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INVENTION

How it has been Promotive of Civilization—The Vast Sums Saved Each Year in

Labor.

The

LMarvelous

Increase of Pro

duction Caused by Machinery.

I Essay by Charles a Coffin, read before the Social ttcicncc An»ci*tion at Cincinnati. China for a thousand years hjy$ made no invention. Neither has India, Egypt, Turkey, Mexico or South America. How few the inventions produced in Austria, Russia, Spain and other European countries, with the exception of France. The *wo countries that have produced most of the inventions of the world are Eugland and the United States. A patent law has been in existence in England since

1623

1790.

In England

$875,

THE PLOW.

This implement is at the basis of all wealth. It has been said that it is the basis of all civilization, Filty years ago the plowt ot this country were made by carpenters and blacksmiths. A breakingup plow was twelve feet long, its moldboarda covered with bits of old iron, ox shoes, and fragments of iron plate It required the strength of eight oxen to draw it, witii a man riding on the beans to keep it in the ground. Charles Newlold, of New Jersey, made the first in vention in plows under the patent laws of 1797.

This plow was of cast iron, all ex

cept beam and handles in one piece. The farmers were prejudiced against it said that cast iron would poison the ground

The first great advance in plows was made by Jethro Wood, of New York, 1820-1830.

2,"

At the present time inventors are turning their attention to chilled iron, instead of cast steel, cheapening the first cost and adding to the life ot tne plow. The number of plows in the United Stales is estimated at

5,000,000,

$75,000,000.

$7,500,000

Sliilll':

saved

to the comn.unity. CORN PLANTERS. Fifty yeart ago corn was planted- by hand, and a man could plant two acres in a day. At the present time, a fanner of Illinois, with a check-rower, may plant fifteen acres with his horses, dting the work of seven men.

CULTIVATORS. .i

A half century ago, the horse, plow and hoe were used in cultivating corn. Then came the double-shovel cultivator. Hundreds of palents hare been issued for cultivators. An Ohio farmer near Springfield kept an exact account of the cost of raising cprn lor three years, using a double-shovel instrument. The highest cost was 13 cents, tjie lowest 9 cents per bushel. He purchased one of the improved cultivators and again kept exact account for three years, and his highest cost was

cents his lowest

out a patent, but the world heard little ot a reaping machine until

Cormick built

150

1846

he had

1S55

about

72,

while in the United States

they are ouly

$35.

At the present time

England is issuing

3,500

the English in

in the United states since

168,000

patents have

been issued in the United States about 208,000. Why this disparity Why has the United States outstripped all other lands Because the patent fees in England are

patents per an

num, while the United States is issuing

1 3 0 0 0

In the United States invention has become a science. Men devote their lives to invention. An army of trained inventors has been raised up who are making iron and steel do the work of human hands. What have they accomplished for the world

1864

involving fully

Western agriculturists say

that the life of a plow does not exceed five years, which gives an annual depre ciation of

$15,000,000.

If, as is claimed,

the inventions in chilling iron double the life of the plow, it is

not less than

000,000,

Then came the "Eagle No.

by Joel Noel, aboui

1842.

Mr. Nourse

made an experimental plow with a moldboard of sheet-lead. He noticed the lines of pressure and changed the form till he obtained by actual use the least resistance. Those lines of draft have not been improved upon, .-'v."

cents. Apply this saving to the crop of last year—1,300,000,000 bushels. The saving of

cents amounts to

cents to

$26,000,000,

$45,000,000.

SHELLING CORN.

In the earlier days of the century we sat astride shovel blades

the handles

of frying pans and rasped ears of corn against the rim, shelling from three to live bushels a day.

Now, two men with a farm steam engine, using cobs for fuel, shell 1,500 bushels a day, at a cost of one-half a cent a bushel. Take the crop of last year—1,300,000,000 bushels—it would take every man, woman and child of the entire forty-five millions an entire week to shell that amount by the old process. The hogs would starve to death Only we should not have the hogs nor the corn, and what a diminution of whisky there would have been if inventions had not come to help the farmer! We should not be eending millions of pounds of bacon and lard to Europe if it were not for the inventors.

SEEDERS.

i»?t t&as ,., ,. A few years ago we did our seeding by hand, tossing the seed into the air. It was muscular sowing. If we sowed timothy and clover, or phosphates, we had te go over the ground several times. In harrowing some grains were buried deep, some shallow. Some of the seed of course never came up. Now the farmer puts in twenty acres a day— ,. wheat, clover, timothy and phosphates at a sowing, burying every kernel at a desired depth. What is the result? An increase of from one-eighih to onefourth to the crop. This is the united testimony of farmers. The wheat crop last year was

360,000,000

$45,000,000,

bushel.

