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ALCOTT AND HIS FRIENDS. :. Jf fjji The Concord Transcendentalists-

A Familiar Talk In Joseph Cook's Parlors—Bronson Alcott's Evening.

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Boston, April 21—The Rev. Joseph Cook's parlors at the Hotel Bellevue, in this citv, have been opened during the Winter for a monthly conversation, or symposium, conducted by the venerable Bronson Alcott, the Concord transcend entalist. Mr. Alcott and Mr. Cook have aimed to invjte representative men, theological professors, doctors of divinity, literary men a'd leading laymen, to participate in the discussions, and have brought together persons as diverse in their views as Dr. Bartol and President Warren, or as Samuel JohnHon and young Professor Borden P. Bowne. The gatherings have certainly been unique, delightful and instructive.

Two weeks ago the parlors were crowded to hear Mr. Alcott discourse, in his familiar conversational 6t)le, on his Concord friends, living and deceased, who have been known as leaders in the transcendental movement, and none who were present will soon forget the utterances of that occasion. Mr. Alcott himself is nearly eighty years old, a tall, wellproportioned, sunny old gentleman, with long, silvery hair, a merry twinkle in his eye, and some remembrance of boyhood still lightning up his countenance. _IIe has always been a great talker. In iact, it is said that he has done but little else all his life. The success of his daughter, Louisa Alcott. as the writer of ''Little Women" and kindred books, has placed •him in comfortable circumstances, and -•he new spends a good part of hi* time as a New England Socrates, in answering and asking questions which are put to him in public and private circles. He is a wise man and has much drv wit for the seasoning of his speech. As nian strange things are said of him as of Emerson or Thoreau. but with all his vaga,ries or transcendental theories he has always combined such an amount of good sense and such a genial spirit that friends spring up in his path wherever he goes. His task a fortnight since was one which demanded great delicacy and tact, because he touched upon the'marked peculiarities of living persons, but I heard nothing which offended good taste or which trenched upon the obligations of friendship and he said so much which is of interert to a wider circle than the fifty persons who could listen to him in Mr. Cook's parlors, that I send you a pretty full report of his in formal address. His audience was select if not large, and included many men who have made or are making their mark He aimed to give only outlines, not full portraits, and began his address -with the remark that American literature

Hvhich had anything original in it was

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yet over fifty years old. The substance of what he sai,d follows: EMERSON. ,^..v "Emerson is our first truly American -or New England writer. Abroad he is regarded as our chiet representative author, and has had a wider influence than any of his contemporaries upon our younger writers. If he is less read than .v other authors, he always controls his readers. It is always Emerson himself whois speaking. He is not a wide reader, and yet nothing has escaped him.

He is an absorbing reader. This is alwayb a characteristic of genius. While it borrows, it hides its borrowings." Mr. I Alcott then traced the genesis of one of

JSmerson's essays. "He is a man of the country and is familiar with nature. He loves solitude and knows what to do

with it. He does nothing or thinks nothing which he does not put down in jihis journal or note-book. So in an interview with a friend or in readirg a .book, the best thing said or read goes in^ato the diary. It doesn't take him long to read a book. It is a good rule to read the last sentence of most books and skim -.the rest. All scholars know what this means. The point is to get the outcome of a person in the quickest way. He ^yknows how to get the honey out of books. .nature and experience He has the eye of aNew Englander, and his observa--i^tions go into his common place books.

What is to be done with them? When .. ,an idea seizes him he turns to these notebooks to see what he lias upon it. This ^paragraph, he savs, is good for a begin$aning. That o.ie is best, to close with

Once I went i.ito his study and found ^him lying on the floor with the sheets of his common place book spread out in ^every direction, while he was trying to -gather up from them what he wanted --ror the essay .in hand. When he has culled what he want6 and shuffled his 'materials into some form, he goes out to tiread his lecture, and tries it on people to llsee how it fits, and when he is satisfied by actual experience tlia: thi-rc is some---jthing in it, he sends it to press. He does

Jnot read criticisms on his writings, and -while he always listens with courtesy &to the advice of otheis, is seldom known to follow it. He writes almost as well j^as bright and cultivated women converse.

