Elkhart Democrat Union (Newspaper) - April 16, 1875, Elkhart, Indiana Main and Jackion third over Drag all paid in fall the option of the ELKHART 16, 1875, P. tould St. And the gallani little miles I'll aing you now of Yankee Where soil may And or or pray all the saints they may Shure Jona than is the best alive to this Saint in ' Faith I want to be He's the Patron of our Uncle Sam can bate the Jle at when welcomes them with fife and And and and them ere they go That Sammy is more king than Uncle Sam and Stripes And We would not take your He wants no slaves or subject But So let the Divil ' And when we our Patrick's toast to Jonathan and the of His Summer and manner of tbe Great that T. Barnum is preparing to exhibit his immense New York Hippodrome throughout the entire West and North the summer and realizing that whatever the good showman does or is of we the Courier reporters to and the ing interview is tbe result of the risit of our representative flag was flying over arid I at busily writing in his His secretary was equally busy at another I am here to view said the great business is everybody's or my business is At any it been the aim of my life to make it hope I have not disturbed you in your I am always and yet I can always make leisure upon This manuscript that you see is the appendix to my I written my history up to 1875.' life is continually crowded with I suppose you can easily add a pages every Numerous interesting in ray life have taken place since last book must have considerably increased in size since it was first pub in 1869. these yearly appendixes have swollen my and to nearly a thousand wd although first published by subscription at dollars and a I. have it profusely illustrated and bound la and supply it to my show visitors for one do that without loss it of not less than fifty thousand but even then there is no profit in it. I have a pride in ay and fancy it gives many rare and valuable and it my lecture in or the Art of Money which Mr. Greeley said was worth a d to a new beginner in active and I must be a public I dispose of a hundred copies of my every it possible it is sold by my traveling and thousands of country tors attend them every day during the Nearly every family or mora of my As out of my cauM vass tents at the close of each every third person seems to have a under bii or her must be a funny it looks as if they were coming bat of a circulating see that you announce that you will the Great Roman in New and the be curious to know your plans for the summer the plans are except some minor details which we are But to set you right at the they are no longer my I have massed all my shows into a chartered corporation known as ' the T. Barnum Universal Exposition one million of observed in the states last summer that there were several bogus Barnum's and have been by calling their of P. T. and so and I now mean to warn the public that I have nothing to do with any company but the one of which I am 1 under our title will give my full for purpose of my portrait upon its large pos A pretended hippodrome will precede mine at the west next but I shall promptly parties who falsely represent that t have any io their Any however unworthy of public can procure engraved bills and posters from large show represent in glaring c lors every animal and I My dear it is u impossible for anv number men or any amount of money to produce at only one year's notice a hippo in the Veal sense of the It years and it also requires the personal attention in Europe I gave the subject in 1873 and 1874. Even since my efficient Mr. l as spent in every important exhibition and bringing back all the choicest A mere imitation got up in this country and composed only of material cured here is simply a burlesque of what I show to the was the object in masking your shows into a chartered corporation to let my and other and principal men own an interest in the entire as men arc careful and faithful as proprietors than they can be as our purpose is to extend our operations so as eventually to own more different shows in this country and and this great corporation will not confine itself to any particular kind of We shall have experienced officers and plenty of so that we if we engage in or any other prises which we think the public suppose you intend to maintain your reputation for producing none but strictly moral dear the great and purpose of our company is to elevate the character of public exhibitions and strip every to put before the public the most extensive and novel moral ever offered to employ the best in the to include every feature that can make such an entertainment amusing and That's what we to do and shall do and regardless of you to give me idea of the cost of an an exact My daily expenses in New York are about and they will be one-third more tbe last summer I sent to Boston a new tent 5C0 feet long by 300 feet I have men women and children in my 750 including 300 race borses and elephants and English stags and stag The cost df the for 15,000 and transportation of the with its emire paraphernalia by rail to Boston was yet though we were there but three we were more than and was a Our two daily