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THURSDAY. JULY II, ®77.

KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS.

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9. WHITTIIK.

Out from Jerusalem. The kin* rode with h's great War chief* and lords of ptate, And Sheba'a queen with them.

Proud the Syrian sun, ?r- I« gold and purple sheen,* The dusky Ethiop queen

Smiled on King Soiemon.

Wisest of men, he knew

.a The languages of all *, H: The creatures great or small That trod Hie earth or flew.

Across an ant-hill led •, The king's path, and he heard Its small folk, and its word He thus interpreted:

"Here comes the king men greet' As wise, and good, and just, To crush us In thedast Under his heedleen lcet." $•

The great king bowed his head And saw the wide surprise Of the Queen of 8heba*8 eyes '"-A* he Ula her what they said. •, "O king!"she whispered swcot, "To» napi»y fate nare they ,,

Wh« perish in thy way Beneath thy gracious feet!"

•'Nay! '8olomon replied, The wise and strong should seek "flic welfare of the weak," ill turned his horse aside

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train, with quick alarm, Curved with their leader round The ant-hill's peopled mound, And left It free from harm, r,

The jeweled heal bent low "O king!" she said,4 henceforth The secret of thv worth And wisdom well I know.

...,, {-Happy must be the State V» none ruler heeueth more :tfv The murmurs *f the poor -n Than flatteries of ihe great," .*yfV Youth's Companion* ..

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i.ix-t FRIENDSHIP.

Frlenclship^s a plant s. Grown from ti*yseed Though you may sow with greatest care.

You may raise a weed,

Friendship is a vase

Delicate and dear It may fail you at your need When you use it, fear.

Friendship is a gem Precious—but, alas 1 Do not triiHt a luster clear,

You may choose but glass.

Friendship is a ring Golden—though a to/

.•ic Value yours if not all brass, Each has some alloy.

Friendship is a fire— O! the gladsome cheer! Watch while you its warath enjoy,

Lest It leave you drear.

Friendship is a chain, Howe'er seeming Mr, Yet has links which thoughtless wear

Will break throagh ere long.

But alas for words Let my rhyning "end. Learn not friends'

ship from a song,

But from some true friend.

SALEM WITCHCRAFT DONE.

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The young daughter ot' Elijah Nichols, a blacksmith ot Herdstown, N. J., is afflicted in the most singular and mysterious manner. She predicted evil on ner fifteenth birthday, which betellon the

of October last, and since that

& date she has been bed-ridden and paralyzed. At times there appears under the counterpane of heir bed the presence of a rat, a rabbit or a cat, swiftly moving from place to place and eluding detection.

In vain is the bed stripped, or the patient removed to another place the "presence" is »nly powerless to act when 1 the mother sleeps with the child. The physicians, no less than the clergy, and the common folks of all the countryside, are baffled. Crowds come daily to see a the mystery. On one recent occasion,

Mr. Richards, Mayor of Dover, held his stiff hat above the "presence," and the hat received a blow that crushed it Violent blows have been given to the hanu, to a cane, and toother objects held out over the place where the "presence" was, and, needless to say, attempts to grab the presence have failed. All the while she ties moaning as in terror or pain, and her position in the bed would be plainly such as to show that the mysterious movements, were not caused by her. The girl has been known to abstain from all food for the spacc of fifteen days, and for some weeks past she has only received a little milk daily. Yet her face is fair, and when the visitation is not nigh, her sleep is apparently health* ful. Her parents are plain and honest people, who view this as an affliction not to be turned to account for'notoriety or money. The neighbors, unable to account for it in any other way, have solemnly decreed witchcraft against an old woman living among them, and charms are in active demand.—[Exchange.

Honest Medicine.

Of all medicints calculated to cure affections of the throat, chest and lungs, we know Qf none we can begin to recommend so highly as Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Tickling in the Throat, loss of voice, &c. It does positively cure, and that where everything else has failed. No medicine can show one half so many positive and permanent cures as have already been wrought by this wonderful remedy. For the Asthma and Bronchitis it is a perfect specific, curing the worst cases in the shortest time possible. We would say by all means give it a trial. Three doses will relieve the worst case. Trial bottles free. Regular size $1.00. For sale by 3?' VIL GITOVKM &LOWRY.

