Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 October 1878 — Page 7

Uulsn depot. Cfetttnnt and Tenth •treete for all trains except I. A St. C. T.IL tnd freight*. Time five minutes fatter than Terre Hauce time. Depot of I. A 8t. L.COPM: aer Tlppecauoe end Sixth streets.

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Explanation of References: fflatrruay excepted. *8nnday excepted, lllonday excepted. {Dally.

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AND ALIA MKJ5. (Leave going East.)

Mndianapolls Accommodation 7 00 a JJCast Line 1 25. am I Eastern Express 8 06 "Indianapolis Accommodation S 40 (Arrive from £aet JWestcrn Express 1 #5 am •Mail and Express a (Past Line •Indianapolis Aecomodation 7 CO (Leave going West)

Fast Line 1 OT am •Mall and Accommodation 10 08 a )Bxprcaa 8 10

Arrive from West.)

•Fast Line

Accommodation 8 10 am {Day Kxpress 8 15 $New Xork Kxpress No. 5............ I 87 a (Arrive from East.K }6ay TSxpress *1

CINCINNATI AND TEPRE HAUTE, leaves depot coiiicrMpln and Ijirst street. 1 'AccommodMion 8 46 a

(Arrives.*

lAeoommodatlon 8 80

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 17,1878.

An old black woman reciting her "speerunce," said she had been to heaven, "Did you see any colored ladies dar?" asked a young sister. "Oh, you git out you s'pose I went in de kitchen when I was dar?"

Two Irishmen were in prison—one for stealing a cow, the other for stealing a watch. "Hullo, Mike, and sure fwhat o'clock is it?" said the cow stealer. "An' sure," said the watch stealer, "I've no time-piece handy, but suppose its just about milking time."

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Recent scientific improvements—Mistress. "You needn't be so frightened, Maria. It's only the phonograph."

Maria. "Lor', mum! I thought it was a sewing-machine. And I only just touched the handle, and it said, What the divil are you about?" just like the very moral of master." ,. ttglit

An Englishman was boasting to a Yankee that they had a book in the Bri ish Museum, which was once owned by Cicero.

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An agent who had sold a Dutchman some goods, was to deliver them in the afternoon to the residence of the purchaser. The Dutchman gave him the following directions "You shoost goes pehinii de Menger, and turns to de right till you comes to a fence mit a hole in it de'i you turns up to de right for a while till you sees a house mit a big hog in de yard. Dot's me."

Anonymous correspondents, that is "people who send saucy and insulting letters and postal cards, are informed that the anonymous letter writer is by all odds the lowest, meanest, most cowardly and contemptable of all the despicable things of this world. Too cowardly to dare speak over his own name, too mean to allow another the chance to reply, too utterly contemptible to be noticed, the anonymous sneak imagines he is smart.

The young men of this country will be pleased to know that an Ohio barber has invented a machine by which he can singe off the human hair one thirteen-one-hundredths of an inch closer to jthe skull than it is now possible to bring it with the clipping machine. Any yofapg man who will go out into society with great straggling locks nearly threeeighths of an inch long strockling down his back oujfht to be ashamed oi himself.

A facetious brakeman on the Central Pacific railroad cried out, as the train ,was about entering a tunnel. "This is one mile long and the train will be four minutes passing through it" The train dashed through into daylight again in four seconds, and the scene within the gar was a study for a painter. Seven voung ladies were closely pressed by seven pair of masculine arms, fourteen tpair oflips were glued together, and two '^ozen inverted whisky-flasks flashed in he *jIV

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RAILROAD TIME-TABLE.

4Effingham Accommodation 8 50 am I Eastern Express 45 INDIANAPOU8 ft ST. LOUIS (Leave geingi&ast.)

