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THURSDAY, AUGUST I, 1878.

We6t'6 Liver Pills cure Sick Headache.

RAILROAD travel is very feathery— light.

STOP at the Cutler House, Grand Haven.

Go with the St. Louis excursionists on Saturday.

THE Chimpanzee 6how has gone to Dayton, Ohio.

WHO can tell the result of at caucus of Notionals on Saturday last.

TRY Blair's restaurant on Main street, for meals at

cents each.

TICE Cutler House, Grand Haven, entertains its guests in royal 6t_vle.

THE programme for the St. Louis excursion comprises a 'great deal ot first claEs fun.

MOXNINGER'S Tivoli ha* become a very interesting Sunday resort for the city people.

WONDER why center street can't have loot bridges, and be like other first-.class, ^thoreughfares?

THE riyer is down again to the regulation summer dead level depth 28 inches on the board.

THE bills for the Barnum show are the handsomest ever put on the boards here. They are very gorgeous.

THE city is overrun with hogs at large. A big haul could be had by going any direction, and thanks thrown in.

THE late Republican candidate far city or, Walter Lyons, is the boss walklot 0£ the north end, but he runs poorly.

••.GRAND HAVEN is a delightful summer resort. There area number of Terre Hai\tean9 enjoying its breezes this summer.

'DISTINGUISHED statesmen"' smoke the Monticello cigars, kept only at the stand in the lobby of the T^rre Haute House.

A LARGE majority of our Harrison ,'lownship farmers have stacked their whea\ and will not have it thrashed until

September or cool weather.

THE.secretary of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railway Company announces the usual semi-annual dividend which payable on and after August

5th.

THE '"Lion" will 6e the title of the new dry goods store which Messrs. A. R. JescM ick & Co., of Chicago, will establish in the Opera Honse the latter part of this "week. r:

AGENTS for the purchase ot'^ wheat at .Atherton, near the dividing line' of Parke •iind Vigo county, were paying eightythree cents per bushc-l, last Friday and '.Saturday.

THE National House was full ofcircus •ffcoDle on Saturday. Besides the large •Sells party, there were twelve or fifteen gentlemen connected with Barnum's ad« vertising car here.

SMALL boys are destroying the tiling belonging to the county, which was tak en from under the grade on the St Mary's road. The young vandals should take warning and stop.

THE prospects for corn and weeds in jnany fields are about equal. Before the late rain the weeds had the advantage, but since the 6hower the corn has improved many dollars worth.

IT is 6aid that there are more than double the number of thrashing machines bidding for work thi6 season than for any previous year, consequently the price per bushel for work has greatly lowered.

A LADY dressed in men's clothes has at been discovered perambulating about the north end'of nights. She says she was only looking after some of the boys v\ ho desires to become her sons-in-law.

ONLY $1.50 per day at the Everett "House ot St. Louit, next Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Aug.

3d, 4th

Saturday Aug. ^d.

and

voters on the train. Oi these,

Democrats,

5th,

to excursionists by the Vandalia cheap excursion leaving this city at

A. M.

A LADY who recently obtained a divorce from her husband for cruel and inhuman treatment, has petitioned that the decree be set aside and made void because she was mistaken. This didn't happen in Indiana.

A VOTE, taken on the excursion train to Cincinnati, last Thursday, revealed Jhe fact that there were

342

full fledged

173

129

were

Republicans,

als, and

Nation

not decided.

THE amount of sand taken from the ted of Lost creek on the Lafayette road, within the last few years, has been very great. It is used by our plastereis and .is, by them, pronounced as being second •to none here or elsewhere.

A WALK throug"h the United States warehouse, formerly the Williams pork packing house, would astonish one at the immense quantity of whiskey and high nes, in bond there, the property ol jVlessrs. Hulman & Fairbanks.

THOSE side spring box buggies raanuiactured at Columbus, Ohio, at such-low prices, for which Mr. E. W. Chadwick agent are perfect beauties. Any one jvvho doubts the assertion should call at

Mr. Cv's stable and see samples.