THE

STORM.

OK THE RAIL, JULY

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6th,

1877.

Editor Evening Gazette: The T. H. C. train this morning, on its downward trip, when about seven miles below Terre Haute, encountered a large black gum tree that was blown across the track by the storm last night. The fall of the tree hail mashed the track into the ground, and had broken the rails in two places. The wind seems to have come from the noi theast, and having come across an open space where it scattered the wheat shocks in a promiscous manner, it struck the woods at this place and uprooted and twisted off large trees by the score. The train was delayed until a log was cut out and rolled away and the track pushed up. Harvest is not all down here yet, but the wheat is very

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I SELECCSD PARAGRAPHS Full many a fraud of purest cheek serene The life insurance offices now bear

quiet robbers fain would keep unseen' jfe. Their doings from the State HouSfe1 inspectairew—

But they can t.

"Ju6t my luck," said a waiting maid, sadly. ''Here I am in a family where every one has a love affair on hand and leaves letters lving about opened, and I can't read."—From the French. 1

When you read in the papers that a well known hotel at a summer resort has "enlarged its rooms for the coming season," you may infer that they have scraped the paper off the walls. ft

A statute of Moses, to be placed on a fountain in Fairmount, has arrived in Philadelphia. It is seventeen feet high, weighs about fifteen tons, and is so large that it could not be accommodated in the hold of the vessel, and it was put, on the main deck.

Queen Victoria has been put out of temper this year by the toilets of the court. No fewer than four ladies have been formally "censured" for making their appearance in "unbecoming costumes." Whether they were dressed too much or too little, is not stated. "Don't put too much confidence in a lover's vows and sighs,*' said Mrs. Partington to her niece "let him tell you that you have Hps like strawberries and cream, checks like a tarnation and eyes liKe an arterisk but such things oftener come from-a tender head than a tender heart."

Young ladies in the first stage of love are unable to quite finish the first saucer of ice-cream. But girls who have been engaged two or three times will always take another dish if you urge it, and some of them can eat two quarts. By ice cream you may know them.

This is the song they sing in Philadelphia Oh, Frank Murphy, come again,

And keep our band together* The flock kiost sadly needs thy brain. For thou wert eur bell wether. Blinkins says: I ain't much on problems in Euclid, and dont care about evolution, but when a man sits down on a bumble-, bee at a picnio I can tell him how long it will take him to get up just as well as auy professor at Yale."

The flower-loving citizen, who has 6pent all his leisure time that season in laying out flower beds and fostering the same, will have his reward this summer when his daughter's beaux will carry off his choicest varieties too button-hole bouquets. Beneath this marble ond old Marble liesi This marble truly tell that Marble die6 At the last trump old marble shall be rent Marble shall rise, yet not this monument For marble never lived and never dies. Yet Marble once did live, still lives, and never dies.

The ways of the candidate are often past finding out. The Toccoa (Ga.) Herald says "It is said one of our convention delegates elect hold twenty acres cotton while engaged in the canvass. His plan never to call a man from his work to talk about elections (constitutional conventions) but to go right into the field, ask fork hoe, ana go to work."

A Connecticut dentist has got hold of a composition whereby he can make teeth at a cost of less than half dollar a set. This will enable a female wearer of false teeth to have a set to n.atch every suit she owns, both in color and design. With pink goods pink teeth, with striped goods striped teeth, and so on. The man who discovered Connecticut was no slouch.

Jennie June has been to the London Lyceum, and says of the ladies' toilets: "They look dowdyish, old fashioned and patchy. The majority of the dresses are either cut low or slope off on the shoulders, are short in the waist and what might be called bunchy, and produce an aggregate effect in combination with old fashioned colors, stripes, figures and the like, suggestive of twenty years ago. Then instead of bonnets the middle-aged ladies wear horrible things on their heads."?

It is saui of the Stewart cathedral: "The steps leading to the choir and chan eel are of polished granite and marble. The floor alone will cost

$20,000.

&THE TERRE HaUTE

statue of Mr Stewar) will occupy a niche on one side of the chancel, and another of Mrs. Stewart a niche on the other side. The crypt in the basement is not yet finished. It is intended for the body ot Mr Stewart, which will lie in a 6arcophague on the floor in the center. Mrs Stewart will also eventually lie thore, side by side with her husband.

