Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 October 1886 — Page 11

PULLMAN'S MODEL CITY.

REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT OF ONE MAN'S BRAIN. If t: The Illinois Town In Which the World's

Sleeping Cars are Built—Utopia Realized, Apparently—Gas Works, Water Works, Theatres, Gardens and Dairy.

CHICAGO, Oct 5.—If you want to bear expressions of genuine astonishment go down to the town of Ballman and accompany one of the many visitors sure to be found there on a tour through the magic city of the west. From the moment the tourist sets foot in the place till the hour of his departure an exclamation point may be seen glistening upon the end of his tongue. Cause for wonder is found at every turn it is impossible to lose sight of the remarkable and the most astounding fact of all is that the industrial and social giant i* scarce out of its swaddling clothes, standing in its beautj* and strength where less than half a dozen years ago a prairie waste dwindled into a swamp and a lowshore^ lake. There is a handsome raila station o£w stone and brick, from which hourly PKESBYTEP.IAX CHURCH. trains depart for Chicago, that other magic, but less perfect city, a dozen miles away. Wide asphalt boulevards, studded with flower plots and decked with fountains, sweep up to the station. Twenty rods from the station is a hotel, somewhat famous for its cuisine, and architecturally delightful. Near by is the arcade building, "containing twenty stores, the post, express and telegraph offices, bank, public library and a theatre of first-class appointments. There are no other mercantile houses than these in Pullman, and no place but here, save in the commodious market house hard by,$s trade carried on. Mercantile Pullman is all under one roof, and an admirable aggregation it is, too, with its wide hall, corresponding to a village street its prosperous stores, the balcony and offices above, and the soft light streaming abundantly i» from side and sky lights.

PULLMAN RAILWAY STATION To the north of the station, and ranged for •i, more than half a mile along the track, but with miniature lakes and other landscape decorations between the buildings and the rails, is Pullman the factory.

Here are acres and acres of great buildings, through whose windows palace and freight cars may be seen in th» various stages of construction or repair, flanked by acres more filled with hundreds of other cars waiting their turn at the workmen's hands. There are cars from the far east and the far west, the plain, primitive Pullmans with their funny little windows and few devices for adornment side by side with gorgeous Pullmans of latest type and there, in a secluded corner, unused but not unhonored, is the pioneer Pullman, the one for whose first journey the potentate of this town personally solicited passengers twentyyears ago. There are also other great works— a paper car wheel factory, a huge foundry, and two steel mills. In the center of the group is the famous Corliss engine which so many millions of Americans saw at the Centennial, the chief source of power in this mechanical marvel. Right behind it is the vast tower containing a water reservoir and sewage tank, a landmark for scores of miles around.

Unity of design runs through all this group of factories, and architectural effect was in nowise neglected by the builders. It is no huddle of gloomy and grimy shops, for there are lines of beauty in the facade, and the softness of simple decorations gives charm and the solidity of corner and center towers lends something like grandeur to the long wings. Even the stone wall surrounding the shops is not the kind of wall with which industrial works are usually protected. This is an art wall, and the gateways and timekeepers' lodges, with vine-covered posts and graceful caps, would admirably become an English country seat In no feature of this one-man city, the handiwork of one architect, has the value of beauty—its commercial value, indeed—been neglected. A fundamental idea in the construction of Pullman was to surround laborers, not only In their homes, but in the shops wherein they toil, with objects of beauty and comfort.

The application of this principle is nowhere more obvious and admirable than in the home part of Pullman. The streets are broad, and there is no fence—that modern abomination inherited from a feudal time, when even neighbors were feared, and walls and moats were the necessities of every householder. Instead, bits of bright lawn separate the homes from the walks. Though all of the streets cross each other at right angles, there is no oppressive monotony, for the stiff lines are broken here and there by parks, squares or the setting in of a church, school or other public building."