A. NUMBER of saloon keepers were l^ughtto.griefby selling at their saloons, and at the Fair grouds under one

V.^xrt the same license. They* have been compelled to take out an additional -^Lcfijise for an entire year, which cut •Vlo-w.n the profits smartly.

$2.25

f'he

A FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR DISCREPANCY To the Editor of the GAZETTE

The Sullivan Union thu refers to a Vigo county matter: The Terre Haute Courier has thrown a

$5,000

The above charge hatched out by the fertile imagination of the Editor of the Courier, haa been considered too futile, to deserve any notice from honest men, but it seems that there are many, who, when a charge is made against a political opponent, do not stop to investigate, but swallow it down as the little bird does the worm when brought to it by the old one. Such has been the case of the Editor of the Sullivan Union, as can be seen by the above extract.

Now, if the editor of the Courier had any shame he would blush at his wanton stupidity, any regard for fairness, he would acknowledge that he wilfully or ignorantly sought to make a false impression.

The ''discrepancy" if any. is on the wrong side of the ledger. If the treasurer had paid out

$5,000

more than the

orders issued on him, then a bomb-shell would have been thrown into "the Democratic court house ring,as charged by these willing guardians of the dear people.

The Auditor does not handle a cent of the county's money—he simply issues orders on the Treasurer, under instructions of the countv commissioners, arid it the editor of the Courier is half as willing to publish the truth as to misrepresent honest men, he would see without much effort that all orders, when issued by the Auditor, are at once charged to the Treasurer, and that the Treasurer only gets credit for those orders which he pays that all the ordeis issued have not been presented tor payment, and that there are always more or less orders out. Such is the fact no-.v. All the orders issued on the Treasurer at the time of his report had not been presented or paid. Hence the "discrepancy," instead of being a bombshell, is a boomerang.

An Unfailing Evidence of Good Taste. The judicious use of some delicate perfume is an unfailing evidence of good taste. The mo9t polished ot £11 lands class sweet scents among their most important luxuries. Dr. Price's Unique Perfumes—Alista Boquet, Pet Rose, etc., are the gems of all ordors.

FIAT FOOLISHNESS. From the Indianapolis News. If the fiat fanatics by any possibility should crystallize their nonsense into law, this i» the way it would work. In January,

1S65.

the following contract

was made: Mr. Ichabod L. Quimby agrees to furnish us, and we take trom him,

to less than $1.50,

which was a decline of more than the

bombshell

into the Democratic court house ting of Vigo. It ha* dug up a discrepancy of $5,000 between the statement of the Auditor and Treasurer respectively. Explanations are in order.

15,000

dozen lohg shovel-handles, to be of the best quality of timber and workmanship, for the present year, the price to be ($1.25) one dollar and twenty-five cents per dozen, basing the price on the present price oi gold,

$2.25.

If the price of

gold goes up or down, then the price of handles shall be advanced or reduced accordingly. But it is understood that no advance or reduction of the price of gold of

per cent, shall change the price of handles, unless it shall remain at the advanced or reduced rate sufficiently long to affect the general price of merchandise.

I. L. QUIMBY, OLIVER AMES & SONS.

IJefore the contract was filled the price of gold fell from

per cent, limit of the contract, and so remained. The supreme court has decided that the contract is binding and that the handles should be paid for in greenbacks at a price reduced from $1.25 per dozen at the ratio ot the decline of the greenback price in gold. This decision recognizes the right of private parties to stipulate in their contracts for payment in

old if they like. So it will always be. fiat fanatics might make their "absolute" paper absolute for all government dues, but they can not make it absolute in private contracts. They can not force a farmer to take the worthless rag for a bushel ot wheait, nor a bushel of rags for a grain of wheat. So long as the law recognizes the right of contract so long must it recognize a man's right to take or refuse ar.y tning for his own. If the fiat fanatics want to make a success of their foolery they must not stop at a legal tender for all dues. They must compel all men to lake them for everything. For an example of how lhat works read the history of the French assignats.

