Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 8, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 January 1877 — Page 5

1876.W#**

.((Continued from fourth pfrje.)

poof, and tho greater numb* are poor, number 4t65- Jt, 'tors represent $186,458.20 rlitf ban was examined by the auditor last week and was complimented br..him verv highly. 1le slate* that the bank is above the average of thoss throughout the

,sta*e. I BAR IRON MANUFACTURES. Thi* branch of Terrc Haute bv.sine** is represe.i'ed, and abloy too. by the Wabasil rou Co The following statistic, reliiiblv -compile-1 'or through the •courtesy of the bookkeeper will be found of inteiest:

Amount paid for_ 1876 K0 of Tons ot coal con^umett 1000.00

No"

Average immberof workmen employ •ed 100. I BOOK AND NEWSDEALERS.

It can 11 -v. be said ot I em.

BREWERS.

Anton Mayer whose immense estaolish (mentis on Poplar street and M. Raster ot Ohio street, are the only brewers now. doing business in Terre Haute. This is a dwindling .own in numbers from formef ears but we will see it to be really an increase in the amount of boer ranfle.

The establishment of Mr. Mayer is

I'relslargest

the in the state. During the last year he ma le 50,638 kegs or quarter barof this beverage, worth perhaps $126.^60,00. This vast quantity was put up as follows: 465,216 ke^s, 10,788 barrels, 14 barrels.

BRICK YARDS.

There are four leading brick yards in the citv. Efforts have been baffled to to learn the total No of brick ma le durthe vear. The number will tall short of I previous vears.

CARRIAGE MEN.

Tlnj ^ear has been painfully dull with I carriage men. ViU|yjS Pths report sales to the nmgunt of $ 13,000. Ti.ey employ an average of scvefi men.

A Welsh emplovs an average ot sev cn men. He has sold $7,000 in good*. Scot'f Graff & Co., have -old $11,000 worth.of goods and kept an average ot tei, men*.

clajm abenTi

courses

J'°nS °f 3000.00

con»usT»eifl

w0 of 1 on» of »crap ir»a

r*u' 4

coasumw

I No. of 'Conn^of pig '[°n

22200 00

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lal

•cans tlvi. tlr-""are a, unlettered th. .other side of« torn one. U«« •readin" community. *-»A has from time to time noticed publicly the numhf,r ot leading works soid daring gi"1 per iods by oar stationers an I will

not

re-

peat them here. We are cinte.it t» note the sale of o'ts and newspaper* for the ve-ir, M. P. Cr ift ha* sold 235000 foreign pap.'fn and 615,000 of tho*e publised i.i Per re lilau'te. His, sale* have anno.inte I to 20,000 for the year.

S in a O a •old 6 |a er-*i. C. Ft. A'ken hv nor been in the biwi new for ear. Reckoni. g. however, in two average months he' as sold 92,300 dailies and ii,):o weekly papers.

BOOTS AND SHOES, WHOLESALE. Messrs. Ca.vfo.d O'B vl- & Co., rep-1 resent this business in Terrc Haute, and do it ably.

BOOTS AND SHOES, RETAIL. Thare are 31 retril dealers in *l'erre Haule beside a large number of boot makers who have shops ot their own. We have been able to get figures from D. Greiiier & Co. Moves Andrews J. Tutt, N. Poland, Daniel Reibold and A. Richev. They report trade as about the same as last year Their ag gregate sale* have n" if 157,000.%

T, J. Griffith places his sales at $14300, on a incriese of (3,440,over la»t year.

BUTCHERS.

The 'statistics of the butchers business, [have been hard to reach. Seeburge- Bros, have given employment to an average ot seven men, and have sold $10,400 worth

If mea V.

Danaldson represents the

claims ifp-'nsio 1* here. There are ico ofthem and they draw about |4.o«00 per month from the trtasury. The appropriation f.»r pensions tor the comiag vear is 28'^ millions.

CLOTHING.

Reports from the various clothiers for their vear's business are contradictory l"^\g near as the GAZKTTE can «earn F*-*heir sales have been about L'equal in amount to last year.