They always speak the best English. ^Emerson has been before the public forty years, and may be fairly said to have made the American lecture. No course

*%of first-class lectures for many vears has

H* 4 been thought to be complete without one from him. When he first began to lecture in Boston the people re hardly up ^to him, and used to say, 'He belongs to a family of insane people.' The late Jerc miah Mason,'noted for his strong com-mo-i sense, was persuaded by his dauehtFsV era to attend one of Emerson's lectures a a a when asked his opinion, said, turning to his daughter, 'I don't understand it, but* the girls can tell you all about it. Emerson is the typical gentleman of this country for modesty, for grace of manner, |for magnanimity, for hospitality, for ^friendship."

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HAWTHORNE.

Mr. Alcott then passed on to Hawthorne. "There is a myth," he said, "about the great romancer that he was ^•o shy that he was never seen in Salem by daylight. He was as coy as a maiden, aad had to be courted in much the same manner. He could never be induced to before the public. When in London went to the Lord Mayor's "dinner on the pledge that he should not be asked to make a speech. He was called on, however, and, to his own and the sur

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of every body else, made one good rpeech in England. He was my nearest neighbor. Our estates were side by side, but Hawthorne never entered his friend's %ate but twice in four rears. His visits

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time he soon excused himself because the stove was too hot, the next time because the clock ticked too loud. His habit was to hide himself, after dinner, in the remotest corner of the room, and enjoy the conversation without taking any part in it. His method of writing was much like Emerson's, out of commonplace books. He was a man of dark type (alluding to his features and temperament), and there is a certain darkness running through all

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writings. He is

verv great on sin. H® cao track a sin

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all his purlieus better than

any man I have known. This makes his writings most interesting to young people. They like intensity. There is a fine humor, wit, or rather irony, running through his romances and stories. All his books make for virtue. They are not always wholesome, and yet they are moral. They intimate rattier than speak the religious type of thought."

MARGARET FULLER.

Mr. Alcott then turned to Margaret Fuller. "Wherever there is a noble man, there is a noble woman not far off. Margaret Fuller is the representative American woman. Her boak, 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century,' is what most men and women accept as truth. But she is not in her books. She was great in conversation. This is the special grace of women, and she Wad it." Mr. Alcott here referred to the Transcendental Club, where the members were all persons who have since made a name in the world, and said that, though wit and brightness were there in abundance, Margaret Fuller always carried off the palm by her speeches and conversation. "She was not only scholarly, but eminently womanly. Man is man because intellect leads his affections, and woman is woman because her affections lead the intellect. Genius makes men and women alike in' this respect. It has the best in each sex. Margaret Fuller had the best gifts of man added to those of a woman. When she

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any time in

of a triend every one sought

her, and even the servants consulted her as to their private wishes. THOREAU AND CHANNING.

Though Mr. Alcott's touches were rapid, the company listened with the closest attention and the keenest enjoyment to what he said. He passed on to Henry D. Thoreau. "There are strange myths about him. Perpetual truthfulness was his chief attribute. If he seemed cynical at times, it was only his way of looking at society. There have been various attempts to plant Paradise in New England, and Thoreau's has befen the most successful of all 1 He began with himself." Mr. Alcott said that there was great truth in the remark of Socrates that "he who has the fewest wants ii most a man." Thoreau's Walden Pond exper iment was then described, at length

It was Emerson's land that Thoreau adventured upon. He borrowed an axe dug his cellar and potato hole himself, bargained with a wild Irishman for a 6hantv in the neighborhood, which furnished boards and nails at the expense of a dollar and a half, paid for the shanty with some work at surveying for a Concord farmer, put up his own shanty with the assistance ot Emerson, Alcott and others who attended the raising, provided himself with a Homer and ISJew Testament or Bible as a library, and began his eighteen months' experiment of getting acquainted with himself and with what was in Concord. He believed that he dwelt in the center of the universe, and had serious thoughts of annexing the rest of the planet to Concord. Ha had a pair of eyes in that head of his. The fable is told of him that a certain flower "ear Walden Pond always delayed its blossom uniil Thoreau came to cive it his recognition and blessing. He knew nature better than any man before him. Not even Gilbert White, of Selborne, knew it better. He was a good visitor. He knew what to say, and when to leave, and did n»t cotne too often. Eight volumes of his writings have been published, and there are as many more to be coll-cted out of his npie-books by the competent editor. This man was nol destitute of affection. He knew what the tender passion was He was known to be a little tender once to a wild Irish girl who walked with him in the country."

