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Indianapolis People (Newspaper) - July 5, 1879, Indianapolis, Indiana I / vol. Ix.ilsrr>ia.nji>oli8, indiana., july 5, 1879. No 37 it i we offer inducements for july Trade that Bave no Eonni ter part in this City closing out Sale Toht weights at the when clothing store,34,36, 38 and 40 n. Pennsylvania St grandest display. Lowest prices Ever offered in the world. Picture frames pictures dishes glassware toys air fancy 6oois. Noi Reltor Dollar store 44 and 46 East washing ton s carriages. New Stock and cheapest in the City. For proof come and see. Lace mitts kid silk Lisle and lace top gloves. Also velocipede wagons Bird cages baskets rockets ladies and gents satchels croquet Par a vols fans corsets Etc., Etc. Prices to suit. Plumb s variety store spr5 5-8p6m Sentinel Beyersdorfer. 67 North Illinois Street wore Ako 6clp6m Beer Call at the Novelty Dollar store 44 and 46 e. Washington St., for children s carriages Bird cages panel pictures picture frames. Maris 2clp. A Golden Opportunity. On account the excitement created the fourth july actual clearance Sale at Ezekiel s China and picture Frame House 22 West Washington Street will be continued for but one week More. Having the name the first class China store Indianapolis people can rest assured this Sale is no Sham but a general reduction in prices. Over 100 decorated chamber sets s3 90 and upward. Over 300 White chamber sets $2 50 and upward. All kinds sets dishes and glassware lower than Ever. The largest line chamber sets Ever shown in the West at prices far below All kind Competition at Scheader s Sale dishes 72 and 74 East washing ton Street near court sense. Personal. Browning amp Sloan the druggists. For Best soda in the City go to Allan s drug store opposite Post office. Prof. Heitkam has a Force thoroughly educated in the very latest summer to sorial styles at no. 9 Vance Block. Morris Ezekiel left the City saturday night to act As resident partner the House Ezekiel bros., new York. Or. Baum hard the House mover was seriously injured last tuesday evening by his buggy breaking Tir Gima Avenue. Mrs. Trapnell Liose infant son was stolen last week by a woman named Jane Beard has recovered the child having found him in Paris in. The portrait . Homburg which is being painted by . Henry ulke the Washington artist is said to be already a speaking likeness. All kinds and latest designs in jewelry at Crane s 164 Virginia Avenue. For sixty Days he win sell american watches which he has a Large assortment at Cost. Mrs. Hill wife the Rev. James Hill died at Zanesville o., last tuesday morning. Her remains were brought to this City and buried from the residence David Macy North Delaware Street. Or. A. J. Thomas editor the Vincennes Sun and a local i Liticia considerable note and late a Blue ribbon Temperance reformer has been appointed second assistant physician at the insane Asylum. Or. James j. Woolfolk this City has been appointed an assistant physician at the insane Asylum. Charley Tyler has returned from new Orleans and is now superintendent Lauer s billiard Hall. Or. John Detter was this week the recipient six Large turtles from George Greese. They were caught at Waverly. The reopening the California House last saturday night was a grand Success. The Turtle soup was excellent. The Germania Circle druids will give a Surprise to mrs. Philip Reich in to night it being her thirty second birthday anniversary. If the Board judge a cants by their merits then Charles e. Wisby stands a Good show soon becoming a member the fire department. Don t forget to Sample c. F. Schmidt s Wiener Beer. It is the Only thing to quench the thirst. Give it a trial. To be found draught at All saloons to Day. After gov. Williams time will have expired it is his present intention to go West a tour observation and if possible grow up without settling in the country. Or. Johnny Dorrn formerly this City now Milwaukee is visiting in the City and last tuesday evening displayed is skill in eating sixteen raw eggs. A party boys wading in the canal last tuesday found a can Silver dollars which however to their intense disgust in roved to be counterfeit Money upon investigation. Witnessed by thousands upon thousands our citizens with their Sisters and their cousins and their aunts. Brevi ties. Cheap Sale Erchant tailoring. Beating purchased the entire Stock messes. Johnson a i a Conley Terre haute at 50 cents the Dollar i will place the same