(Accommodation 9 00 (New Iork Express No. 0 1 37 a (Leave goln« West.) 4 Day Express 10 47 am

Accommodation New York Express No. 1 37 am (Arrive from West./I •Accommodation 8 10 a {Day Mxpress 8 »p 5.Sew YorkExpreBBKo.5 1 37 a

TERRE HAUTE AND LOGAN8PORT. (Depart) •Terre Haute and Lafayette mail... 8 80 a •Freight and Accommodation 1 15 •Toledo Fxpreas 4 10 fArrhe. •Frt-lffht and Accommodation...T. .11 00 •Mail and Express 18 45 •Through Express & 55 n»

TERRE HAUTE AND EVANSVILLE. (Depart) {Nashville Express 4 89 a •Freight ana Accommodation 1 2d •Day Express 8 10 (Arrive) •Mailand Express 2 BO •Freight and Accommodation 4 56 (Express 10 00 u. EVAN8VILLE,TERRE HAUTE ft CHICAGO (Depart for Xorth.) •Chicago Express fl 40 a •Danville Accommodation 8 10 (Night Express lu 13 .Depart for South.) (Night Express 4 86 am •Terre Haute Accommodation 11 10 a •Day Express 8 40

ILLINOIS MIDLAND (Depart.)

'Peoria Fast Line 7

•Accomodation 8 50 'Arrive Accommodation 12 26 pm Fast Line ...^ ... 7 ou

GAZETTELETS. f'\

It is mournful to see a man more'n full—[Whitehall Times.,

far

that ain't nothin'," retort

ed the Yankee. "In the Museum in Boating they've got the lead pencil that Noah used to check off the animals that went into the ark." }l

A Kentucky woman has married a Mr. Calico. Our only hepc is that he will wash.

A fellow should never kiss his girl at the mountains, because mountains peak. —[Bost Post. •, J.,

Disappearance of umbrellas is usually preceded by barometrical depression.— Phila. Herald.

Mrs. Livermore has just recovered $4,000 worth of diamonds which she recently lost in a fire.

An old neero woman was found dead in Atlanta, Ga., with a foot in the fiie and a pipe in her mouth.

Tis sever thus," said Alexander, when he cut the Gordian knot. "Beef Allah mowed," said the Turk, when he had killed his cattle.

These trapeze performers are desperate persons. They are ound to make a living if they have to 6 wing foi t.— 'Keokuk Constitution.

The Rochester Express says th Sunday 6treet car is "the aevn chariot"— which the Buffalo Express thinks is rough on the churches. 1

A man at Bradford, England, been held in bonds to keep the peace for sending out a beilman to cry out the proclamation that his wite, Amelia, was tor sale.

The Rev. Mr. Talmag'e savs: "There are four roads that lead to nell, and Ingersoll is opening another.'* Wouldn'j that be the Filth ave.ioe?—[Yonkers Gazette.

Levy drew crowds tc» Jfoney Island with his silver cornet, bujpahe floored musician who manipulatedPi^bnRgong was the real attraction.--f^^cHaven Register.

No wonder Proctor asked* "Is the moon dead?" It takes no care of its health. It never geU up till evening,' and then knocks around all night.—[Detroit Free Press.

An exchange asks, "What shall we do with the girls?" Why,do the lair thing by one of them, and give the other fellows a chance with the -rest.—[Boston Transcript.

Yassar college has two Japanese girls, and the Philadelphia Chronicle sa\s it is an affecting sight to bee the American girls teaching them how slide ,down the balustrade. I !•*_ t* I

Thomas Harden is one of th$ most eager drinkers in Ripley, Minn. He bit off the nozzle of a whisky bottle, and the piece of glass 6tuck his throat, chok,fr(VllSs*ff

ing him nearly to dcuin.," John Iron is the steward of

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a Jersey

Beach hotel, and now that business is falling off he sits at the range beside his brother Grid, and a pair of sad irons are they.—("Lowall Courier.

A liverv-stuble keeper "of Springfield, Mass., recently drank all the milk gi\$n by a cuw he thought of buying, and tetuscd 10 take her, as she couldn't give as much milk a* lie could drink.