The report of the Scottish Highland agricultural society says that— With common sickle seven men in ten hours reaped one and one-half acres of wheat—abopt one-quarter of an acre each. With "the new machinga man can cut one and one-half acres in ten hours, to be raked bound and stacked by two others. iii

./•aftlS-

1833

sift patent. In

Obed Hussey took out the first

1S34 C)

touched.by a human hand until it pasted into the thresher! No binder demanding his three or four dollars a day, appeared upon that field. And there, sir, in the altey of the Red river of the north, and in Texas, and in California, is the great future jpf the self-binder. No man can measure what its capacities are —cutting its

About

mnn

1845,

when Mc-

at Cincinnati. In

300

built at Rockport, New

York. In 1852 there was a general trial of reapers and mowers at Geneva, New York. Nine machines contested, tor other inventors had taken out patentt. Nineteen years had passed since the first patent had been issued. Out of the nine machines exhibited not one could start tn the grain without backing to get up speed. There was a heavy side drift, they were clurmey they could not turn easily. In

10,000

machines

had been built by the different makers, nearly all of which were one-wheeled machines. About this time Mr. Wheeler of Auburn, Ball of Canton, Ohio, and Miller of the same town, began to man ufacture two-wheeled machines. These manufacturers combined, and bought more than a hundred patents. In

1S55

there was an exhibition of reapers at the French exposition—one English, one French, one American (McCormick's.) The French machine did itsallated work in

66,

and McCormick's

minutes. McCormick's won the first victory at London over Bell in

1852,

and

now for the second tirre the American invention achieved a triumph. Two years later, in 18571 there was a trial at Syracuse, New York, at which

chines were exhibited. Mark the progress that had been made in five years. Of these, all except three could start in the grain without backing to get up spe§d, A great variety of machines were invented, some to prove utter failures, and others that were purchased and what was valuable in them incorporated into some other machine. About

1S60

the

Wood machine made its appearance, and the Dorsey, Seymour and Morgan machines were combined. These were great improvements. Twenty-seven years had passed since Hussey took out his first paitent, and the inventors were then making their greatest improvements. The business attained such proportions that in

1S7

ments had been started to manufacture reapers, wholly or in parr, turning out 100,000 per annum. There was a great trial at Auburn in

1866,

at which

'44

154,000

which loaded

acres a day with a

boy driving two horses,, reducing the cost of the cultivation of wheat to its lowest terms. The reaper and self-bind-er have already exhibited a capacity to save a hundred million dollars to the country, giving us the credit on the right side of the ledger. It is this that inventors are doing to-day. It is not the farmer who has given that $1,000,000,000 to the country on the right side of the balancesheet, but Hussey in

1S33,

1844,

To go back

bushels. if

one-eighth is added to the crop the saving is

with wheat at

per

REAPERS. I

In 1794 a man in Scotland invented what was described as a most marvelous and wonderful machine for cutting grain —doing as much in one day as seven men could do with the sickle. This marvelous machine was the cradle.

rus McCorraick took

McCormick in

and the great host of men or like genius who have spent their nights, and their money and everything that they could get, to develop these machines, which have become

WOrld.

blessing to the

SHOE MACHINERY. »-S

Who does not recall the method of manufacturing shoes a quarter of a century ago. Let us see how invention has revolutionized the old methods. I quote from the argumentof Henry D. Hyde, Esq., of Boston, before the house com mittee on patents:

years, there were scat

tered all over New England many towns known as shoe towns where in shops the leather was cut by hand, then was par celled out to makers or bottomers, as they were called, who for a portion of the year labored on the land, and a portion of the year were fishermen, but at odd times made boots and shoes. These boots and hoes were taken home from the 6hop and brought back finished, varying in time ot completion from a week to six months or even a year before they were returned to the shop, exam ined, packed in cases, and sent to the market for 6ale. The result was that to accumulate for a season sufficient shoes to meet the demands of the market required six months of time.

years ago was the hrgt intro

duction of machinery in the manufac ture of boots and shoes, which consisted of two machines, the pegging machine and the sole sewing machine these two machines came gradually into use, and while they were adopted there was for some time a prejudice that the machine work was not as good as hand work, but this prejudice proved

be without foun-

da n. The result is that invention has gone forward, and manufacturers have 1 ailed for other machines to keep pace with the pegging and sewing machines. For merly the work done by machinery consisted of pegging and sewing. Now the pegger and sewer have made such pro gress that they* have necessitated other inventions to do the remaining work pertaining to the manufacture of shoes The result is that even within the last ear the statistics show—and the means of obtaining them are very correct—that there were tewed on one class of machines

45,000,000

30,000

establish

different

machines were entered. Of these

did,

their work well. All were much lighter simpler, less noisy and worked easier. The capital employed in the manufacture at this present time is about

$30,-'

and the number produced yearly

160,000.

