the St. Louis "Dispatch." It is news over here. Still, it is one of the "might have beens," and should serve as an intimation of what beligereut lawyers, or any other man, may expect in cases of the above mentioned kind.

MARRIAGE LICENSE were issuedby the County Clerk last week to the following parties:

Augustus Racey and Rachaol Mtdaugh.I Chas Barton and Ann Kawlings John P. Wise and Elisabeth Develing. Alomo S. fchnrpe and Lorendo E. Comp-

HerbertE. Madison and Flora A. Patter-

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H. Morgan and Kate Pettengill. .Marshal P. Wolt and Anna E. Suley. Isa A- Huffman and Mirerva J. Isbel. Elijah Wilgus and Alice Crosier. Henry HicRelsbury and Ann UesmfrArthur Weare and Jonme C- Gurham. Robt. Watt and Lydia Davi Chas. Hosnnng and Rosa Goeli Francis M. Cooper and Emily Moyor. Robert Wittenberg and Mary Biel. John L. Ely and Sarah A Jacob George Martin and Phoebe M, rora. Gtorge Robertson and MaryE. Garber^

ATTEMPTED MURDER.—A horrible affair occurred at Blackburn Bro's sawmill on Monday morning, Dec. IStb, the facts of which run about as follows: Sylvester Meeks had just engaged to work for Levi Farr, and was to commence as soon as breakfast was over. Farr stepped out to get an armful of stove wood ^and Meeki followed him out. While Farr was stooping to pick up the wood, Meeks attacked him wiih a billet of wood aiid struck him four or five times on the head, which he intended should kill him instantlv, but failing to kill him he be came frightened and fled to the woods and has made his escape so far. Nor does the matter stop here. Circustances are sufficient to prove that others are concerned, and that it was a scheme of several days plotting. A bottle of whisky has been found which is no doubt drugged, and will be analyzed in a short time. Two ot the Meeks' were at work at the mill and they have both absconded together. We defer saying any more about il nt prcfTrt.—Suflmm Uf'ci

From Daily Express of Monday

THE OLD YEAR. A STRANGE MIDNIGHT VISIT.

Ring out the old, ring in the new: Ring happy bells aerossthe snow The year is going.let him1 go. Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Last night, just as we had written the last paragraph for thisv mprning^s paper Jbad closed the lafcor ol l87#»nd«t maditiling on i-thei:last d^pqgpCoiiitjfegof^the twelve month gone, two strange visitors entered our room. One was a beautiful young girl, the other an old man, his strongly built and once stately form, bowed and trembling with age. The dim eye seemed to be fast glazing, and the uncertain hands wandered aimlessly across his brow, with a motion that seemed quite involuntary and pitiful* With merely a nod of recognition, he sank into a chair, and we paused to reflect on this, the last night of the "Old Year,'' and listen to the words of the fast-dying man.

Raising his bowed head, after a few moments of silence, he called his only daughter to his side: "Bring me that bound volume of the DAILY EXPRESS, wherein has been kept a faithful record of my life." He turned over the leaves with a great deal of care. As he read, he noted the different items, and talked aloud: "While the past twelve-month has been one of great, prosperity to the nation* it has been especially so, to my beautiful Prairie City. It has been singularly exempt from fire and pestilence. All who have been willing to work have had plenty to do. Elegant business blocks have been erecied, while, as if by magic, have been built, the abodes of wealth, and hundreds of homes for the mechanic, the artisan and the laborer. The few manufactories are prospering—sorry to say there are not more of them. Another railroad has been completed, and two others are projected, and with its mineral, manufacturing and railroad facilities, together with the indomitable energies of its citizens, nothing can impede the onward progress of this City of the Prairie."

The old man was silent for a time, and then said: "There are many improvements and enterprises, going to develop the resources of this region, that I must leave with 'Old Father Time.' He can bring them to completion after I am gone. And here, at the head of these papers are printed the names of my children. I have had twelve. The eldest was a son, January, we called him. He was a real good boy—cold, frigid, in his disposition, but he had a good, warm heart, and was kind to 1iis father. The Democrats used to hold their conventions when he was eight years old, because Andrew Jackson whipped the British at New Orleans on that day, but I see that this will not be done in 1872.