Miller Si Cox report that theyhaVe told within $3 0-of the amount sild last year. •Thev have, notwithstandir/, sold a great inan'v more clothes. Th« difference in |t prices has made difference of at least $5,000 in -otais.

Philip Schlosi reports trade same a? last year. lie has sold 35 worth of g^od*, against $79,114,05 last I year a fallhig off ot $257 7°

CONFECTIONERS.

Business in this line has not been good I during the mo«t of the year, though fn the past lour weeks it has been quite active. W. II. Scudder reports tales at $30 000.

White & Mewhinney bakers, sales about $tio,doo. Fourteen men em ploved during the last year. IIKIN1G BROTHERS UNION BAKERY.

Flour barrels' used 4,382 Loaves ot bread made 6a 600 Candy made pounds t-i£o,ooo Men*mployed 17 Value ot .«1«,*70.4"hechubches

The pastors of the various churches in the citv. have contributed reports of the conditions of their several charges, which are presented below.

CHRISTIAN CHAPEL.

G. Peaie. Pastor.—A succinct report of the church during past year: The auditorium df the building was completed at a cost of $4,000, formally dedicated last April. Seventy-one have bet r. tiddod to the church forty three by bap'. sin. 2S by letter. Sixteen have been disi issed by letter 6 have died leaving a net increase cf 49

For pastor's t.alary, janitor's fee. fuel tand gas, $i,Soo has be r^i«e 1 ann expended, besides money paid lor completion of building.

Sunday school enrolled 200, with an

J* •r«"i

Rev. Francis M. Pavey, pastor. Membership

Sunday school

N*o o" Tons 01 Finished iron ConsistIng of plow beam iron flats rounds square band*, oval half oval, half round liron made in 1S76. 5000

average of 110. Sunday, school er «-*j .e«^. As a whole, the force, will combution for vear |2^.2c^or $4*9^

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.j-FIRST BAPTIST.

Rev. C. R. Henderson pastor. Members Number enrolled in the Sunday school 7 ^.v' Grover Chapel Sunday »cho.I

PRKSUYTERI AN CHI 'CII

Number of members Additions during the veiir. -ib:i: IJtaths

Condition—ha/rmonious a i.l 1 Alex Sterrett pastor. Ruling Elder*—fame* Kite, ^'•'•11 iC.i Clesftel I, I Mitchell. 1. »v Esq., li G.vynn, Prof. N .ivloi

•ful"

Deacon committee—)oliu W Wickline, A \V Kidio-v. Trust-e*—W t-I Scudder. 'iVeau Robert irvin. Ad.iir. Juoin f.ej ,e and McD.micI.

Prof W W IJyers, Sup jrinlc 1: .t 1. the Sabbath School. I'LYM )U Rir CTL AI'.'X has been without a pastor n*ari.- -.j/ months. Services are held ThnrwJav .m.l Sunday bv the A which a«v weli attended.

The membership is about 30. Sijnday school en-oiled Present attendance about lAvet age for year about toi

Sunday school Members received during the year. dismissed bv letter b'v death

School 400 EPISCOPAL. No Bap'iscd 26

Confirmed 29 Marriages 5 Deaths 10 Sunday school

GKRMVN M. 15. CHURCH.

Pastor II. E. Wulzen. Membership 76 Probationers 20 Additions during year 6 Sundav school* (2.) 135 Incre ise scholars 32 Deatl 00 Marriages 3

CEMETERY.

The following is a correct list of interments in the city cemetery for the year beginning with January up to Dec 29th 1S76.

Adults 16 '3 12 9 fi 8 16 11 16 18

Infants 11 *5 12 9 12 8

January February March April May June [uly A ugust September October November December

140

-I tf favorably with that of any city of

i*Kc pAttor lius preached thin 50.000 inhsbitttnts in tnc coun:ourse» and solemnized 16 jnnrrw^.,. jf- During the year the affairs have hurt'Hit* ifttle to do in the way of arrestin ,' deep dyed criminal*.