Ben Butler is sixty rears old, and possessor of $3,000,000. This makers the wages of the horny-handed veteran of labor over $150 a day from his birth, not counting living expenses.—[Chicago Journal.

Cast your little stanza upon the wa ters and it will return to you after many days credited to half a dozen innocent

ieroons who never did you any particuharm.—[N. Y. Commercial Adver-

user. It is said that the American habit of taking window-sills for foot-stools is on the feline. Convince a man that there is room on the floor for'his feet and he will leave them there.—[Detroit Free Press. "I move the previous question," said a delegate to a Montana convention. The chairman—"If the chair recollects right, the question was on adjourning for drinks. Those in favor say es contra ry minded, no, it is a vole."

Three Newport benedicts agreed last year that the one who soonest became a father should reccive a hat from eaeh of the.others. Result—a tie, each wile becoming a mother precisely ten rronths and five days after the wedding.

A Chicago publisher has issued a book ent'tled '-How to Become Plump." The old way, you remember, was to fall out of a third story window and came down plump. The new method is less dangerous, but not so certai n.—[ Norristown Herald.

It is a lamentable fact that a piece of pasteboard with averse on it, given as a reward of merit in a Sabbath school, has not half the charm for the boy as the 6Bme sized piece of pasteboard with the simple talismanic words, "admit one." —[Boston Globe.

An exchange says old tin can9 should be saved, as by taking off the top and putting in a wire ball they make handy pails. We may also maintain that ah old can, when "properly adjusted, makes an excellent record behind a^dog's rudder.—[Syracuse Times.

Norristown Herald: A snake was recently caught in a Welsh church by "charming" him from his retreat by the mufcic of a harmonium. A snake is probably the only living creature that can be "charmed" by a harmonium. And no doubt the reoUle preferred to come out and die thaQto listen any longer to its strains.

Issac C. Hnick, of Media, is eightythree years old has only missed one election in sixty-two years, and "can btUl jump a four-rail fence." Is there any particulai advantage, by the way, in an eighty-three year man being able to jump a fonr-riil fence?—[Norristown Herald. He reckons his life by leap years.—Philadelphia Bulletim.

M. Remain, a French physician, declares that to be free from liability to yellow fever one has only to driftk boiled water, yellow fever being the exclusive result of drinking water that has become corrupted, and that if one is attacked by the disease he will be cured in twelve hours if he will only drink large quantities of boiles water, even in the midst of he vomitingd

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TEXAS.

An Interesting Letter From the Regular Correspondent of the Gazette.

Some Facta About the Cotton Crop There, 28 fallow to so to Texas—About the

Health of the People. r*| tj I To the Editor of the GAXETTE:

^Dallas, T£xas, Oct. 6th, 1878. It seems scarcely possible that I should have taken the train just one week ago in your city, and, after spending one day in Chicago, St. Louis, and several days mother portions of Texas, attending successfully to a large amount of business, be able to write you from this point to-day. But such is the Hie of a commercial traveler. My trip thus fir has been an exciting one yet unusuallv pleasant. I have found plenty of business and remunerative financially. The outlook for better times, in this direction is j^ood.

KING

COTTCN.

Cotton is moving quite brisk all along (lfy route and is 01 a finer and beitfer arti de than has been produced for several $ears past. The dry weather has favoredits maturity much earlier than usual. The samples I have seen arc clean, bright and free from sand or dirt. The crop is said to be good and rather above the average for several years past. Buyers are in the market from Europe, also Bos ton, New York, and in fa'jt from all eastern, as well as many western points. The prices range thus far from to cents per pound and sales are quite active at those prices, as the present demand is good. The average bale of cotton weighs from 400 to 450 pounds and about one bale is the production of one acre of ground if well cultivated. However, I have seen lands that will not produce 10 pounds and will not pay for the picking. Thus you see that one"acre of cotton at S% cents, 400 pounds, is worth $35,00, about equal to an acre of corn with us, of 75 bushels at 50 cents per bushel. I would rather undertake to raise two acres oi corn at home than to raise one acre of cotton in Texas or in any of the southern 6tates.