performances attracted more than 30,000 thousands coming in the excursion trains run expressly for us on all the roads leading to the and we were often compelled to turn away visitors for want of with two of immense that we can keep one of them continually we can the entire on 125 built expressly for nearly twice asual length and including horse palace which enable our lo lie down and rest while the larger cities in the Middle and Western ' if we can stop but one day in a Just look at the enormous magnitude of Besides the animals and all pcr aining to the we put up berths in the cars in which nearly all the 1,800 employees We carry cooks and tents and provide meals for all 150 of the who go to the wo have stable huts for our horses and other we have our own do all the horseshoeing wigon and chariot and au army of carpenters and some of whom precede the show tea days to erect the Add to all these the men and women who have the exclusive charge of the an i two first-class bands of our dressing room cover more ground than an ordinary circus how can you move such an immense of material so nearly every of is Everyman has his every department its everything has a c and everybody is responsible for By the systematic arrangement of all the parts the great whole moves with the precision of clock When I am unavoidably absent I knorf that at the appointed hours the canvass goes the street procession the doors the are tents everything and the great caravan is more on the move to the next place of It is a tJ cover the cost we must have the support of all classes in the We must and do give an i with every and with not one objectionable thing that could deter a clergyman and his my could not live a month if I did not make worthy the support of tho groat moral and religious I to be a great object and parents and recognize this The great spectacle of the of wherein the monarchs and courts of the entire world are represented by a thousand attired in tbe armors and costumes of each of impress oa the min 1 of youth a that books could not leach in a year's what enormous pecuniary risks you take in such a mammoth it is a big We can easily lose half a million of dollars next summer unless we can so awaken and electrify the country in as to induce everybody to in getting up excursion trains to hit the few centres where we That's one reason why wa send one of our immense tents ahead and literally every duly acknowledged this draft on my and the showman if wo do awaken a general and we mean we ran make half a and we hope It is a great stake to strive and hence my you expect to give all the features of your city exhibitions in tbe country and For We shall have with us to make daily balloon with a car to carry up ten or twelve and his with the cost of ling the will be a We carry all the chariots and the paraphernalia for tbe great Congress of Our wardrobe cost more than and is than the combined wardrobes of all the places of amusement iu the United We have over seven tho different including three hundred sets of real silver You remember the magnificent armor that I exhibited in tho cors ner of Broadway find Fourteenth New and which required the continued services of several policemen to prevent the from crushing in the These armors sre worn in our representations of the courts of Egypt and and some of these most heavily jewelled This immense wardrobe enables in the larger cities to give a of with daily changes of Our Roman chariot races are revived reproductions of in tbe centuries and the charioteers are Tbe liberty races of forty wild horses turned loose are repetitions of the farnom carnival races of Rome and In the standing tho riders stand on bareback there are hurdle by flat races by French and American with the blooded race horses from Ra es by ridden by and races by ostriches and We Indian life on the in which appears scores of with their ponies and put up their hunt renl buffaloes give war against lasso exploits and riding at full by Indians and Reaf riding their famous surprise the Indian and re enact the scenes of the western Our English is a perfect picture of the sport with one hundred and fifty ladies aod gentlemen in hunting and a large pack of English following the This alone is worth coming miled to These are some of the leading of the most colossal traveling exhibition ever and no other man in this generation will attempt a similar It involves a cap. ital ef nearly a million of I confess you and I am only surprised that any other party should attempt even on of your showman gave a smile of and continued business is to sh as well as to you have aoy exhibition road next the Roman Bippo Irome 7" I have another traveling which comprises all the features of the l World's and his been so successful through the country for the pist four and which has been greatly with many new and Mr. for his interesting 1 Wiis taking my leave when he Talk about the magnitude of moving this show from oue to the other in this country Next autumn we intend to take the whole establishment to for I firmly believe that it will prove a greater wonder there than even Answer c f of Old is Brought Forth ordinary circumstances the election in