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THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1685. . ' . SUNDAY, JANUARY IS. C?nCCj 71 and 73 TTet 9Iarkt Street. CHICAGO. Froa the Great on the Lake. I Metropolis Description and I acldent of the Great Charity Calt Qaaiot, Carious and Criminal II-ppeninfs-The Boy Frkchr-fh Chicago Socialists. Special Sentinel Letter Chicago, Jan. 14.-Chicago is all rlth cayetr. Lait nicht there wsre avhirl clauds twlxt um and the stars, bat none to dim the resilience of the brilliancy cf the grant charity ball," which waa given ia the ana Crica of tht FLnt Regiment (cavalry) and Bittery D, I. N. O. Charity sbeuld alwayi fccia at heme, and so the leading ladies of tha city, under the direction of Mrs. George L. Danlap, inaugurated the first of a hoped-to-be series of like occasions,, sim ilar to the famous charity balls given annually at the Academy ofMnsio in New "York. The managers of the aflalr are leal log eociety ladles, and among the gentlemen TT noticed the names of prominent business men, -who lent their assistance to the furth erance ol to good an object. Single tickets were 5; one admitting a lady and gentleman waa only f 10. But that included every other usual charge, aid then the 'ball71 was cettan up for the benefit of the St. Lake's Hospital and the IllinoU Trataisg Echool for Norses, and everybody knew that the price was placed high enough to realize a rood profit. For days the most elaborate preparations bare been going on. The thump and but and click of the mechanical manipulations Xiave been neard from morn to night The cavalry oflceri tcok charge of the whole work, and the result was a brilliantly mag nificent scene. Far along the lake front, out upon the trater, oyer to the south and west and north the reflection of an unusual light glimmered tad shaded. The streets and avenues leading to the armories were folly lighted. The Hash street steamer draw-bridge had all of its complement of electric lights ablaze. A.ajent to toe armory tne ayenue was bright as day with electric and calcium lampmgs. An awn inn was stretched orer a carpeted payement in front of the long building and from the sidewalk to the swinging am trance, and this was lighted by hanging lamps. Ai the doer swung in, a vista of fiats caught the eje and not a veetige of wall could be seen. Men in blue and white gloves nd great bri buttons oyer the swelling- .bosomed coats were paeis hither and thither. Cavalrymen were guarding the lair and the affair in all parts of the build ing. Policemen and private detectives were xiuraerous; but mostly Incoj. In civilian K XCTItXCTTY ILLCX-D TUE WAT from street to entrance, from entrance to a csrt of vestibule, and from there into the charming Tastnee of gayety. Arracgsmeats were replete in thsir csni Dleteness. The air was mellow and warm, but the grates full of glowing anthracite in the dressing-rooms seemed to extend a warmer welcome than the lengthening pipes of steam suggested: The great armory was so decorated that the iirst sight suggested the idea of a huge star crowned rotunda. The bending canopy of bright hued bunting, the hundreds of flags and starry standards that were hung from the rafter and roof, the fantastic Japanese drcoreticzs encircled by Chinese lanterns, the shimmering of silken banners bearing inscriptions of military import, all floated in ways like proportions oisr i sasdy col- red floor, while over and amidst it all there peured a brilliancy too bright for sunlight, too white fcr daytime, as the burning wires reflected through the roseate globes, and a thousand tiny Came and taper tips shot their rays from from fanciful devices. At the right and left of the entrance thsra nrere sixteen boxes built out from the wall and hung with bates, bunting and Turkish rags, each one bearing the name of the owner who had been thesnccenful bidder at their sale at auction on Monday afternoon. The sixteen brought a premium of $2,030, the hlgheit bidder bein? J. T. Leiter, who paid $300, and the lowest were Heary Irving-, tht actor, and five othera who n cured their boxes for f 75 each. Mrs. G. L. Danlap wa3 tendered a beauti fully arranged compartment by the manage sent cf the ball, in recognition of her an cient work in the intereatof the enterprise and occupied it with her friends. As 1 passed the portals of the inner entrance to the hall a beautiful sunrise met the eye; Away to the east end, back of the orchestra platform, there gleamed the silver stars of retreating ui ht,and lengthening bars cf crimson 'gainst a lighter ground stretched from a semicircle of dark of the great beams above, and to the eaves at the sides; aslant, all iad up of 11S23 and baixe and bunting. And as the hall is hoped to be the opening of an annual occasion of like ia teres t, and the prooeeit are to bring a new dawn to the prosperity of worthy objects, so we found tho emblem atic word"Charity"inscribsd aorots the radi ating face la letters of gold. At the right center ominous field pieces point to the Tight and left, and facing them was a Gat Jing gun, and over them glisteded bayoneted muskets and a gleam of Hags representing erery military division quartered in the city. Kvery part of platform, amphitheater and lerated floor was covered with criicscn Viaiie. rCH WAS THE SCV nbovetronnd; bat, when the bugle earpi of the First Cavalry sounded the assembly-call at I o'clock, and the members of the orches tra, fifty ttnmz, took their places upon the latform. and the march took up, end hun dreds of merry feet measured the tuneful tiae, and tasdoma men in evenins dress, and feajny. ahimmerln;, silken costuna cf the ladies, the sparkle of gsrns sind scintillation of Jewels, the smiles of beautiful faces and flush of happy excite-ient-U vtn eddtd, thea the scene be came a ahlf ting, undulating, indescribable living panorama. Like the rays of a sau tiful sunteL one can attempt their por traval, but the wonderful blending of life and color baSee the artist's ;-pen or pencil. Diera thin 2,C30 were en the tltor at once aorre of the time. Mora than f 10. 