Mr Geo W. Blunt writes in a commu: nication to the New York Evening Post ••You object to my going beyond my specialities. I should die if I was tied down to them. I am engaged in milk investigations, the Gulf Stream' the history of the Custom House Collectors for the last fifty years, and, worse than all, I am teaching a favorite grf nd-daughter the history of Ireland. The breaking of a colt is nothing to it."

It was "court week" in' a country tavern, and a late comer was given one of dozen cots which had heen put up temporarily in the parlor. There was a grand chorus of snores from the other cots. After an hour or more of this uproar, one of the most resonant snores brought up with a snort, and was suddenly silent. A Frenchman, who occupied a cot in an extreme corner of the room .exclaimed: "T^nk. God, von ees dead!"

The New York World 6ays the other day a lady was deploring the death of an acquaintance with one of the latter's most intimate friends. During the course of their conversation the son of the deceased gentleman entered the room, and conversation became general. On his departure, however, free and personal comment was passed upon him. Said lady No.

"That boy has got his moth

er's eyes." "Yes," subscribed No. 1, re flectively, "and I noticed that he had got his father's umbrella." This remarkable description has stuck to him ever since, audhe is known as "the boy with his mother's eyes and his fathers umbrella."

THOSE Terre Haute families that went to Baltimore recently met with

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uite railroad accident near Columbus on the Pan Handie R. R-, and were delayed several hours. George Seaman had his face badly bruised.

THE SCHOLAR IN POLITICS,

SPEECH or CARL SCIIURZ AT THE HARVARD COLLEGE ALUMNI DINNER.

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN: There is no more comfortable and pleasant institution among men than a good, hearty, well regulated mutual admiration society. [Loud laughter.] I was forcibly reminxled of the fact when I listened to the introduction with which my triend the Attorney General has honored me. Let me assure you that the members of the present Cabinet always speak as pleasantly of one another, [laughterj and in this respect we are the happiest family that ever existed. [Renewed laughter] All the good things said by the Aitorney General, my fi iends, of me, I might say of him, with the exception of one, and that is that he did not graduate at the University of Bonn, but at the University ot Harvard, at which I find no fault. [Laughter.]

I may lay a claim to the honor of being bound to this university by the ties of gratitude. I suppose it may be known to you that last year I was distinguished by an honorary degree, that of Doctor of Laws, and I am proud to say that although the President of the United States outranks me in ability as well as in station,! am one year ahead of him as a Doctor of Laws. [Laughter.] In order to justify the honor which the university has conferred Upon me, you might expect me to indulge in a comprehensive disquisition perhaps upon international law, but I assure you I shall not. I shall, therefore, touch politics gently. You have heard of the scholar in politics. It It is one of those things which has been discussed verj extensively of late and justly so, for we have arrived at a period in our history where we are confronted by a multitude of problems which demand of public men not only correct sentiment, but a thorough knowledge of the things Jp deal with, [applause] and also that intellectual honesty which is not afraid to draw conclusions from sound reasoning upon ^,60und premises, and although at the time these conclusions may appear somewhat unpopular. This, seems to me, is what at this time is needed, and therefore the presence and activity of the scholar in politics is not only desired, but it is actually necessary. Mark you, I do not mean that every man who mixes „in politics should have a thorough knowledge of Greek, for I know a great many men who have rendered essential service did not know Greek, while on the other hand some who did know Greek turned out to be of very little use. .Neither do I think that every scholar should at once make public and active strife for position. Scholars are proverbially poor, and I think as a general rule that the man who devotes himself to public life should not have to depend exclusively upon the emoluments of office for a living. But I do mean that those who have received a literary education themselves, who have learned at a university like this, that highest art, namely, how to learn and how to study, those who have acquired the faculty ot acquiring more knowledge than that which has been taught them at school, those who in the course of study have enriched their minds and elevated their sentiments' should do something tor their country. Let them not believe that they do their whole duty when they end their studies and occasionally give an expression of their views, and* when that is over think their work is done. No, gentlemen, the scholar, like the rest of us, has to put his shoulder to the wheel and take hand at what is called active politics. [Applause.] There have been many who think it is altogether gentlemanly to do so. but what would you have thought ot the men from Harvard who, at the breaingout of the war, should have thought it ungentlemanly to shoulder the musket and engage in this somewhat dirty work of battle? Let us look upon owr activity in public affairs not as It matter of taste, but as a matter of duty. [Applause