Still turning the leaves, the old man resumed: "There comes the name of poor little February. She was always a delicate child, she died when very young her days were fewer than the rest of my children, there were not many remarkable things occurred during her life. Once old Mr. Valentine gave her a great many pretty pictures, which the poor child played with till the last and then a very good gentleman, whom everybody called the Father of his Country, was born when she was born but when she was but twenty-two days old. "Our next was March, a big, blustering brag of a fellow, always up to some mischief forever biting people's ears and tweaking their noses, even going so far as to pinch their toes clear through their boots. He was the only ungovernable child I had. I really felt it was beyond my power to control him. Once when I was away from home he played some dreadful pranks. Whenever he found a project too much for him he called on his cousins, Jack Frost and Whistling Wind, to help Mm. Those three boys were a team. Everybody seemed glad when he was gone but, troublesome as he was, I couldn't help loving him he was my child. That boy bad talent I am sure of tha "My daughter April was a Very dear child, although very-fickle. You never knew one minute whether the would be laughing or crying the next. "May was next younger, a merry, light-hearted girl. Every one loved her. She was sure to find the first flower. She always looked so sweet with two or three little buds among htr curls. 5 '"June, our next, was the most petted and most loved of all mv children, unless it was her brother October. You never saw her without her lap full of roses, and she would sit for hours trailing vines all over her head and arms clear down to the ground she was very merry hearted and good natured. "July and August were very gay. When summer came, nothing would do but they must pack up and go off to the springs, the seaside, and up on the lakes. July was a kind warm hearted girl, and doted on thin grenadines and lawns. August thought there was nothing nicer than a trunk full of summer pants and linen coats. July had a great to-do when she was four days old, for that was the anniversary of the day on which the Declaration of Independence was signed. She always wanted me to say that she was more favored than January who was born on the anniversary of the day on which four millions of slaves were set free, but 1 hardly knew which was the occasion of the most rejoicing, so I always put her off some way, and now that the dear children are both gone, I don't like to decide against either one. My brother 1776 was alive «when this country was declared independent, and 1S63 when the slaves were emancipated. I have wit* nessed some great events, but none as great as these. "September and .October were great children for gathering nuts almost any time you could see them starting out with their baskets on their arms, September with her buff dress stiff and rustling, and October with his suit of russet brown. They had a fancy for dressing this way, and nothing could persuade them to change their colors. "November was just thirty-one davs younger than October. He was a chilly little fellow, so we had to put flannels on him and keep him near the lire. He was just four weeks and two days old when he died, and on that day the people assembled in their houses of worship and gave thanks to Almighty God for his gieat

Here the old man turned to his only child. "You, my dear December, must stay with me as long as I live. It is said that we will die together. How this will be I cannot tell. You have always been kind and faithful to your father in his declining days. Your complexion is dark, but your eye is bright. You are my last child, and your father loves apd blesses jou. It may be best that you shoold know something of my past history. I am the last son of Father Time. He has had 1S71 children since the birth of the Messiah. Some of them you may have heard of. There is something singular abont all the family no two of the sons have been alive at the same time it seems to be a kind of fatality, for all of my children have died the same way— the one dying at the birth of the other. My father, assisted by some learned men decided that his childrens' children should all be earned alike, and in the

same order that is the jeaBan that there have been just "a.- Januarys as Junes. "On reflection, I see that during my life I have been withal pretty feaeroos. I have dispensed my blessings as freely as felt I ought. I have .given beautiful days to farmers,- (i don't mean that I am the author of these, but they are given to dietd distribute) and moonlight nights for lovers calm, warm mornings in the summer time, and, in turn, cool bracing aiMO qtijUjken the pulse^and arouse tbe la|ent Energies. But of ill the gifts tint I have bestowed, I prize my fifty-two Sundays the most and, precious as they are, they have been the most despised and abused. At the chiming of the bells, when eve^r ljetrt should give attendance ttf the' voice of 'God, niany have strayed off into haunts of viceand wilfully broken the holy day." Oh! thosfe Sabbath days! those Sabbath days!" The old man groaned and shook his head tears dimmed his eyes—one bright drop strayed down the furrows of .his cheek, and, tailing on his white beard, glistened like crystal on snow. December mourned with her father, and they fell into each other's arms weeping. Their time is near at hand—one short half hour and 1871 will be in eternity.

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the Old Year'sdying nofj^ Treacl lett you disturb the awfulicalm. Let the whole world stand still. Do you owe this old man? Have you neglected a duty that should have been performed before this hour? Old Year don't go to-night stay vet a little longer. We want to re deem ourselves. You've been better to us tban we have been to you. Oh! where are the promises we made when you wei tern? Broken! Forgotten! Useleseno his protestations he will soon be past recall. Look! he raises his head to bless and forgive. Farewell, he is gone.