Connecticut at this time would have no special importance has been given to the responsibility rests with the peculiar friends of tbe and the supporters of his They thought they saw a fine opportunity by concentrating tbe Strength which enormous patronage by the free use of money arbitrarily for the jaud by the discipline of to carry the State and make an impression on the country that the popular current had these advantages and elements not possessed by the their success would not have excited The State is the Republican machinery is and the influence that could be exerted from Washington was thrown into the scale without or More than both wings of the the extremists and the the and their were united in a common each expecting to profit by a favorable Mr. Mr. and that call of prospective who supported the Bayonet tbe Louisiana the subversion of and kindred were advocating the ticket in New Mr. Mr. Mr. and ott ers like who professed hostility to this were supporting in Hartford a candidate for Governor who had fired a hundred guns to honor Grant's approval of Sheridan's banditti despatch and other fractions wanted to save tbe party at any and were engaged tor a whole month in canvassing the State and appealing to the prejudices and passions of thier respective who were coolly asked to put aside their differences and to suppress their convictions until after the The contest was and exciting on both and called out a vote rarely given in a local result is The President and the party are both The Southern policy of the was made the turning issue of the has been condemned with a crushing Grant personally is and Blaine is sent home with a flea in his ear as a Presidential is a blow from which recovery is most if it be at all for if the strength of Grant wielding the Federal and Blaine claiming to represent the could not prevail in this isolated where every man was made available every weak point what hope is there in. a national struggle without these extraordinary That question answers gain of two members of Congress is not material to emphasize the for tho majority in the next House is more than sufficiently The defeat of the Kellogg is a Gen. Hawley failed to ride two horses and is left to meditate on the folly of that is returned by a reduced to the great discredit of his for there has not been in Congress a more servile tool of the corrupt Rings which have ruled than this artful and sneaking the Bourbon Democrats interpret this result as a victory for or their or they will add to long list of Without the valuable aid and earn est of the Liberal who not sustain Grant or concern on any the State would have been They hold the baU of power in in New in in in and the Northern States which overthrew last And they will hold it at tbe next Presidential the policy adopted io be extended on a so that men entertaining tho samo general can act together harm the e of a reform President in 1876 is as certain as anything in human can But on ihe o her and selfish leaders refuse to take simole lesson to insist upon converting to their use the popular resentment against the excesses and corruption of the party now in a of widespread feeling may be with a train of consequences for the It is easy lo insure and mote easy to provoke Y. students at the Rensselaer agreed to go on the swee as the jury io the trial scene of ihe bring thai the rest of the play they to be provided with two When the time them to appear one fellow b and the was tried with eleven j i be I when I tell you that your doll came out of rag her from the back of a and her elegant china tea set out of a mud what will whon I teli you that jelley of old and your perfumery from horrid smelling don't own all the made-over things in the Johnny's new beaver cloth was worn on the back of a and perhaps even played the part of a scarecrow in some farmyard before it went into the ragbag and began to come up in the and the which every one of the family likes to once did duty as skin on the back of a is really wonderful to track things and see where they come and reason to boast of his Queer stories you hear if the things around you could tell their There's your tatting It since made itself useful as a bone in a while the ivory dice in the backgammon board adorned the jaws and crushed tLe of of the strings were indispensable to the internal comfort of some poor pussy or unfortunate audi your piano would he but a wooden without some of the internal arrangement of a pearl of your paper knife lined the shell house of a modest little creature at the bottom of the while mamma's shell comb was the comfortable roof over a sea nice hair brush first saw the light on the skin of a and its pretty back of papier mache came out of the The crinoline that stiffens the bottoms of dresses was used originally to switch the flies from thj back of a horsey and the mattrass on which you sleep so comfortably served the same use before it fell into the mai dainty toilet how can I tell made of dead cats and found in the and the which so delightfully your came from the horrible smelling while the ale is deliciously flavored scent bags of that offensive the furnish some desirable additions