The self-raking reaper, cutting its twelve to fifteen acres a day, laid a necessity upon the farmer, compelling him to employ a set of men to bind the grain, who made his necessity their opportunity, compelling him to pay

per

duv besides their board, greatly reducing the profit of his crop. But the inventor ha9 come to the farmer's rescue, producing the self*raking and self-binding reaper.

The first machine of this description was brought out in

1873.

Lafrt fall if

you could have have taten a little trip with me on the line of the Northern Pacific railroad, in the valley of the Red river of the north, you would have seen twenty self-binders all starting together one morning to reap a field containing 7,000 acres. That entire crop, which amounted to

bushels of wh^at,

500

freight cars, was not

nri^U

cent, better than twenty-five years ago, And this great change has come about by invention, and is due to patented machinery. »y SPINNING. ,£*'

Our memories go back to the old fashioned spinning wheel, when a woman spun thirteen skeins a day—a thread about four miles in length—requiring her to walk six miles in spinning it. How is it to-day A girl in a factory spins twenty-two hundred miles and does not walk at all.

TILL LOOM.

The first power loom was put up in March,

1836.

1850

INVENTION PROGRESSIVE.

Never ha9 the invention been making more rapid advances than at the Jp resent time. "We are breaking up for old iron machinery that we thought perfection a few years ago," said a manufacturer of cotton goods. "No man can afford t- take as a gift to-day a cotton mill s'. ht^hed in

The reasoning of the objectors is correct as far as it goes. To illustrate A farmer with six or seven hired men in cutting his wheat with a cradle, each man cutting about one and a half acres a day, when Mr. McCormick drives into the field and cuts with a span of horses fifteen acres a day. The farmer dismisses his men. Are they not thrown out of employment? Certainly, that particular employment. But let us see.— Did McCormick make his machine with his own hand#? No. Theie was an army of mechanics who were employed in manufacturing it. Lumbermen, millers, miners, smrltero, founders, joiners— the whole fraternity of trades had a hand in making it. These men did their work by machinery, and the invention of each machine took somebody from agriculture and transposed him into mechanics, graduating him up into a higheremployment Take the invention of the telegraph. It was new and it was genuine. How many thousands there are now engaged in telegraphing who. if the invention had never been made, would be in agriculture and crowding somebody in some other occupation.

RAILROADS AND OTHER THINGS.

How gloomy the forebodings ot farmers when the building of railroads began Horses would be of little value and oats worthless. No machine comes at once into universal use, so that inven-* tion never calls for sudden and universal change of occupation. It took eleven years after the reaper was invented to get

150

of thein into use. The self-

binding reaper, invented in 1867, has only just begun to make headway. Invention, instead of throwing men out of employment, throws them into employment. A few years ago the farmers ot Illinois burned their straw. But pee how invention utilizes waste material. Now it is made into straw board, upon which a machine deposits paper made from bass-wood pulp from Maine, and jute butts from Indja, for the manufacture of millions of boxes.

Not long ago we polluted our rivers with coal tar to-day thousands of men are engaged in extracting from the wonderful analine dyes, and paraffine. and vassoline, and other substances. If one invention turns men out of one occupation it demands a greater number in some other occupation. This is the law of progress. We call ourselves a great agricultural people, and so we are, but by the census of

1S70

325,442

ral

pairs of shoes the're

were pegged upon the pegging machines 55,000,000 pairs last year. These machines have entirely revolutionized the business. Where before small shops existed throughout New England, now our shops have become large, labor has been brought together and classified, and receives a larger compensation, wages have advanced

200,000.

to 100 per cent, to the la

borer, and the shoe in quality is

per

\\r\?T?lZT

About

it threw the shut

tie fifty times a minute to-day one hundred and eighty! "Has not the loom reached its ultimate capacity I asked of Mr. Compton, inventor and manufacturer of looms. '•It is just in its infancy," was the. rePjv.

i860,"

says another. HORSE SHOtS. In a blacksmith shop the other day we found two men making shoes by contract, eighty-four a day, costing for labor five dollars. In Cleveland you may see a machine, tended by two men, turning out seven thousand a day, at the same cost for labor.

PRINTING'. •"7-

Most of us can remember the days when the fastest printing was done with the hand press. To-day the New York Tribune comes to us from a stereotyped cylinder, a quadruple sheet, printed from a roll of paper four miles long, printed and folded

copies, and haye not a

human hand touching press or paper. EFFECT OF INVENTION ON HUMAN LA^BOR.