The next portrait which Mr. Alcott painted was that of William Ellery Channing, the nephew of the Channing. "There are three Channings living whose names begin with William—William F., William Ellery is a poet. He writes fine passages, but not whole poems. He is the shyest of men. I have only called on him three times it. many years. He comes and goes when he pleases. If he calls on Friday, he will call the next Fr.Jay, and will be sure to bring racy, fresh "talk with him but if you allude to himself or to his uncle, he doesn't know whom you are talking about. His modesty is equal to his rhymes. He doesn't know that the man Channing lives any where, and has nevei seen hina."

LOUISA

ALGOTT.

Mr. Alcott had been requested bv Mr. Cook and others to say some things about his gifted daughter, Miss Louisa Alcott, and rather reluctantly he consented to do so. He began with the re mark that6he peeped over her moral sense once, and got the benefit of it. "She began to keep a diary or note-book when only five years old, and has done so ever since. She got her culture at home and through*her experience. She began authorship by writing letters. Then she ventured stories then followed the reading of them to her parents and sisters then the acting of them as dramas then a model theatre in the attic. She had her grandmother's brocsde silk dress, which had been off duty well nigh a century, as a costume, and the grandfather's military suit, also faithfully preserved, did duty for the hero of the occasion. The old people were studiousl kept down stairs, and what went on could only be judged by the peala of laughter which came from the Concord boys and girls who were fortunate enough to be invited to the performance in the attic. The next step was to transfer the theatre to the barn, where the private theatricals soon made considerable noise in the town. This gave her stories notoriety. Then other stories were written. It was noised abroad that they existed. An editor heard of them, and got one" for his journal. His papers disappeared so fast that he wanted another. In this way the first fruit of authorship, a five dollar note, came to hand, and caused a flatter of jy in the young girl's life. When the late war came, Mr. Alcott had no boys to do the fighting, and Louisa felt that she must represent the family in the Union Army, and went to Georgetown as nurse. Here she was taken dangerously ill, and here, upon her recovery,

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published as'Hospit 1 Sketches.' These made her known. Then she wrote a two volume novel, which a publisher compelled her to cut down into one volume, because he didn't believe anybody would read a novel in two volumes, and the result was that the book was spoilt. MUs Alcott now determined to take authorship into her own hands and pleane herself: 'Little Women'

was

the

fi. »-t result of this decision, and the rest ot Louisa's career is familiar to the public." Mr. Alcott said that he had now become known as the grandfather of these little women, and he was not ashamed of the compliment In response to a question, he added, as he closed his address: "I regard it as the finest stroke of fortune I have known to have had the friendship of Emerson. It is a friendship that dates back forty years."

TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF. It was the original plan that when Mr. Alcott finished his address Professor Bowne should act as master of ceremonies and call up others, but eo much interest had been awakened that after one or two had briefly spoken a v.l con fessed their indebtedness Emerson, volunteer questions we"* ,«.ked—could no longer be kept bark -nid the venerable transcendentali»i was Cklled up from his chair to tell the company more things about himself, and what his methods ot reading and writing were. He said that he was brought up in a small Connecticut town (Wolcott), where he had few books and few opportunities for culture He was educated on the "Pilgrim's Progress." He borrowed the boo'* of a neighbor, and after keeping it six months returned it and then borrowed it again. This he did every six months, until the book was given to him. He could not properly pall himself a writer. He had published a few works, but didn't know that anybody had ever read them. He was an unpublished author. He had always kept a note-book. He had put everything into it interviews with men, visits to Iriends, extracts, his own thoughts, whatever came to him. He had seventy volumes of these diaries, some of them containing over a thousand pages. His printed books were chiefly made up of selections fiom them. His gift was not in writing, but he should have enjoved it very much if some friend had reported his conversations and allowed him to edit them. As it was, he was an author in quantity, if not in quality. But he had a special difficulty. His diaries had no index, and he couldn't tell where his best things were. He had put them into eveiything that interested him, and wished he could have a friend to make an index for him. He began his diary seventy five years ago, when he was but ten years old. Questions were now put to him as rapidly as he could answer them. One was whether Shakespeare kept a note-book. Mr. Alcott thought that he got the best things for his plays at the club. Then the point was mad« by one ot the company that Hawthorne rather shunr.ed literary society, and was more at home with the Salem sea cap tains and other rough, hearty men, than in cultivated society. This brought out anew story from Mr. Alott. Hawthorne's house in Concord was very near the forest, where he could easily hide himself, but this was not ei|ui]gh. He seemed at times morbidly anxious to get away from mankind. To do this he had a tower built o.i the top of the hill near his house. Its stairs were so narrow that you could only go up or down bv holding on to both rail*, and it used to be said that Hawthorne had a trap-door at the top, and that when he wanted to be absolutely aione he used to ascend the tower and sit down on the trap-door Mr. Alcott said he never saw the trapor, but the rest of the story is 11 ue