to tbe toilet used for removing freckles and and the dreadful stuff left in drains is changed into a fashionable toilet and adorns the face of the be these disagreeable materials have some pretty rough handling before they come out of their new The old for They do not step from the gutter into the by any They go through a long process of washing and soaking in and smoking with and steaming and before they come and fit for the to go into perfumery goes through the hands of who treat it to I don't know what dreadful and the dead cats and dogs are boiled to extract the and perfumed before we see them as doll whose ancestors a den underwent unheard operations of and so before she took her place in the nursery to amuse little and the clay from the mud hole was and purified and and baked and before it ventured to call self china and take its place on the horse tails that stiffen the dresses and stuff our mattresses are washed and and boiled and before we use and the intestines which make the voice of guitar and piano went long processes of scraping and soaking in and before they were drawn into the tough string you are familiar rat ikin which we eat under the name of gelatine first flourished in the thumb of a kid and after being worn out in that capacity went through ever so many purifying somewhat as the boots and ended on our all the things wo throw away in or even through our most disgusting you can think and going through the hands of skillful coine out in new and have new fields of feats of old who turned imo and shabby old gowns into elegant do not with the ders performed in our by rough-looking men in shirt sleeves and white New Postal printing corner of Maln nnd Jankson opposite of JOB WORK neatly executed on and at reasonable NATIONAL corner of Main and Jackson Clirton House Joan R. joseph valley a frenerai receives deals in and Domestic Bonds and other Attention given to hours from 8 lo 12 a. M. to 4 P. R AND dealer in Pure Medicines Stationery Sintt Shore Mich. 21 0 leave Elkhart We t. Chicago p. 3:15 4:55 a. m. p. m. a. 01. D. for the u. S. Express Great West and Local Ticket Agent for thd N. Y. Erie A Livery on Pigeon PAPER o 1 and Wrap ping Orders - B. L. MARBLE M. deiVer iii tone Second building West ELI Estate and Land business entrusted to his care prompt Elk in and News Bookseller and West of the corner of and G. - of the Peace and Notary White Murray opposite he Leases always on H. and at Law and Notary Ind. Practices In all I the 99 Main m. of Main and to t l Ind. attention paid with moderate and prompt second directly opposite the Clifton hat J. W. 4th and Pigeon Ind. calls diseases or Chronic diseases a Mrs. Wicker 1h prepared to consult with ladies at all hours of the T. and Notary Office No. 9.3 Main new brick Will attend with to any his Special attention given to COLLECTIONS in Indiana and Mortgages and matters of PRO BATE carefully A. M. PHYSICIAN AND Office Oat corner ol Main and Jackson Second and a l. m. Main and Pigeon Over shoe Pigeon two doors east of Baptist Elkhart DR. C. S. AND Office and of Second and opposite Elkhart M. AND Over Main St. Residence No. 3 High nearly the Presbyterian attention given to the his all its day or J. HAGGERTY PHYSICIANS Ako be consulted at their over Hill ler's No. 90. Main on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8 to 11 o'clock A. M. and 3 5 o'clock P. and at all other hours when not professionally 3d'and Franklin H. B. C 150 MAIN where he be found day or professionally attention given and diseases of Women ' of Main and Jackson Ind. Everything kept in order to and at and be kept as a first cusa with and reasonable G. 128 MAIN comer and near the Our is accommodate at reasonable 1 H. KY. Meals at all the Good accommodations and perfect order the implicit rule of the Charges situated just North ol the Passenger SHULER Dav and Weekly Boarders accommodated on the most liberal of Pearl and Canal Grand Mich. T. H. of the Rathbun MAIK i Pigeon 6:00 a. m. and 4:20 p. N. p. a. Express to - The a. and 5:'20 p. run Grand 10:20 ai and i. 4 Returning 7:.S0 a. and 4i30p. Elkhart 13:SU with Air LI n - i Lansino tat Raton and Lansing at 11:00 a. m and 5:40 p. m. leave Lansing and 4:00 going who tav tickets M. B. R are transfer tickets extra wishing berths in Coaches them by personal at Ticket ' rnn by 20 minutes faster than Chicago and 15 minutes than trains other than those herein given aroar lowed to can be obtained for air prominent points to San Supt. E. B. Ticket 22.18T4. ay fi TIME effect Sep t. e 1874. the the same ' ' as sold in i ' A FEW W ORDS ON T and the advantages derived from ynur TIME effect Sep t. e 1874. and Night 40p.m 12 25 4 20 9 40 10 80 00 n 12 30 00 115 2 64 10 10 9 50 3 20 8 30 8 56 419 B 68 05 a.m. 1 00 50p.m 12 25p.m. In. 4. ' Night 45. 