Moreover, without divuging any secrets, I may say that the members of the present Administration sympathise with the scholar in politics, as you may have seen from a recent letter in the newspapers, in which the President ot' the United States tells the heads of the departments that he wants the officers of this government to mind their official duties [applause], and not to try to control party politics. Do you know what that n.eans? Undoubtedly you heard of Gladstone's efforts to disestablish the Irish Church. This means disestablishment of the machine in party politics. [Cries of "Good," and applause.} If means that every one shall be told to go to the caucus or convention without feeling himself helpless at the door, knowing that things have been fixed by the Postmaster and the Custom House. [Applause.] It means that there shall be a road open to free

thought

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vated sentiment in the pursuit of great public objects. But I am reminded that we are required soon to leave, and I desire to offer a to st* myself, and ask a gentleman now ittang among us to respond to it. I sei a gentleman, one of the professors mahis university, a fair illustration of the of td that the office should seek the man wornot the man the office, [applause] and Imight say that in this case, if report speaks truly,the office had to knock several times at the door before it was opened to come in. [Applause.] A gentle man whose selection for a^ position abroad, where Washington Irving, who the footsteps of to Harvard University, honor to him,and honor to the adminis tration which made it, and will do honor to the country, I mean Professor Lowell, ot Howard University, [loude applause], whom I call upon to respond to the toast "The htgher order of learning, one of the most potent agencies to produce a higher order of public life." [Applause].

I have been married eighteen years and never had a cross word from my husband," was what a Michigan womar swore to. Ladies, step this way for fond hushands.—[Detroit Free Press.

Don't you do it, ladies. The Mich-i-ganders are all blind as bats that roost in their pine woods.

Isn't it rather cheeky for Gen. Sheridan to sit on his shoulders- in Chicago and remark that there will be no general Indian war If it wouldn't be saucy we'd like to know what he knows about it—[Detroit Free Press.

would

be rather cheeky for the Free

Press fiend to sit on his shoulders when he has ample accommodation in another part of his corporosity for sitting.

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OVER THE OCEAN.

A Battle Expected at orNearKars,

What is Being Done in Bui-

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Roumania Asking Austria's 'Assent to her Crossing the, r«- pu.m Danube. ________ 4***1 What Gen. MelikofT lia§

Bceifc Doing ill Asia.

He Holds the Road to Kars.

What the Russians are1" Waiting for Before Advancing.

Bosnians Want Foreigners to Occupy Their Country—Montenegro Being Evacuated.

Refuges Perishing From Hunger. ,*£„*

Why the British Fleet is at Bisike Bay—An Explanation, y, __ I .i*. •"THE OCCUPATION OF BOSNIA. "-i~7

Belgrade, June 6.—The Greek and Roman Christians of Bosnia are anxious ly awaiting the result of their patition asking for the occupation of Bosnia by Austrian troops. Apart of the Mohammeden population also favor foreign occupation.

MONTENEGRO.

Constantinople, July 6.—Two thousand men have arrived from Simpnia to wafk on the fortification. All the papeis seem to confirm the view that the Turki are about to withdraw the greater part of their forces from Monteuegro.

Constantinople, July 6.—Fifteen hundred persons fleeing from the Adder t© the Turkish lines from fear of hunger

PERISHED FROM HUNGER.

Suleiman Pasha received orders to march from Badgoritza toward the Danube with

battalions. About as many

are ordered to Ep Pirus. The latter is probably the force mentioned to embark at Antivir. «. v7v",» I \VHEF TLH£ FFGHT WILL BE*"4"

Buchai est, July 6.—No important action is expected until the Russians have established depots of supplies on the south side of the Danube, and prepared everything for an advance.

RUSSIAN LOSSES.

St. Petersburg July 6.—It is officially announced that the Russian losses in crossing the Danube at Sistov were 30of killed and

400

wounded.

