Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1881 — Page 6

ARISTOCRATIC IDLERS.

New York's Rich Men Who Live by Coupon Clipping New York Letter to the Buffalo Courier.

The men who do no work and yet live on the fat of the land are constantly increasing in New York. I do not refer to the aever fellows who pitch up all sorts of odds and ends by their wits, but to the high-toned idlers along Fifth avenue and thereabout, who toil not, neither do they spin, and yet dress in the best and fare sumptuously every day, chiefly at the clubs. Most of them are the sons of men who laid up fortunes by just and hard work as any of our busy merchants are doing now. The fortunes were put into real estate or some other form of permanent investment, and now yield handsome annual returns. We have landlords in New York whose rent rolls run from $80,000 to $50,000 a year, and in some cases to $100,000. These' I need hardly say, arc exclusive of the Astore, Gyelets and other hcire the- enormous estates. We have scores of very rich men, besides, who made great fortunes it trade speculation, and who rank as millionaires, though their names are not often seen in the papers. As a rule the sons of these magnates, of the first-class, and the second, have no nclination to work. It was enough for heir fathers and grandfathers to do that. What they live for is to have a good time —dress at the top of the fashion, drive fast horses, be hail fellow well met with the nabobs of the cluus, get invitations to stylish dinners and receptions, and in a general way copy the manners and dress of the English aristocracy as closely as possible. A good deal has been said from time to time about the growth of a privileged class in New York. The class is a very large one, and it includes another class, which may be called, the community of aristocratic idlers. As families acquire large wealth and set up in the fashionable world, this class steadily increases. Our friends the communists dislike it greatly and would like to puli it down, but it keeps on growing and will continue to do 90. Its existence is, no doubt, one of the inevitable consequences of the accumulation of money in individual hands.

It used to be a great thing .to be a millionaire—that is, to be worth a million— but that was in the old-fashioned time before the war Nowadays millionaires are almost common could hardly fire a gun on Fifth avenue without hitting one. The boss millionaire, so to speak, is, of course, Mr. Vanderbilt, who can count at least $100,^0,000 that is all his own. There was a time when this same Mr. Vanderbilt applied in vain to his father for a few hundred dollars to pay off a mortgage on a farm he was working at Staten Island, JaytGould is following him up pretty fast. People are not in the habit of. giving Gould much credit for anything, but he is at least entitled to the credit of having made all his money himself. He is bclived to be worth about $50,000,000 now, and there arc men in Wall street who belive lie will yet overtake Vanderbilt. The recognized head of the Astor family is worth not less than $30,000,000 in his own right, and the aggregate wealth of the family counting its several branches, would probably turn $100,000,000. James R. Keenc, who came here from California not very long ago, to teach Wall street some now tricks,*13 thought to be worth $10,000,000. Ex-Governor Morgan i9 considered goad for the same amount, and has made most of it in Wall street since he retired from Albany. The figures usually credited to William E. podge is $5,000,000. There area score of others rated from that down to $2,000,000, and more than another score worth $1,000,000 at least. And not a mnn among them all but knows how to take care of his money, could name two or three who are down right misers, never parting with a single dollar till they know they have received its full value in return. But this may not be anybody's business but their own. I may mention, however, the case of one very rich tellow, worth, according to report, not less than three millions, who was waiti-d on by sonic ladies not long since, and asked for a subscription for a church fair He knew them personally, but put them oil' three times, and it was only by the hardest work that they managed to get ten dollars out of him at last.

Didn't Know How to Take Them. Wall Street Notes.

lie was on his way home from Leadville. He had on a ragged old summer suit, a bad hat, and he had been taking his meals about thirty hours apart to make his money carry him through. •'Yes I like the country out that way" he replied to the query. "The climate is good, t)»e scenery line, and some of the people are as honest as needs be. The trouble is in knowing how to take the bad .nes." "I should think that Would be easy." "Yes. it looks that way. but I had sr.me experience I am the original diskiverer of the richest mine around Leadville. "Yes'sir I'm the very man, though you wouldn't think it to see these old clothes." "Then you don't own it now •'Not a bit of it I'll explain: "I was poking around on the hills, and I found signs. I collected some specimens tor assay, staked out a claim and went off to the assayer's." It was two days before ne let me know that I'd struck the richest ore he had ever assayed and then I hurried back to my claim Hang my buttons if I hadn't been jumped!" "l(ow»"