my counters monday the 7th Only 1879. F the entire Stock will be sold at prices fax below the possibility any Competition. Messes. J. A co. Have Only been in business six Mont Lis so the Stock is All new and must be i sold in thirty Days. Can and see the bargains i will offer. Street 15 South ,1#/f� a Quot Sitf Quot the capital City Quot Cigar at Circle House Chew Jackon s Best Sweet Navy tobacco. Perfumes toilet articles at Allens opposite Post office. For pure drugs and medicines go to 49 North new Jersey Street. The Bonanza Cigar store has removed to 47 North Illinois Street. The wheat Harvest in this locality is about Over and the yield is unusually Large. R. E. Stephens old reliable sewing machine repairing Sce 19 mass. Avenue. Go to Browning amp Sloan s to get your prescriptions accurately filled and no mistakes. Parker s cheap $1 a dozen photographs the Best in uie City at 39k East Washington Street. See the new Light running White sewing machine. R. E. Stephens agent 19 mass. Avenue. The debt Roberts Park Church has been reduced to �27 500.-sentinel., Hemings what was the Ongeal debt the most handsome toilet sets in the City Are found at apothecaries Hall 7 and 9 East Washington Street. James Clark Hoise thief was sentenced to the Penitentiary for three years by judge Heller last tuesday. Horses and buggies to hire at reasonable prices gentle horses for ladies at Ripley s Bazaar Market Street near Illinois Street the Eclectic physicians have organized a new Eclectic medical society Marion county. Or. Walter Underwood is president. You who Are sick and in need Medicine should try the drug store Christian Avenue where accuracy and promptness is a motto. Call and see the bed room sets at Spiegel Thoms amp co s furniture Ware rooms 71 ant 73 West Washington Street. All goods at Low prices. O. H. Cook late state Bouse policeman has come to Nef at Terre haute having been sentenced to the Penitentiary for one year for horse stealing. Positive Sale Gas fixtures at half Cost to close business. The largest and Best assorted Stock in the state at 46 North Illinois Street St. Charles Block. A gang Harvest hands employed by s. D. Robertson at 75 per Day and Board struck after getting to work because no whisky was furnished. For Best cigars liquors foaming lager and morning lunch Call at Caylor s place 98 East Washington Street. Special lunch every saturday night. Eugene Sweeny living at no. 347 Winston Street died at St. Joseph s Hospital in great agony last monday evening from a dose strychnine administered by myself. The business men s meeting last week was but poorly attended and it was concluded to cease from their labors until after the fourth. We Hope they will then renew them with vigor. The houses William Barbe and William Wycoff in Perry township were burglarized last monday night. A Quantity jewelry was stolen and 50 from the House . Barbee. Advice to Young men and the Public. For a Good shave and hair Cut Stop in at 84 Massachusetts Avenue and let j. L. Thaeter to his hand. He is acknowledged Champion in the City. The Domestic is the lightest running most durable and easily managed sewing machine in existence. Call and see it at . Brown s machine Parlours. No. 9 Massachusetts Avenue. A Large number new and second hand buggies wagons Etc., for Sale cheap also some Good family horses Lor Sale at Ripley s Bazaar nos. 60 to 72 West Market Street near Illinois Street. Paint up yes paint up your houses. You can be your own Painter and find the finest paints All shades and colors already mixed at Ward Bros drug store at 190 fort Wayne Avenue. The poor Cigar King the South Side advocates for customer inv to by news foreign and Domestic walking Quot canes Etc., and where a Fortune can be made in the Havana lottery at 131 South Illinois Street. Tape Worms seem to be unusually plentiful Here later while they used to be a sort lusts Natura. Or. Kaiser took one from . Dantzer the California House last wednesday that measured 45 feet in length. Herr von Erbrich the popular business agent Schmidt s brewery announces that owing to the i clemency the weather he will not be a candidate for Matrimony until old Boi was blows his Bugle blast for the Winter season. Headquarters for masquerade suits Are at 108 South Illinois Street mrs. Grauman s. It is the Only place in the City where they Faux understand the masquerade business. Be fourth july folks step into her Parlours your Way to the depot. A . J. E. Dill according