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Addition to church member#!* about 'i'" Marriages solemnized by pa*tor Funeral* attended by pastor

The church ~t* in a pro^perou* on .lition, and both pastor and pe fre well satisde 1 with the year's work.

AS»URY CLLL'KCU.

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T7-

Additions to church membership in Deaths 3

The present pa«tor of the chnr »MC cceded Rev. Mr. Reed about two H.MI•iioce.

UNITED BRETHTT-.N.

Membership (last vear Members received (this year) Died Removed Dropped Present iuunler Net increase Snnday schoftl

tf.j

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. !Rev E Ilawe's resignation aco \fav 17th Pastoral labors terinin»?rt! [uJy 1st.

Rev S S Martyn called to the Pa tor

at£, Sept 24th Pastoral duties ass Oct 28th. Metnbirsh'p

.t:v-

Total, 1 Deaths among members and families of the Congregation during the year, 12

Marriages during the year 6.

CENTENARY E CHURCH. Corner Seventh and Eagle Rev W Darwood, pastor. No of merrtber of members and probationers 463 Additions during past year 126 Marriages 21 Total value of church prapertv $36000 Average attendance at Sunday

Total interest paid on bonded debt Ad I commissioners paid to

175

'Teachers 20 O 4 In'Uistorial school 60 Earnings of Ladies Aid Society $490.

Gtr.RM\S REFORMED CHURCH.

Rev. Praikshalis, Pastor. Membership 29). Sundav school 60 Marriages in church 9

Total. 27 2S

15 18 16

Mavor Edmunds has been one of the most faithful and efficient chief ni ls-

trates our city has haJ since her li.-st charter was granted. He is rarely absent from the sessions of the touncil, or from hi* seat on the bench »f «he city court Mr* Edmunds kindly furnishes the following statement of the business of the city court durinsr 1S76. Total no of ca.*es on" the mayors docket S17. Fines collected dining the first tiree quarters 47205. For the last quarter (estimated total) loo 572.05.

THE POLICE.

Since April last our excellent police force has been under charge of their present efficient chief Jas Johnson Mr Johnson susptnd George W. Sh wmaker shortly after the Kprinsr elec'i of 1S76 lvs conduct while i.. iffi has been such as t-j win the unqualified approval of every person in the city—except tie thieves and hum-

There a

2S 10 18 5

Total In the above list all persons of 12 and over are graded as adults, an.l under 22 as infants.

J93

-e

339

years tho-e

THE CITY

Our municipal machinery has been in most excellent hands during the twelve month past, and as a conseqnence the machine has been running as smoothly as a low pressure steam boat.

The Mayor's Court.

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

During the fourteen months precedt'4 the 1st of January 1876, 102 crihunalB were captured is the city during the Ceii'fnnial year, onlr about 30, such bipeds were srrested in Terre Haute.

The expense of supporting our city gu.irriirins during the year amounted to Jflf.OoO.

THE TAXES.

joSin Paddock, Esq our ever popular ci1 tr-8§urtr, furnishes the information coi-.taii.ed in the three following items:

Value of taxable property as charged upon the city duplicate for 1876: Viiuie of lots $5,702,670

Improvements 3.715,820

Total p..lls ile dogs Fe n:i!c doj

$j 1.841,060

3-350 9°3 95

(i*te of taxation on e.icli $100, $1.02 Tf'".il current tax for 1S76 $143,960.21 CITY KXPKKSES.