Why, a gang of sharpers had found the spec end built up a pole-sliantj and hung out a sign of First Baptist Church over the door! Sure as shooting they had, and the law out there is that no miner can sink a shaft within two hundred feet of a church-building. They saw me coming, and when I got the they were holding a revival. Tnere were six ol them, and they got tip. one after another, and told how wicked they had been and had the chock to ask me t- lead off in the singing! I went to law, but they beat me. Three days after the verdict the First Baptist Church burned down, and before the ashes were cold the congregation were developing amiinc worth" over a million dollars! You see, I didn't know how to take 'em." "Was there any particular way to take 'em "You \t there was! I ought to have opened en that revival with a Winchester rifle, and given the coroner fifty dollars for a verdict that they came to there deaths from too much religion."

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A WOHDEHFUL, ORATOR.

•ketch of Sergeant 8. Prentiss, the Famoo* Southern-Yankee Politician. Orator and Duelist.

About thirty yean ago there died neai the city of Natchez, Miss., a man whose exceptional genios as an orator had made him famous throughout our country. He had charmed and swayed multitudes by the sweetnees of hia voice, the beauty of his language and the brilliancy of his imagination. He died at the height of hia fame and in the strength of manhood at forty-one years of age bnt in that short life he had attained a position as an orator and debator which made him worthy to stand with Webster, Clay, and Calhoun.

Yet the young men of to-day know nothing of him, and his name is mentioned only in the reminiscences of soma old lawyer or politician. Such is the evanescent character of the orator's fame unless supported and strengthened by more solid and valuable abilities it scarcely outlives the echoes of his voice.

Sergeant S. Prentiss was born of Puritan lineage at Portland, Maine, Sept. 30, 1808. His father was a ship-master, poor, frugal, and of upright character. From the effects of a fever during early childhood young Prentiss was made incurably lame, one leg being shorter than the other. Thus unfitted for manual lnb«r his father determined to give the boy the best education he could, and was graduated at Bowdoin at the age of twenty. At this age he was remarkably handsome, the beauty and amiability of his countenance */as heightened by the ex* pression of intellectual vigor. Impulsive, quick tempered, generous, and courageous, lie charmed and attracted all about him. After studying law for a few months his restless spirit longed for a wider, newer field, and he removed to the city of Natchez, Miss. Here he made his home, and almost immediately rose to eminence as a lawyer and pleader. At twenty-seven he ehtered to legislature as a whig, and for sixteen years was earnestly engaged in the political contests, wherein as an orator he became famous throughout the country. Two years later, he was chosen at the regular November election a representative in the National Congress, but, on reaching Washington, found his seat claimed by another member chosen at a special election the preceding July. Prentiss argued his claim before the House for three days, and gained by his effort the highest reputation as a Congressional orator.

Among the noted men who listened to him were John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Judge Hugh L. White, of Tennessee William C. Preston, and John J. Crittenden, all of whom praised his effort supremely. Webster saying, as he left the hall at the close of tie peroration, "Nobody could equal it"

He lost his seat, the speaker deciding by his casting vote in favor of his opponent. Although he was defeated, yet his reputation was established. He was returned the next year, but did little to increase his reputation, or to indicate any desire to excel as a legislator.

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declined a re-election and returned to the practice of his profession. During his political life he distinguished himself as a supporter of Henry Clay, an earnest champion for honesty and faithfulness in contracts against repudiation in his adopted state, and spoke against slavery and dueling whenever occasion permitted, yet he fought two duels, for he found, as other northern men who have gone north to live, that he must conform to the general custom. His unquestioned courage and quickness to give satisfaction to all who ask for it, and his reputation as a fine shot, made him respected and feared.

It is a characteristic of the chivalry of the south that they have always shown themselves eager to fight a man who was known to have conscientious scruples against personal combats, and were careful to avoid difficulties with those ready to obey the requirements of the code.

An amusing anecdote is told of him in connection with duelling, as follows: A tipsy "fire-eaterf' had intruded himself into Prentiss' quarters and had been ejected. At a very late hour, after Prentiss had retired, he returned and demanded "satisfaction, sir."