THE night watchaian at one ot the railroad round houses in the city, whose duty in part is to call men who have to go out on trains during the night, says, and is willing to be sworn to the truth of the assertion, that its the hardest work he has to perform, to awaken the young and single boys after miefnight of Sunday or Monday morning. For, says he, they hang on to that girl until nearly midnight and are but fairly getting to snoring well when its time to get out. HP happens to be a religious as well as a married man, or he would often lose his temper and say

Ucuss

words." However,

these warm nights he usually finds his victims lying on the floor with door* open, and he goes in, takes a seat on the subject, and sits there until he is quite certain that his mission has been accomplished. -ttr if

THE Governor's Guards are steadily increasing in membership, and yesterday received a fresh requisition of accoutrements, in a case, of twenty Springfield ifles. and their regular complement of five non-commissioned swords^ for their

company.

ONE who think* in knows, or at least thinks he ougrn to Know, says that Within six months flour lii oc uot more than four dollars per barrel that there has been at least one third more acres of wheat raised this year than for many past, and an equally large yield.

POISON IN OUR PASTRY. By the use of Flavoring Extracts, made from injurious articles, in our pastry and our creams, we encounter danger. These evils may be avoided by using Dr. Price's Special Flavoring Extracts, which are free from all deleterious sub-

stances, made from the fruit.

A BOGUS PUBLICATION. It seems that that sprightly city, Springfield, Ills., is afflicted by a daily paper which pretends to publish all the dispatcher, when, in fact, it receives none from the telegraph company, nor does it pav for any,

This bogus sheet recently published an interview with the Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees. The article was copied in this city and erroneously credited to the State Register, a very respectable paper.

The Register after paying its respects to the manner in whichjLusk, of the State Gazette, (the bogus paper) does business, concludes as follows:

But it appears that he is guilty of a fraud even more contemptable than that of falsely pretending to purchase and publish dispatches. On the

I have the honor to be, With great respect, D. W. VOORHEES. This scathing letter from Mr. Voorhees is well deserved by the scandalous sheet in which the fabricated interview appeared. It is a scandal and a disgrace to our city that such publications should appear in our midst.

ALEETLETOO MODEST. A lady on the northside wishing to test the merits of Dr. Bull's Cough Sv~ rup thought it would never do to ask the druggist in the name of "3ull." Why dear me, she couldn't say Bull to saye her life, and called at last on a neighbor woman for suggestions on the matter. Dr. Caw's, Dr. Calfs, Dr. Buffalo's and Dr. Oxen's Syrup were all mentioned. The latter suited. "Yes, that will do— Dr. Oxen —the very thing, the druggist will understand tbat." A walk of two squares found her at the counter of Dr. H—'s store, when the following dialogue occurred: "I wish a bottle of Dr .. Oxen's Cough Syrup." "Dr. Oxen, Oxen, why, mam, I don't believe I keep that. You mean Cox's Hive Syrup, don't you?"

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V. ".

vWlfc^

19th

no, I mean,"mean Dr. Oxen," and

then she seemed wrapped in solemn thought for a moment, when a bright idea seemed to beam forth. "Has'nt Dr. Oxen got a relation or—" "C)h, yes, you mean Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, yes, yes." The lady sat down a moment and all was over.—[Indianapolis Excn.

THE testimonial which appears elsewhere in this issue addressed to Dr,. Von Moschzisker, by Mr. Anton Mayer, will be read with a great deal of interest by the friends of the big brewer as al«o by the admirers of the big doctor.

The card is brief and simply expressed and carries a world of weight with it. Mr. Mayer has tor a number of years suffered from a case of catarrh.