I have often been asked at home THE BEST ROUTE TO TEXAS. The answer to such a question depends much upon what are the intentions of the person asking it, whether for pleasure and seeing the country, or speculation, or emigration, or otherwise. For actual pleasure in season I preier from our section of the country to strike Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville, and New Orleans, by rail thence to Brazier City, also by rail from Brazier City by Morgan steamship across the Gulf of Mexico to Galves ton. When at Galveston, you have all in front of you. Houston thence to San Antonio thence to Austin by stage which will pay the partv for pleasure. This portion of Texas mtjst be seen to be appreciated. It has numerous clear, sparkling rivers, beautiful prairies and mountain ranges, large farms and ranges, under excellent cultivation horses, cattle and sheep are in abundance. This route has occasionally a little outside amusement, and is varied by the bandit in stopping the stage and demanding your small change. From Austin, you can rcachthe Texas Central Railroad by Hearn, and continue up to Dallas, Fort Worth, Sherman, through the Indian Nation, which is one of the most beautiful tracts of land the sun shines upon. Through the Nation to Fort Scott and St. Louis, or, when at Hearn, you can take in Eastern Texas, or thai portion of Texas that embraces the almost entire timber lands of the state, portions of which are desirable. Along this route you strike Palestine, Tyler, Marshall, Jefferson, Texarkana. The greatest objection have to this section of Texas is the sluggish streams and rivers running their course through almost the entire length dealing out sickness and death. The Sulphur River, especially, in its serpentine windings through "a splendid growth of pine timber, leaves in its course malarik enough, if put in barrels, to poison every man, woman and child in ^America. 1 look forward to the time when the great state of Texas will correct these matters by appropriations of money, sufficient to clear these rivers and streams from the fallen trees, dead and rotten timber, the accumulation of perhaps ages in the past, I am not writing these pages in the interest of any, particular railroad or emigration movement, not from notes complied from any other source than those of my own actual experience and personal observation for eight years past. In this correspondence I am compelled to cutoff much more interest to the Dusiness man, the man of pleasure, the farmer mechanic or day laborer, than is perhaps embodii din my letters. Special letters to the farmer, and others upon special points in their interests, could be made interesting to then., as well as beneficial to the writer,fixing upon the latter's mind facts, incidents, and a more durable knowledge of the great future state of our nation. There is no question of the fact that there are, hemes in Texas for millions of people.

At present there considerable malarial fever existing in the state no yellow fever to any extent. Whiskey is abundent, and cheap to those who drink it. Water from

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THE TERKE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

cents per bucket

in many of the towns. One milllion men could be used in picking cotton at present, outside of those in the fields A good emigration from Pennsylvania and Ohio, is coming into the state. Many of them come stay, a short timefbecome dissatisfied, pull ap stakes and go home. A question asked me by a gentleman on the Board Trade in Chicago last Monday, as to how many men on an average made fortunes in Texas, or even a comfortable living, was answered by asking, how many men made fortunes or a comfortable living by gambling on the Board of Trade. He was satianed aad N was

But the chances for making a living1 a good comfortable living in Texas, to the right kind of men are in their favoi.

Yours truly G. W. H.

TERRE MAIITE MARKETS.

Terre Haute. October

17,1878.

Garden vegetables are very low in price.

6RAIH AND FLOUR.

CASH RKTAIL PRICKS.

WHAT—85c for No. 1. FLOUR-Cc ommon,

$4.75

$.2c patented extra fi„e,

family,

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per bbl. CORN—Csr corn, 35c wagon corn, 35c per bushel.

OATS—33}^@35c per oushel. RYE—45c per bushel. HAY—Baled, $4 .00 person loose on wagon, |8@io per ton.

BRAN—70c per cwt. POP CORN—Choice. 25c per peck.

IMPORTED FRUIT.

ORANGES—40eU75c per dozen. LEMONS—25c per doz 40c foi choice selection.