Prentiss urged the intruder to go home and sleep on his fancied affront, promising to give him ample opportunity for rearess if he should then desire it. That would not answer. The man was determined to fight then and there. No other course being left, Prentiss called up his colored body-servant. Burr, and ordered the boy to get his dueling pistols. The agreement was to stand in the hall in rear of the officc, at eight paces distance, the servant holding a candle inside, so that the light should shine equally on both combatants, and giving the word to fire. They had taken their position, pistol in hand, and Burr had solemnly pronounced, "Gentlemen, are you ready?" when the hitherto unappeasable warrior threw down the weapon exclaiming, "You may like this sort of thing, Prentiss, but if you think I'm fool enough to fight a duel at 3 o'clock in the morning with nobody but a nigger for a witness, you're awfully mistaken."

Though possessed of qualities peculiarly attractive to women Prentiss was morbidly sensitive of his lameness and avoided their society. At thirty-four, he married Miss Williams,of Natchez, whom he loved devotedly, and to whom he was a faithful, tender husband. He died in her arms and the last words he uttered were those of endearment to the wife he so thoroughly loved.

He died in his forty-first year, loved and honored by all who knew him. Political opponents vied with dear friends in rendering to his memory their tributes of admiration for his manly and noble eharacter.

Walter Paine, the Fall River thief^is in a Quebec jail reading the Bible. He will undoubtedly find the passage, Thou shalt not steal," and will add,

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you do steal, sret out of the country. [New Register.

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THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

Those WVree.

In San Francisco and other large towns of California it is said that many of the married women past the middle age, have been the wives of two, three, and sometimes four or five different men, owing to the freedom of divorce which used'to exist, and still exists in a modified form, in the State.

Women were not plentiful in the days of the Argonauts, ana for sometime after and when one appeared in the community with good looks, intelligence and magnetism to recommend her, she was wellnigh fought for. As a rule, the women who migrated to £1 Dorado were not of the finest. Many of them were more or leas adventnressess, and seeing their extreme marketablenees, enhanced their value bv very broad coauetry, and disposed of themselves to the highest bidders. After securing one husband, they entertained proposals for another, ana not unfrequently slipped away from No. 1 to No. 2, through some legal trick, before No. 1 had any idea that he had proved maritally unsatisfactory.

It is related that about 1853, three members of a San Francisco firm had each in turn the same wife in the space of 24 months. Some of the most matrimonially enterprising women in the country journeyed thither 20 to 25 years ago, and made their marriages remunerative by getting settlements cash down before the tying of the nuptial knot. The lives of not a few of them would, if faithfully chronicled, read like the most sensational of sensational novels.

Polltlcs and Iinstnofls. [Boston Herald.]

That the material condition of a country is greatly affected by violent political excitement is shown clearly by a stady of the yearly revenues of France.

In 1871, when France was freed from ©ernaan occupation, an increased taxation of $140,000,000 was found necessary to pay the German war fund. The first year of the new taxation, the receipts of the government were exactly what they were calculated the second year, 1873, however, thanks to the improved condition of the country, they exceeded the expected revenues by $17,500,000. The following year, 1874, was the year of the reaction. Thiers resigned, and, for a short time, the country was at white-heat of political excitement. Finally quiet was restored, and McMahon elected President. The effect of the political excitement was shown in the fact that instead of a surplus there was a deficit that year of $7,000,000. The next year saw political peace again and an increase of £28,000,000 in the revenues 1876, a still further increase of $7,200,000. In 1877, the political heat caused by the action of the Broglic ministry produced another deficit. Last year, with the definite tri umph of the republic, the revenues sprang up again, and exceeded the esti mates by $15,400,000, and the estimate* of the current year are much larger.

Feverish Love. [Memphis Appeal.]

The acclimated young man who has to work for his living cannot afford to marry an unacclimated girl, who has not had the fever. Even the richest merchants and largest property owners complain of the expense of running away and summering up North for four months in the year.

The acclimated girl is a treasure in Memphis. She may not have yellow hair, out if she has had yellow fever she is worth a mint of money as a household gift. The unacclimated young man who ha.i to work for a living cannot afford to marry at all, because he cannot afford to pick himself and wife up every summer and skedaddle towards the polar star.