The same effect has been accomplished in the design of the dwellings. Where a more economical builder or a less ingenious architect would have constructed rows of barracks, in which every house would look just like every other house, Pullman displays great variety in roof, window, chimney and ornament, giving to every dwelling in the better and major part of the town a distinct individuality, tho whole yet making its perspective harmonious and regular. The front walls of the houses are all the same distance from the street, and the window lines are quite uniform. It is chiefly in artistic treatment of the Bky line that variety has been given to the whole qnd individuality to each.

Pullman has its own water and gas works. The streets are all well paved. There are no barns, one large brick stable accommodating all the horses in town. There are baseball grounds, a gymnasium, bicycle track, rowing course, etc., with handsome view stands, containing 1,000 or more numbered chairs. The Pullman Athletic association has a reputation far and near. Puliman's drainage system is well nigh perfect The sewage is all collected in a great basin beneath the water tower, and thence pumped—1,000,000 gallons daily—to Pullman farm and garden, three miles away. Tn no other city on either side

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ot the Atlantic has this metnod ot disposing of a town's sewage been so successful as here. The liqttid sewBg»»d»ined£«©mtt»gardeu into the lake, but is so purified by filtration through the soil that the waters of the lake are inhabited by fish, and may even be drunk. Pullman garden-this year raised a crop sufficient to fill eighty freight cars, some of which was consumed in the town, but the bulk being marketed abroad. A dairy farm supplies fresh milk and butter to the whole population.

There are nearly 4,000 workmen in Pullman industries, and more than 3,000 in Pullman's car works alone. One-half of these workmen are foreigners, but they are for the most part skilled artisans and men of intelligence. Their wages rank as high, at least, as those of workmen in similar lines throughout the country. Men in the hammer shop earn $450 a day, carvers $3,

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$S.2o, stripers and gilders $3.50 to $4, and simple laborers $1.25 to $1.40. The average earnings of the operatives, laborers included, was a little less than $600 for each man during last year.

These workmen are as much a stock in trade with the Pullman company as the coaches which traverse the earth or the machinery which .urns out freight cars for the great railways at the rate of thirty a day. The workmen inhabit Pullman houses, pay Pullman rent, therefore, and make up the community which renders the gas works, the water works, tho garden and the dairy farm profitable—which pays the rental of the stores, offices and theatre in the Arcade, of the stalls in the market houses and supports the churches and school buildings which Pullman owns and leases for public uses.

Pullman as an industrial enterprise must not only have work to do and workmen, but all the men must be kept reasonably busy, else the inhabitants will seek employment elsewhere and the houses will stand vacant and loss result to the one real owner the place boasts of. Here i* a feature of industrial Pullman which most cities have overlooked. The workmen and their families are the wards of the proprietors, and their property is his. The risk is the owner's, too, and upon his success in keeping the wheels turning and the hands employed depends his own hope of profit Long continued idleness of even a portion of the employes would be disastrous to the interests of the proprietor.

The result of this unique relationship between employer and men has already borne fruit in extraordinary executive energy and in a most admirable understanding as to wages. The "piece" system prevails as to full two-thirds of the work done, find prices are so acceptably scaled that, in the words of an employe, "a good man is bound to make the money and an inefficient man will not find it to his interest to remain in the town." As there is no idleness anywhere visible, but evidences of prosperity on every hand, it is fair to presume that the good men largely predominate, and that the wages are satisfactory. But this is not all. The piece scale is a sliding one. When Pullman, for instance, finds it necessary, in order to secure worlc for the plant and men, to take contracts at figures lower than any other bidder, the piece scale is cut accordingly. If, on a succeeding contract, better prices are obtained by the company, the earnings of the men are correspondingly increased. Thus, not long ago, the freight car shops of these works turned out several thousand cars at a cost to the purchaser said to have been lower than cars of like pattern had ever been made for in this country.