7 50 25p,m. 3 40 w Keystone 25 am 1-2 9""'" B2 15 8 11 RAPIDS 8.30 G 02 a.m. 11 35 40p.m. 8 80 9 15 ' 6 30 S wiU run daily except All oth er except CARS on Nos. 3 and 4 between Indianapolis running Fort Wayne and - - Ticket S wiU run daily except All oth er except CARS on Nos. 3 and 4 between Indianapolis running Fort Wayne and - - Ticket SOUBLE postal act io to newspapers and oil kinds of went into effect March 11th. By it the rate of postage is one cent charged for each ounce in or of one cent each two ounces or fraction as All such mitter must be felly prepaid or it cannot be This act is intended to at least in with the extensive abuse pf the postal system practiced under tlie recent bw by which the mail service burdened with a class of business for which it was never worked over two hours digging a path through the to the parlor and then her chap did not cotue at She keeps a kettle of witer boiling on the kitchen and ever a fut eral i i six one was BILLIARD FABER 91 Main Street Pour first class Billiard pure and Liquors of all Gentlemanly op corner of Chicago and J White A h. house is undergoing thorough repairs and and guests will find everything in good order for their comfort with reasonable to and from all passenger p. W. to and from the Ohio rail Creat Line trom or Saving 87 110 and arriving One Train iu Advance at 59 and 6 to 7 hours In vance LTi M O RE 1-25 and 5 to 7 hours In Advance A DELP HI - DAY and j PULLMAN PALACE and SLEEPING Are on this route between St. Baltimore and the Ohio River on Splendid Iron Railway at Parkersburg Tills Une Avoid all Omnibus for sale at all Ticket Offices In the ' R. Ticket Master d. DINING ND Railroad at the D. Travelers and in first-class style sonable B. AT n. attention patd to business to his Blank I I in gmd at old of ail kinds lo promptly ' Elkhart F. FUNK 6 TABLE Winter and after November 23ud, 1U71, trains will leave as Express leaves 12;r5 m. and arrives at Marlon 6:15 p. Express leaves Marion 5:45 a. m. and arrives it Elkhart 10:S5 a made at Elkhart with the Main Line and Michigan Division L. S. M. S. Ry. Goshen with the Air Line of the L. S. S. Ry. At Milford with the Pittsburg and Chicago At Warsaw with tho Ft. Wayne Ry. At North with the Eel River and At Wabash with the Wabash and Western At Marion with the Cincinnati and St. Louis BRAVE Woman's Book about by E. B. The only work of the kind evir written by a a in evcy t. irely ami eminent ere treated it t- written m n style not ilit most never liad all 0;>p to e fre on S. 111. so doing you positively procure from first Wholesale raving several made by these Grocers have to buy in their turn haves bought of of and soon to the so Teas at a very slight advance on v hat Ir costs in and of from 16 Instructions to onr buyers In are to Fend none by far the cheapest to Say nothing of onr Teas are chosen for their not for of our resident in New York is a Tea having spent over six years in China and together experience home best judges In the have with Our friends iu China and exactly gives nil ge's over other moss if not wi market of first and hand - pound of be freehand pure ac take U acds to your short o ef our fast as 4n;B0, 70' cents - per Voune 50,60,70, 1-- best 60,70i80,90; - ' - - B. We havo of garden growth Hyson and at and Oolong Extra will send a package of or fonr any bf the price and eight cents per pound to pay - n One Quarter Cards not - 10 Cents lor Inier tion cents each St. and ' rebuilt upon the old modern Elevator in each in the Trr - are the oldest company ijn the United States in 1840),^ get up clubs to fell Teas to Boarding Houses and In or sending orders particular to address the President Com ' are compelled to request as have Imitated our firm 5th delay to buy a bond of the Industrial Exhibition compare it with Lottery V bear In IX at the Capital Invested is always Bond purchased before April will participate in tbe Fonith Series to be held in tbe City on 6th, 1875, are Loan is and is authorized by special Act of the Legislature of the State ol New Capital - - will sent free of oa ' for Bonds and full BRUNO Park Yw Drafton Registered Letter or P. O. Money examination of Teachers of be held at my Court bn Second arid Last on the last each of the remain of the applicant is to leave the without No communication is allowed during the Any violation of this rule may forfeit ' Persons on at f they wish to join the will be expected present the of ' - i Supply Store R. H. 02 MAIN undersigned having opened a general supply store at the aboTe furnish AND ' when are on as well other days of the ' country people with a Lunchi at the day at reasonable Highest cash prices for Hay and Straw by the filled with delivered in of the Give a how we do 14, 1872.' DODGE'S Baking and take Cake PLACE TO full supply of and oti band at the Batery Harrison near R. G E NTS WA FO R Prof. Fowlers Great at E. B. 97 Main St. as any other Repairing done and ' ' THK Lowest Living GOLDM Harrison and let Oome and is Dining in the basement - Blocks corner ot Main High CHARLES Warm Oysters and in at son Day boarders acc mo dated at reasonable A. IfT TI and no wer sets op at Gas In aud of teeth - ailed with either Gold or tion is or Office JUain and Jackson ' Clifton DENTIST has an in Main and Bigh where all in Una will be done in a up he on tho E. over DODGE'S would to the of that she 18 ready to kinds making of to the and In nnd will e warranted in all case 8. the Main lo 2'5 und ano linn .Ad ir. a- 111,, or M. Cummins D. D. the Painless of Upper - Setts of the CI AL from Silz to Casl and f