Among the courting questions now to be, propounded prior to asking a girl to marry you are tne important ones: "Miss —have you ever had the yellow fever?" "Was it a typical case?" "Are you certain your physician was correct in his diagnosis of your case?" If the answers are not quite satisfactory, other questions might be put that, would develop the desired facts.

A She-Devil.

(New York Tribune.'

rhe warden of the state prison at Ban* gor, Maine, recently related a curious story. A young woman who served out a sentence of five years found means of education, and becoming thoroughly reformed and a christian, left the prison in appearance a lady. She was employed by a dry goods firm in Portland as saleswoman, and gave perfect satisfaction to her employer, till one day a wealthy lady of the place entered the store and recognized her. Calling the proprietor aside, she told him that the girl had been in the state prison. He replied that he knew it, but that she had done her duty faithfully, and that they were all satisfied with her. "Well," said the lady, "if you keep her in your store, I will neither trade with you myself nor suffer any oi my friends to, if I can heflp it*" So the proprietor, rather than lose his customer, called in the poor girl and discharged hec

Disappointed Hopes.

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A minister's life ha3 frequent disappointments. During the great revival, a stolid, matter-of-fact "farmer went into the inquiry room, and was at once taken in hand by anv lous and zealot workers. He seemed to i-e visibly r.tfected by the hymn that was -ung, and after prayer, one or two tears were apparently discovered. When asked, "Brother, do you feel any change?" he made a rapid and instinctive movement of his hand in the direction of his vest pocket, and then settling back in his chair, with a sigh, re-plied-"Not a cent that'8 just what I'm after

We suspect that there are men in NeK York who would willingly give $10,000 for a seat in the New York $tock Exchange, who rarely give a cent toward Becunng one in the heavenly Kingdom. —[Brooklyn Union-Argus.

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Report of What Secretary Thompson Said Before the House Committee.

He Finds That the Committee Substantially Agrees With Him-

[The following report of Secretary Thompson's speech, on Monday, before the House committee on Inter-Oceanic Canals is taken from the New York World for Tuesday and is the fullest we have seen.]

WASHINGTON, January 17.—Tho House Special Committee on the Inteorceanic Ship Canal held a meeting this morning, Among those present were Senor Jerez the Nicaraguan Minister Captain Eads and his counsel, as representatives of the Tehuantepec project Mr. Phelps, representing the Nicaragua project, and exSecretary Thompson, representing the Panama Canal Company. It was expected that Mr. Phelps would concludo the statement begun by him last Saturday, but the committee decided to hear Mr. Thompson first. Mr. Thompson began|by disclaiming all ideft of discussing the practicability or relative advantages of allot any of the projects. That was a matter, he said, for engineers and for capitalists, and it might safely be left in their hands. He then went on to say:

The great and practicle question that strikes my mind as being at the very out set of the investigation so far as the jurisdiction of this committee is concerned is: What relation ligs the Government of the United States to any enterprise or scheme that may be suggested in reference to an interoceanic transit route? In other words, is there any affirmative duty devolving upon the Government of the United States in regard to that work or will the United States consider itself justified in leaving each of these works to be dependent on its own merits, like any other private business transaction relying for success upon the means and the instrumentalities which it may have in its own hands? I would nut and could not be lorced to express an opinion against any of these schemes, or to place the weight of a single feather in obstruction to any of them. I do not Velieve that they stand in rivalry with each other, and I leave the scientific world to decide the great questions which lie at the foundation of this inquiry. I address myself, therefore, practically to the question, lias the Government ot the United States any affirmative duty to perforin in regard to these works I hear it stated by many of the best men in the country, and I read it in many of the best newspapers in the country that the scheme of building a canal at Panamaby what is called a French corporation is in opposition to what is known as the Monroe doctrine. I do not think so. On the contrary, I think that it affirms the Monroe doctrine. I think that the Monroe doctrine means simply that this scheme shall not be interfered with by the Government of the United States. What was the MonMonroe doctrine It was a Presidential declaration and nothing more. I do not think it would do to say in this country and under our institutions that the declaiation of a President (how frequently soever it may be repeated) can constitute a policy. Thi9 is a popular government. In order to establish a policy the legislaexe power must be invoked, not the erecutive. The executive jvwit recomftnends ilie legislative power acts and gives vitality to principle® and policy, so that under our form of government a 'President, in the sense in which the term "policy" is used, has not the power to establish it. Every individual is left to decide for himself and every CongTess is left to decide for itsclthowfor the Government of the United States is interested or required to inaugurate any allimiative action in regard to any of those schemes. The United Stales of Columbia is an independent government, made so by the achievement of its revolutionary independence, just as our government is independent. If the crowned heads of Europe were called upon to settle the question whether that government wee independent or not, they might say that its independence misfit be de facto but not dejure because it kings have the divine right to govern nothing can bar that right. But we do not adopt that theory. The United States of Columbia are 1e facto as well as dejure an independent government in our understanding of the term they hold diplomatic relations with us. We enter into treaties with them, and to all intents aud purposes the United States of Columbia are as independent a Government as we are. As an independent Government^ what powers have they? Are not their powers plenary Are they not full and complete and entire over tbeir domestic affairs? Have they not the power and the right to construct internal improvements when they please, or to omit to do so if they please? They may or may not be hampered by constitutional provisions of their own, Dut they undoubtedly have the right to decide for themselves whether those things shall be done or not. Now, in regard to the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, there is everything done that can be done every practical step has been taken that is known to international law all conceivable modes have been adopted to establish with the consent of all the great nations of the earlh the neutrality of that canal. That is, when con-1 structed and by whomsoever constructed, it is to be kept neutral to all nations and to the transportation of all the commerce of thu world.

