Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 October 1878 — Page 6

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BRIGHTENING UP."

Interviews With Judge Hilton and H. B. Claflin. V||j\

'What They say About the Condition of Trade and the Prospects.

t^hat a DEMOCRATIC Victory Will do.

From the New York llcralrt.

Our streets, hotels and theaters are 'height, gay and thronged. The tide is «et from Europe and tne watering-places. Shades, curtains and blinds in private houses give unmistakable evidence of reopening. The avenues devoted to stores and fchops are thronged, and the stores thpmeelves are bristling with "trade. To the casual observer these are signs of renewed activity in business channels, )iand in order that sucli conclusion might *te«onflrmfd or dismissed, the opinion of vaan expert, in the person of Judge Hilton, iftiead of the house of A. T. 8re#art &

Co., was sought and obtained for the Heiaid, as follows: "Yes," said Judge Hilton, "there is a marked improvement "Crei'Vwhere, and A look for a still more decided change in the early future. Mer- .. chants are here from all sections of the country to look at and purchase' goods,

They never could buy so reasonably as tiow everything i6 at very low prices." "Are they buying as freely as heretofore?" "Quite as freely, and much more closeily. Thev select great variety, and as a /general thing buy goods that are known .as necessaries. The consequence is that tbe bulk is greater than heretofore, iMoie clerks are needed to handle and -aell goods than were needed before." "What is the difference in figures between the popular prices ot 1877 and those of 1878?"

Well, about like this:»

1877. 1878. C18HMKBES.

From 60c t) $1.25. From 70c to $1. DBXSS OOODS NOVELTIES. jFroaa 2 to $3.50. From 91 to 11.60. camel's hai* goods. r*FWm

Wi 11, his dollar will bur him nearly twice as much to day as it would last year. To be sure many don't find work more than half the time. Everything 'fieems to be tending to our he p. Even tbe yellow fever carries one blessing in its train. Thousands of people are forced to leave the cities and fly to the plantations. There they setk. and obtain -woik. That insures a more complete ^gathering of the cotton crop than we have ever had. Oar wheat crop is also im tnense, and there never was a better market for it. All this effects us favorably. We are, besides, exporting great,\y in excess of our imports." "Wh is that?" X-

Well, one rea6fii is that eo many fabrics formerly made across the water are made here, sueh as carpets, silks,

hosiery and dry goods. Working women can net a suit ot beautiful cotton dress goods for nearly the seme money that a print formerly cost."

How is the calico trade." You mean prints. Well imitation r* bouretts are hurting them also. Where ^formerly you would retail 12,000yards a

day you would now sell but 1,200." "Then, while general trade is excellent and progressing, tneVe are certain lines ha a re re "Yea." *, "Haw about gloves ••'l *«The pricc of gloves follows gold, of course. I believe the general sale of

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ieves is unaffected. You will notice gentlemen do not wear gloves in the .atera and public places so much as they .used to. Thi- sensible, as most things that American gentlemen do are. Our summer climate is not adapted to kid ^ove wearing." ^How about the silk trade

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The home manufacture of silkis has

very greatly interfered with the foreign silk trade. It is very difficult to have abroad a standard lalue of silk. If the tariff could be enforced it would be differ eat, but there seems to be no standard of foreign or domestic values. Holders need money, and clear out their stock be cause they'need the money and must re .aliac.* 7" '-How about the Ca!"pet tride "In good condition. Prices are lower from thirty to forty per cent, than thev were a year ago. The fact is everything ia cheaper and cheaper." "How about hotels?" •"'All good-hotels are crowded. ftler-

-Chants, with their families, on their way home from summer resorts, are now stopping here to purchase goods. The same common-sensesystem that obtains rg dry goods selection seams to work in hotel living. Very little wine is sold. Guests that used to average, say, fifty mnti a day, by tbe huodrtda now averse less than twenty cents for wines and liqpora, One hotel that I know two years

U20B «old $40,000 worth of wine, this

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H.50 to 12 SO. From $1 to 1.75. PKIMTS.

i&Yrom 10c to 12c. From 6c to 83.