000 was reaitsri. The ex-T-entes will not exceed $3,000. Elkms, the man who makes so many people gastronom ies! iy happy, W&S the caterer for the occa sion. Sapper was served continuously through the night, and was laid in the armory l Battery D. The arrangements wsre unique. The floor presented the appearance til a huge grassy lawn, laid out into plots and -walks and winding paths. Within the plate were real trees, and tropical plants and fciiaged shrubbery, while around the ecge cf Us lawn were eight fancy tents, large enough to spread a tab'e around which .twenty could be cated. The lawn was represented by the spresd lag cf stae grass, and ths winding paths trere miniatured with white can? at. A grand promenade concert was given "Wednesday afternoon by the First Raiment of Cavalry, under the auspiws of ths ladies on the committee, sixty-eight in number, the prcce-ds of which were donated to the ;reiment in recognition of their kiadnei in - locating the use of the armories for th2 ball and for services ren dered. Notwithstanding ths great events il ths week, Chicago is as fail of oxArsrr, ctrious asd criminal tepenings rj ever. A few weers sine?, tlsiiag ths co'i 6up, the nw court houae got so chilled that it had a fit of "a;er," it was supposed and shook one of its cornice cap-stones from the edge of ths roof oat of It position, end it came crashing down to the pavement on the Clark street side. No one was under it after it struck, but lots were made to reflect on the mystery of the law of gravitation and the uncertainty of of life. Well, Saturday niht another great stODe and a macs of cement and piaster came tumbling down to the portico and from thence to the steps on the sidewalk below. Commissioner Klehm says the cornices on Randolph and Clark streets' sides are several itches out of plumb and they are bound to fall if not taken down. He thinks they were too heavy for cornices, and should not have been used. A committee of architects have ben appointed to investigate the came of the defeat, and if they can not devise any better way of remedying the evil, how wool fit do to employ tome of the expert baseball catch ers to stand around and catch the stones as they fall? It might eave the coauty suits for damaged heads and other irreparable loeses. thomaj iiAE&:;0!r, the uboy preacher," is here holding revival services at the West Ada Street M. E. Church. Crowds of people attend. The "boy preacher" Js rightly named. He pr acb.es in a rambling, haphazard manner, and yet not entirely devoid of solemnity to one who is disposed to leok upon the matter in a seri ous light. He reads a portion ot scripture, oners a simple prayer, utters a short, crisp "amen," so short that the final elements of the word have scarcely fallen UDoa the ear ere be announces a hymn of plaintive, pleading or joyous sentiment, as the feeling prompts. lie selects a text, bat one would (caret ly know it afterward. He pauses fre quently, and sometimes so long we felt a chill of apprehension le3t he had entirely lost the point to be gained. We hoped not, because the audience was breathlessly waiting for its appearance. At times he seems to be watching for some particular person, at another, judging from the scowl upon his face, as though he were "seeking whom he might devour," and then the sweetest smiles flit up the restless, ner vous face and his eyes rove over and along the galleries; and during this, while he dis courses in his illogical yet original and fas cinating manner, emphasizing his words by quick, queer, quaint attitudes and gestures, commanding the atten tion in spite of the apparent lack ot eruditeness. At the cloae sinners who are sorry for being so are invited to the front. Last Sunday evening more than 100 went forward for prayers. While they are coming Mr. Harrison exhorts, pleads, einga, waves and wrings his hands, almost skips up and down the chancel, springs lightly over the rail, traverses the aisles, stands upon the seat of a front pew with one foot on the top ot the back, holding his arms out oyer tke congregation, with the handj and fingers elongated "to their utmost lengthlness, urging the people "to (lee from the wrath to come," and by going for ward they will find a place of safety. Twenty claimed a btsssing Sunday eight. He said hi wouldn't be surprised if a thousand were saved, and th.t it was the most remarkable series of meetings be had ever held. The pastor and members of the church seem much gratified at the result of his labors. ths Aaimrojr columns of the People's International Associa tion, viz., the .Socialists of Chicago, eilltd a mass meeting, and in vited "capitalists, editors ot capitalistic pepers, clergymen," aad the publio gener ally to meet the advocates of communistic theories in open debate, and show why the State, private property and class should not be abolished, and social co-operatiye produc tion established. Your correspondent found the way to the West Twelfth Street Turner Hall on Sunday afternoon, the place and time of meeting, and after some crowding secured a front seat in the gallery opposite the stage. Two thou