Mr. Thompson next discussed the tTeatv of lBoO with New Granada, by which the United States were bound to guarantee the independence of that ccun try and the neutrality of any canal that might be constructed, and claimed that subsequent conventions, which were negotiated under Mr. Johnson's adminis tration with the republic of Columbia for the purpose of making that guarantee more definite and effectual, had not been ratified by the .American Senate. He was asked by Mr.Singleton to read the joint resolution reported by the commit tee on ths 8tn of March last, and, having read it, he gave his assent to its proposi­

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THE PANAMA CANAL.

tions, and stated that the French government had, by a notification to our government, repudiated the idea of having anything to do with the canal, and had said that it would not assume any responsibility or establish any protectorate over it. The United States of Columbia were, he coBtended, in the full possession of sovereignty and had had exclusive control over their own domestic affairs, and il was to maintain that very principle of self-government that the Monroe doctrine was enunciated. He then went on t« say:

There is double protection, therefore ,as against the Government of France. There s, first, the protection furnished by the in terests of the coporator?. They woul not expose their charter to forfeiture by atd tempting to confer it on a fweign government. Then there is the second protection that the Government of Columbia would not premit her sovereignty to be invaded. Then if, as against both of these contingencies, the French Goverment should undertake to enforce its possession of any of those rights, there is the power of guarantee on the part of the United States and consequently, the United States Government holds the key in its own hands so that the very moment that any foreign power or government shall undertake to enforce any right over this canal, the guarantee of the United States becomes effrec tiveand she United States Government can then a: "Thus far shalt thou go and no uther.

Mr. Singleton—I do not understand that there is any conflict whatever between your views and the views of this committee. The committee does not propose by any action to throw any obstacle or difficulty in the way of what the Panama Canal Company proposes to do The committee has acted on that subject It has reserved all action for a future Congress, if the contingency should arise that would make it necessary for Congress to act at all. That contingency may never arise. Mr. de Lesseps may go on and build his canal, and that canal may be operated for a whole century so as to give entire satisfaction to the United States, and no contingency or necessity may arise during that whole period for any interference on the part of the United States or any other declaration in connection with it.

Mr. Thompson—I frankly state that that is the very conclusion which I desired reaching, and have reached in my argument.

Mr. Singleton—That is the conclusion to which the committee has long since come. You ye not proposing any action on the part or the cqmmitiee. The committee has taken action on the subject, anc' has said that it will not interfere in any way at the present time, but that if the necessity should ever arise the Government shall have the right to do it.

Mr. Martin—It all that be true (and I do not dispute it), I would like to know why this committee is sitting and hearing arguments. If sve propose no affirmative action, it seems to rnc that our work is a work of supererogation. I do not comprehend why this committee is sitting if nothing is to be done. I supposed that there were several propositions before the committee, and that the committee was expected and required to take affirmative or negative action on some of them That I supposed all the time was the legitimate province and duty o£the committee, and for that reason 1 was very desirous of hearing all the gentlemen interested, especial!v Mr. Thompson.