to Rumor is to be married soon to a fair member Louisville ky., society. He contemplates a trip to Wisconsin for a stay four weeks and to return in time to be duty with Connett City assessor who takes office september 1st. Persons visiting the City to Day should not fail to drop in at Henry Smiths 16 North Illinois Street where you can enjoy a game ten pins and target shooting. Turtle soup will served in the evening. Henry keeps hand for Sale fresh fall Creek minnows. James Hughes was arrested last saturday for assault upon Thos. Daily with intent to kill. The Fracus occurred in the Sar Loon the Corner Louisiana and Meridian streets where daily was making himself obnoxious and Hughes attempted to set him straight. Henry Kollman has entered suit against the City for $5,000 damages sustained by Bis wife in Fie Illing Over Pogue s run embankment last fall. Mrs. K. Was allowed $1,000 some time since but Kolligian now wants More for loss his wife s services doctor s Bills Etc. An out and out new drug store has recently been located at that old popular stand 489 North new Jersey Street. The drugs medi icings and wares Are All new and fresh and the most careful pharmacy Utiss preside behind the counters. Give them a Call and you will not regret it. Policeman Ben Thornton got into a Melee at the fire North Mississippi Street last wednesday with a coloured youth named Chas. Daniels. The latter Drew a pocket knife and Cut Thornton in the Liao. Some say that Thornton told the boy to get out the Way and because he did nil kicked him. Others agin say that they Maine to blows before the boy used hid Kufe Daniels is fish from the House a Effige. To mob s wound few Roll not Capon by b qty a. , j omd Fiig. Allisie frigates the Orick Iwai. Bawl her Beauty a5�d . The old pig. Sarah Smith Stafford aged 77, is a bustling Little woman residing at Trenton new Jersey where she has lived for the last half Century although bom in Allentown n. J. In conversation she is the most affable ladies the Only difficulty being to follow the thread the narrative As her glib Tongue runs Over whole volumes unwritten history. She first attracted attention in Washington by the persistency with which she urged a claim hers pending before Congress. Although she met with Many rebuffs nothing could suppress her. Quot Congress Quot said so Quot will grow tired listening before i become tired so it happened for at length Congress Afi owed her claim $8,000 for pay said to be due her father Lieut. Stafford who served in the Bon homme Richard and the Little woman rejoiced. Miss Stafford s rooms Are full relics the revolution and the earlier Days. There is a sword used in King Phillip s War and another wielded by Ephraim Bacon at the Battle Bunker Hill an Indian Hatchet revolutionary canteens Cannon Baus from the Battle Trenton stirrups worn at the Battle Lexington a half gallon measure owned by Miles Standish and a Scarf and piece the court dress worn before the King in England by his wife mrs. Rose Standish John Barry s letter recommendation to James Bayard Stafford and a manuscript which Quot contains the trial and court martial Gen. Arnold at Morristown april 1780, for there is also a boarding sword used by John Paul Jones in the memorable engagement Between the Serapis and the Bon homme Richard and an English Quot Mas quit Quot captured from the British frigate Serapis september 23, 1779. But the most precious treasure among miss Stafford s relics is the Flag which led John Paul Jones to his most Brilliant victories. It was in rescuing these same stars and stripes from the enemy s grasp that lieutenant Stafford won glory for himself and Laid the foundation for his daughter s claim. At present the Flag is eight feet seven inches in length and six feet five inches in Width the edges however me evidence having been considerably diminished by relic Hunters whom miss Stafford characterizes As Quot More patriotic than there Are thirteen stripes seven red and six White. Ujan the White stripes in Large letters is this inscription Quot Flag the Bon homme Richard and Alliance the stars Are White a Blue Field they number Only twelve disposed in parallel rows. Before the adoption the National Flag by Congress some ladies in Philadelphia employed their Leisure hours in making a Flag which they presented to the Board Marine. Although there were at this time thirteen states in the Union one them had not yet subscribed to the articles confederation and As an Odd Star