RMRRSOJTS RELIGIOUS VIE VS Great ii.terest was felt in Emerson, and Mr. Alcott was rather closely press ed to tell what his friend's religious views were. This was very delicate ground, and it was not easy to answer direct questions without goiiig beyond the liin its of friendship, but r. Alcott gave his usual wise answer Mr. Emerson is an ethical writer. In him the Puritan tvpe ripened, but did not take the Puritan form. His modesty did not allow him to put his thought into the usual forms, and so he was silent. He frequently attends the Unitarian Church, and his

daughter

is one of its most devoted members. Em erson is absolutely sincere in these respects. Except in one sentence in his essay on Immortality he accepts that doctrine. He is a Christian theist an individual that belongs to a church of one member. His creed is unwritten. He is better than his creed. He is a man to be taken by the hand among all Christians as a brother. I have never fully sympathized with him in his rligiou* opinions. There is a type ot mined which does not express its inmost convictions, and Emerson has it. He is greatly beloved by the Concord people, and is universally regarded as their foremost citizen in every good work. You can alway tell "when Emerson is aspealing to the common sense of the people His favorite gesture, when he has anything homely and terse to say is an angular forward thrust of hid fists. He is a thinker, but his writings aDDeal very strongly to all men by their vigorous common sense."

Mr. Alcott had a further word about Thoreau. '*He was the first man to call John Brown a hero. Early in the late irar he wrote out his views and read them to Emerson, who dissented from them. Thoreau was determined that the world should listen to them, and began with Concord. The selectmen were timid, and refused him the Town Hall. Thoreau then took the matter into his own hands. He rang the bell himself, and the citiaens. hastily gathering as for a fire, had the privilege of listening to Thoreau's lecture, which had fire indeed. Later on Emerson adopted Thoreau's view, and wrote his famous lecture on John Brown. Tnoreau once hadd fficulty with the town authorities. He would not pay his tax of $i-5° and was put in the jail. Here he tried to comert his fellow-convicts, and did not succeed, but he wrote a lecture on the world in general and on Concord in particular, from the prison point of view, and made the Concord people listen to it, when a friend paid his tax and secured his release. Thoreau was thirty-four years of age when he was at Walden Pond and got acquainted with himself. He was really interested in but few people. He knew who could tell him what he wanted to know, and he sought them. There were only two persons out of Concord who thoroughly commanded his respect One was John Brown and the other was Walt Whitman. His essay on Friendship was written as an epithalamium on the marriage of his dearest friend*, and was one of his best productions."

and another, but Mr. Alcott was really obliged to talk nearly all the evening. The session was so interesting that it was prolonged inevitably to a late hoar, and there can hardly have been any gathering in Boston this season where more was crowded into three hour*, which were all too short to satisfy the more than curious interest of bright men and women in fhe famous Concord transcendentaiist, or where more was said which the world at large is anxious to know about the personality of men and women whose fame is perennial. These notes, however, are all that can properly be given of what was a most fascinating and memorable conversation.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