In order to make sure of employment for his tenants Pullman not only constructs and repairs his own sleeping coaches but builds passenger, freight, express, postal and private cars in large quantities. He also manufactures street cars, and has even built houses and engaged in a general line of carpentry work. In this field his methods were rather interesting and characteristic of the enterprise which is associated with'his name. During Chicago's recent building boom several competent men were constantly employed making bids on the specifications of architects, securing many contracts. Then a small army of men were set at work in the shops here preparing, under the most favorable circumstances and with all the advantages of machinery and appliances, every piece of timber set down in the architect's bills. When finished the whole was transported to the site, and the erection there made so quickly as to astonish all beholders. Under Pullman's master band large bouses grew full-sized and well-nigh perfect almost in a night. At times 500 men have been employed in this building and carpentry department In addition to these and the other enterprises already mentidned, which are directly or indirectly under Pullman's control, there are extensive brickyards which employ men in summer and ice houses to give them work in winter.

THE WATER TOWER.

Of course Pullman is a profitable investment, The enterprise quickly made a rich city of waste land. The projectors manufactuaed their own brick, built their own sewers, directly constructed their 1,500 buildings and did everything by wholesale. Lumber was purchased by the train load, house hardware by the car, nails by the ton. The rentals are doubtless high enough to give the usual 10 or 12 percent returns upon a sum equal to the new value of the land and the amount the buildings and street improvements would have cost if constructed in the ordinary manner, and 15 or 20 per cent, on the actual cost to the Pullman company. In the official financial statement of the company I find the "real estate and plant, 508 acres of land, Chicago car works, houses for workmen, ana other improvements at Pullman, His.," put among tho assets at $6,500,000. The actual cost was probably about one-half this sum. In the income accoufit is the item—"manufaeturing profits and rentals, $700,000."

Pullman has only begun its career as an industrial city. It was planned for a population of 5ft 000 and

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projected which will give employment to several thousand persons, Including many at the women and some of the children of the plaee. As* an vktdQ8tarial'.i'(iM3^aP(iUnMb«4lo«~ pends upon the success of its factories. In this respect it is on the same level with other manufacturing towns. But since tho first dweller set up nis household here the population has steadily grown, and the sbarpesteyed cannot as'yec perceive signs of retrogression or failure.

Industrial and Superficial Pullman is unique and promising. Of the even more interesting social Pullman—Pullman beneath the surface—I shall have to $psok in another letter. WALTER WELL*AS.

DR. ELLIOTT COUES. W

Biologist, Ornithologist, Naturalist, Theosophist, Occultist and Vniversalist.

The spread in America of tho extraordinary movement known as theosophy, calls somewhat general attention to Dr. Elliott Coues, the head of the order in this country. Eight new theosophical lodges have been formed in the United States within six weeks.

Dr. Coues is one of the most brilliant men of science America has produced. He is our foremost living or-/ nithologist. At-". tached to his name is a string of titles, honorary and scientific, nearly half a dozen inches long, printed in fine type, wide column. He is a member of the British Ornithologists' union, a collaborator in the Smithsonian in stitution at Washington, and professor of anatomy in the medical depart- 'f .PROFESSOR COUES. ment of Columbia university at Washington.

He is an elegant and forceful writer, infusing even into scientific subjects a liveliness which makes the dullest topic treated by his pen readable. His home is in Washington.

Being knoWn by his scientific fellow .laborers to have so clear a head on him, wonder has been expressed that be should permit himself, as they say, to ljr deluded by that mixture of Buddhism one blatherskiteism known as theosophy. To all of which the learned doctor answers his fonaer brethren much in the spirit of Fanny Squeers' postscript to Nicholas Nickleby. "P. S.—I pity your ignorance and despises you," or at least, if not that he tells them that great discoveries are on the eve of making in psychic science. Spiritualism, mesmerism, clairvoyance and ghosts are drops of the coming shower. He himself has simply already perceived and acknowledged facts which all will be forced to give in to ere long. Many have already been dumbfounded and silcnced by the manifestations of powers hitherto unsuspected in mankind. To which the professor's opponents answer "Bosh," and he in turn simply says, "Wait you'll see."

Dr. Coues has certainly proved his faith by his works. He has given up various scientific positions of honor and emolument to devote himself to occult studies.

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A NEW PHASE OF AN OLD PHRASE. -Life.

A TWILIGHT FANTASY,

A woman stood at a garden gate (Sing hey for the distant spreading sail!) Sing hey for the dog that hurried by

With a kettle tied to his tail.