Mr. Thompson—1 have said that I do not intend to grapple with the great question of building railroads or canals 1 am quite willing to stop where I am. I see that the views of the committee and mine, correspond on the general question, and, therefore, I am not disposed to trespass on the committee.

Mr. Martin inquired whether, when the question of the Panama Canal began to excite the public opinion, the Government had not sent war vessels to Central Anieri ca to establish coaling stations there.

Mr. Thompson replied in the affirmative and gave as a reason for that action the fact thatt.be Government was ignorant of the terms of the charter, and did not know what secret arrangement might exist between France and Colombia, and wanted to be prepared for all contingencies.

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CENSUS RETURNS.

Following Is the statement of the pop ulatioii oftfae several Sttites and Territories sent to Congress Monday:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,") CENSUS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., January 17,1881.J Hon. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior:

SIR—I haye the honor to report that on gaturdny, the 15th Inst., the last returns ot population were received at the Secretary's office, completing the tenth census of the United Htates. Carefully rovised, ttlie com putatiou8 give the following as the population of each State and Territory on June 1,1880. Very respectfally,

Your obedient servant FRANCIS A. WALKER, Superintendant of Census.

States. Population. States. Population Alahama* 1,262,794 Tennessee l,i12,463 Mississippi 1,131,592 Maryland-... 648.945 Arkansas 802,504 Texas 1,192,574 Missouri .......2,168,80" Msin' 1,783,012 California. 864,fio Virginia- 1,512,800 Nebraska 452,433 Michigan 1,636,381 Colorado 194,«9 W. Virginia.. 618,443 Nevada 62^*5 Minnesota.... 780,806 Illinois 3,078,769 Wlsconsin*...l,815,480 Ohio 3,178,239 Connecticut. 622,683 Indipna. 1,978,300 New Hamp'. 346,984 OreEon «....1,747,672 Delaware 146,654 Iowa' 1,624,620 New Jersey...1,130:988 Pennsylvania ..4,282,786

Florida 297,351

Kentucky 995,966 NowfYork ...5,083,010 Rhodft Island... 276,528 Louisiana

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South Carolina Maine 910,103 \ermont 832,286

Total States 49,869,505 Territories Population Territories Pop7 Arlzone 49,441 W^uhington- 7o,121 KewSexico 118,430 Idaho.... 82,610 Dakota 135,180 Wyoming 20,781 Utah .143,900 Montana 39,lo0 Dist. of Col'b'a. ...176,628

Total Territories 783,271 Grand Total -50,152,866

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NOTICE TO HEI1W OF PETITION TO SELL HEAL ESTATE. ""fljfassjr' }V18° Circuit Court,

Notice is hereby given that Charles Rapp, administrator of the estate ot Peter Leibfried, deceased, hius filed his petition to sell the real estate of the decedent, his personal property being insufficient to pay hlsdebts and that said petition will be heard at the next term of the Circuit Court of said county, on the 17th day of March, 1881, in said term. Attest:

MERRILL N. SMITH, C.C.Vigo Co. C. B. MCCUNE, Atty.

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^1 Traffic Manager,

K. M. Turner, City Ticket Agent, 629 Main street

Call on C. H. Goldsmith, wbole~ sale aealer in produce, for apples dried fruit, beans, &n. if you want to buy *t wholesafa prices. p?all large CITROMO CARDS, the prettiest you ever mw, with name, 10c NASSAU

CARD CO., Nassau, N. Y.

LOST

OR STOLEPT-GREYHOUND-A young greyhound of blue grey color Finder will be flberallv rewarded by return* ingtoR. Taggerta' Union Depot Hotel.

•piXECUTOB'S NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed executor of the last will and testament of Bainuci Simons, late of Vigo county, deceased. Sal:J estate is supposed to be solvent.

JKSSK M. BOSTON, Executor.

January 13,1881.

Lowest prices ever know on Breccb Loader* SUM, and K«rol*er* mm M58H0T-8UI

P. POWELL fc SOX. 338Maui Street,

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to $1,000 2 to 32 stops. Piano*

UMUaltU 31 £5 up. Paper free. AddrcssDanNlel F. Beatty, Washington .J.