WHAT ENGLAND IS DOING WITH HER FLEET. "London, July 6.—In the House of Commons this afternoon Sir Stafford Northcote, Cancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to a question said the object of sending the Mediterranean fleet to Besika bap was that it would be a convenient station. The position was cehtral enabling the commander to communicate easily with the ambassador at Constantinoble and the home government. As to why the fleet was not sent to the Suez canal, the Chancellor says it was because it was not a convenient central position, and besides there was no reason why more than one ship should be stationed at the Suez canal. The fleet at Besika bav numbers seven ironclads and one frigate.

ROUMANIA.

Vieuna, July 6.—The Roumanian Govt, before sending troops across the Danube inquired how Austria would regard to such a step and was informed as long as the Roumanian army respected Servian neutrality Austria would remain indifferent to its movements.. I

MEL1KOPF.

London, July 6—The master cotton spinners of Bolton have resolved to reduce the wages of operatives

per cent.,

provided the representatives of two thirds of the spindles agree to make a reduction,

A letter from Cettiinge says that the Bussiao government wa$ deceived regarding Prince Nicholas' military capacity, and threw uj on him a responsibility to which he was not eqasl, and which should have been shared by efficient military advinere. The prince's fitness to civilize his people is much greater than for such a crisis ss the pres-

eDt* RUSSIAN RETROGRADE MOVEMENT.

LONDON, Joiy 5.—A telegram from Constantinople, dated to-day, says that the Russian retrograde movement at Kars will, it is believed, be hastened by the report which has leached Erzeroam of a great spread of the insarrection in tbe Cancassus.

OGING TO STRIKE HARD.

LONDON, July 5.—The Times in a leading article says: If the Russians had captured Kars and Batown tbev would nave been strongly tempted to of-

CHABGX OF FUBPOM.

Ppmb, July 5.—At the termination of the recent iuccesaful campaign against Montenegro, it was asserted from Constantinople that the Turkish government would be appointed and the country re duced to the position of a Turkish province also that Sulieman and said pashas were about to march upon Cattin je. Without any further fighting to account for the change in Turkish plans, its now announced that Mehemet Ali has been appointed to command the army in Thes. galy, and Sulieman pasha recalled to Constantinople, probably with his srmy These measures give point to the reports recently current that Austria, and probably other powers, brought a pressure at Con8tantinaple to save Montenegro from being crushed, and ako with a view of taking away from Servia one pretext for joiuing in the hostilities agasnst the Turks.

HICK HOT UF TO THS MASK:

fer easy terms of peace, but now they have been so lair baffled, they must strike with all their might, in Europe, everything tends to show they intent to strike very hard indeed.'

FLEEING FROM THI WRATH TO COME. BCCHARIST, July 5.—It is said that the Mussel mans are preparing to flee fioni 1 he scenes of last years attrocities

in Bulgaria, fearing vengeance from the RussiaWand Bulgarians. GKKKRAL WAR NOTES.

BUCHAREST, July 5.—It is stated here that over 12,000 Bussians have crossed the Danube at Siminitza, with an immense train of artillery, comprising some pieces very heavy. The enthusiasm of the Bussian troops is very great. The cavalry marches, about twenty kelometries in advance of the infantry, and as the Turks have no proportionate amount of cavalry to meet them, tbe Bussians are scourfng the country up to the foot of the Balkans, the Turkisn outposts are at Jantra, which is their present advanced line. The centre of their army is near Basgrad, the right covering Rutschuk, and the left stretching toward Sbumla. It is reported that only 12,000 men are left in the Silestria fort. A great battle in Bulgaria will probably be fought on the above line, if the Turks give battle in 4pen field north of the Balkans. It is probable that there will be little of interest from the front until the new dispositions of troops by both sides, made necessary by the Bussian advance in the Dobrudscha and the operations near Leminitsa, are completed. The Russians have had several skirmishes with the Russian outposts on the Jantra. mm

FE THE ASIAN CAMPAIGN. L'.„ -F '-i ERZEROUM, July 5.—The Despatch says it is unlikely, even if the Russians are strongly reinforced, that they can sucaessfuHy renew the Asian, campaign this year. *r

A "Vienna special says that leu weeks hence the climate will preclude any effective warfare.

NO WAR WITH RUSSIA.

EDINBURG, July 5.—A'London special says that one or two English ministers would instantly resign rather than risk war with Russia on the question of neutrality of Dordanelles.