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1871 lies in his grave. The New Year reigns another roll of vows has been recorded another list of pledges made. Hail! happy New Year! May all hearts be as merry as to day, and every vow be as faithful as it is now sincere. aw —-.ft From Daily Exp.-ett of Thursday.]

HUJJASTON TS. McGutcoR. This much-talked of case was finally brought to issue, yesterday afternoon, in the Circuit Court, before Hon. John Pettit, of the Sbpreme Bench, who by agreement, has been called to preside in the case. As most of our readers are aware, this is a Buit of breach of promise to marry^Jhe damages being laid at §50,000. rr

To the surprise of all, a jury was euipanelled in about twenty minutes. The jury is composed of the following gentlemen: Peter Lyon, David Pugh, Franklin Sankey, Bruford Elliott, John Hess, Henry Nelson, James L. Davis, Wm Connely,, James H. Mullen, Hillery Alvey, Nathaniel M. Jones, Wm. Patrick.

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A statement of the case was Mide in behalf of the plaintiff, by Col. Baird, and. in behalf of the defendant, by Hon. D. W. Voorhees. The evidence of Mrs. Humaston, on the one side, and of Mr. McGregor, on the other, was heard, and then the court adjourned until this morning, when the evidence for the defense will be con* tinued.

The court room was densely packed during the afternoon, by interested, curious and gossiping sp.ectators.j^ijm^aa^^m^nM) From Daily Express of Friday.

THE BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.—In the Humaston McGregor case, on yesterday, the plaintiff filed a motion in writing to set aside the jury because two of the jurors had decided against the plaintiff before they were called on. the jury, and also because the jury was selected improperly by the brother-in-law of McGregor The court then adjourned until 2 o'clock for the parties to file affidavits on the motion.

At the afternoon session the plaintiff filed affidavits charging that one juror had said he would "hang the jury six weeks, if necessary, in favor of McGregor," aild that another Juror had made statements showing that his feelings were against the plaintiff. The affidavits of the jurors were then filed, denying in part the charge, and explaining in part. The Sheriffs affidavit was filed, denying partiality. The court held the jurors competent, and refused to discharge the jury. The plaintiff's counsel then stated that they had not been able to furnish all their evidence in regard to the jury, and that they were not satisfied with the manner in which the jury had been selected, and were, for these reasons, not willing to try the case by this jury. The plaintiff then dismissed her case, and commenced another suit against defendent, which will stand for trial next term.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS—Recorder Meyer put upon record last week the folowing transfers of real estate:

Reuben Halstead to William Brown, 10 acres in Honey Creek township for $1,000.

Samuel Layer to Jacob Layer, 40 acres in Honey Creek township for 31,000. Andrew King to Aquilla Nebeker, 40 acres in Riley township for $200.

Aquilla Nebeker to Charles Jackson, same land for $400. W. Ewing to J. R. Carr, lot in Ewing's sub division for $750.

Lafayette Roberts to Lewis M. West, 5 acres in -Lost Creek township for $250. Charles T.Johnson to James Bolton, lot in New Goshen for $200.

W. F. Jordan to George W. Kerr, 80 acres in Riley township for $3,200. David Hartsock to Walter S. Allen, lot in Tnell & Usher's sub-division for $250.

John Dayton to William F. Jordan, 180 acres in Pierson township for $5,500.

R. L. Ball to Louis Rothschild, lot in the city for $2,000. Lewis Rothschild to R. L. Ball, lot in city for $6,000.

Thomas G. Drake to William A. & Alga Shutnaker, lot in Prairieton for $50.

Hannah S. Drurv to Jesse McComb, 80 acres in Honev Creek township for $8,000.

Ebenezer Paddock, guardian, to James Touhey, 19 acres in Prairie Creek township for $525.

Virgil S Carr to Danial Johnson, 10 acres in same township for $250. Jacob Eckel to Jacob Giflel, 2 lots in Tnell & Usher's sub division for $1,200.

Isaac & Ann Whitaker to Alexander Black, 60 acres in Otter Creek township' for $8,000.

Thomas Crary to Abraham Copple, 10 acres in Linton township for $375. W. M.Modesitt to Ellen Delano, lot in Modesitt's sub-division for $1,800.