In every department ot human labor there has been in this country and in England an advance corresponding with the number of inventions, while other countries have advanced only as they have appropriated inventions. The question arises does invention or does it not throw men out ot employment? Ever since John Kay made the improvement in the hand shuttle, in

1733,

throwing it

bjT jerking a string instead of employing shuttle throwers, there have been opponents of invention. The weavers of Leeds sacked John Kay's house and compelled him to seek refuge in France. In England to-day the ignorant farm peasant smasltes mowing and reaping machinery, and there are those in the United States who agitate for the repeal of the patent law because, as they say, invention throws men out of employment. This cry was not heard prior to

1873.

Not till"after the financial depression began did we hear any complaint. Who does not recall the fact that everywhere up to that period there was a scarcity of farm labor, and the farmers were loud in their complaints at the high prices demanded. It is an ind sputable fact that when machinery was most active, then there was the greatest demand for laborers.

England paid us

the agricultural pro

ducts were $2,447,538,658,against

$4,232.-

mechanical, between

1S70

1850

332

and

our popujation increased sixty-five per cent, while our manufacturing industries increased

per cent.,"

PRODUCTS AND LABOR.

By the last board of trade report of Chicago it appears that 1,664 mure work men are employed in manufacturing in that city than during last year. Illinois has been regarded as a great agricultural State, her agricultural.products last year amounted to

$210,860,000

tures

her manufac

$205,620,000.

Missouri, agricultu

$103,000,000

manufacturing

$206,-

In the United States last year the agricultural products amounted to

538,658:

The wages, agricultural

manufacturing

$2,447,*

the manufactures

$4,232,325,442.

$310,286,000

$775,584,000.

MARCH OF CIVILIZATION COINCIDENT WITH INVENTION.

It is just

years since Bigelow invent

ed the carpet.loorn. Prior to that date'

A 7F.TTIZ

all our carpets were woven in hand looms. Hov many houses then were carpeted? Where is"there a house to-day that has not a carpet?

1840

the rudimentary parlor or

gan made its appearance to-day is there a school district that cannot boast of one or more pianos or organs?

Was there ever a time, before the present, when a woman could obtain a neat and tasteful dress for six cents a yard? In my boyhood the tailoress strove with goose and shears to make the garments for the household now you purchase nea.ly fitting suits, cut by the mechanical arm—a dozen pairs of pantaloons at a time—and purchase aa entire outfit at a cost of a single yard of broadcloth fifty years ago.

COTTON GIN.

Twenty-seven years ago the seeds ot the cotton were sepprated from the fiber by hand—four pounds a dav of cleaned cotton. Now it is cleaned at the rate of

4,000

pounds a day—2,021,000,000 pounds. If this were cleaned by hand, it would require five hundred and fifty-five million davs' work,.that number of dollars at one dollar pjr day, when it was cleaned by 1,614 mpn» working

313

days, tending

that number of machines., WHAT A GALAXY OF NAMES and inventors can America show! Whitney and the cotton gin Fitch and Fulton and the steamboat Blanchard and the machine for turning irregular forms Hussey and the reaping machine Morse and the telegraph Farmer and the fire alarm and the duplex telegraph, which sends four messages over one wire at the same time George Crompton and the fancj' loom Bigelow and the cai pet loom Howe and the sewing machine Sturtevant and the pegger Latta and Greenwood and the steam fire engine Knowles and the steam pump Burleigh and the rock drill—these two inventions decreasing the cost of mining

per cent., af

fecting the finances of the world by cheap silver Hoe and the printing press: Dennis and the watch machinery.

What shall we say of the telephone, that enables us to hear the voices of our friends far away, and to talk with them a3 if they were by. our sides? What of the phonograph, by which speech may be preserved forever, which will enable us to reproduce the enchanting strains ot Pappenheim which will bring back t" us from the eternal shores the voices of our departed fi iends, so that even from the spirit land we may still hear their voices as when they were with us in the flesh? These are some of the triumphs of American" genius.

The great commerce of England has bsen built upon invention and by a policy of ocean postal service which enables her to reach every seaport by steam on the face of the earth. Her merchants are in every' land, her marine on every sea. How our foreign commerce pales before that of England—less than one third—yet you may put the United Kingdom into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and have

15,000,000

Last vear we mined

acres to spare

42^000,000

coal England

tons of

133,000,000

she built

sailing vessels and

steamers,

6S7

360

year we

steamers last

ships,

Last year she produced

worth, and exported

brigs!

$124,000,000

wool, clothed her people and exported $115,000,000 we purchased

$7,000,000

$317,000

worth

$191,000,000

cotton, and exported

for our

$358,000,000

of cot

ton goods, while^we, raising the cotton exported $13,00*0,000 worth. England manufactured

6,060,000,000

279,300,000

000

yards of

cotton goods, sending 1,155

India,

000,000

to Turkey,

to Egypt,

100,000,-

54,000.000

to the United

States—more to this country than we to all the world—178,000,000 to Brazil, we 5,000,000 yards. She sent to all South America

354,000,000,

China, in

35,000,000.

i860,

took from us

yards, from England

5.300,000

150,000

yards

Last year we sent 11,000,000 to that land, England

408,000,000.