"Now, that covers the necessities of the average buyer, and you see what a tremendous difference there is." "But people need something beside tclothes." "Certainly they do but look at potatoes and apples—cheap as dirt. Why, it doesn't pay to gather, barrel and ship apples to market, and meats are in the same decline. When bottom is reached we all have to do as Ada.n did—go to the earth rfbrwhat ac want. And see what we get 'thisyear—lVuits, vegetables, wheat, and KCotton in greater abundance than ever." "How about rents?" "Xhere it is again! The owners of j,real estate are in trouble. I wouldn't ,iguarantee an income from the real estat? of New York, on its assessed valu*&tion, over and above taxes and repairs, of one per cent. Rents are very low, and hundreds of familes heretofore cornspelled to live in tenements, or two and four in one house, can now afford to take **an eotire house. They find it just as ~eaey to live. With low rent, cheap fruit, .cheap vegetables, and cheap clothes, men nought to get on." *How about the laborer?"

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year sold less than $10,000 worth. But the hotels are full and guests pay their bills promptly." "How about the hosiery trade?'* "Prices are lower, about thirty per cent. Ordinary qualities are very largely made here the fancy qualities and silks are imported." "Are fancy silk hose in much demand?'' '•Certain styles always are. They range from $4.10 $jo per pair. It is a dangerous stock to carry on account of the tashion in tints." "How will the elevated roads affect business?" "They are a great nuisance to the streets on which they are located, but they must benefit the side streets a great deal. Kcnts will be better there. Retail trade must fellow the people, just as the wholesale houses must follow the hotels."

At the warehouse ot H. B. Claflin & Co., Mr. Claflin pleasantly received the Heiald reporter, who asked, "Does your experience thus far this year warrant your belief that better times are dawning?" '•It does, decidedly.* We are doing and have done better than hut year at this time. More goods have been distributed from New York this season this year than there was last.'! "Do buyers feel well?" "Belter than in a long time."

How is the fancy goods trade." "By that you mean expensive goods, I suppose? Well, the merchants now buying are selecting very carefully. They first buy the goods that are absolutely needed. They are easier to deal with than they were a year or so ago. A little prosperity makes them feel hopeful. Expensive goods are not so readily sold as they were at one time, but they go tolerably well."

Then you are of the opinion that the bottom has been reached and matters are brightening?" ."Precisely. Confidence is more general, sales are large, transactions are moie easily made, bills are paid promptly and regularly, and the future looks well."

In this connection it is of interest to note that the streets on which the heavier dry goods stores aie located are crowded with c&rts, express wagons and dravs, and that the thoroughfares leading to the steamboat and railroad depots are lined' with vehicles loaded with freight. Many of the principal dealers are forced to keep their clerks and porters far into the evening preparing, shipping and billing the goods sold during the day. More clerks are employed this season than were needed two years ago. In some stores salaries have been cut down fifty per cent, in others twenty-five, and in all the great establishments there has been more or less reduction.

THE REPRODUCTION OF EELS Fi'om the Scientific American. It has always been a mystery how and where eels hre developed, and many fan* ciful and singular statements have been made regarding the method of reproduction of this very coairaon fish. For instance, not long since we saw it stated that Seth Green believes eels to be merely hybrids between other species of fish, and consequently incapable of reproduction. Doubt on this subject, however, has finally been set at rest by the discovery of eels with eggs—A discovery due to Mr. V. W. Edwards, of Wood's Hole. According to the proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, recently issued, Mr. F. W. Putnam, at a meeting of the society in January, exhibited one of the eight specimens procured from the market at New Bedford by Mr. Edwards, and by him sent to Professor Alexandra A*gassi2 The species, the common fresh and salt water eel (AuguiUa bostoniensis). In allusion to this tubject, Mr. Putnam remarked that all that is known at present "this year, for a month past, the eels brought into New Bedford are with eggs in various stages of development. Where they spawn is as yet unknown." The eight specimens examined by Mr. Putnam had overies in various stages of development. In two the overies were very small, and the eggs exceedingly minute. From these the series showed a gradual increase in the size of the overies and the contained eggs. In the specimen exhibited, the eggs were still so small as enly to be seen by a lens of considerable power, and not yet ready to be excluded, though the overies were large and full. These ci/cumstances seem to point to the fact that, contrary to the usual slow development of eggs in fishes generally, eels rapidly attain their seasonal development the ovaries, immediate1^ after the eggs are laid, being reduced to a minute sice. In the specimen exhited the ovaries were white, slightly plicated, and of great length, extending from the base of the liver along each side of the intestines to and beyond the anal opening the left ovary passing, for some distance, into a cavity of the muscles on the side ot the anal fin, while the right ovary does not extend quite so far. When the eggs reach maturity, they are dropped into the abdominal cavity, from which they must pass by two very small perito-neal-outlets on each side the anal opening and just back of it. These female eels were alt silvery on the under side, being the variety known as "silver bellies." Ie would be interesting to know whether th "golden bellies" variety are the males of the fish.