WE clip the following from the Troy (N. Y.,) "Whig:" Some three months since Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffaio, N. Y., commenced advertising in the "Whig," an article called "Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. We believed at that time it was one oft he many catchpenny arrangements to swindle people out of their money, but during the past few weeks have become convinced to the contrary. We know of several prominent citizens who have snffered from that loathsome disease "Catarrh," and they pronounce Dr. Sage's Remedy no humbug, and in several instances have been entirely cured. We desire to give Dr. Pierce the benefit of the same. 598-dwlt -r" r*

ON Monday last, John W. Dodson was cleaning out an old musket barrel, and not supposing that there was any powder in it, run a red hot lamrod down the barrel, when, 10 his astonishment, a pretty heavy charge of powder was blown into his face, causing quite a change in his complexion. His face was literally covered with powder which was blown through the skin,, the blood oozing out at every pore. Siereral days more will pass before he will lie able to attend to budoees.— Siftjran Unicn

The Mineral Resources of Indiana.

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The Facility of Uniting the Block Coais of Indiana With the ,0* Specular Ores of Lak«

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The Bessemer Stael K&nufacture.

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Thursday evening an audience composed ofobr very best citizens assembled at Dow ling Hall to listen to the Kcture of Dr. Foster, delivered at the special request of bar people, on the mineral resources ik this region. The lecturer was introduced by Col. R. W. Thompson. We give below *-bare synopsis of this interesting and valuable lecture

Tfie speaker, after acknowledging the courtesey extended to him by the citizens of Terre Haute in inviting him to discuss the mineral resources of Indiana proceeded to say: Are you aware that the second recorded instance of (be occurence of coal on this continent, relates to that in your own valley of the Wa« b&it'The first instance is recorded by Father Hennepin, the companion of La Salle* in his expedition to the Illinois Valley, as far back as 1684, who while prosecuting his missionary labors did not faH'-FO redord the economic fact that in the bluffs of that stream Occurred one jr more seams of coal.

The second instance is this. After the peace of 1762, by the which the dominion of all the territory lying between the Mississippi and the .Alleghanies was transferred from the dominion of the French to that of the English, Colonel Croghan, a British officer, was sent out to explore the territory adjacent to the Ohio river and to reconcile the inhabitants to the change ot government. So'far from acquiescing, they took him a prisoner and couveyed him up the Wabish to their principal town, Ouitanon —corrupted into Weatown—in Tippfcanoe county. It would appear that the Cofobel was' not subjected to unnecessary restraint, for be recorded in his journal that "on the gouth 6ide of the Ouabache (Wabash) there rises a high bluff in which are several good coal mines."

The speakeV remarked that when we examined the topography of the Wabash, in reference to the outcrop of coal, Slier Island in Fountain county, where Norman Thomas had long carried on coal mining, was the only point which fullfilled this description.

This was a long time before the existance of coal was suspected in Pennsylvania. Thus we of Illinois and Indiana were actually, so far as related to coal mining the discoverers in this county-

He then proceeded to discuss the various applications.of coal: how it lighted our streets and houses how upon .our lakes and rivers, and in our machine shops and factories it was silently performing the labor of many miUion80l'men and how it enables us to traverse the sea and the land with a speed and Certainty unknown to our ancestors.

He next proceeded to discuss the applications of iron the most useful of metals. The ax and the plow were the pioneers of civilization. If we were de-/ prived of iron, our civilization would be no higher than that of the mound builders who formerly inhabited this valley. The high commercial prosperity of England was due to her coal and iron. Deprive her of these and she' would soon become nearly depopulated. The amount of iron consumed by the nation was an almost unerring index of its relative civil ization. The prodigious development of the Northwestern State* within the last twenty years was due to this cause.

There was a moral and even religious aspect to this question, and it might be shown how coal and iron built churches and school houses, and endowed asylums for the unfortunate. These substrnces were the mainspring of the prosperity of every dominant nation.

The speaker Then proceeded todeccribe the coal field of Indiana, and yet it was but a part of a.continuous coal field which stretched to the Mississippi, embracing

two thirds of Illinois and a part of Ken lucky, and which, regaided as an ancient lake, was big enough to engulf all England and leave a very considerable mar gin outside.

He paid a glowing tribute to Prof. Cox for his zeal and energy in developing the mineral resources of Indiana, and hoped iliat the Legislature would extend to him every facility in bringing out a finnal report, which would be alike creditable to himself and to the State.

He next proceeded to state that there were not.less than six seams of coal, havng a combined thickness of not less than twenty-seven feet, each having distinctive peculiarities, varying all the way from latty gas coals, to dry-burning coals, eminently adapted to iron smelling. The range and extent of these several seams' were described. To the Brazil seam, how ever, he attached the highest importance. Its freedom from sulphur and phosphorus, and its near approach to charcoal as a re ducing agent, made it the most highly prized otfall forms of fossil fuel. These peculiar qualities would revolutionise the iron traffic of the United States, and transfer the principal seat of its manufacture to the line of the outcrop of the block coals.

