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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-10-25
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SALE FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT.

BY virtue of a certain preceps TO me direst-
ed, by the mayor of the city of Indianapolis,
Indiana, and duly attested by the clerk OF said
ity,under the corporate seal OF said city, vii
on
SATURDAY, November II, 1876
sell at public auction, at the City Court Room,
between the hours of 10 o'clock, A. NJ and
o'clock, p. NJ of said day, the following des-
cribed lot, or parcel of land, or so much thereof
as may be necessary TO satisfy the sum herein
after named as assessed against such premises
for street Improvement, and all costs, to-wit:
Lot No. twenty COZ, square No. one CD, Car
Works first addition to the city of 1ndianap-
oils, Marion county, Indiana, owned by
Thomas Z. letters, against which Is assessed
the sum of thirty dollars and eighty cents
Gao S0) for street Improvement In favor of Sam
uel 2. Strong, contractor.
HENRY w. TUTEwILER.
City Treasurer.
Indianapolis Ind. October Is. 1875
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Books for the Million.

A Physiological view
of Marriage and Pri-
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married and those
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BY virtue Ofa certain precept 30 me directed,
by the mayor of the city OF Indianapolis, Indl-
ana, and duly atteSted by the clerk of said city
under the corporate seal of said city, j will on
SATURDAY, November IL. 1876.
sell at public auction at the City Court Room
between the hours of 10 o'clock A. VI. and4
O'Clock P. NJ. of said day, the following described
lot or parcel of land, or so much thereof as may
be necessary to satisfy the sum hereinafter
named as assessed against such premises for
street Improvement, and all costs, to-wit:
Lot No. nineteen (l9l, square No one ID. Car
Works first addition to the city of Indianapo-
lis, Marion county, Indiana, owned by Thomas
+. Teters, against which is assessed the sum OF
thirty dollars and eighty cents ESQ S0 for street
improvement in favor of Samuel r. Strong,
contractor.
HENRY ". TUTEwILER,
City Treasurer.
indianapolis, Ind. October Is. 1876.
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Sale for Street Improvement.

Indianapolis, Ind, October IS. ls76.
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NOTICE TO NON RESIDENT.

Whereas, A certain precept has been dull
issued to me by the mayor of the city of 1ndi
annapolis, under the corporate seal Of said city
dated
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City Treasurer.
Indianapolis. Ind, October Is, 1876.
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made water-tight or no charge.
,s, Tin oneSpainted; prices low. Old
- I ones repaired; new ones laid.
z'ra Careful estimates promptly
furnished.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-05
ON A PORTRAIT.

Vn1 mystery Of Beauty who can tell
Iny mighty influence? who can best descry
n4w secret, swift and subtle is the spell
"nerem the music Of thy voice dolh lie?
here We have ewes 10 full Of fervent love,
- Inat out for lids behind which sorrows touch
Oo.n p.ess and linger, one could almost prove
That Earth had loved her favorite overmuch.
q mouth where silence seems to gather strength
:. from lips 20 gently closed, that almost say,
Ask not my story, lest you year at length
VI SORROWS where sweet hope has lost it's way -
ana yet the head is borne so proudly high,
., Inc colt round cheek SO splendid in its bloom,
Arue courage rises thru the brilliant eye,
And great resolve comes flashing thro' the
gloom.
On, noble painter! more than genius gees
10 search the keynote of those melodies,
10 md the depths Of al those tragic woes,
Tune thy song right and paint rare harmonies.
Genius and love have each fulfilled their part,
And both unite with force and equal grace,
While all that we love best in classic art
IL stamped forever on the immortal face.
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON.
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HOME.
III|Ir7