COCOANUTS—85c per doz. RAISINS—15c per lb choice layei 20c per lb.

FIGS—Lavs, ic kegs, nc. ALMONDS—er lb, 20c. FILBERTS— 14c. BRAZILS— 9c. ENGLISH WALNUTS—14cper lb. CANDIES—Mixed common, 41c fine French 2o@5oc sticks, 12c per lb.

PECANS—Louisiana and Texas, 9c western, 7)^c.

DOMESTIC FRUIT..

NEW APPLES—1 "jc to 20c per*p eck. RED PLUMS—Per gallon, 30c. DAMSON PLUMS—35c per gallon.

PEARS—California, $3 75 to J$4 60 a box. CELERY—60c per dozen.

SMALL NUTMEGS—Foi- mangoes, 40c per dozen.

COFFEES—Laguira and Golden Rio choicest, 25c per lb Old Gov. Java, 30c Prime Rios, Maricabo, »5C good, 22c fair, 20 Mocha, 35c.

The above quotations are for green coftee. ROASTED—Choice Rio, 25 @300 avas, 35c.

TEAS—Imperial, 5o,75c@$t Oolong, 50@75c Gunpowder, 75C@$ 1.50.

RICE—North Carolina, 10c. STARCH—6)£c. HOMINY—Hud nut's, 4c per lb,"or

Hughes, 16 inches. Gilpin, 19 Weir, 19 NATHAW PADDOCK,

GROCERIES.

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CASH RKTAIL PRICKS.

pounds foi 25c Maizone, 25c per 5 lb Ox ^rr.s, jc lb. SUGARS—Brown, extra C, 10 pound, $i ^C, 9,% pounds, $1 Molasses, 9c per lb White—Coffee A, 9 pounds 1$ Granulated, 8 pounds %i pulverized or, c.-ushed,,8 pounds $1 New Orleans 8 pounds $1.

MOLASSES Drips, $1.00 bete syrup, $1 good, 80c sugar ^house, 60c sorghum, 50c per gallon.

MEATS. Hi

CASH RETAIL PRICKS.

SHOULDERS—Sugar cured, ioc'per lb plain, 7)£c per lb. BEEF—Dried, by the piece,' i6%c"per lb small cuts. 20c.

LAMB CHOPS—I5@i2&c per fib French chops, per lb. BREAKFAST BACON—uc per lb.

MUTTON—io@i2$c per lb* VEAL—io@ 15c per.lb. PORK—Fresh, 8@ioc per lb. ,, CORN BEEF—6@8c per lb* BEEFSTEAK—io@i5C per lb. HAMS—Winter cured, uncanvassed, 14c per lb plain, 12c per 1L\,

DAIRY AND POULTRY. CASH RETAIL PBICFTS.

IIONEY—New country, 25c per 1, BUTTER—Western Reserve, 35c choice table (country), 20c good cooking, 6c inferior, 6c.

CHEE&E—New York dairy, I5@20C prime. eggs—15c.

POULTRY—Choice Spring (liveiabc

old, 2 dressed, 30c for choice. CHICKENS—2(jcts each.

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6ARDEN PRODUCE. BEANS—20 per

NfcW STRING peck. BEETS—20 cents per peck.

CABBAGES—10 to 20c per head. ONIONS—20c to 25c per peck. CUCUMBERS—15c per dozen for pickles, 25c per hundred.

RADISHES—5c per bunch. NEW ^POTATOES—25 cents per peck.

SQUSHES—5c a piece. WATER MELONS—5c NUT-MEG MELONS—5c to 10c. YELLOW SWEET POTATOES— 30c per peck.

JERSEY YELLOW SWEET POTATOES—35c per peck. GRAPES—Concord, 10c per pound Ive»* seedlings 5c Catawba, i2)£c Dela ware, I2)£c.

LIMA BEANS—I5cper quart. PEPPERS—ioc per dozen. TOMATOES—25c ppr peck, green

20C.