Such hae

been the development of trade in that country. A committee of the commons estimates tnat about

yards of machine

made cotton goods now are supplied to 200,000,000 of the human race that ere long through the perfecting of machinery 600,000.000 of the human race will be j-eached. What a future does this reveal

Let us remember that at the present time only two per cent, of the cotton lands in this country are under cultivation that we enn raise cotton cheaper than it can be raised in any other land. Who is to manufacture it American or English hands Along what streams are to rise the future manufacturing towns What furnaces shall smelt the iron what machine-shop manufacture the looms what fleets bear the future commerce of the world Is there an American who doe6 not feel his blood fijw more quickly as these thoughts crowd upon him

FROM MACHINERY HALL,

'I'M

On her one bundreth birthday, marching, to the rythmic motion of the great Corliss engine, setting the music of the advancing ages, the United States went forth queen of the nations by her genius, with only the song once heard amid the green pastures of Bethlehem upon her lips, "Peace on earth, good will to men."

When a man knows he has only seventeen seconds to make the closet, reach the bottle and take a swig before his wife heaves in sight, he does it, and half a second to spare to draw his sleeve across his mouth. Given the same conditions and church the objective point, he fails by sixty-seven minutes.—[Keokuk Constitution

Adam gave Eve away when cross examined on the fruit question. He probably thought Eye would lie ou: of it, but Eve went back on him after she had eaten the apple and gave Adam the core to chew on. Such is the ingratitude of the women in that day—whether they have improved any of late we cannot speak from experience.—fElmira Gazette.

In the following love couplet there is a great paucity of words, but as much meaning as there is in many most moving love so tigs that* have a fashionable run I looked and loved, and loved and looked, and looked and loved again But looked and loved, and loved and looked, and looked and loved in vain.

An Adams street girl sits drooping all the. day, moaning between sighs— Those saddest words of tongue or pen—

When will my Dickie call again

There will be some comfort in listening to the phonograph it can't buttonhole you, and its breath will not be sad.

lfgal. legal.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. NOTICE is hereby given thut I will apply tothe Board ot CoramiMionern of vigo county, Indiana, at their Jane term, for a license to sell "intoxicating liquors" in a less quantity than 1 quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to lie drank »n my premises, for one year. My place of basin«M and premises wbereon said liquors are to be sold ami (hank, are locateaon the following described premises in Harrison township. In Vigo connty, Indiana, to-wit: The k*.nth side of Wabash (Main) street, in the city *f Terre Haute, one hundred ar.d twenty-three (1S8) feet eastwarcily oft ho northeast corner of lot one hundred and sixty-four (1K) in Rose's addition *o said city, rnnning thence '-rest alojg the center of the brick wall adjoining anl dividing said lot and the lot conveyed to Piartungon the west flftv-six feet and six inches to an alley foity feet wide, thence east twenty-five feetaud six inches, tUence north one hundred and H'ty-flve feet and six inches, and thence westwnrd along Wab«sh street twenty-five feet and six inohes, to the adjoining lot In the Sixth Ward in Terre Haute, in Harrison township, in Vigo couny, Indiana. HENKY 8TAFF.

APPLICATION J!OR LICENSE. NOTICE is hereby given that I will apply tothe Boartl of CemmisBioncrs of Vigo '.eunty, Indiana, at their June term, for a license to sell "intoxicating liquors" in a less quantity thin a quart «t a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be dranx on lry premises for one year. My pla of business ard the premises whereon said liquors Are to be soul mul drank, are loftatcdon lot No. 8 In Har!ort »t Preston's subdivision of the westhaifof the. northeast qunr er of seoMon twenty-seven, township twelve 19) north, range nine (9) west, on Thirteenth street, south of Crawfor1*,In Terre Haute, in Harrison township, in Vigo county, Indiana. MICHAEL MOHAk.

APPLIOxVTlON FOR LICENSE. NOTICE is herebv given that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Vigoooun ty, Indiana., at their June term, for a license to sell "intoxicating liquors" in a less quantity than a quart at time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on my premises, for one year. My placeof business and the premises whereon said liquors are to be sold and drank, are located iti the oast room of the building on lotNo. 6. in Samuel C. Scott's subdivision of in-lot No.97, south side of Ohio street, near Third street, in Terre ILtuto, In Harrison township in Vigo county, Indiana. GEORGE X. SCilAAL.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. NOTICE is hereby given that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Vigo county, Indiana, at their Jutie term, for a license tosell "intoxicating liquors" In a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilegeof allowing the same to be drank on my premises, for one vear. My pli«'t of business and the premise^ whereon said liqnors arc to be sold and drank, are located on the south half of lot No. 05 of the original in-lots of the town, now city of Terre llante, on the east side ot Third street, between Main and Ohio streets, in Terre Kauie, In Harrison township, in Vigo county, Indiana.