The following beautiful lines were written
BY James Montgomery, the well-known Ayr
shire poet The poet, whose smaller pieces
are considered nearly equal to those of Moore,
was born at Irvine in It'll:
There is . land Of every land the pride,
Beloved by heaven DER Ill the world beside;
Where brighter sums dispense serener light,
And milder moons emparadise the night;
a land OF beauty, virtue, valor, truth,
T1me-tutored age, and love exalted youth.
The wandering mariner, whose eye explores
The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores,
Nor breathes spirit Of purer air;
In every CLINE the magnet OF his soul,
Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole;
For in this land Of heavens peculiar grace,
The heritage OF natures noblest race,
There is a spot OF earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest,
Where man, creations tyrapt, casts aside
His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride,
While in his sOftened looks benignly blend
The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend.
Here woman reigns; the mo. her, daughter, wife,
Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way Of life !
La the clear heaven of her delightful eye,
An angetguard Of love and graces lie;
Around her knees domestic duties meet,
And freside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Where shall that land that spot of oarth be found?
Art thou man Pa patriot ?7lOok around
Oh, thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam,
That land thy country, and that spot thy home |!
-Chdnlbers's Journal.
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ship canal win connect Lake Michigan with
the illinois, and an inexhaustible water sup
ply through locks and dams be given the
rivers Of this valley. Steamships, and the
largest sailing vessels drawn through such Q
canal by locomotives ON its towing paths will
connect New Orleans directly with the Gulf
of Mexico. American railways will bear the
whole country's wealth towards cities on the
Mississippi and its tributaries, and the river
itself becomes the highway Of nations, and
its valley the central seat of American empire.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-05

Buy your buggy and carriage Of L. T. Maddux
IS Carondelet street, New Orleans.
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Wants and To Rant inserted in the BULLETIN Sol
6lty cents.
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made, and map of so.called "bayous" pre-
pared connecting the Mississippi with lateral
streams from the Missouri to the Gulf, we
would find that this great valley was once
drained by Q perfect system of engineering
skill, and these canals and lakes were so
planned, and SO enlarged, or lessened or null
tiplied, that however great the volume of the
springtime food-ide of the mighty river, it
was subdivided and distributed everywhere
over these rich alluvial plains. Their produc-
tive capacity was thus renewed each year, and
mound building cotton and wheat-growers
never beheld their fields behind earthen walls
grow red, or yellow and shriveled for want
Of loan deposited each year by the murky
water that brings inexhaustible riches from
remote hills, valleys and mountains.
Ooe hundred and forty natural and artificial
drains, or " bayons" once relieved the Missis-
sippi of the superabundant water on its west
ern side, between thc mouth OF the Arkaus IS
and New Orleans. When melting SHOWS filed
the channel of the great river. ga.eways were
opened from Cape Girardeau to the sea, and
many great canals, one after another, were
filed. Shallow streams of regulated depth,
as by Egyptians in days OF yore, were diffused
over cultivated fields, and not only were dis
asters impossible. but the foods we deem -
ruinous were sources of incalculable richa498
primeval jewellers IN the lowlands. -
River then had an outlet, now reopened4
Berwick's Bay, and those who have traverod
Texas state that great ditch, still clearlysde
fined, in by-gone age connected Red River
with the Trinity.
The time viii come when the Missouri will
be connected with the Arkansas, and this
stream through Bayon Bartholomew with Rad
Riverx and tho latter will become part Of the
Atch6falayA entexing the Gulf Of Mexico.
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Wants and TO Rent tnsegted1nt ho BU1A
atty oonfe.
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A great competition now arose for the pos
session of the eight or ten remaining pictures;
there was no limit to their offers, each bid
ding against the other with most generous
emulation. elf we should cover them with
gold" they said. "we should be sure to get it
all back; in England, Germany, and even in
France we can sell them for what we like
for any price," Simple sketches only just
commenced, but which bore the artists seal,
brought immense prices; there were some
present who emptied their purses to procure
q souvenir of Teniers. Even an old drawing
book, containg collection of eyes and noses
drawn by him when he was four years old,
was bought by an amateur fora hundred
cIowns.
When the sale was completed and Nine.
Teniers saw all the gold she felt somewhat
conscience stricken on account of the decep-
ton practiced by her husband. who returned
soon, however, to take possession Of his in
heritance.
Many people were very indignant when
they found he was not really dead, and some
threatened to have him tried for the decep-
ton in court of justice. But, as Teniers was
generally beloved in his native town, and as
most OF the pictures, though sold at high
price. were still well worth what they brought,
the excitement soon abated, the threats were
no. carried out, and the poor deceased"
enjoyed, during the remainder of his life, the
fruits of his stratagem.
The very picture spoken Of in this article
ii +" Flemish Festival" and SONS $40 years
I'D, is perfectly we'll preserved, and may be
seen in the private gallery of Snider Pelleg-
rini, Esq, at IL Clinton Place, New York.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22