Expense* ot the city of Terre Haute for he year ending December 31st, 1S76. ial.u i- $11,272.8 '•"'ice 'partmerit 7: I" .lie.' Force 14.9267: •'treet Repairs 7i3 Vl-8

Revenue an.l ty

Commissioners i2SSot 15^ird of 1 lealth 154-4-1- $9.05^.56?. iai-t'ine 3,519.46^ i2.5j-So3 \dr-rti»ing, Printing and Stationery .71 ••mm.cry 319*^ iti'io-i louse 2,682,72

Clock

eru1 Vnimals 6j. iv *eti ».is '7"

LenijOits 865 '.V-.is -. 6 f(« '•r.ir^et '. '48 7 iicoitk: 2,67741

K.-rest 5,19!. 91.. iieiit and fu 1 157 85 N 'W market houe 4.2^8 91 Stiv et grading 1,680 27 Sm-.dl pox 4'9°S

W .ier 12.^)65 i'oiice and fire alarm telegraph 1,645 80 1'es notise 2,217 07 I Jamages for street opening 40 00

Total for general purpose* $ 105,842 54 \ote.—The interest' item of interest inenti ied in the above, of $51^9^ 99'

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crued in 1S75, though paid in 1S76. OUil FINANCIAL Ca^iriQN. Interest paid on the vari us issues o' city bonds. O'l hinds issued in aid of'he

E/ansville. Terre llnite «S£ Chicago railway $ 4.717,02 On bonds issued in aid of the

Cincinnati & Terrc Haute Railway 5,39000 On lionds issued in aid of the

Water Works Co. 1,400 00 Jn sewer bonds 4,40000

15.907

73 St

Winslow, Lanier, & Co. Gran I total on act of bonds $1 5,9'So 83 I lad all the bonds been left standing, and none redeemed and Cancelled, th interest would have amounted to $22,300 per annum instead of the above sum. A saving of $7,393 each year in interest on the bonded debt .done.

COFFEE AND SPICE MILLS Joseph Strong, the only represedtation of an exclusive business of that character, reports that he has sold $95,000.00 worth "of goods. No increase in east ve ir.

COOPERS AND STAVE MEN.

There are six large cooper shops in Terre Haute. Of these Giiman and Reynol in are muc 1 the largest.

During the past year they have tnanuicuire I 2,500,000 tight barrel staves and made 35,000 whiskey tierces and pork barrels.' They employ 56 men and boys at the factory and 40 coopers at the cooper shop. Th. ir pay roll has amount ed to $30,000.00.

COAL.

The cnal interests have only flourished tolerably. They didn't get a chance to blixsom" right. La*t winter was so uni form Iv warm that there was slack demand. J. A. Morgan has disposed ol 4,ioS tons.

DibTILLERY.

The Hulman & Fairbanks distillery, the third in rank ii the United States re ports as follow.*- Grain used, 465,683 sin 1 stock *1, 2,400 heads numbic of men employed, ioi number of gallons made, 1,742.155 number of barrels made, 25,79s value" of manufactures, $2,000,000 tax to the S, $1,500,000.

DRESS MAKERS.

.venty five ladies earning

their livinir in Teri-e IliHite by running shops of this description. They don't keep books (exce in a pretty shop memI oranda of those who are indebted to them) and a man might as weli attemgt to square the circle as to jsccrtain tin *2'amount of busine« thev have done.

DRUGGISTS.

Business is reported as lull up to the standard of last year. E. II. Bindlv, has sold $So.ooo worth of goo's. He has made little increase but has conducted a better and safer business. Gulio & Berry, icport sales $too.ooo Th.'v feel, as does Mr Bindley about the state of trade.

The increase of Buntin & Armstrong since their ve» ture into making special preparation of elixirs svrups, wines and lozenges in 1872 has

been

steadily growing. '1 hey sell their :oo.ls extensively in Iowa and in eight 01 t-n of'tlie surrou nling states. Foi* the

past twelve months their sales of these special preparat on* have been 28000 lbs am iting to $3 ,o.« 0. In a 1 li ion to this ley 10 il e*J egul ttil drug store

Will McGrew during the nine months he has been ih busin ss, has soil $5,2oo.

DRY G03DS.

Notwithstanding ths long continued cries of hard times which all supposed has beon in^ such deadly exicuti »n am' our drv go .ds merchants tnev come suiiiing," to use the slang of the ring with reports that business is as good as usual.