A BATTLE EXPECTED.

VIENNA, July 6.—General Tergukassoff is now retiring via Tagisman, to Ardost. A battle is expected there which will decide the fate of Kars. TURKISH GUNNERS MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT.

PERA, July 5.—Many Turks, whilst working their guns at Rutschuk, have been killed by rifle fire from the houses adjacent to the fort. These mysterious assassinations are causing bad blood against the Bulgarians.

COLLIN JE OCCTPIED BY TURKS. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 5.—It is an nounced that Sulienion Pasha occupies Celtije and will conduct the affairs of Montenegro until peace, which Austria is endeavoring to arrange is concluded,

THE POPE.

PARIS, July 5.—A dispatch from Rome states that the ill health of the pope is aggiavated dropsy has

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i'W Hktf LET US SAVE THE BOOT ON THE RIGHT LEG FOR ONCE. 1'

In along article on journalism and reporters, the New York Evening Mail says thus: "It is the people and not the journalists who are 'dead heads.' In case anything more serious than stubbing the toe befals a man he hastens to the nearest newspaper and demands that the editor shall wield the pen and shed ink in his vindication or defense. And if the jaded editor does not with alacrity espouse the cause of his 'patron' he will make an enemy tor life. 'Members of the press' are literally hunt1 eddown by all sorts of people who have axes to gnng. The managers of a public meeting who do not find the reporters at the table, suffer stings of disappointment the judge, who sonorously blows his nose before reading his opinion, looks anxiously for the stenographers the preacher who descants upon some special subject, loses spirit it the representatives of the press are not there even the burglar on the way to the state prison covets a talk with the 'newspaper' man. Yet the outside barbarian thinks all newspaper men are dead heads, and envies them the fine times they have in the way of free dinners and free tickets to all manner of shows. There never was a greater mistake. People do not seem to realize that on the part of the journalist, it is merely a matter of business that the reporter goes to these places, so attractive to outsiders. much as the horse goes to plow-— because he must do so. We venture to say that four-fifths ot these entertainments are to journalists intolerable bores.. The press is the victim of the public's rapacious and unceasing demand for services without pay. Let us have the boot on the right leg."

HOW A JUDGE BEGGED TO BE LET IN. Philadelphia Press.

Yesterday morning the newly appointed judge, D. Newlin Fell, made his appearance in the new court-house to sit in criminal cases. Walking to the gate in the iron railing that surrounded the district attorney's desk, he attempted to enter, when lie was stopped by a tipstave, who not being acquainted with the new judge, mechanically asked: "What do you want?"

Judge Fell—"I desire to come in." vTipstave—"What for?" Judge Fell—"To sit on the bench." Tipstave—"Oh, now. Why, you can't do that We don't allow it. What do you want to do that for."

Jndge Fell—"To try the cases. An explanation then ensued, and the tipstave's amazement and chagrin were great when he ascertained that he had thus dallied with the Judge. It created great merriment, and his honor regarded the affair as a joke.

DONATION PARTIES. The members and friends of the United Brethren church in this city remembered their pastor and family recently, in making them two visits in the way of donation parties. Their hearts were cheered the first time by the presentation of cash aad provisions. The next visit brought furniture and other articles of value to turnish the new parsonage.

BY AN OBSERVER.

ON Fourth-of-July -af^rnoon' Mr Thomas Workheiser the candy maker at White's ice cream factory was standing in the south room when a spent bullet of no

calibre came flying through the open door and hit a sharp rap on his bare arm. doing no other harm. Careless shooting bv some one.

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in an opera

tion was attempted, but the weakness of the p&tient prevented its success.

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Mr. John Adams and Hits Hattie Jaycox call on the Gazette,

And Want to Know by What Right the Publication or Yesterday was Made.

Yesterday the GAZETTE published an extract from a letter written by one no. R. Adams, a traveling agent for Peck & Wagner, to an unmarried inamorata named Hattie Jaycox, and the further fact of a quarrel and separation on^this account betwi his wife, ft**

ory

account between the said Adanup and

The GAZETTE understands itself in this matter and has nothiug to retract. With private peccadilloes the editors of this paper have no more to do, and interference on thejr part is more blamable, because more' exasperating, than from any private citizen. But with matters of public record, criminal or not, and all cases of open yiolation of statute, this paper has a right/on account of the citienship of its writers and a duty, by reason of the public position it occupies, to publish anJ to criticise. The full exercise of this right»the GAZETTE has the first person yet to see who can curtail. The following card from Mr. Adams in the Express of this morning explains itself

Card Fran Mr. AdamN.