PACKING BUTTER FOR W1NTER. To pack butter for winter, begin when the weather is cool, and the butter can be kept hard. Free the butter from tnilk by repeated washing with cold spring water. Salt at the rate of one ounce to the pound and set the butter away for twenty-four hours. Then rework, getting all the milky brine away, and add one-fourth as much salt as before, to replace the waste. Then pack closely in layers two inches thick, in clean, new whke-ohk

tubs

or pails, which have been

«caldcd and soakeu in brine. When the tub is full to the top cover the butter with apiece of muslin, dipped in cold water, and cover with salt. Fasten the cover and put away in a dry and cool cellar.

At the Minnesota fair there was a bull on exhibition that the president particularly admired, and when he looked at the tag round the bull's neck he found it was a namesake. The bull's name was "Old Fraud."—[Boston Post*

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THE TEKRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE

MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS

r^GETINE

Rev. J. P. Ludlow, Writes:

178 Baltic Sthest. Brooii.tw, Y., (*0Y.f 11. 1871. H. K. STBrB.vs, Seq.

Dear 8!r,—Front personal benefit received by its ns", hs well from personal knowledge of those whose cures thereby have •evmet aim st miraculous, 1 can most heartily and sincerely recommend the ViaKTiKKfo* the complaints which it is rlaimed to enre. 4MES P. LUDLOW. .Xjite Pastr Calvary Baptist Church,

South Polakd.Mb.,Oct,11,1876.

Mr. II. R. STKVXM8. Dear Sir.—I have be6tl sick twd fc\?a with the liver complaint, am during that time have taken a vreat many different medicines, but ncne of tnem did me any gxul. I was restlMss nifchts, xnd had uo appetite. Since takinffthe VserrtSE I rest well and relish my food. Can recommend tbe .Vioetihb

Witness of the at*ove, MR. GKOUUK M. VAIJGHAX, Modlord. Mass.

VEGETINE.

Goad far the Children.

Boston Homk, 14 Ttlsr Sthbbt' Boston, April, l«7tj.

H. E. Stsvkns. Dear Sir,—We feel that the chil Irenlin our home have been greatly benefited by the Vkoktimi you have so kindly given us from time to time, especially those troubled with the Scrofula.^

)C(t CWtUhi.-^ii WORRELL, Matron.

With respect, MRS.lf.Wt

,i VEGETINE., Rev. 0. T. Walker, Says:

Pbovidkncx, R. I., 1M Transit Strut. E. R. Stkvesh,Esq, ... feel bonnd to express «rith ray stgnatare tbe high value I place upon your Veoktink. My famaiiy have used ii for the last two years. In nervous debility it is is valuable, and I recommend it to all who may .noed an invigorating, renovating tonic.

Formerly Pastor of Bowdoin-square Church Boston.

VEGETINE?

Nothing Equal to it."

booth Salem, Mass., Soy u, 1876

Mr.H.R.Stktou: Dear Sir,—I have been troubled with Sere fnla. Canker, and Liver Co*iplaim for three years. Nothing nvor did many good until 1 commenced using the Veqetive. 1 am now aetting along first-rate, and still using the Veoktin*. I consider itaere is nothing equal to it for suoh complaints. Can heartuy recommend it to everybody.

Mai. LTZZIK^IaSsa eet, aout&jial

ARD. alem. Mass

No. 1$, Lagrange Sovet, 30utj

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VEGETINEi

Recommend it

,, South Bostodu

M*.8tkvcns: Dear Sir,—I have taken several bit ties of your Yegictink, and am convinced it isa valuable rom«iy air ^»t)«p»ia, Khlney Complaint, and Geaettt! WfeiHrr of th.j systo I can h«*rtil& r«oomn)ead it to all sufferers frot^the^bovecbpplaints. ,r ours respectfully,

MRS. MUXROE PARKStt,

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.Yegetlne

1 1 Prepared.br

H. E. Stevens, Boston, Mass.

Vegetlne is sold by all Druggists

CLIFFORD'S

FEBRIFUGE

TEVEH0BUE

OIJRB.

Buiwritni ALX* XAUKAIi

tfce SYSTEM.