He next proceeded to discuss the accessibility of the iron ores. There were, at the base of the coal measures, heavy •deposits of clay iron stones, limonitesand silicious ores, which were well adapted to make a pig metal suitable for castings, railroad bars, and ordinary bar iron but by reason of the presence of sulphur and phosphorus, were not adapted to make an iron where gr. at tensile strength was required, and much less to Bessemer steel.

England, said the speaker, produces annually not far from 100,000,000 tons of iron, tke ores of which are largely derived from the coal measures and the Lias. These ores contain a notable per centage of phosphorous and sulphur which it is impossible wholly to eliminate. While she is a large exporter of iron, she is a very considerable importer of those brands made from the specular ores of Sweden, Madras, &c., of which she has none. A Sheffield steel manufacture', will pay £30 a ton for Swedish pig when he can purchase English pig for £5. The indifferent character of ordinary English pig iron has greatly retarded the development of the Bessemer steel manufacture, for it. was found that'in every stage of conversion vbe phosphorus clung to it in undiminished force, while a moiety only of the sulphur was expfellfed. Ifetiee, to import at a high co^t foreign pig made with charcoal, interfered very materially with the profits. Laterlv, however, it has been found that the hydrated haematites of the Cleveland district are adapted to this purpose and so great is the demand for these ores to be used in the Bes«emer process, that all t" products of the mine? have been contracted for up to 1873.

The Speaker then went on to remark, that" in tlie'spWfilaf rooore« of Lake' Superior and if Missouri, we had an inexhaustible supply of the richest and purest ores, eminently adapted to making iron of the very higqesl grades, such as a tougii fibrous iron fitted to endure the highest strain, and capable of conversion into a sreel which would make the keenest cutting implements. It was also eminently fitted for conversion into Bessemer Kteel.

The original experiments, he said, aa to the unparalleled tensidle strength of the Lake Superior iror had been in»lituted and published l\ him more than twenty years ago, and each year. he bad seen tbem reproduced by amateur geologists, presidents of iron companies and newypaper correspondent", withon the" least allusion to the source from which fhey were derived. Since ^is Br#t examination of the iron region of Lake Superior be had seen a traffio in these ore* grow up from nothing until it no#J amounted to the prodigious sum of 100,000,(}00 tons annually, which, rated by the furnace yield at sixty sevesper cent, ww greater than the entire ircVi product of the United States in 3860.

He then proceeded to jsbow that these iron ores ought. per facilities, to afTTSIT!

be delivered We dollar and

fifty cents per pen cfceapv than at Pittaburgh, and that this saving in a furnace which turned out twenty-five tons of pig metal a day, wixild amount to sixfy-Mve dollars, or'mcrc than $390(000 a/c gofer as related to the Iron M* or« .of Missouri, which lie MKarded equally rich and eqaally pare, tMf obnld be brought to^Tepve flinte by rail, bo they eonld not •Mtaia the expense of 1 railroad tran*pbftatioH to FltMwrgh The Ohio river, then, wm the only rdute, and they nust be tranepMled during the spring ^and fell fresh#*- Hurts ores couliM)* introd'noed intQ Soatfiet&^Indi ana and there meet the biock Ooals, by a water conveyance seven hnndfed miles shorWr^anJ' practicable at all seasons of the yeitr. There la a demand for every ton ofpig metal, bar iron or Beaeemer stel) that may be produced in Indiana at th&.point of production or *till £aHher west, and the iron-master, if possessed of competent skill, has nothing to fear from Eastern rivalry.

The speaker then discussed tlie advan tages of Terre Haute aa a manufacturing 6entre» and concluded by predicting the time, at no distant date, when the whole horiion, at night, along the outcrop of the black coals, would be lighted up by the glare of furnaces.

For the Stprta$^

The Southwestern Railroad. The main question to be considered at this time is that of dollars, and the propriety of adding one hundred and fifty thousand of them, to the tax duplicate of Harrison township and the City of Terre Haute.

The^stockboldert in their address to the voters, make this statement: "The sum of $150 000 assessed upon the Town ship of Harrison, will mxke thesubscrip tion of the city but little, if any, more than $100,000." This is a mistake. The taxables are as follows: City, $8,668,120 Harrison, outside of city, $1,673,180.

On this basis, the city would have to iay $r26,698, and the outside township, 23,302. But this is not all the Tax Payers would have to pay. There is every year a large Delinquent List, and if this additional and oppressive taxation iB added, that list will be much greater dnr ing the next two years. To cover this, and" other contingencies, not less than $20,000 extra will be required. I have been informed that the Commissioners will add one per cent, per annum for two years on the taxables, if the peopje decide by vote to make the subscription to the stock.