W. S. Rvcvr& Co. have sold $137,000 worth of goods about the same as last year.

Hoberg, reports trade about the same. Fels-nheld & Jauriet have disposed of $112,000 worth oPgoods. D. C. Greiner

in boots and shoes and dry goods ogether, $90,000 worth. Foster Bros, report -an increase over all previous vears. They have sold $165,600 worth of goods.

Ehrlich ha* not been with us a year, but has met with good success and iplea^ed with Hie Prairie City.

We have no exact data from the bth?r •T"«es. They all concur in their reports.

FLOURING MILLS.

Thcflouring mills ha»e u,i enjoye 1 a vea of prosperous business during 1S76 Th proprietor6of all such establishments expi *ss themselves as thoroughly sati-fi ed the proceeds of the Centennial i-»a. Terre Haute can boast of severa' of the largest and most flourishing con cerns in this line to be found in the state

PADROCK BFOTII?!!*.

rurnish

the following statement of their

'"isiness during the past year a in purchased 2oo,ror bushe' Coal 1.872 .-ins Flour manufactured 45.000 1 a rel Tran manufactured 200 1 ad Flour shipped -40,000 ba -rels Ja*h va'ue of goods manufactured $317.590

Yveragc No. of'men employed 12 ALMY HARRIS

Proprietor- of the IVoomingi^n avruie mills, have manufactured about 15 '00 barrels of flour, and 450 tun- i» Iran, during the past vear. The mill is provided with four runs of burrs, three or wheat and thr^e for corn ind has a capicity for he manufacture of 75 barrels of flour er dav. In addition to the above, 'h irm have mmufictured a lar-^e quan'itv 'f corn meal. 1'hev give employment to (even men.

THE WABASH MILLS,

under the proprietorship of Me sr* K:dder & )tieineyer, lit* been doi a pro*oerous business durin^ the pat year. \bou' 2 000 barrels of il 1-, u.i I about 'ootons o:'bran. Eight in 1 are em lloyed in this establisliment.

FURNITURE

S. K. A'lt^iis o'.ironly manuf icturinr furniture man. Terrc Haute has o!' course other dealers. Allen reports his iles at $io oo-

GROCERIES, WHOLESALE The wholesale grocerv trade of Terre Haute is her esoecial pride. It i. a cloud bv dav and a pillar of lire bv night which leads us on to claim superio itv ovar -*her burgs. First in the list, an'sofirU in the State comes Hulman a id

Ian, who have the second •time ma le annual sa'es amounting to the enormous sum of one million two hundred md fiftv thou-and dollars ($t,: 1,001,^ or about $4,000 per dav: Curtis, Re a in 1 Co. hive sold goods to the amount if $600,000,

S. C. Sco't is coifining himself to oec iltie* as follows: Liquors, tobicco*. and teas.

GROCERIES, RETAIL.

It is s?id that grocers can a tale unfold. That tale is as fol!»ws: W Rippetoe $100,000 00 m'l Miller, (all stores) 135,000 00 Patton '!ros. 61,000 or. Lee Bros.

21,000 00

The other dealer,*, Bvers Bros. Jos Briggs, Woodruff and Wright & Kaufman. who have accommodated us with figures have done a fair business.

HARDWARE.

A. G. Austin & Co. report values at the bo'tom in 1S75, causing business to be re-adjusted to meet the times. Expenses were cut dow 1 bad customers weeded out and the business of 1S76 managed with caution has proved more satisfactory and profitaolc, the voljuaju. of bu*ines« ha* slightly increased, amounting to $175,000.

Shryer Bros have also conducted a safe business which as amounted to $135,000. 00. Messrs Slaughter & Watkins Ivive disposed of $60,000.00 worth of goods at retail. The ot.ier housrs from whom no figures have b»en obtained report busi ness about the same a* last year.

HAT STORES.

There are three leading hat stores in IVrre llante, *'iz:J II Sykes, Folcv, Bros, and A 15 Stoner. Their asfifregate sales for the year will amount to $62,000.00

HOTELS.