J. O. IKIOIURDSON^mM 'Iter Sale All Pwgghts.

Stole Headache

pKiS ,a.c.TiSJ?' They nlso relieve

CARTER'S

train** from Dyk^epsta. Indigestion and Tuo Jlrurty Eating A perfect remedy tor Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness,Bad Taste in the Month. Coated ToMgne, Pain in tne Side, Ac. They regelate the Bowels and prevent Constipation and Piles. The small

est and easiest to take. Only oiiepi 1 In a vial. Purely Vegetable. Price 34 cents. Sold by all DrAggflst*.

CARTER MEDICINE CO., Prop'r*, Erie, Pa. Kt* Vlsls by wall on* JoUsx

DR. RICE,

JICnrt.Fta, LOUISVILLE, KY,

...inaatoyrlisa and I*tpolency, wmrjmr«,«relhw aaaa, t!)«ia|SKtcNmwoes., Bml"l rtiiubjawauiJ.DijnBeMot jkalDooaj.rtMpUten F»c«, "ZrrL" CMAntaa »f M€«i, Um it

Ub mU*rii£i phy Si? thl. tket »n«a

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PRIVATE COUIVSZXOR

siis

RAILROADS.

Chicago, Rock Island,

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Sacramento, Cal.

VEGETINE^#1 a? She Rests Well.

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PACIFIC E. JR

Grout rt Line and Overland glton making clo9eeo«nection at Chicago, wi

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Dining and Restaurant MJart ,*•

Tbe best of meals served for 175 cents. A bottle of fine Freack wine furnfsheri. If de« sired, for an additional 11 cents. Fumisnng a repast fit for an emperer. Overlam travelers alwavs prefer this route. •.KIMBALL, Gcn.Pass. {.

Gen. Snot. A.M.SMITH, Art

?Thj

O. T. WALKER,

tweea St. Lout* an* Bsstea.

The new line of through Palace Slet-p-,ip# cars between St. Louis and Boston running over the Wabash, Canada Southera, New York Central and Hoosac Tunnel railways, will commence running regularly Monday, April ist.

The first sleeper eastward leaving St. Louis on train No. a, at 6140 p. m„ Monday and the first sleeper westward leav ing Boston at 3:00 p. m., same day, passing over the Wabash Railway on train No. 3 ,.v irdi Y-OW*

Canada Sontfaern Railway

Tbei only throngh route to'Canada under American Management.

Line to the East via

Buffalo 'anil Niagara Falls,

THE SHORT AND QUICK Direct connection made at Toledo in came depot with all Wabash Railway trains. Connections made at Buffalo and Niagara

Falis with Dew "Verk Central ana KIZ ®rie._Railways,

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Chicago, and Eastern III., R.

for

what it hai dune for mo. Yoars resncctfullv, MBS. ALBKUT BICKEk

For all po'ntn In Kansas, Colorado, foroia. This r»ad is thoroughly with

Wabash Route.

One of the most tiopular railways ii the country is the Wabash route extending from St. Louis, Hannibal, Keokuk Burlington and Pfeoria, to Toledo, making close connection for all points east and west. The direct eastern connections of this route include the Lake Short & Michigan Southern, the New York Central at Hudson River, the Erie Railway, the Boston & Albanv and the Pennsylvania, in- the east They atso make direct connection with all roads leading westward from St, Louis, Hannibal, Burlington, Keokuk. Ouincy and Warsaw, selling coupon tickets to and from all points on the routes above enumerated. The Plfhrvan palace sleeping cars are attached to all night trains, and parlor cart to all day trains on the Wabash route. The foad is managed in an unexceptional manner complymg with the three princi(temantls toade by the traveling pub"speed, safety, and comfort.' The Wjrtftwh' rowte may be reached from Terre Haute via the E,TH,& C. at Daiiirlile or fria the L. C. & S. W. at Logaraport. Tie LoBKSSt Line Thirsayh

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and C*keqnlpped

Palate, Day and Steeping Cars

Aad is the only road rnnnbir 1^ 'A

Osborne Self Binder, Hughes' Sulky Plow, Canton^ Sulky Plow, a

Wagner Sleeping and Palace Cars

On all trains to prinoipallpoints east. The Canada Southern is one of the constructed and equipped roads on the tinent, audits fast increasing business is evidence that its superiority over its 00 apctitors is acknowledged and appreciated by the traveling public.

best oon

Any information as to tieketa,connections, sleeping ear aeoomtnodations, etc. cheerfully given on application to the undersigned.

FRANK E. SNOW,

Gea. Pass, and Tck Agt.