JulIN T. STAFF.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. NOTICE is hereby given that I will apply to the Board of Commlssioneisof Vigo county, Indiana, at thtir June term, for a license to sell "intoxicating liquors" iu a less quin t-ity than a quart at a thno, with the privi leges of allowing the same to be drank "n my m-eniises, for one ye"»r. Myplaccot business an'i the premise« whereon said liquors are 10 he sold and drank, are located ou the soul half of lot No. I in Blake's subdivision of out-lot 39, on the east side of Fifth street, between Main ondOhio, in l\ rre Ilaute. in Harrison Township, in Vigo county, Indiana. WALLACE W. SIBf.lit.

APPLK ATION FOR LICENSE. NOTICE Is hen by given that I will ajip'.y to the Beard of Commissioners «f Vigo county, ludlann, at their Jnno torm, for a license to fell "iutoxicat.ngliquors" in ICBSQnan :ity than a quart at a time, with tne privilege of allowing the same to be ilrnnk on my premises, far one yu"r. My place of business aad the premises whereon said liquors are to be sold and drank, are locateaon lot No.8. Rose's addition,ou the nonhwoet corner of Kighth and Poplar street/, in the Second Ward in Ten 0 Ilaute, in ifarrlson township. In Vigo countv, In diana. C.KUHLMANN.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. NOTICE is hereby givtn that I will apply to the Board ofCommission'-rs of Vigo county, Indiana, at their June term, for a liceuse to tell "intoxicating liquors" in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with tho privilege of allowing the same tj be draik.on my premises, lor one year. My piaceof business and the premies whereon said l.quors are to be sold anddiank. arc located on lot No. 19. in J. Wilson's subdivision of the east half 0! out-lot No. 31, on tne northeast corner of Second and Wilson streets. \n Torre Haute, in Harrison township, in Vigo county, Indiana. WILLIA.M FUtlR.

APPLICATION FOR LIChNSE. NOTICE is hereby given that we will apply to the Board of Commissioners 01 Vigoeou. tr, Indiana, at th-ir June teim, for a liceuse to sell "intoxicating iiqumV' in a less quantity than a quart nt a time, with the privilege of allowing the suine to be drank on our premises, for ono yt ar. Our place of busl nessand the premises wherein said liquors arc 10 be sold and drunk, aru located on lot No. 66 in Ro t's addiiiou to the Ity of Terre Ilaute, on thesou siOe of Alain street, the second lot east ot bi^hth street, in T«rre Haute, in Harrison township, in Vigo county, Indiana. PATRICK MULOI1EY.

FA RICK HOG AN.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. NOTICE is hereby given that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Vigo county, Indiana, at their Juue term, for a license to sell "intoxicating liquors" in a loss quantity than a quart at a time, wllli the (privilege of allowing the sa ne to be drank on my premises for one year. My place of busin se and the preinisfcS Wherec said- liquors arc to be told and drank, are located in ihe Terre Haute House, corner Sev nih an-i Main, on lot No. 03 of Rose's audition to the city «1 Terre Haute, in the First Ward, in ilarr.son township, In Vigo county, IndianA.

CHARLES J. KLOBR.

APPLICATION FOR LICE? NOTICE is hor'eby given that I vMfl apply to the Board of Commissioners 0 Vigo county, Indiana, at their June term, t-r a hecuse to sell "intoxicating liquors" in a less quantity than a quart at time with tne privilegp of allowing the same '.o i-e draukon my premises, for one yenr. My.pl of business and the premises whereon «id liqu rs are to be selii and Jrank, ar« bum «u the west half of lot si teeu ^6) Jf'arrnigtoii's subdivision of out-lot sixty-nit.c (69) on ihe southeast coiner of Second and F.trrington streets, in Terre Haute, in Harmon towahhip, in Vigo county, lu.ii.na.

|N BANKRUPTCY.

vM1 1

CHARI Ks EIcKMEIER.

This is to give notice th»t on he Sith^av of May, A. D. 1878, a warrant In bankruptcy was issued against the estate of Jamts 8mall and Wb.R. Small, of Terro Il-ute and Bioomingion, iu the counties of Vigo anJ Monroe, *nd state of Icdlana, wiie has been sdjwged a ban' rupt on bis own p' ti tion: That 11. payment of any debrs and -i. l..«y any properly btli ngtug said bankrup*, to him or for hi» Hse, «nd ttie trans er of any property by hiai are to buien by law. That a meetii of tueci editors of said bankrtipt, to prove their debts and hoose *ne or more assignees« his estate, will be held at a court «»f bannruptcr, to be hold ae the office I. N.Pieice, register, 8 Main street, Terre Hauie, ind., on the 25 day it luae, A. D. 1378, at 1# o'clock A. M.