There has been a slight increase of arrivals at the hotel over last year. The arrivals were about as follows:

Terre .laute House 16,711 St Clair House Tsin-e A'ugust 6] 2.9^4 Filbeck House 2,180 average number of boarders 20 Henderson House (for 126 days) 6.300 Cincinnati House 2,190 average boarders i3

FARMER'S HOTEL.

Average boarders 12 Yearly regi*'ry 1,825 Labor employed 4

HOMINY MILL.

The past year has been no diminution in the business of this, one of Terre Haute's chief manufacturing establish ments operated by Hudnut and Jenckes There have been (362.000) three hundred anJ sixty tvo thousand bush'ls of corn consumed during the vear

IRON FOUNDERS.

The Eagle Iron works has employed an average of twenty mfc and manufactured $55,000 worth of goods.

Jas. A Peabody, novelty machinists has made up $2,0.00 worth of specialties. PHOENIX FOUNDRY.

The Phoenix Foundry reports: Cash sales, $38,000. Men eniplovc28.

INSURANCE.

Reports of losses through fiies in Terre Haute during t' year appear in the Tire Record. The-e are sixty four com panics heie represented.by ten agents.

JEWELRY.

Thu lin of business has experienced a dull year. Until the recent excitement caused bj' O Tr. sk's auction sale there wa* not a ripple on the s?ill waters of this branch of trade- Mr O Traslc report* his sales at $2S. 100,00 for the vear. S Swope reports $20,000. The other jew ^lers fail to report exact amounts.

NOTIONS.

The GAZETTE ha* received bnt few figures from this branch of business. Htrz has sold $62,000.00.

T. H- Rid.lie. notions and Jewelry, $100,000. All ore well satisfied with what thev 1 ve done. ..h

LEATHER FINDINGS?

Messrs. J. 'f. O'Boyle, L. Burnett and B. W. Koo(man represent this important branch of Terre Haute wholea

Koopman and Burnett aggregate $150 000 each being about half that amouiv 5 vtv. O'Boyle hits also done a large bussDCS8w .v *.r ns&r

MUSIC HOUSES.

In this line Terre Haute can consider herself well represented. Each vear heJ dealer.* reach out further and further int the surrounding country. They keep men traveling :ind in tfverr w.iv 'advertise the place extahu'vely. W Paige &Co report their sales, riotwithsta ldin the hard time* nnd consequent difficult* of scll'ng luxuries, at $30,000 00. MARBLE WORKS AND STONE YARDS

Messrs. Barnett, Palmer, and S^vu have, put up 80 monuments and 100 h'eai' -toiT's. They rep art business fullv up to average:

Chad wick and Co. stone cutters have completed work as follows: McKeen and Minshalls new Bank Building corner 6th and Main streets.

Residence at Paris, Illinois. Theodore Iludnut's residence, Cherv treet

E. li B-vant's residence Chery street. J.J. Cronin's store front corner 13th md main.

J. Grain's porch floor and i-teps, south 6th street. W Warren1i porch floor and steps, -iouth 6 I1 street,

Brackenbush's house=, Ohio street. II O'Boyle cemertary curbing c.tr S Earleys fence curbing etc. Ohi street.

W Ball, repairs on residence south 6|hand more or les* jobbing work. Total amount of contracts etc. $10,000 ten thousa id dollar* 5

NAIL WORKS

Nipperr, E-q, president of th? Nail Work* company, furnish ,'.* the following: Since the middle of la*t Febr lary th Terre If m'e Iron and Nail Works have nade over 100,000 keg* of nails and th:ompanv has given pretty steady em oloyment during the year to about 22o nen at the work* pro,»e and wlien yon add to these he num jer 1 men ttiat are lirectlv and in .i -ectly employed 1 providing naterial for the works, such aig metal fo.md -rs. co d, sanist^ne, lireclay and or,' miners, keg staves, and kee nop inufacturers, and employees railroad transportation, it.will be seen that there is no end in the employment given by only one manufacturing establishment of our citv.