What will the stock be worth when we get it? Nothing. It will not be worth the expense of printing the certificatesIt will only serve as a reminder of our folly, in after years.

The road will be mortgaged for money to complete it, and will ultimately pass into the hands of the mortgagees, like most other similar enterprises.

The idea of stock is a delusion. If we vote to be taxed, we virtually vote to give the road one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and they who pay their taxes will have to foot up all delinquencies.

Can we afford to do this for (he sake of a railroad through Prairieton and Darwin to Robinson, or some other point?

Can we afford to double oar city taxes annually for the next two years? I cannot, and shall therefore vote against the

proposition.

J. O. J.

FacMicJfaify Em»rt The South western Railroad. "J. O. J." in the "Express" this morning, has shown correctly the amount which the tax' payers of the city of Terre Haute will have to gay, if $150,000 is voted to be invested in'this the wildest of new railroad projects. I might say with propriety, that it is a wild goose chase, and about as likely to be remunerative, or of great utility, as the pursuit after wild geese. The only nests to get feathered, will be the corporators and bondholders "Jv O. J." has not spoken unadvisedly or without calm reason and judgment as to the value of stock in such a road. The friends of that enterprise must not suppose that the intelligent tax payers of this cily are wholly ignorantof the geographical route of this road, nor of the amount of products along its route, from which"trafficitf^freight will become a source of revenue. As to passenger travel, it will bejusiaboutas limited and transitory as the migration of the wild goose. But little is claimed for it on this score.

It is time for the tax payers of Harrison township, and especially of the city, topaue. Through wisdom is a house builded, and by understanding it is established. I have not time to day to slate maDy reasons but offer some substantial arguments against the investment in this road. It is proposed, I believe, to build it to Cairo, the Southwestern point of Illinois, and from there to the iron mines ot Missouri. That it will afford a moBt direct and feasible route to obtain the iron ores of Missouri for our furnaces. This is a great mistake and a delusion of the schemists. Jo the Iron Mountain and Pilot Knob of Missouri, via Terre Haute and Vandalia R. R., and St. Louis, is about 225 miles. To the other mines (hematite ores) about 250 miles. A bridge is now building at St Louis, over which ihe iron orev)f Missouri, and the... block coal of Clay county, will soon be freighted, withoiit the extra expense of ferrying, or breaking of bulk. No other route is, or can be as good and cheap The reciprocal trade of this route will make it more advantageous than any other Now, let us take a glance at this contemplated Southwestern Road. What is there, bv the way, in thie middle, or at the end, (granting that there is to be an end,) to give hope even, of a business sufficient to pay the interest on bonds it will be necessary to create to build it? I do most sincerely predict that it is a house under taken-^to be built without counting the cost that it will be a house without roof, or chimneys to carry off the smoke. To Cairo is about 200 to 225 miles. From Cairo to the Iron Mountain is about 100 miles more, making over 325 miles, or 100 miles farther than by St. Louis. But C»pe Girardeau is named as one point for this road. Very well. Look at the map Is Cape Girardeau much better? Count up your miles, and survey your route across" rivers, ridges and mountains, and you will find it, crossing the river at Cape Girardeau, farther by a good many miles than by St. Loui*, and costing more to build it than is contemplated. But, more hereafter. TAXPAYER.

Terre Haute, Dec. 29.

MARRIED.

WEARE—QORHAM—At the retideno* of W. H. Paige, Keq. 26th inst.. by Rev. B.Frank Ilowe, Arthur B. *eare, ot iVashington, I). C., and Jennie C. Gorham, of Ashland, Ohio.

Happy, Jennie, this evening. Be thy life in coming year*. .. Trust in him who stood beside thee,

I 1 ., And in Him who calms all fears, .r

Happy be thy each to-morrow, Everstrewn with purest flowers, Angels guard thee, safely guard thee,

Through this changing world of ours. HARPER—HUSTED—Thursday, 28th inst., atl*.x., in Muiicie, Indiana, at the residence of the bride's parent-. Mr. lbomas \V. Harper, oi the firm of Jtfab A Harper, of tnis city, and Mi-is Ida A. 11 us ted.

The happy ceuple immediately departed for this city, where they arrived at 11 p. x., and proceeded to their residence, noitheast corner of Twelfth and Mulberry streets, which the groom had.previ*uMy neatly and tastely furnished. To add to their.felicity, kind friends there awaited them with bright fires, smiling faces and profuse welcomes. Shoitiy after they were usher'd into their eozy little dining-room to partake of a repast of which an epicure need not have been ashamed. Hoping that their future lives may be always as happy, full of brightness and good cheer as this first evening spent in their new home, we leave them.