As most persons similarly afflicted he was thoroughly disheartened and could scarcely be made to believe that his disease was susceptible of cure. He had lost the sense of smell, and his breathing was also labored. He was urged to see Dr. Von Moschzisker, who informed him that a number of polyps in •his nasal passages could be removed and that he would get well.

For some days the doctors have been treating him and has removed some of the polyps. Yesterday by the aid of a peculiarly constructed instrument,*fer which the doctor sent away, he removed the large polyp which was pressing against the lacrymal duct. The operation was somewhat painful but Mr. Mayer is wonderfully relieved. He can again smell and feels much better. Withfuther treatment for his cataarh Mr. Mayer will recover.

The doctor has the polgp which was originally as large as the-hazel nut preserved in alcohol at his office.

THE-sale of the late Dr. Ezra Read, library, will take place on the

**«&$* ,-4*#.:

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE

he publish

ed what was purported to ba an interview with Hon. Dan. W. Voorhees, of Indiana, who was in the city on the

18th.

In introducing this pretended interview, the Gazette baid: '•In the afternoon a Gazette reporter waited upon the great exponent of pure and undefiled democracy, and by means ot those cunning devices only known to the fraternity obtained from him his views upon certain prominent political matters. The interview was substantially as follows."

Then follows a long series of matter ascribed to Mr. Voorhees, declaring that the members of the Potter committee "can only be regarded as disturbers of the public peace," that "the national party is stronger than at any time since its organization," Sic., It is not probable thnt the fraud would ever have attracted public attention except for the fact that it was republished in one of the Terre Haute papers and erroneously credited to the State Register. It thus came to the notice of Mr. Voorhees, and he wrote on July 21st to the editor ot the Register as follows: "I was astounded last evening to find the en losed alleged interview copied into one of our city papers. The person who imposed upon the Register and procured its publication committed one of the grossest outrage ever known in journalism. There is not one single word or syllable of truth in it from beginning to end. During the few hours I was in your city on Thursday I had r.o interview with any one on the subject of politics, held no conversation of the kind indicated in this report, either with a newspaper man or anybody else» I was there on private professional business, and as soon as I reached my room at the Leland I sent at once for Hon, J. C. Robinson, who came to my room within ten minutes after my arrival. He did not leave me a single moment until he parted with me in the cars in the afternoon stafting home. He knows as well as I do that this so called interview is the sheerest possible fabrication, that not a word of the kind fell from my lips while in Springfield, that nobody called upon me for the purpose of an interview, and that, with the exceptiyn of himself and Governor Cullom, I did not exchange a dozen words with a hurt an being while there, excepting with the gentleman who accompanied me from my own house, It may be as well to say that this spurious interview, on every point that it presents, has put In my mouth exactly the words that I would not have expressed under any circumstances, and opinions which I do not entertain. *r

26th

August. It is a collection of rare, and curio-is books, gathered during a life time.

P. T. BARNUM AND HIS SHOW. World-renowned is Phineas Taylor Barnum as par excellence the Prince of Showmen. Mr, Barnum, in fact, may be said to be the legitimate father of the show business. He has time and again undertaken enterprises so colossil as to astonish the world, and has demonstrated the success of his ventures so as to win the plaudits of millions. His connection with Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind, in the incipient days of his professional adventures, extended his name and fame over all points of the habitable globe. It has been one of the peculiar idiosyncracies, one of the strange and unaccountable freaks of Mr. Barnum,. to advertise himself and persuade others to advertise him as a "humbug." Nevertheless, he has no clear right to the patent or the caveat which he has filed, and which he autocratically assumes to belong to himself solely, and to be his individual proprietary trade-mark. The truth is, there i* more of the legitimate and genuine iJ less of the artificial clap-trap and make-believe about Mr. Barnum and his shows than is found in the exterior make-up of half the men aud women in the land, and in the component parts of twothirds of the profession, whether fixed and permanent, or traveling and peripatetic. The chief fault with his shows of later years has been concentrated in the fact that they have been and are too colossal, too grand, too extensive. He shows so much that is showable and really meritorious, that the millions have not the time nor the opportunity to witness the merest fraction of what is on exhibition they do not know where to begin nor where to leave off and as a consequence they come and go without seeing the seeable, pass idly by the treasures on exhibition, crowd into the circus pavilion and await the commencement of the ring performances then, after sitting two or three hours, drinking in the real wonders performed before their gaze, they take it into their heads that it being a Barnum it must be a delusion and a snare, a veritable "Humbug," to be in keeping with his traditional fame, and they gofway saying they were disappointed—"It wasn't half so good as I thought it was going to be." Mr. Barnum is one of the most liberal and generous hearted men of the nation and age. There is nothing small or mean about him. He has made and has given away fortunes and we suppose he will continue to do so as long as he lives.