The market for the nails (outside ot our city) north ann south of Terre Haute, all through Illinois w.-st and lorth vest of thi-, city. The price of nailruled very low during the year hut remained firm at the rates fixed. Asabou' line-tenth* of the muney realized from the lies of the nails away from home, and this mer being all scattered amon: iur people here, therefore,, any' le 1 readily com ire'len 1 the Jre it 1 our penpli derive from such an establish ment.

PLOW WORKS.

The Newhart plow works have no' been idle th ugh business has been dull 1050 plows hive been made and cadi -ales amounting to$10,000 have been effected.

RAILROADS.

1 & sr. E. T. H. & C.

Car freight received, and forwarded year, $22642. Pa.sengers from and to Terre Haute. 11,224.

Auditor Russell Elliott kindlv furnishes the following intere-ting statement connected with the business (at this point) thi* road for the year. No. of passengers 33.757 Received $49,S6O.SI Freight 107.187,576 lbs. or 53.593 tons Received $69,564.9) Total revenue $110,425,75

TICKETS SOLD AT UNION DF POT. Vandalia, $78,409.60 Other roads, 56,823*75

Total 135.233.3 Vandalia proportionately larger loe 1 business than lor several years before.

BAGGAGE.

The balance of trade is evidently agfiinst Terre Haute, for during the veaaccording to Mr Abe Shewmaker, 25.144 nieces received, and 25.950 pieces checked ou', a balance against u» of8i6. Thi« is an increase over last year of over 2,000 pieces.

SEWING MACHINES.

The Singer and Howe companies enjoy a monopoly of the sewing machin trade in Terre Haute at present all other companies having withdrawn their ng ncies.

THE SINGER.

Mr A Marshall. a ent of the Singer manufacturing Co nnd manager of their business in this region reports the business of the Terre Haute agency for 1876^ us follows. Machines sold 1,115 Cash receipts for machines $89,250 For silks and merchandise 11.025

Total $100,225 Men employed 63 Wagons 5S

THE HOWE.

Mr. Olin, the present agent of the Howe in this city, succeeded the former agent in August last, since which time himself and assistants have sold 250 machines. As he has no record of the business, prior to the time when he took charge of the agency, he is unable to give an accurate statement of the sales. He estimates the sales during the year, at So©.

STOVE STORES.

Thi* much can be said of the stove trade, that it has en no worse this year han in former ones.

G. F. Smith has disposed of $3^,000 wor of good*. Win. Sellers has employed the short time comparatively he has been here and sold $15,000 worth during the last

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STREET RAILWAY.

Thi* enterprise has prospered no less the pa^t than in all previous years of its exigence here.

The following facts have been culled, respecting the last year's business: Daily trips to dcp«t 60 Daily trip* to East Main 50 Largest returns for one day $175 00 S a 0 0 Monthly average passengers main street line 5004 Daily average passengers Main street line Total no. (since June 15 h) -. Monthly average depot line Dailv

—•ness. The combined sales of, Total passengers 12 months 100464 I tvy

ti •*.

SADDLES AND HAR

lars.

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES

THE WESTERN UNION

•he oldest telegraph compmv, has done a

PAYNE AND PRATttR IN THE I-IKLD7 Last night the Democrats met at Mo. engine house and placed Capt. Wallace W. Payne in the field as their carv lidate :r councilman.

.JUKW.i.'rj /T.

The saddicrj IS istness Uas Jjeel^well ret tony statements

-•s g« ton^Sratf jiave failed. S "1 Arleih,have made 1,950 cols. sctToor

The managements of the Terre Haute public schools has been highly satislactoduring the last 3 bar. The -llowing factsr furnished by^ the SuperintendenL^. •vill be found 1 interest. Day school, tn'al enrolled 'n school, more than nine month -2024 Evening sc'ool, numBer enrolled -173 -School in session three montlw tota cost school, $3 .6 25 number that studied

Jtnnan, 512: peri-eotage ot attendance^ or tbeycAr, 919 i.umljer qr visits maimer ^v parents. 2997 nurrfHero? teachers em •loved, 77 total amount of money paid teachers. $44,326.45 average c-ompens-tion, five hundred and sixfy^cight dollars and thii-tv-cig''f r»»nN.

hflttv business. It ha* sent and received rom this point 31,255 of purelv citv nvs•cges. This does not include ••Pre**""*' ork nor through me«saees. The oflfi.-e 1 as received 250.000 word* per mor.th *r the Press an 1 about the same num•her of through m.-ssages.