NEW YORK contains a population of
nearly one quarter of a million more
than Philadelphia; and yet the latter
city has over eighty thousand more
houses than New York has. OF course
the population of New York must needs
be crowded into rooms and tenement
houses, into garrets and cellars, atiics
and Easements, to a trighttul degree.
The result of this crowding OF population
into such close and unhealthful quar-
ters is becoming apparent In the de-
-sr'sction of the New York children. BY
tne reports isom that city the startling
aacs Is shown that during all last week
ever one hundred infants under one
year old died every day. One hundred
babes dead ecety day! This is frightfuI.
1t is disgrace to the civilization of the
age; above all disgrace to the great
ei<y where such slaughter of the inne-
eents has occurred, and is continuously
occurring. 1t is O disgrace that calls
loudly ior the adjustment everywhere
Of that barbarous system of tenement
houses wherein mostly this carnival Of
death is held.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

TURKEY.-A letter from Constaatl-
nople, June %, says: The sultan has nc:
yet girded on the sword. / is doubtless
true that he would not be safe in the
streets of his own city.
Troops are being concentrated near
the mouth OF the Bospnorus. The second
class of reserves are beng called out
with view to emergencies.
The English feet lies at the Darda-
nelies quietly waiting. 0ne very strong
reason with England for sending this
fleet to Turkey was that the twenty odd
Turkish iron-clads in the Bosphorus
could not be defended by the Turks, and
once In the hands of Russia would make
her practically unassailable in these
waters. The flagship OF the Turkish
fleet has tWenty-one inches of metal al
water-line, and carries tour ten-inch rifle
cannon in battery. Besides this she Is
powerful ram, being driven by engines
OF six thousand horsepower. The Eli
gllsh Government is trying to buy her
from Turkey.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

and her merry laugh and willing hands
were the cheerIest Of helpers.
grhe child was nearly fourteen years
old, when q letter came one day, enclos
ing a check.
"Dsar Mother Skiggs," so the letter
ran, "piease use the enclosed for An
gie's school expenses and cioIhing.
| "Lovingly yours. Skiggs' Boy"
Every three months after this came
| the came message aud the Same sum.
more than enough 10 defray the expenses
/ OF Angles education and clothing. SO
| that the weary mother could re st awhile
rom her labors aud enjoy the society of
her children growing up So fast around
her.
At last Angie was nineteen, and had
| brought home her diploma and certiti.
cate of teaching. Ever! thing promised
| we'll.
The boys had begun to work for them
selves, and had removed their mother
into a more pretentiOus home.
For all these years Skiggs' boy had
been shadow TO them. Often mad they
| wondered where he was, and what could
| pc the secret of his great prosperity.
One evening they were gathered round
Inc tea-table, talking VI their beneiac, or,
ol Angles school ana OF their general
prosperity, when there came ringing
at the door bell. Enter a handsome
young man of twenty-five or twenty
| three, Whose tine presence and manners
suddenly aWed the little circle into
silence.
''WIll you give me piece of bread ~
asked The stranger, i'll clear, musical
tones; ''and please cut it thIck.'
80. my boy p cried Nancy Skiggs, fall.
| ing upon his bosom, quite unmIndtul OF
| The hne clothes, "thats just what my
dear dead Skiggs SAID nineteen years
| ago this very night, and to th nix that
poor starved critter can be youw
| 'It is fact, nevertheless" was the
rejoinaer, and presently there was such
Misunderstanding, such tumult of inquiry,
such exclamati0nS, laughter and general
Jollity that strangers passing by might
| nave been pard0ned for pausAng Ou side,
| bleak though the night was and smiling
| ly wondering what 1t meant.
Or course there was story to tell
Skiggs' boy had drifted here and there,
| Till his face actually paved his way to
| fortune. lie pleased the fancy OF a
| merchant residing in far distant city,
who forthwith employed MIN, and learn
| Ing the particulars of his early life, and
| that the Skiggs family were not in pros
porous circumstances, aided and abetted
| III this little scheme OF providing tor the
young girls fortune. And Skiggs' boy
| mad not grown up in idleness. After a
| fair business education, he had become
| associated as partner with his EN-
ployer, and was looking forward hope
| fully to prosperous and happy life.
Henceforth the Skiggs family did not
| want Ior t.iends. Over the venerated
| emains of the great-hearted but humble
porter, his "boy" put handsome stone
OF the purest Italian marble, and on il
the stranger may read to This day:
"Ae that giyeth to the poor lendeth to
| the Lord."-[ Youths Companion.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22
Experimenting in Pruning.