4 [To the Editor of The Express.] TERRE HAUTE, July 6,1877. In the Evening Gsxette of to-day appeared an article designed to air my domestic difficulties, which reflected on me more severely than my transgressions warrant. I am aware of the fact that the public always sympathize with the woman in a conrtoversy between man and wife, and I have but little to say in my own defense. It is false that I have failed to provide for my family. I can

fast

irove that my wife asserted on Tuesday that she was providrd with every necessity The cause of the lack of attention I have shown my wife has been incompatibly of temper. I have found it impossible to live (igaciably with her and have naturally

Bought

thejeompanion-

ship of others: but I have always furnished my family with every thing they needed, so far as my means would go. 1 never deserted my wife. She told me to leave the house on Tuesday morning last and I obeyed the order. I have no desire to attack any woman, much less my wife, but the natural law of self defense compels me to say this much. If 1 am farther attacked I will defend myself more vigorously.

JOHN R. ADAMS.

At about nine o'clock this morning a young woman probably twenty-two or three years old, rather neatly but not particu'arly tastefully dressed, having a keen black eye, quick, watchful expression and rather fair complexion, stepped a little hastily into this office and said to the person in attendance who had never' seen her before:

I am Hattie Jaycox. I want to know by what right you made that publication about me."

Reporter—By virtue of the right by which we make all such publications. Miss Jaycox—It is not true.

Reporter—Do you deny the authenticity of the letter? Miss Jaycox—No but where did you get it?

Reporter—If you doubt the legal right to publish you can easily find out. Otherwise we shall docline to tell you, further than it came from an officer.

Miss. Jaycox—We don't live together sa man and wife, as reported. Rept.—You don't pretend to say that the infant mentioned in another part of the letter, not published, is not his, do -V0U?

MissJ.—Yes,it is his. During some other conversation, Adams stepped in and inqu red what was going on.

He also denied that they were or had lived together at man and wife. He admitted that in the letter he said he was [oing to send for Miss Jaycox, and that v5 license was all that is required in Arkansas for unmartied people to live together, but thought it great point that he Had not yet sent for her.

He likewise admmitted the child, which effectually settled that objection. He then insisted that he had not left his wife but thaf she had ordered him from .thf premise*.

As the GAZETTE'S information comes through another party, from his wife, it sees no reason to discredit her and believe hi.n.

Upon their own admission both are living or have lived in open adultery and they don't better their case any by attempting to raise a rumpus. There is no *5 license here that the GAZETTE knows of but, instead, a heavypenalty for such violation of statute. The GAZETT® has no interest in the case whatever, never ha&ing any acquaintance with either parties, further than to publish the facts, which it will continue to do.

hope

S.S. WHITEHEAD.

He Waives Preliminary Examination/-

smr tbe Killing «f Hymn at Marf,

shall.

(From Friday's the Mb, Issue.) The preliminary trial of Mr. S. S. Whitehead who shot Ryan at Marshall a few weeks sinoe was set for to-day and a GAZETTE reporter was despatched to Marshall this morning where it was found that Mr. Whitehead waived fa preliminary examination and was admitted to bail in the sum of

$4,000.

The case will be tried at tHe next term of court in November Judge Davis presiding. It is the prevailing opimon Marshall that Mr. Whitehead was justifiable in shooting Ryan and that he will be acquitted.

Bashfnl Spooner (on his honeymoon). "Larry, rov wife and I have both noticed that the townspeople stare at us very hard. I

you haven't been telling

anybody that we are newly married.' Larry the faithful factotum: "Me tell 'emsor? Is it loikely Oid go agin my express ordhtrs? Why, whinever anybody's thryed to pump me, sir Oive towld 'em you wasn't married at all!"

Mr. L. B. Root the New York member of the dry goods house of ^Hoberg, Root & Co., arrived in tb» city from New York yester^y.