BEN. SPOJNER,

U.«». Marshal, Dist. of lud.,

Messenger.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. NOTICE is hereby g.ven th .t we will apply to th Board of Cuiuiuissiouers of Vigo county, Indiana, at their Jun% term, for a license te se 1 "intoxicating l:quors" in a less qu. ntity than a quart at n-unie, with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank on our p-eutises, for one year. Otir place of business and the premises wheieon said liquois are iq be sold and drank, are located on in-lot No. 3, south part junction of Lafayette and Mtb street, Runions subdivision tn out-lot 1, in Terro Haute, in Harrison township, in Vigo eounty, Indiana.

I RUST EE S SALE OF THE PERSONAL A AND HEAL PROPERTY OF JOHN C. °IKRCE.

Netloe is hereby given that I will sell at public anction,on Tu- «lay. June Mth, 1S78 at the rt sidence or John Pierce, 1^ mile* east of Atherton, Vl*o county, Indiana, all the personal property held by me a* trustee, consisting of S horses. 15 hogs, one open btigey.l farm wagon, 1 set double haruoss, one set single harness, 20 acres of growing wheat, 8 acre* of oats, together wnh cord wood, farming Implements, household goods nal other articles.

A credit of six months will begiven on al sums over 15.00, tho purchaser giving his note with approved security, waiving valuation «ml appraisement la rs.

REAL EfTATE— will al$ooff fnr sale at public auction ou said day, the following real estate, in Vigo county, Indiana: The siLtta west quarter of the northwest quarter of «ectlon 5, town 18, ran reS west, tho south east quarter ef the uorlh «om quarter, same section, town and ranirc. Also the following real estate in Par^e county, Indiana: The south half of the southwest quarter of tho southeast quarter ot seotion 8\ town 14, range 8 west, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section fl, tiwn It, range 8 west.

Acred't of 6, IS, 18,and SI months will bo given on the sales of said land, the purchaser giving his note bearing per cent, interest, Oith approved 8«curitv, walvin valuation and appraisement lawn, for tht iiretaud second payments* and mortgage on the land purchased for the third and foiirtl' payments ABRAHAM H. SPARKS,

M*y JO. 1878. Trustee. W. W.RUMSEY, At'y.

1 HERIKF'S SALE.

By virtue ot a decree and order of sa'e, issued from tho VlgoClre.uit Court, to mo directed and delivered,in favor of William Mack and agninst Joseph Entailer, I am ordered to sell tho following inscribed real estate, situated in Vigo County, Indiana, to* wltr.

Lot number one hxndred and tweuty-foui (124) in Chauncey Rose's subdivision of for-ty-seven and 88-100 acres off the east side ol the west half (X) of sooelou twenty-two (22] township twelve(12) norih, in range ulue 0 west. Also tho machinery, fixtures an 1 appurtenances to the samo belonging, and on SATURDAY, the i^th day of June 1878 within tho leg \1 hours of said iiay at the court house door In Terre Ilaute. I will offer the rents and profits ®f tho ab've describec real estate,together with all privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, for a term not exceeding seven years to the high, est bidder for cash, and upon failure to reali»e a sum sufficient to satisfy said order o' sale ami costs, 1 will then and there offer the fee-simple in and to said re.il estate, to th highest bidder tor cush to suiUfy tho same This 23d day or May, i878.

GEO. \V. CAR1CO, Sheriff.

Pr fee 16.00.

COMMISSIONER'S NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given that seat pro

Cosals

will bo received by the Hoard 0 omtnissloners of Vigo county, Indiana, a their next regular ne term of court,1878,fo the grading an I graveling of (cort-un roai known as tho Grove School House road, twe miles east of tho linodividing the township of Harrison and Lout cree*. The s'lld wor' to bo let to the lowest possible bidder, th said board reserving tho right to reject an ordllbldi that may be presentel for sail work. The Board lurther reservo the rlgh riqtilreof the extractor or contractor that he or they (hall employ tho teams porsons who are sabsoriborg for the sale work, In preference to those wb are not provided they wllld') Bild work at tho sam rate. The said roaii to bo gradod to th width of eighteen feet, and to be coverei with good cinder orgravelto Ihe width twelve feet, a*d to the average depth of flf t«en ini-bi s. The person or persons reeclv ing such contract to fiirnish «atUfactor: boud for llie fftiflhful perlorinanci- of th 'the Bjaid of Coin mis _uniy.