Great Eastern

Fast .Freight Line.

The new and short£route to and from Bos Ion, Portland, Montreal, Buffalo, New York sad all points in Canada, New England, and kae nortnest, operating via. the Chicago A Like Huron. Grand Trunk (of Canada), Brie and Central railroads, and .their eeo•ctions east and west.

THR0U6H CARS—NO TRANSFER. iThls line is equipped with new and large ars, especially adapted to the shipment of ftrti rw from all points in Indiana aad Illinois. and the southwest. For information SBPly to A. B. SOUTHARD, *PP General Agent.

Indianapolis.

"The Muncie Route."

The most direct as well as the shortest line aad quickest time from Tiire Haute to Fert Wayoe, Jackson

DetreiL

Aad all points North aad East* Leare Terr# Haw** li3TA» 1H.

JOHN STAFF C0BURN FIRST £66 1*06—6000—YOU BET.

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SPECIAL NOTICE.

In order to reduce stock and to prepare far radicallchange in our business we shall offer for aflimiteif period a number.of

EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS

75 Pieces Tapestry Brussels at 75 to 90C, '1 75 Pieces Extra Super Ingrain at 75 to 85C, l50aPieces Choice Inorains at 30 to 65C. 25 Pieces Body Brasse!s at SI 25to $1 50, 2,500 Rolls Wall Paper at 8C, 1.000 Roll* of Wall Haper at 12 l-ic, 3,008 Roll* 6«ld Piper at 20 to30C,

And other Goods at equally Low Prices.

O E &

Double Shovels,

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bBttckeye

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Insurance Company of Worth America, aasets Potofi* Five Insurance Company, assets SncttlshCeinmercial Iasnraaee UempaBy, assets Connecticut Fire Iusuranoo Company, assets...} North Vetera'yqtgaTfcffe'lgirofany' Oompainy,| assets.... Connecticut Fire InsaranoeCWt»Mr.i London Assurance

That

W A S E

309 Main Street.

HOEHBS 'WHBIT & CO.

Would cadi the attention of farmers to their complete stock, oi

Grain ,* Corn Planters and Mowers, Celebrated Taylor Hay Rake,

Self Reaper and Dropper and Mower, Noyes' Anti-Friction Hay Carriei

Fort Wayne Canton aad other Breaking Plows, Champion Northwest and Superior Walking Cultivators, All of which will be scltf at the lowe|t possible prices. A full line of Buggies Spring and Farm Wagons always on hand. Call and see us before buying your mpements. J. II. McCandtess. a well known dealer, is with the firm.

Rogers, Wheat & Co.,

Third Street, between Main and Ohio, Torre Haute, Ind.

Com Represented.

"t? T* BUYS HIS

JNO. S. JORDON

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"421 Main street, Bet. Fonrth and Filth. The Place to get Good Ones at Low Price

ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE WEIB

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We, the undersigned committee, appointed by the ^respective manufactu agents, to decide upon the merits of Stiiky Plows, at a public (rial on the farn McCagy Collins, 2% miles west of Midkletown, Ind^ in which the "Hug manufactured by Long, Alstatter St Co., the "Gilpin,'' manufactured by John & Co., and the ••Weir," manufactured by Weir Plow Ca, were represented,, cided unanimously that the Wefc ia the best Sulkv Plow on the grounds. I points taken in consideration, being, Simplicity, Best Hitch, Lightest Draft, Ea management, and construction and quality of work performed.

Width of Furrows, Depth of Furrows, Average Hughes,' 16inches. 5 inches. 500 Gilpin, iq **5

Tin Terre flante

T. Wiley,!

no.

insurance aad Collecting Agent*

Broker and liotary Pu

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OFFICE:

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CIO OHIO 8THEKI

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Weir, 19 S 4« Nathak Paddock, Edmvkd watmn, Reuben Cl Petkr McHvohxs, '/f 9amcbi.Davis. 1

Located on the corner of oventh and Main, haa long maintai leading rank among the beat hotele of the state. The

RECJENT IMPROVEMENT

Under the proprietorship of

-WM- S. TX7E3LL,

Will make it still more attractive.

...irMof J,000,*

.... 17,000,01 8,000,01 4,000,0 ...18,000,0! 8,000,0 ne,ow,o|

a a

450

W". F.: .WALMSLEY,'

\gent for Weir Sulky Plow, north FourthjSt., Terre Haute'

HE OLDEST AND

THE BE