A BITTERLY DISAPPOINTED MAN. Prom Harper's Magazine for May. Mr. Webster is reported to have said to a friend that, although he k»ew that he had a public reputation to leave to posterity, yet. if he were to live his life over again, he would, upon no consideration whatever, permit hi-nself to enter public life. The public, he said, are ungrateful, and the man who serves them most faithfully receives no adequate reward. Do your duty, he added, as a private citizen, but let politics alone. It is probable that he said this fubstantially as it is reported, for there was never a more bitterly disappointed public man. Toward the end ot his life there was almost a gloomy melancholy in his aspect. At the completion of the Erie railroad, in 1851, as Secretary ol State he accompanied President Fillmore and a very distinguished party of public men on an excuision along the road from New York to Dunkirk, he spoke lrom a platform in the street. During he specch the "Easy Chair," who was a spectator, observed that the sun was setting just behind Mr Webster, as he stood erect, his gray hair lifted by the breeze, his great head and somber, mournful face drawn against the illuminated west. It was a significant and pathetic spectacle. A little later the national convention of his party passed him by and nominated another candidate for the presidency. Still a Utile later he d'ed, as was generally felt, a broken-hearied man—not only, it was believed, because he had tailed to receive the "adequate reward," but because of some things he had been willing to do to obtain it. On the evening of the 6th of March, 1850, the orator at Plymouth Rock in 1821 said to a fiend and member of Congress, who told the "Easy Chair," "To-morrow I. am going to annihilate you -abolitionists

The remarks that we have quoted are familiar, and are but a modern form of Wolsey's piteous words on Cromwell in Shakespeare's "Henry VIII." They are true also in this sense, that the man who serves the public for the hope of adequat official reward fiorn the public will probably be disappointed. But this truth is as old as history, and no man who is able to fill a great public place adequately can be ignorant ot it. 1'he blindness of personal ambition is well illustrated by the reported words of Mr. Webster. He says, in effect, that he has served the public faithfully, and had been not only inadequately rewarded, but had been most severely censured for his least selfish actions. But what is adequate reward ot great public service? For forty years Mr. Webster was almost continuously in public life, as Representative in Congress, Senator and Secretary of State. His commanding abilities, at once recognized, placed him in general estimation at the head of the bar. and secured him an unequaled influence in politics. By common consen he was the chief of living American orators, and his mere presence as speaker gave greatness to the greatest occasions* Upon points of constitutional law he was the highest authority, so that his word alone could challenge" a long-settled interpretation, not only without absurdity, but with a force that was 60 respected as to raise a doubt. As a diplomatist he was unrivalled among his fellow-statesmen. And, above all, there was the greatness of his reputation—a historic fame that began while he was yet living—which made him the most conspicuous of American citizens, and which might well have satisfied the mo.it inordinate ambition of applause and personal consideration. No possible official position could have added to his renown, nor to his opportunity of great service, if his fame and his unquestionable power, the immense admiration which was universally conceded to him, and his vast authority in public affairs were not an adequate reward, it is not easy to see what would have been.

"It is an age of superstition," said young Mr. Mehyrter4 tcorntully, "I will have none ol it. I will not," he said, in a burst of disdain, "I will not tie my believe to a Pr jf. Tice. I will not pin my credence to the United States signal service leports. I live in a land of intelli gence. I own no God hut reason, and 1 will yield to the sway of no superstition or scientific tyranny." And he tcok off his flannels and put on a straw hat and a pair of low shoes, summer trousers and a linen coat, and sauntered out to look at the river by starligf t. And when they found him in the mornin? a change of weather had caught him, and he was frozen so stiff they drove hin. into the ground at the corner of Elm and Maple streets, and will use him for a fire hy-drant—[Hawk-Eye.

Just before the thundfir storm on Saturday evening last, a Whitehall man stepped into the telegraph ofiicc at this place and requested the privilege ot talk ing through the telephone with his wife, who was visiting friends at Troy. Mr. John W. Eddy, the gentlemanly assistant manager, granted the request, and the Whitehaller began operations. He couldn't be prevailed upon to believe that it was reall} his wife who was talking to him, and she so many miles away. He finally asked her to say or do something, known to himself only, that he might be convinced that it was her. Just then a rambling streak of lightning came, on the wires, keeling the husband over on his head, whea he jumped to his feet and exclaimed: "That's the ole woman, sartin'—only she's growed a le-e-etle more powerful since she left hum.

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MARRIAGE GUIDE. OR SEXUAL PATHOLOGY.

|i1 A CJ —The choicest in the world— Importers' prices—Largest Company in America—staple arriele— pleases everybody—Trade continually iacrei^ing—Agent's wanted everywhere—b^st inducements—don't waste time—.end for Circular to ROBKRT WELLS, Freer, of the Origin-*! TcaO-3 Vesey Street, N. Y., P. O. Box

1187.