would destroy the regularity the Field the Good ladies the Quaker City inserted Only twelve stars in the Flag which they made. The Board Marine presented the Flag to John Paul Jones who Toolkit with him to the Ranger. It was afterwards transferred to the frigate Alliance and continued to wave Over the alternate fortunes our country till 1784. In that year the Alliance was sold to Robert Morris and the Board Marine resolved to present the historic Flag to Lieut. James Bayard Stafford in acknowledgement his meritorious services during the War. The identity the Flag Over which thare was some question has been completely settled As Well by the testimony it those who fought under it As by the report submitted to the House representatives in april 1860, by the committee revolutionary claims. Extra Ordill Rar bargains to close out at a fearful loss. 62 Black Llama lace Points. 41 White Llama lace Points. 31 Black Llama lace Jacques. Those marked 8 6 50 now 8 1 00 those marked 12 00 now 2 00 those marked 25 00 now 4 00 those marked 46 00 now 8 00 those marked 70 00 now 15 00 real Llama lace handsome patterns will not last ten Days. Come Early. 116 children s Gingham Linen and p. K. Dresses Choice Worth four times As much. 139 ladies Jacques White Lawn from 25c to ?5. Price. Half 297 Shetland shawls 99c and $1 39 Cost twice the Price to make. Largest Stock ladies Quot Muslin underwear in the state. Old prices. Choice 49, 77 and 99c. Best gents night shirts in the City. 99c. N. keep open All Day the 4th july. L. S. Ayres amp co. David e. Stout be the 1st for the people.4th. Of All our country s histories the favorite tradition next to that Christmas and the Hatchet As we know 1� the Story the hardships and the horrible condition our honorable progenitors api undred years ago. How they met upon the Comers and they banded All together. And they mounted stumps and lamp posts and All their wrongs they told notwithstanding we May reasonably conjecture that the weather Waselon Ito melt brass monkeys but not True hearts Gold. Then bravely spake an orator who knew the situation the Patriot s Zeal flashed in his Eye and fiery was his breath Quot what give our toil our Hom our lives to pay a fool taxation by our altars and our firesides give us Liberty death Quot the Obaob speaking. Then from the ranks patriots there Rose up yet another. He was humbly Clad his feet were Bare a poor but honest Man his eyes ranged wildly scathingly from brother unto brother and thus he his oration most earnestly began be poor but honest Man. Quot Brothers we have All been too Good too pure too proud and sensitive like sheep before the shearers we have waited and been dumb the Tea we have thrown overboard the bread we can dispense with but whoa Emma can we now submit to taxes upon rum Quot then such a hell Balloo arose from men All condition and a Congress they convened you see who de dared our country free it was a glorious time that fourth so says our pet tradition and so it happened men and Brethren we Are free As we can be up go w All the new shapes. 76 East Washington nuirl5 3m Isth 6c Styc Tite confidences out his Money. A Hancock county Stock drover was confidences out $96 last tuesday by a Slick and sleek stranger. He was going the same train with the drover to Kansas it was after banking hours he had nothing but a Check would the drover be kind enough to Advance #95 the Check to pay fit ight course the drover was too willing the Straner got the Money and that was the last the Rover saw him his Money. If people who travel will not read the papers they will continue to be victimized. Rolta. Just received at the new Orleans fruit House 117 South Illinois Street a Large lot bananas oranges Lemons and Pine apples which i will sell cheap. D. Lamartine Charles Steeg passenger Engineer the pan handle has taken up his abode the Comer Market and Noble streets. The View York merchant tailoring House must close out Stock inside thirty Days in order to enlarge store room. Consequently we will make to order salts in first class style for $14 a a 3 50 Call and see the bargains we offer at 9 South Illinois Street. Jysipec4ti Juit. Clearance Sale goods for the heated term consisting Unen suits Linen Quot Teste Marseilles tests Hai Lyles pants Linster Coats Torge Coats drap d Ete Coats Lorap i Ester tests. Will now be sold at reduced also Aith Une Rummer Wear for hons and children rates. All at the

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