ATI.\NTIC AND PACIFIC.- ». This comnanv has 'p-ned an office here. A business stands a« follow*

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report of the

Received.

Mr. Pavne's, qualiiicitions for the iffice need no commendation. He 'y 11 kno« to Terre Haute business cir-'' cles. There can be little doubt ofhi*. riumphant el.'ction

THE R'CPUriLfCANS

have issued the following: A CARD TO REPUBLIC AN* VOTERS. llKVIXJlfAHrKRS lire v.

Kxnjerivic 1:»ii ii 1 t'jo IIAITB,Jan* 2, nr.*.

To an a Wiir«l: In view of the antecedents of Mr. Mitcheil Pra'er, candidate for councilman, the committee resolved not to call a convention and recommend him for your -uffrage. Mr. Prater Wis a true soldi-r in th.- late reb llion, wheie he shed his lilooJ for the Union, lie is competent, honest and a moral man, and shod be elected will fill the office with*credit to himself and pride to the ward.

By order of the Republican Executive Comrnfttec. N. Fn.ni'CK. Chairman

Mrs. Theo. Stahl came within one number of drawing the doll at the Cent Store. Tne luckv number is 95,105, the own *r for which has not yet been found. She has 95,104.

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llonctst iVIrdii'SMC.

Of all medicints calculated to curtr affections of the throat, chest and lungs, we know of none we can begin to recornmend so highly as Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs, Colds» Asthma. Bronchitis. Hoarseness, Tickling in the Throat, loss of voic Sic. IT .loe positively cure and that where evervthing else has fa led. No tnedicinecan show one half so many positive and" permanent cures as have already been wrought by this wonderful remedy. For the Asthma and Bronchitis is a perfect -f specific, curing the worst cases in theshcrtest rime possible. We would saybv all means give it a trial. Three doseswill re'i vc the worst case. Trial bottle* free. Regular size $1.00. For sale by

GROVES & LOWRY.

Buy

Cassimares at E1!m' Woolen Mills. Salesroom north#estcorncr First and Walnut streets, Jari3~iwdw.

Buy

Amount. $ 2S2 56 311.09 4'-"*.l3 4S6.74

4io 2S9 531 317 640 320 796 424

Sept. i:t. Nov. Dec.

Total 2.39S 1,250 1480.^7 Since September ist.the receipts hare •ifen from $9.41 per day to an average ot $1622.

T.1ANP31TATI3MLIH"i There are a number of fast freight lines n: -esente 1 Te int *, s't.itwties ••l.uiveto whit they have do.w, may not be witho interest.

A. ft. SALsicir

ig rnt lor the Great Western Di^pa'cl»v is done business amounting 11 $40,772.5

U. SIIF.WMAKHR

of the Continental line, has sent about 600 loaded cars monthly to Baltimore.

UNDERTAKERS.

Supposing that by the time the wrarv reader has gotten down to this he i- pretty lemn. anvway, we will give some statistics on this inelanchilv subj -ct.

Isaac Ball, the undertaVer of this citv, ha* buried persona in Terre Haute and" •isvhere during the year a* follows, iniiarv 46. 40--T t-i 41 33 4V.

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ugust

Septenbr-T cto'ier November December

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isines» has Iwn gio I 'vit not "lively' in this line for'th:

voir.

FOURTH W.VD COJNCILMAM, surp.

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Repellents at Ellis' Woolen Mills. Salesroom northwest corner First an:l W ilnut stree s.

Jau3-iwd«r

Buy

Canton Flannels, Brown Musli.as at E?!r*»* vVojlen Mills. Salesroom northwest corner First arid Walnut streets.

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