855 to 11 oatfiTlree? "f't'o!' vlcl

NOTICE CONSUMERS

The great celebrity of our Tin Tag T»« has caused many Imitations tWeof to be placed oa the market, we th refore caution all Chewers against u«lng such imitations.

All dealers baying or selling other plug tobacco bearing a hard and metalic label, render them liable to the penalty of tho Law. and all persona violating our trail* marks, are punishable by fine and imprisonment. Sew Act sf Csniren, Ait*.

14.

18T6*

Th* genuine liOHILLAHD TIN Tin TDBACUOt can bo distinguished by a TIN TAG on each lump with the woril LORILtHDstamped thereon.

Ove -7*088 tons tobacco sold in 1877, and nearly 3»000 persons employed In factories.

Taxo* paid Government in 1877 about t3,000,000. and during past 13 years, over «*0.00(),000

These g-ods sold by all Jobbers at manufacturers're tes. The Tin Tag Smoking Tobacco is "second to none" in aroms, mi dnos?, purity and quality.

Wall Street Speculation

The reliable house 01 Alexander froth las ham ft Co., No IS Wall street, New York publlfha handsome eight pago weekly paper. called the Weeklv Financial Report whloh thoy send free to any address. In addition to a large number of editorials on financial and business topics, it «ontain» very full aud acurate report of tbe sales and otandlng of every bond, stack and security dealt in at tho stook Exchange. Messrs. Frothingham A Co.. are extensive brokers* of Iare experience and tried integrity. In addition to their stock brokerage busines* they sell what are termed "privileges.** or

Puts and Calls," no* *ne of tho favorite

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methods of legitimate speculation. Their advioe is valuable, and by fellowh many have made fortunes-—1

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Lal 1 111 E.n» W«Mninn Chkwro. fnr tbe enr» of all IVtvuW, Cbmnir nnj Hptclal tlixcvn. Hcminal Wcttkneaa, Nervoaa llublllt), anil Lost HiuihiMMl, (wrniaiitnlly curad. Dr. O a gradual, of the Krfotm nnd UM1 na Marrtuyihar tl« larzatl nrarttra in lh« Cnltal Sfytan. LA* PIES r»a»Wn» Matm«nl with be**• and bwrt, call Of writs, Srirr iwiinintt fn Minu.

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IF YOU WANT

"Tents," "Flags and Banners,'*

"Awnings," "Wire Rope,"

'Waterproof Horse &.|Wagon Covers,"

•'TWIflfcS IND VOB1MUE,"

Send Circulars to

6ILBERT HUBBARD Co., Chicago.

CUSTOM MADE BOOTS.

Matheny, the boot and shoe maker on east Main street, near Eighth stree up stairs, is turning out as nice an cheap work as any shop own. Lear your orders with him.'

i: R. Chambers,

Opposite the postoffice, sells: New Orleans Molasses, per gallon,40c. ,• 50c.

Grten Tea, per piund, 40c. Blatk Tra, per pound, 40c. Coffee., per pound, 20c. Rye Flour, per 100 pounds, $3.00. Choic* Seed Potatoes, Seed Onions, Garden heeds, #c., also rv cheap for cash.

E. N. Freshman ft Bros.

ADVERTISING AGZMTS.

186 W. Fourth St, CINCINNATI, 0

\re authorized to receive advertisements or this paper. Estimates furnished free ipon application. ?ySend two stamps for our adverisers' manual.

Chicago & Paducah Time Table.

Leave for South 00 a 11 65 a m. 14 62 .... 1 27 in

Railway

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I top 5 38 4 Jo 4 48 ni 6 10 5 38 5 63 0 5i in 8 95

Monticeilo ...Bene .Ha mond .Lovingion ...Sullivan ..Windsor .. Altamoot Addresi, LEWIS Q.T. A.

ETT A Co.,

Chicago.

ORRCE or MEETING OF BOARD or EQUALIZATION. Hotice herehv given that the tfoard of Equalization of Via iou ty, Indiana, will me. at the offl eof the County Auditor oa Monday the

Si day of June, 1178, and continue

In session fr daj- t'*day as long as may be at-cessarily required for the purpose of hearing and detr.i mining ..11 grievances and equalizing the assessments made on petsonal property for the year 1878.

SAKCKL ROTSR,

Auditor Vigo County.

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