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QJJINCES—75C per peck. HORSE RADISH —50c per doz. EGG PLANTS—$1.20 per doz. CORN—ioc per doz. TURNIPS—5c per bunch. CARROTS—20c per peck. I Corrected by H. C. Davis, cor. Sixth and

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Tniscellaneous.

HIDES—Green slaughter hides, 5c green salt, dry flint, ioc. SEEDS-CIover, timothy,

^M^OOL—Tubbed, 3o@35c unwashed, 22 ®27C. CANDLE9^-T*llow, star, par pound, 10 cents.

COAL OIL—Per gallon, 25G30C.

SEECIAL NOTICE.

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|®lfi order to reduce stock and to spare forja radicaQcliaflieto our business we shall offer for a|limitea period a number of

EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS

75 Pieces Tapestry Brussels at 75 to 900, 75 Pieces Extra Super Ingrain at 75 to 85C, 150 Pieces Choice Ingrains at 30 to 65C, 25 Pieces Body Brussels at $1 25to $1 50, 2,500 Rolls Wall Paper at 8&, 1,000 Rolls of Wall Haper at 12 l-ic, 3,ooo Rolls 6oyi Paper at 20 to9Q£,

And other Gowtp at equally. Uty Prlces.

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ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE WEIR!

We, the undersigned committee, appointed by the ^respective manufacturer agents, to decide upon the merits of Sulky Plows, at a public trial on the farm O' McCagy Collins, 2^ m«les west of Midkletown, Ind., in which the "Hrghes, manufactured by Long, Alstatter & Co., the "Gilpin," manufactured by John Deere & Co., and the "Weir," manufactured by Weir Plow Co., were represented, de« cided unanimously that the Weir is the best Sulky Plow on the ground*. The points taken in consideration, being, Simplicity, Best Hitch, Lightest Draft, Else management, and construction and quality of work performed.

Width of Furrows,

I Depth of Furrows, ,*.,5 inches. 1' EDML'ND \^AT80.V,

PETER MCHUGIIES, SAMUEL DAVIS,

Osborne^ Self Binder, I Hughes' Sulky Plow, '.Jv- Canton Sulky Plow,

Double Shovels,

j. 4 Buckeye Grain Drill, Corn Planters and Mowers, Celebrated Taylor Hay

Northwestern Mutual Lite Insnrance Company, assets Csnneeticat Fire Insurance Company..

London Assurance

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Average Draft 5°° 450 400 REUBEN- CLARK1

W. F. WALMSLEY,

Agent for Weir Sulky Plow, north Fourth|St., Terre Haute' Ind

ROGERS. WHEAT. & EO.

Would call the attention of farmers'to their Complete stock of,

Self Reaper and Dropper and Mower, Xoyes' Anti-Friction Hay Ckrrier

Fort Wayne Canton and other Breaking Plows, Champion Northwest and Superior Walking Cultivators, All of which will be sold at the lowest possible prices. A full line of Buggies Spring and Farm Wagons always on hand. Call and see us betore buying your Impement8. J. H. McCandless. a well known deaier, is with the firm.

Rogers, Wheat & Co.,

Third Street, between Main and Ohio, Terre Hautey Ind.

Companies Represented.

Insurance Company of North America, assets.... Poona Fire Insurance Company, assets Sncttish Commercial Insurance Company, assets Connecticat Fire Insaraneo Company, assets Other Companies

That Husband

OF MINE BUYS HIS

New Coal Office!

Opposite Terre Haute, House,

Will Keep Constantly on Hand, and Deliver Promptly, Grade*

Brazil Block, Highland,

And all Grades of

BITUMINOUS COALS.

no. Wiley,

Insurance and Cvll'jotio Agent

Broker and Notary Public,

'OFFICE:^, ,:a.v

510 OHIO STREET*

$ 7,000,00C S,OOO^CO 17,000^)09 3,000,090 4,000,00# 18,000,000 8,000.000

10,000,089

JORDON

421 Main street. Bet. Fourth and Filtb. The Place to get Good Ones at Low Prices.