VAN ULZKX- WILLIAMS—By Rer. Jas. Hill, tbe 1st inst.. Mr Abraham Van Ulten and Miss Sarah E. Williams, both of this eity..

TIFPS—C0LLIS6—By the same, the 1st inst Mr. Simms Tipps and Mrs. Hannah Collins, both01 this eity.

OWKNS—CHYTON—-On the 1st inst, by Kev iJ. Fraak Howe, Thomas W Owens and Mary J. Clayton, ail of this city.

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It was announced fn Saturday morn' ing'fi EXFBESS, in a very enthusiastic manner, that the "Continental" was magnificent success in every respect—no qualification or abatement. It is' no pleasant task or coveted desire, to write a word, or express a sentiment, at variance with that announcement. I do so at the risk of meriting only pity and commiseration from a multitude who were there.' Few, perhaps, understood what it was all about, and for what object. No one rose to explain. The order of going, or proceedings, was comical indeed, and one could hardly tell where centered the greatest attractions. It was a wheel within a wheel and atl the wheels seemed to be moving at the same time, and all seemed to be amused and satisfied. There was no formal programme. Under the leadership ot the minister things went according to circumstances and order reigned amid confusion.

Now in order to determine whether it was a success unqualified, I must state correctly? if I can, its object and purposeFirst, why was it called Continental? In honor of the early Fathers who founded this continent and established here our holy religion untrammeled by unjust laws. The purpose was a double one first, to make the exercises appropriate to a religious commemoration of the early Fathers of a christian Republic, and'second, to make it an entertainment for the Sabbath School, and to raise money for its benefit. Now if there was no objection to the place—a church—no impropriety in the exercises, viewed from a moral and religious stand point no violation of christian ethics, as laid down and taught by Christ himself no failure in doing honor and reverence to the early christian Fathers no right principle ignored in the raising of money for sacred purposes, then it was indeed a "complete, unqualified, magnificent success in every respect." Let us examine it, and reason about it on christian principles. Let us analyze it free from prejudice and self interest. We are no servile adherents to the dogma of Papist n.: .i_ r. 1:L: 1:._ rj:1.1

or Priestly infalibility. The Bible is our text book, and all actions, and entertainments, beneficient in character and relating to church order, must be tried by the standard there laid down. .Was the church then the proper place to hold, and carry on exercises, such as we witnessed there? We read that, on two different occasions, Christ, in a most summary way, drove out from the Temple, those' that sold sheep, oxen and doves, and overturned the tables of the money changers. It was not in the most^ holy place of the Temple neither, that this was leing done. What lesson are we to draw from it? Only this and no more, that we are forbidden to sell sheep, oxen and doves in any part of our churches? Is this all? Then Christ did not intend to teach* any principles, and we go by the letter "Take these things hence," said Christ, "Make not my Fathers house, a house of merchandise," and the deciples remembered that it was written." "The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up." Much must be attributed to zeal "Zeal, the blind conductor of the will." The prime object of all interest, was to raise money. So it was of those Christ found in the Temple. Very few of all those who went there, gave their money for the interest they felt in the Congregational Sabbath School. The Sabbath School was not, probably, thought of. The principle of giving is from the heart, and however little this may be, it amounts to more than a large sum given where the heart goes not with it. On this principle it is doiibtful whether the entertainment was a success financially for we must deduct all that was given merely to see some strange things, and gratify the appetite. It does seem to me that the plan or principle of raising money for sacred purposes, by getting up shows and feasting in the church, is in violotion of the Christian ethics taught by Christ. "And he taught, saying unto them, is it not written, my house shall be called of all nations, the house o! prayer? But ye have made it a den of thieves." I know ihat this can not be said of us, nor of the case under consideration, but where do such things tend? The precedent is a dangerous one, of doubtful propriety, and one I would not like to see repeated. The end does not sanctify the means. It must be set down, with all other indirect ways of raising money such^'as raffling, comic singing, "Tableaux vivants" and other scenic shows as demoralizing and undermining of right principles the church.