COURT HOUSE ECHOES.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.' Ed. W. Smith to Wm. M. Allen: tract in section

17,

for

$3,000.

in Nevins Townshipi

for $ 1 ,ooo". Mary E. and W. W. Payne to Chas. P. and Mary A. Staub, north one-half of lot 11, in sub lot

in sub out-lots

and part of

62, 63,

for $1,200.

64,

Chas. P. Staub to Mary Payne, north one-half of the east one-half of lot 12, Farrington's subdivision, out-lot

HUMAN BENEFACTORS.

Those who improve the quality of our daily food become human benefactors. By laborious experiment, Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder has been perfected. Great care is taken in selecting ingredients, so that when used in our food will render it wholesome. Eminent chemists advise its use..

THE DULCET.

Among the many new books which demand a share of public favor, the latest is the "DULCET," from the house of White, Smith & Co., Boston, from a careful examination of the contents we are satisfied that no better work for general church use has ever been placed before the public. The authors, L. Marshall and D. F. Hodges, are both well known as convention leaders, as composers of sacred music, and as authors of some of the most popular church books of the past twenty years. The present work is the result of their long experience, and is doubtless the crowning effort of their lives in this direction. The work consists of about

300

pages, and isjdivided

as usual into four parts, viz Notation and Elementary instruction Glees, Four Part Songs, &c. choice and select Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Sentences, Responses, Chants, &c., the whole put together in a very neat and attractive style. An examination by parties desiring something new and good will well repay the troub, le, and a specimen copy -may be obtaine. by sending $1.00 to" the publisher WHITE, SMITH( & Co., BOSTON, MAS

ON Sunday Tom Jackson met a fellow who claimed to be engineer on a threshing machine which was running up north on the Terre Haute & Chicago road. .He was very friendly, and proposed to give Jackson a situation as assistant engineer, a position, which, he said, paid twelve dollars ($12.00) a week and board. Jackson was, of course, extremely polite to the fellow gave him his dinner, and treated him around. Yes terday morning he had just money enough to pay his fare to the junction. He got off there and walked on his crutches two miles to where the thresh ing was being done, and his important and influential friend was not engineer but merely a feeder for the machine, and not head feeder at that. The fellow had about as much power to get Jackson a situation as did the wheat sacks. Tom came back last night, as may be imagined, pretty thoroughly disgusted.

The Teeth an Advertising Medium. Every time a lady who uses fragrant 80ZODONT opens her month, she advertises the article. The state of her teeth is a certificate of its excellence. No spot darkens their surface, no imparity

to them, the cushions in which they set are rosy, and the breath that swells through is sweet as the breeze of June.

clings

Si- ldiDR's L:qu'd Glue, always ready to use

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"Time cannot

69,

Jacob McCoskey to John B. McCoskey, two tracts in scction

25,

Creek township, for

in Honey

33,

for

$165.00.

Whitfielfl Smith to John F. Roedell, sub lot 55 in John Boudinott'b subdivision for

$300.

Pauline Johnson to Gertrude Pointer off east 6ide of south half of northwest quarter of section

exhibitor

township 11, range

$200. ,, *.

MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Wm. E. Corson and Annie M. Daugherty. George W. Sprague and Annie E. Smith.

that remarkable

::i-

wither

nor custom

Antony

ti .„•* '.-"ft-"!

A N

•*,••: fxrJ^.':,.

-OWN AND ONLY

•WILL EXHIBIT IN

Terre Haute, SATURDAY, Aug. lOtli.

GREATER THAN EVER.

All former years eclipsed by the Grandeur, Magnificence, Extent and Novelty of the GREATEST SHOW OF THE UNIVERSE. Beyond the reach of Rivalry Defying all Competition, Recognizing no Opposition, its"tour this season has been a Succession of Triumphs, each place visited "contributing its FLATTERING, OVATION.

New Features in Every Department!

Among which MK. BARNUM is proud of announcing his

Group of Twenty Imported Trained Stallions!

The most remarkable specimen of Enquine Sagacity and Beauty ever presented the public, representing the choicest breed of the Roval Stables ot Germanv and Russia, Italy and Tartary. They form the GREAT SENSATION OF HE SEASON, as they appear under the direction and control of their trainer and

Late Equerrv to HU Majesty, King Wiiiiam.

ONE HUNDRED PERFORMERS

Of the highest merit and rarest accomplishments. i'S-*

An Immense Menagerie!

Containing representatives from every zone and clime. '^v

"From Greenland's Uy mountains from In1ia*4 coral stiand .-'M

?, '.f Where Afric's sunny fsantaf"1) roll'l'wn sroldeu sand", From many an ancient river, from many a palmy plain," They have beefi brought to increase the interest of the- .-W". -'.•**

The!, Traveling 1 American Museum,

Rivaling its famous progenitor cf Broadway, New orkf containing

THOUSANDS OF MARVELS!

't?' Automatic, Historical, and natural, embracing in its list of *"'t

LIVING,^- CURIOSITIES

i""

ppeclmen

of Pagan Cruelty.

a,,"

Whose entire body from bead to f&t is covered with over

figures pricked into his quivering flesh. Also that remarkable descendant of Anak,

^^Door open at 1 and

':-V "'V ,-

stale his Infinite

and

Cleopatra,

IS. C.£.3EB3L -A.NTO"ST,

THE CIRCUS!

EFINED, ELEVATED SUBLIMATED, and its interest magnified by the presence

viriety"-

of physical endurance and exemplar of the refinemen

The Tattooed Greek Nobleman,

ffrf' 'Vi _,r 'J J''

Capt. Geo.. Costsntsntus,

f'»~*

'Jjstiv

apartment!

JUl:. If

700

COL. GOSI1EH, THE PALESTINE CJI A.\T, 8 feet 0 inches high, in comparison with whom all other -Giant." dwarf to Pig-

ONE TICKET ADMITS TO ALL.

SEATING CAPACITY OF EXHIBITION, TENT,

On the morning ^of the day ot exhibition,

A Grand Street Pageant!

of unusual extent and great magnificence will pass

principal streets. One of the features ut Procession led bv their Splendor, will be the appearance of

of the

6-30

hou/aJNi a^ialf to view the Menagerie and Mo»o, ance begins.

Admission

artistically designed

10,000.

of thrp"|^g8i)tr^e1

Stallions 1

P. M. Performances at 2 and

cents. Children under

cents extra. children and all who desire to avoid the For the accommodation of grounds. Mr. Barnum will open crowd surrounding the ticket wagons on the snow c. fK a Ticket Office forthe sale of Tickets and Reserved beats, at Button & Cos. Central Book Store at the usual slight advance.

P. M. thus giving an

naif price. Reserved Seats,

Ladies, Children and others wishing to avoid the crowds in me evening are aa vised to attend the Afternoon Exhibition. ovhihifion Excursion Trains on all Railroads on LIFE OF BARNUM or 1 ETA Free Ticket given to all purchasing "THE LIFt,Ut BAKN M, or his latest story,'LIONJACK."

in the evening are ad-