A Western fruit grower reports that
he made the following experiment: A
branch one inch in diameter was cut
from tree OF Rasle's Genet ON tine first
day of each month in the year, anu at
The end Oh i've years, when all were
sealed over, they were opened and found
to have decayed the least in those cut
in February and Marcn (or just before
the swelling OF buds J, and most of thuse
GHkin June or July, or during the grow
nssseason. This goes TO show that the
best time to prune iruit trees is early in
The spring, before the sap begins to
flow ireeiy, which has been the custom
of most fruit growers for a century
past.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

THE dispatches from Europe concern.
ing the serbo-Turkish war are so mex.
trfeably muddIed as TO be worthless Tor
any purposes OF information. The state.
ments from Belgrade and Constantinople
are always directly opposed to each
ether, with no means of knowing which
20 accept as true. Then comes in
another disturbing element in the dis
patches forwarded for stock -jobbing pur.
poses in London, Paris and Berlin. So
that on the war matters, the truth is
certainly sin WE'LL" But the general
inference is that the Servians have
rather lost than gained.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

Mrs. Annie Besanps petition to Par.
lament against making any more grants
to the Royal Family till they give full
account oil their present income, and
what they do with it, had the signatures
of one hundred ana four thousand three
hundred and thirty persons. 1t was
carried to Westminster in a carriage.
and not even the Tory members laughed
whenit was presented,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22
The Cincinnati Weekly Star,

