The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-10-15
Letter from Indiana.
THE OBSERVATIONS OF A BELFAST MAN IN
THE CITY OF TERRE HAUTE. INCIDENTS ON
THE BEE-LINE MARKETS. DAN VOORHEES,.

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THE OBSERVATIONS OF A BELFAST MAN IN
THE CITY OF TERRE HAUTE. INCIDENTS ON
THE BEE-LINE MARKETS. DAN VOORHEES,.
Correspondence of the journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 2S, 1885. / am
delighted and pleased with this beautiful city
of forty thousand inhabitants; delighted with
the thirty broad, handsome streets, which are
laid out parallel with the Wabash river, due
North and South, two miles long, lined on each
side the whole length with tall elms, walnut,
hickory and catalpa shade trees about twenty
five feet apart; pleased with the neat and tidy
residences, very many of them palatial and
unique In structure and architectural beauty.
Short horn Durhams and Alderneys in herds
of fifteen to twenty-five, fat and sleek lesurelv
grazing in the suburbs of the city, attracted my
attention. Milk men in their covered coaches,
drawn by two horses, drive up in front of the
residences, ring their bells and await the COM
ing of fair maidens wearing tidy white aprons,
to receive the mornings supply of the pure milk
from the dairyman's home and instead of hay
ing it charged and settled for monthly, as is our
custom, the maid passes the mkman quart
milk check with which he supplies all his Gus
toners at the rate of sixteen for dollar.
We visited the POLYTECHNIC school buildings
and Orphans Asylum, endowments from the
late Chauncy Rose, Esq, the former costing
$4,000 and the latter $4,000 They are both
magnificent structures and the people of 1erre
Haute have great reason to forever bless his
memory.
Innumerable flocks of black birds take their
departure from the branches of the tall trees of
which | have spoken, on sixth street, every
morning at early dawn for the extensive grain
fields Northwest of the city and return with
the setting sun to pass the night in sweet repose
in their accustomed homes. They are said to
be very excellent for "Black bird pie" but a
City ordinance prohibits the discharge of fire.
arms within the city limits, therefore they can
not be captured.
Our transit from Boston to this city by the
favorite Bee-ine route, via. Boston and Albany
New York Central. Lake shore and Michigan
Ohio, Cincinnati Indianapolis and Vandaa
occupied just 80 hours. Two amusing and un
fortunate incidents occurred on the Sleeping
car "Sunny-side'' which we occupied. A Bos.
ton lady on her way to St. Louis gave her little
daughter, three or four years old, her purse
containing S1S5 to play with and the cal
window being up the child threw 1t out. The
mother was frantic for few moments but as
the train was gliding along at the rate of forty
or fifty miles per hour the recovery of the lost
treasure was abandoned.
window, playfully took off his cap making be-
lieve throw it out and then concealed it behind
him, and told his little son he could whistle
the cap back again, which he did, and placed ii
on his head. After Il few moments the boy
took off his cap and threw it out, and looked up
and says Papa, whistle my cap back" OF
course the passengers were convulsed
Yesterday plucked two ears of corn from
field containing one hundred and thirty acres
which the owner told me would yield from sew
enty-tye to one hundred bushels to the acre
The ears are II and IA roWed The yellow corn
is not used by the people of the West; they pre-.
fer the white.
l will give you few of the retail market
prices just for comparison
FRUITS. Apples 10 to $3.50 per Dbl. Ounce,
$500 per bushe. Concord grapes ) cents pei
10. Deawares 10 cents CantelopeS 10 Il
$3.50 per bbl. Pears $3.50 to $500 per buShel
Peaches, Delaware in halt bushel baskets s
and Sl.50. Cranberries $500 per Dbl
VEGETABLES. Cabbage 60 cts. per bbl
Beans 80 to 10 per bushel. Potatoes $l.25 pe
bbl. Tomatoes 80 and 10 per bushel crate
Sweet potatoes, Kentucky, Sl.5O per bbl; Jer
seys $500. Onions 81 % per Dbl.
PRODUCE. Butter and 10 cents per 10.
POULTRY. Hens cents per 10. Sprine
chickens &c. Turkeys Sc. Old geese full feath
cred $3.50 per doz. Young geese $3.50. Duck
&c per h. Eggs II cents per doz.
CORN. Per bllshe 10 and Il cents.
OATS Is to 2S4 cts per bushel.
WHEAT. 50 to 95 cts. per busheI.
l had the pleasure of meeting Indiana's Sen
ator, the Hon. Daniel w. Voorhees,. He is
very line looking man and only wish he woul,
apply his bountiful talent to the promulgatiol
OF our glorious, eternal, and everlasting Repub
lican principles. He is too genia and pleasan
for Democrat and no one could possibly dis
like him, only for this one fault. if fault 1t is
As usual iii OFT years, the result of Indiana
State election cannot be predicted with any lie
gree of certainty at the present time c.