Were the exercises appropriate to the occasion, so far as doing honor and reverence to our pious fore Fathers and foreMothers? Did our good brethren and sisters from Indianapols, tell us correctly, how they sang the songs of Zion in their simple and unostentatious way, or did they, unintentionally, simply burlesque them? I was not there in 1620 or 1700, i|nd can not therefore speak from personal observation, but I incline to think they only burlesqued them in dress, appear"anCe and song. So far then as this part of the performance failed in inspiring our hearts with feelings of sacred remem brance of tbe early Christian Fathers, it was a failure. The "tableaux vivants" were indeed beautiful, some of them new and graphic in silence, amid flaming fire.

But it was a show in the wrong place,—a show in which the minister and Church of Christ ought not to engage in formon ey. It is a violation of the solemn consecration to which the building has been devoted. There is that in the natural beart that condemns it, and the world does criticise and condemn it. Will the enlightened Christian do less? Viewed in this light, it was not then a complete, unqualified, magnificent success.

LAYMAN.

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Warning Words.

The strength and nervous energy ol tho human body ought to be increased during the winter, for two reasons: In the first place, diseases of the most deadly character may be generated at this season and secondly, it is of the utmost importance that^ during the cold winter weather months the., system should bo put in a condition to withstand tho effects of the Spring miasma, and tho subsequent depressing heat ofSummer.^r* It is therefore advisable, in fact essential, t»», tono, regulate and invigorate the digestive Viand sccrotive organs at this period of tho year, and of all tho stomachios and altera-» tives at present known. Ilostetter's Stomach Bitters is the most powerful, the mostharmi less and the most agreeable. Tho tompcra ture of winter would be in itself a gioriou" tonic, if it did not, unfortunately, bring with it a volume of chilling moisture and unwholesome winds, which have a bad effect on the skin and lungs. These must be guarded against, or there is no security for health.

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The effect of a course of tho Bitters is to give' vigor and tone to the entire organization—the superficial muscles and nerves, as well as the internal viscera. A regular habit of body, a healthy and natural flow of bile, an active digestion, a good appetite, pure bioed, and a vigorous circulation if that fluid, are among tho blessings derivable from a persistent use of Hostatter's Stomach Bitters, which not only more than supplies the place of the bosfe

cathartics and antisepties prescribed in their separate forms by physicianss but perform the threefold work ol inrigoration, regulation aid

purification,

same time-

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IGO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY-

ANNUAL MEETING.

The Annual Meeting of the Vigo Agricultural Society for the cleetien of twelve Directors, will take place Saturday. January 13th, at 10 o'clock A. il., at Col-Dowling's officer 30-dlw-w2t JOS. GILBERT, Sec'y. [Journal copy.]

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"The qualified voters of Harrison township. Vigo eounty. Indiana, are hereby notified that, by virtue of and in pursuance of an order of the Board ot County Commissioners of said county, rendered at the regular December session. l&71» of said Board, on

Monday, January 22, 1872, the pells of said township will be opened at the several voting places therein, to-wit:

First Ward Uottleib Reiss, Inspector, atthe Ninth Street Engine House. .. Second Ward Grafton F. Coekeny, Inspector, at Bleemelhl's Brewtry. -j

Third Ward Martin Kercheval,Inspector^' at Kercheval's Grocery Store. Fourth Ward L. F. Reifsnider,Inspector, at the No. 3 Engine House.

Filth Ward Isaaa Beauchamp. Inspector, at Imbery's Brewery. Sixth Precinct George W. Navlor, Inspector, at the New Conrt House. This precinct» includes all of Harrison township outside of the city of Terre Haute.

The polls will be opened as aforesaid for the purpose of receiving and taking the. votes of the legal voters of said township npon the subject of an appropriation by said township of one hundred ana fifty thousand dollar" (Sl&O.OUO) to aid in the construction of the Terre Haute Southwestern Railroad.

SAMUEL ROYSE,

decl5-w4t Auditor of Vigo County.

JJISSOLTJTION.

AUSTIN, SHRTER & CO.

Copartnership existing between A. Austin. J. G. Shryer and B. H.Corcwell under the firm name of Austin. Shrser dc Co., will be dissolved by mutual consent January 15. 1872, J. G. Shryer retiring. A. G. Austin and B. H. Corn«ell will continuo tho business under the firm name of A. G. Austin

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j, north Tside ©h'io a Sixth.

persons indebted to Austin, Shryer Co. will call and settle at ence. as business must be closed by January lat, 1»72, lft-dwtoianl

J^NNUAL MEBTIXG.

Tbe Annual Meeting ot tho Stockholders of" the Vigo Iron Company will be held at the Office ol the Company in Terrsi Haute, on Wednesday.January,10th.187 between the hours of 10 and 12 a. M., for the purpose of electing Directors.

By order of the Board. pflii A.J. CRAWFORD, Sep'j.