A smug-faced lad looked over the fence (Sing hey where the blrdlings sing and chirp!) "Why laughest, good mother?" "I laugh," satd she, "To see yon ecru purp."

A smile then smiled the smug-faccd lad. (Sing lack-a-day for the sunset red!) "Then laugh no more, good gossip, because

The kettle is your'n,'" he said. (The poetry after Browning the man after the dog the woman after the boy.)—Chicago Rambler.

He Will Explain to Pat Next Time.

He returned from his yachting trip, and when the luggage of the gander party was conveyed ashore, tho array of empty bottles that had not been thrown overboard was something of a staggerer to look upon. The gentleman not caring to dump them at the anchorage in the face and eyes of his neighbors, said hurridly to his man, "Pat, get those underground as quick as you can. Bury them do you understand?" "Yis, soir, I do," was the reply and the yachtsman went home and tumbled info the arms of Morpheus without delay. The next he knew he heard his wife's voice calling, "For goodness sake, my dear, what has Pat brought all these bottles up here for?" It was but one step from the bed to the window, where the enraged gentleman called out: "You blasted Irishman! didn't I tell you to bury those bottles?" "Yer did, soir, and it's divilish quick I'll git 'em buried, now I have 'em so handy soir." The yachtsman wearily explained it to his wife. Next time he will consider it more valorous and discreet to take Pat a little into his confidence.—Boston Home a

Disappointing.

"Here is a book mentioned in this paper entitled 'Hints on Husbandry'" said Miss Smiggle. "I think Til go down town and buy me a copy."

Her brother, to whom the remark was addressed, smiled and said nothing. That evening at the supper table he inquired: "Did you get the book you spoke of to-day, Miranda?" "Ye-es," was tho somewhat reluctant reply. "And how did you enjoy it?" "Well, I reckon its a good enough book, but tho title is kind o' disappointin'."—Merchant Traveler.

Not a Trader.

An old lady came into ono of the stores of Sparta a short time since, when the merchant, an old gentleman, bowed to her very politely and asked her if he could sell her some goods. She replied: "I didn't want to trade none—just thought I'd monkey around a little."—Chattanooga Times.

There are just fourteen "Swltzerlanda of America"among the the summer resorts in this country.

Sod school houses are still used in Cheyenne county, Nebraska,

Vor and About tlw Fair Hex.

._ jfcou often hear a woman say: "There's no use talking,H but die doesn't think so, just the same.—New Haven News.

THAT MAKES A DIFFERBXCK "There's something inexplicable about the mental make-up of-a woman," replied Fogg to a female acquaintance. "There's that Mrs. Smith, for example. She's utterly unable to handle a horse, and yet she drives her husband around as though he were a baby." "Ah, but you forget," replied the lady "the horse, you know, is a very intelligent animal" —Boston Transcript THEY OFTEN GET MEN'S TIES OUT OF PLACE.

Since it became fashionable for young ladies to wear a collar and necktie their superiority to men has been fully demonstrated. You never see a lady with her necktie over her ears. A brief trial of six months has taught women more in the necktie wearing art than men have learned in 6,000 years. A human being that can make a necktie stay in place should have th« right to cast two ballots at every election.—Lynn Saturday Union.

A NATURAL CONCLUSION.

Sunday School Teacher—What did Lot do after his wife was turned into a pillar of salt, Sadie? Sadie—I s'pose he looked out for a fresh olie.

+*-3" itfn* Tl&e Yottng Idea*

A train was rushing along through some swamps in northern Indiana. The track was fringed on either side with "cat tails," literally thousands of their brown heads bobbing around in the breeze. A small boy had his nose glued to the window pane and his young eyes for a time eagerly drank in the scenery. Ho was evidently a city bred boy, for he presently exclaimed: "Mamma, I didn't know that sausages grew in that way."—Chicago Herald.

CONTRADICTORY ORDERS.

"Bessie, temper is an awful thing. You ought to get rid of it" "Why, mamma, only yesterday you told me to keep it"—San Francisco Call.

TEMPUS FUGIT.