time By sinners ol

SAMUEL ROYSK, Auditor Vigo ounty,

QOMMISSIOJ'ER'S NOTI JE. «,

Notice Is horebv given ihat scnlod pro posais will li« received by tho Board of Com misslonors of Vigo coitnty. Indiana, at thel .-.ext regular June term of court, 18*8, fo furnishing of 8,(X0 bushels of best quality Brazil block coal, 2,000bushels to lv. deliveret to the Vigo county poor Mtylurn, and 1,0" bushels to the court hot sc aiid il, in sab county, all to del verid by ihe fifteeut of September, 1878, the person or pirs»ns re ceivinfc snclt contrnco to givo sattsfactor boni for the faithful performance of th same. Also, lor furnishing 400 cords of goo hard woo«l, of the ilowiug named vnrietic suga' tree,beach and luakory, to be di livere to tbe trustee of Harrison township, at an point the ty limit* he may uesignat and to b.' spect and received by him pre vious to payment thereof. Tho Board re servingtbe right to reject any or all bids tha may be presented for either or all ol th abo've contracts. 8AMUFL ROYSE,

Auditor Vigo Coanty.

APPLICATION FOR 1 ICEN?E. NOTICE Is hereby given that we will ap ply to the Board if Commissioners of Vig county. Indiana, at their June term for license 10 seu "intoxicating liquor*" in less quantity than a quartH* a time, wit the pr.vilege of allowing the same to ank on our premises, for ono year. Ou ace of business and tho premises whereo said liquors are to be sold and drank, are lo cated on the west end of lot Sr. one hundrei and eighteen (118) in Rose's subdivision 0 47 and 82-HO acres off the east side 01 the wes half of section twenty-two (22), townshi twelve north, range nine (9) west, south Bid of Ch stunt street, between Tenth ant Eleventh streets, in Terre Haute, in Harri son township, in Vigo county, Indiana.

ALBERT AMOS, WALTER REED.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. NOTICE is hereby given that wo will ap ply to the Board of Commissioners of Vig county, Indiana, at their June term, f»r liceuse to sell "intoxicating liquors" in lessauantily than a quart at a time, wit the privilege of allowing Ihe same to drank on our premises, for ene year. Ou place of busiuess and premises whereo* »aid liquors are to be so.d and drank, a~ lo .ated on lot 88, of St«ut's addition to th town of Hartford, in Linton township, Vigo coun y,Indlona.

V„ JO-EPH H.BOWLES, JOHN A.McGEE.

O CE PROPOSALS.

Not'ce is hereby given tint son led pro p- sols will be received by the B»*rd ot Com mi-sioners of Vigo county, inniann, a thei 1 ext regular June term, 1878. for building brick stable at the cou itj jail. Sail bins be presented in accordance with th-.- plan nnrf specifications now file in ofll-e th Cou'iiyAuditor. The board reservi th right 10 reject any or all bids that way presen ed for such work.

BY. order Board if Coin mis* -ncrs cf Vig County^/ .SAMUEL KOVsK, Auditor Vigo 1 T.ty.

OTICE TO NON -RESIDENTS

Te unknown owber, or owners whom 1 may :oncein: whereas, George II. S so« on th 10t day of February, )W«, by rder of 'he Com mon ouncil ti ihe' l'y of lerre Haute, tb tH Engineer if said city raadii au i-siim-tt of mon'ei due to Jo» ph Abb"tt on rjctor tnsat-ielt -for the woik« graoir.g aad itraVi lina of Thirteenth (3)street, between Locust street and Elgbth i8th) avenue, wtuc work has been done ny said contractor, a contr-ctei and in pursuance of said estmate, an assessment was made, upon th following described lot,to wit:

Lot No. one (1) block number two (2) Tuel

and

Ushers subdivision, of part of th

south east quarter of section fifteen (15 township twelve (12) north range nine (9) west aaloining saW eity of 'Jerre Haute, Viao county, belonging to unknown person

the

TIMOTHY COXWAY, CON. aUuLlVAN.

I Mill Not

be undersold in Hats, Gloves, Umbrellas, &c. Kolsem the Hatter.

wheieae, on the *l»t uay 0

»fav 1878 tbesald Common Council ordered that'a precept issue to the undersigned Treasurer of said city, for the collection of «,id assessment, which precept is now in

hands of said Treasurer, and whereaB tne *um of ?78S7 and costs Is now due upon paid estimate froa said unknown owner or

owners,aud,whereas,

said person or per-

#oi.s ar-* unknown. Now if the amount due -s alor. said upon said assessment is not paid withtn twenty days after the date of this publication, I, taid Treasurer, wiil proceed to make the same by levy anu sale of the said Lot.

HUGO DUENWEG

City Treasurer. Terre Haute, Ind.