fORkiGN IMPUkIs.-StFduSeIi enough,
the \. I. Tribune of The 10th laments the
falling of III our foreign imports, and af-
tects to see therein mischief to the rev.
snue. 1t says: "a decline OF imports
does not put more gold into the Treas
ury; on the contrary, it diminishes the
public revenue" 1t admits that our
imports have fallen off over forty per
sent, while our exports continue about
lhe same as before the panic; and then
the Tribune enunciates this remarkable
theory: Imports ought to exceed ex-
ports by the cost of freight and the
profits on the transaction"
Tnis heresy in trade is unexplainab BILE,
unless 1t be conceded that the main pur-
pose Of all importation is to 'put more
gold into the Treasury" This it will
certainly do by the collection OF the du-
ties at the Custom Houses. But the
Tribune, in maintaining that imports
onght to exceed exports, seems to have
failed to consider thai the whole of such
excess must necessarily be paid for in
gold; and that, consequently, while
gatheringIn one dollar of gold for duties.
we are paying out four dollars in gold
Tor prices on the same commodities. II
the whole business of importations were
limited TO the matter of paying in the
duties levied thereon, then. of course,
the more the merrier. But the merri-
ment ceases when we tihd that it drains
The country of its gold to pay for this
sxcess of importations at the rate oil
more than four dollars to one received.
ItwOuld seem that the people of our
seaboard cities fancy that the Custom
house business is the only profitable
thing for the nation. Whereas, the fact
Ia, that if the customs collections were
TO utterly cease for lack of importations
and our exports continue as now, there
would be stream of gold hundred
fold stronger poured into the country to
adjust the balance of trade in our favor.
Certainly, itwoud not 60 directly into
the Treasury, out into the hands of the
people; precisely where it is needed, and
where it would do the most good.
The Tribune'S theory is that we make
money by buying abroad and collecting
the duties in gold. But then we must
also pay for these purchases in gold.
And thereby we are drained of our coin.
But then when our sales abroad, our
exports, are greater than our purchases
abroad, our imports, by SO much as
the excess may be, we gain in
gold. This present year has brought
US a net gain of $76,000,0O0 in gold
by this process. Aud yet New York
editors lament the economy mani
tested by our people by the falling off
in imports, and mourn because
the revenue will be diminished. Let
them accept it as self-evident truth,
that the more we increase the public
revenue from customs, the more the
public extravaganza Is increased, and
the recuperation of our finances retard-
ed. The nation which buys little and
sells much is the nation that is enriched
by trade; not the nation which collects
large revenue by duties on importations
that drain the people of their wealth 30
pay for.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

They got the new minister out at a
Sunday school picnic in Willimantic the
other day. He had never been at one
before, and when he saw crowd ofboys
approaching he remarked that the little
ones probably wanted him to sit down
and tell them stories about David and
Moses and Rebecca. IL seemed, how
ever, that he was in error. What they
wanted was to know whether with the
ace and queen out it was good policy
to save your jack or hold it and play Tor
game.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

THE FRENCH SENATE consists of three
hundred Senators. Their salary is 81, 500
per year. The President of the Senate
receives s14 400, and some perquisites in
the matter OF house rent, &C. The indi-
yidual pay is not large, but the great
number of members swells the aggregate
TO pretty stalwart dimensions.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

ment was published TO The effect that
Gen. Butler declined nomination to
Congress; whereupon he burst forth in
a rage, and wrote an "awfuW letter to
the Boston Journal. But the Journal
didn't scare worth a cent. On the con-
trary, it courteously invited Gen. B. to
keep quiet as the best thing for himself
and Massachusetts,,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

SINCE his irrepressible conflict with
the Register in Bankruptcy, Uncle Dan
iel Drew is getting well and stout again.
And now skilled accountants are to
overhaul and examine five cart-loads OF
brokers' books of account in order to
lind out just how they managed to melt
down Uncle Dams millions.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

AN indignant exchange says that
General Butler has publicly announced
to The public, over his own signature in
writing, that the story that he had aban-
dOned the idea of running for Congress
is base, baseless. unauthorized, false,
and untruep'
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

NEARLY Sl2,OOO,0o0 in silver coin has
been paid out for fractional currency
since the passage of the law directing
this mode ofredemption. SO much more
OF the public debt wiped out. Silver don't
need any redeeming. paper does,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

The New Haven (Conn. Union Dem. }
says that "outside of party lines MAR
SHALL JEWELL is the most popular man
in the State" And yet Grant thought
MIN an unit associate In the Cabinet.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

THE Rhode Island Patriot ia an Inde-
pendent, and talks thus:
"If Grants administration ever lays
claim to fame, Its most enduring monu-
ment will be the number of statesmen it
transformed into martyrs, and OF MIN
compoops it elevated TO statesmen"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-22

THESE torrid dog-days have not only
maddened Gen. Grant, but have also en-
ragged Gen. Butler. The last named Gen.
eral has an itching desire to get back
into Congress once more. But the Mas
sachusetts people rather think that But
lef had better stay at home on prooatio
pll TIE next Gsalsanial year. soa stats-