A little girl "On the Hill," Rondout, last night, strongly importuned her mother to allow her to go a short distance with another little girl. After promising not to be gone over five minutes, she was given permission. Bhe did not return home for half an hour. Her mother took her to task by saying: "How is it? My little girl said she would be back in five minutes and she was gone over half an hour." "I doesn't know, mamma. I dess the minutes was wubber and stwetched," was the child's answer.—Kingston FreeinanJ|:.|

The "Alf and ftob" Campaign in Tennessee

They were rocked in the same cradle.

Although they still sleep together, they have of late away of keeping their weather eyes open, r..'-

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But they cannot both sit in the governor's chair.—The Judge.

Bob Burdette's Boys.

"Johnny Smallboy, you naughty, bad, boy! Your teacher was here just now and said you hadn't been at school this afternoon, and here you come home with your clothes damp and your hair wet! Now tell me this minute, where have you been all afternoon?" "Been down with the boys, ma, jumpin' off Brooklyn bridge." "Well, you go up stairs and put on dry clothes and when your pa comes home you'll get a good trouncing. I've heard him tell you a dozen times he'd whip you if you didn't quit jumping off that bridge, und now you'll catch it"

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larger knots off a nice long birchen rod. Before him, trembling, his darling son, never dearer than now, in his twelfth year and but recently in mischief. The son, breaking the silence, which had grown painfully embarrassing, speaks, "Father, the preacher's in the parlor talking to sister Sophie about joining the church, the baby's sound asleep, and mamma's lying down with a headache. Can't we compromise this thing some way for the sake of harmony within the party?" And white winged peace stole softly into that room, and folding her snowy pinions, sat down on a hassock as though she intended to stay theie until she hatched out a Turkish lounge.—R. J. Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.

E. C. Stedman on True Genius.

Not every mind catches fire with its own friction and emits flashes that surprise itself, as in dreams one is startled at things said to him, though he actually is both interlocutor and answerer. Thus Swift, reading his Tale of a Tub, exclaimed: "Good God! what a genius I had when I wrote that book!" Thackeray confessed his delight with the passage where Mrs. Crawley, for a moment, adores her stupid husband after his one heroic act "There," cried the novelist, "is a stroke of genius!" It was one of the occasions when, like our Autocrat composing "The Chambered Nautilus,''" he had written "better than he could."— New Princeton Review,

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Churchill in the Gallery.-

Lady Randolph Churchill goes to the ladies' gallery of the house of commons almost every day since her husband has become chancellor of the exchequer. She sits in the corner of the gallery on tho ministerial side, where Mrs. Gladstone was so often seen in former times. Her photograph and that of her husband are now seen in London more frequently than those of anybody else.—London Letter.

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THE LIME KILN CLUB.

BUeetion for JLoeal Officers—Brother Gardner Instructs the

Committee.

After Brother Gardner instructed the Lime Kiln club in their position on international questions, on motion of Sir Isaac WaJpole the meeting then opened on the thirty-third degree, and proceeded to the election of local officers. There has been a great deal of wire pulling during the summer in regard to these, offices, and,ic was felt that the election would prove an exciting contest An informal ballot for secretary brought out thirteen candidates, five of whom could neither read nor write. When this fact came to be whispered about, Brother Gardner arosa and said "I want to say to yiSc five gem'len dat dis am not a poltytical leckaaun. If it was you'd be all right. A man kin leave de fool asylum to-day an' run fur alderman in any city in de land to-morrer, but we do bizness on a different basis in dis club. De five of you purceed to absquatulate, or youll h'ar sunthin' drap!"

A formal ballot was then taken, and Waydown Bebee was re-elected by a majority of 28. He returned his thanks in a few well selected words, in which he rung in Nero, Plato, the great Sahara desert and the Mormon question. An informal ballot for treasurer brought out twenty-eight candidates, and tho feeling promised to be so high that the president again arose and said: "My frens, I doan' want to keep interruptin' de purceedin's, but I mus' remind you agin dat dis club doan' hold its 'leckshuns on a polytical basis. Dar's a heap of you who doan' know 'nuff to add five to seben, or to subtract two from six, an' dar' are some others who couldn't get a bond of $50 signed to save deir necks. Dar' mus' be more absquatulashun."

His brief speech produced a wonderful effect. A formal ballot brought out only three candidates, and of those Trustee Pullback received a majority of the votes and was declared elected. He expressed his thanks in broken remarks, which were about equally divided between the glacial period and the latest improvements in corn shellers, and sat down amid the heartiest applause. The president then made the following appointments: -,

Librarian—Professor De Hoe.

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Opening of the Bowling Season.

A TEN STRIKE. -Life.

Every-Day Rules for Barbers.

1. "First, catch your hair." 2. Place him in tho chair and manipulate the tiller wheel until he is screwed down into a position at once uncomfortable and barbarous. 3. Remark about the weather. 4. If the patient wants a shave, lather him. 5. Having lathered the subject, rush to the hydrant and wash your hands.

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6. Lather the patient again. 7. Seize your razor and sharpen it 8. Rub patient's jaw for five minutes. This sends the soap inside the pores and produces a tranquility of the flesh that even a fine tooth razor cannot disturb. .', 9. More lather. 10. If the patient's pores are not thoroughly stuccoed with soap by this time, read your morning paper until the required stuccodity is attained. 11. Seize your razor once more and flourish it three times on the strop, and then inquire if the patient is particularly tender in any particular spot. 13. If he is scrape that spot until the subject shows signs of dissolution, then soothe him with lather. 13. Scrape both jaws with the razor, and if musically inclined whistle in the patient's ear during the ceremony. 14. After he is entirely flayed ask if the razor hurts. 15. If he says yes, continue the process until he swears that it does not hurt. 16. Inform patient that a little shampoo might not hurt him. 17. Soak his face with bay rum, putting an especially large quantity on all raw spots. 18. Comb patient's hair on wrong side, scrape magnesia over his black tie, let a drop of lather fall on his boots, hand him his hat, give him the address of a convenient undertaker, and 19. Yell "Next!"—Life.

Disadvantages of Short Sleeves.

And you have returned from the seashore?" chirruped a Philadelphia belle, kissing her dear friend. "Yes got back this morning." "How did you enjoy the bathing?*' '•'Unfortunately, I could not bathe. The first day I arrived there a mosquito bit me on the arm and made a big lump, and you know my lovely bathing dress was made with short deeves." "My, that was too bad." "Yes, indeed. I was so disappointed that I cried."—Philadelphia Herald.

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•:^A MINER MURDERED.

Another Sensation in Parke County —The Fugitive Still at LargeGreat Excitement*

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Keeper of the sacred relics—Sir Isaac Walpole. Inner guard—Col. Cahoots.

Outer guard—Deacon Smith. *.• Grand bouncer of unruly members or im* posters—Giveadam Jones.

Chaplain, when there is anything for a chaplain to do—Rev. Penstock. The following committees were also appointed:

On judiciary—Lawful Davis, Assumpsit Smith and Subpoena Harper. On finance—Currency Jones, {Specie Tavlor and Credit Coleman.

On foreign affairs—Professor Hawkins. Col. Snaffles and Judge Burns. On general harmony—Peaceful Johnson and Emblem Green.

Brother Gardner said that other committees of less importance might be named later on. Such persons as had been named were expected to enter into committee work with energy and enthusiasm, and seek to make a success of whatever they might be asked to do. It was announced that the library would open at 7 and close at 10 o'clock through the fall and winter months, and frequenters of the place were cautioned about indulging in either political or religious debates in the room. The janitor was instructed to secure the services of a civil engineer to make a survey of the hall stove and estimate the amount of money which would put it in safe condition for the winter, and the keeper of the sacred relics was cautioned to keep his eyes peeled for a cheap bust of Gen. Jackson to stand in the southwest corner of the main hall The meeting then went home.—Detroit Free Press.

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EOCKVILLK, Ind., Oct. 11.—[GAZETTE special.]—Rockville was startled this evening by the news that one Robert Barnet, a coal miner at Sand Greek mines, had been shot and instantly killed by Rosa A. Frenchman, a saloonkeeper of the same place. The shooting was done in the saloon. The murderer escaped, and has not been arrested aa yet. The coroner, Mr. Will KindnH, with Dr. Gross are holding an inquest and Sheriff Musser is on the ground and will send a posse pursuit ot the fugitive. The cause of it, as yet, is unknown, but is supposed to have been a drunken dispute. Barnet leaves a wife and three small children. Botb men bear a fair name, only when drank. "3MM

In a railroad collision on the Southern Pacific near San Antonio, Texas,, yesterday, one man was killed and three others seriously wounded.

The Dublin Freeman's Journal ridicules the Tory governments proposed Home Rule scheme.

The elections in Bulgaria have resulted in a victory for the adherents of Prince Alexander.

The Rockville Correspondent Says Some^ thing. The Rockville correspondent who gave the chicken story to the world has emerged from his retirement to make the following thrilling observation in the Terre Haute Express of yesterday: "The damaging reports coming out daily against the Hon. John £. Lamb 'have their weight and will tell in November He does not deny them. It looks like defeat is inevitable."

One of the "damaging" reports is th& story that this brilliant young man telegraphed down from Rockville about Mr. Lamb having taken a piece of chicken in his fingers. How happy thin young man seems to feel! But why doesn't he finish up his chicken story and give his affidavs to awaiting pnblic? He said he would and he is not keeping his promise. We think this is too cruel.

ORANGE BLOSSOMS.

APMAN—EHRENHAKDT.

There is the odor of orange blossoms about the postoffice, for on tomorrow evening Mr. Fred Apman, the efficient deputy postmaster, will be married to Miss Mamie Ehrenhardt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ehrenhardt, at the residence of the bride's parents, on Sixteenth and Wabash avenue. The Rev. Katt, of the German Lutheran church, will conduct the ceremony. Miss Annn Hild, of Hamilton, O., and Miss Bertha Laehr, of this city, will act as bridesmaids.

Queer Accident.

MARSHALL, I1L, Oct. 11—[GAZETTE special.]—At 10:30 this morning a two year old son of R. E. Hamill swallowed some carbolic acid and suffered great agony. The child was hastily taken to Dr. Mitchler and dosed with medicine. At 1:30 this afternoon he was improving and will probably recover. Had a large dose been taken the child's stomach would have been burned out.

Sudden Death.

PIMENTO, Ind., Oct. 9.—[GAZETTE special.]—A very sudden death occurred three miles north-west of Pimento last night. The wife of David Boyll ate a

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ROCKVILLE, Ind., Oct. 11.—[GAZETTE special.]—Yesterday evening between three and four o'clock Robert Barnett was killed by Joseph Rosey in Rosey's saloon in Nyesville. He was shot with a shot gun the load entering the breast and killing him instantly. Bosey as soon as the shooting was over left the town on foot going in a southerly direction. And a messenger was dispatched to this place (Bockville) for the coroner, W. J. Kendall, and the sheriff, who went to Nyesville accompanied by Dr. Cross to hold the inquest.

TODAY'S DISPATCHES.

The Anchoria Safe—Railroad Collision— Elections in Bulgaria. From Monday's daily.

Geo. S. Davidson, carpenter of the La Mascott, died Saturday at Gape Girardeau, Mo.

Ex-Senator D. L. Yule^ of Florida, died yesterday at the Clarendon Hotel, New York, of heart disease.

The Government steamer Alert returned to Halifax yesterday afternoon after an absence of nearly four months. This was her final trip to the Hudson a re on

The Anchoriattas arrived at St. John, N. F. Passengers and crew are all well. Anton Slip, another of the men injured in the collapse of the South Chicago rolling mill building, died this Morning.

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A REVIVAL.

A Series of Meetings at Liberty Church. Editor GAZETTE: Please say through your paper that J. W. Perkins, of Indianapolis, will commence a series of meetings at Liberty church, Vigo county, Ind., on Monday evening, Oct. 25, 1886. S.

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