sand persons were packed into the main hall and in the galleries, and 'twas a motley erowd. Clouds of tobacco fames' ascended to the celling above, and rolled along the tallaries, while around me were a doztn or more smoking, making the air almost intol erable. The audience was largely men, with a hundred or so of women. All ases and nationalities were represented. Hats were saade to be worn, and the socialist who grumbles because the hat manufactuierdoes set give all of the business profits to the employe is evidently determined to take it out in wear. More than 1,001 hats rested on the craniums ot more than 1,000 men during the entire meeting. Thirty or nearly that number were seated upon the stage. There were five sneakers. fenr of whom harrangued the crowd, uttering icfiammatory sentiments which were met ith yells, thumps, and clapping of hands. An old man, whose head was white, spoke V r a few minutes upon a different line of thought. He ursf the education of the masses, and that the moral and material eleyatlon of men and womsn could be best accomplished by obeying the divine injunction set forth in the scrip. tures. He was not so well received, however, as tie man that followed, who said in im- poit, that tho quicker force was used the better for - all concerned. HIssss and yells greeted the sentiment until it seemed like pandimonium. The burden of the speeches was that the workingman was wronger, and there was a tottom cause for it that was all wron, and the only effective remedy is the breaking of law, the disruption of state and destruction sf T.Airt HnA .lwVw htH ViatarA mtn said in substaace, that he believed in having a Government, but when lt;c?ssed to ;f at Gil the object for which it was created, when it ceased to do its duty, then it muct be de stroyed. The time for action had ctxne; it bezan tweaty years ago, and the crisis was near. "Be you ready, gentlemen?" They were, judging from the noise Applause re sounded to the echo. Reference was made to the early history of the country, and used as illustrative af the present socialistic agitation. SOnCK WAi ADVOCATED cecanse it was better to sacrifice a million of lives at once and break the power of capital than to ratifies a million of starring men. women and children every Cd, invited opronesti forward to peak, but none accepted the Invitation until the third call, when two young raen s'eped upon the stage, and upon decJariiTg themselves as the repre sentatives ot capital, were met with a perfest A -J ai W til A fL . siorm mi msses anu jeers ana epitneu. ine first speaker as the opponent of socialism held the floor for fifteen minutes, but was intsnnpted at every eentsncs with hisses. What he might have said, 1 do not know. He finally turr to leave and gave taem the following toting shot: "So far as I can see, all you Socialists are good far anyway la to hisshiss." The second speaker was an older man with greater volume of veice, more self assertion, and he stepped to the foot lights and fisted his wayx"icuUtingly over the heads of the yelling iwd. He said he was in Paris during the Com mune, and all the Socialists did was to drink, kill people and destroy property; and, after a few minutes rambling talk, he said those who were urging others tobe ready for a crisis "would be in the Lack-ground when the time came." A resolution was adopted, wkeress-ing that the editors of papers and other capital ist? had failed to meet the Socialists in de bate, and because they had directly nUrep resented th3lr movement and would not allow an opportunity of reply through tte city preea and other wise, they had therefore admitted th6ir inability to raee t them on "tqual terms," and thereby acknowledged thtixsolves to be the adhere als an.l defend ers ol A CA?ITAL1STIC 3i7E.M "aty'ten the near fatare must see over thrown and destroyed." I Eat c!oe by the wife of A. P.. Parsons, the editor of the socialistic pacer, the Alarm, and was soon convinced of hr dynamits proclivities by the choice responses falling from her tangne from tirze to time, such as Towder has proven it." Shots will telL" "We'll tee who controls the Government when the crisis comes." etc. We learned that the oranrratioi is di vided into "groups," according to their na tionalities. It is currently reported that companies ere drilling for future belüge rent action. The only reply that I could get to qnerries concerning tSeir meetings was that "capi talistic papers said there were companies of aimed tuen being drilled." Thanksgiving Day they made quite a dis play, end it pave rise to exaggerated ideal concerning their strength. Men and boys who joined in the parade tben, and who at tend the meetings nsw, who march and ap plaud for fun, would not jo:n in a iiot eraintt the Zitate. It b23 been ascertained that their num bers are few, who hold weekly secret meet ings; and lurthermore. there are fewer So cialists, as a body, in this city than in pre vims jeaxs. They had their I arzest force in Chica.o in 1373. In '73 the Legislature passed a law prohibiting thepara-iingof any military company eicept the State militia l nited Btates troops, mis was contested by I'rokcp Hudek, theCaptain cf a company of Bohemian sharpshooters, who paraded his company shortly after the law was enact?d. He was arrested on a warrant, ana ne gat out a writ o: fcabess corpus, and Judge l.ir- num. who tried the case, de cided it in the Captain's favor. Ily consent, the case was taten before the Supreme Court, and the la w wo3 sustained. The penal ty fcr violating this statute ia a fine of 13 and im- priponment for not less than eix mouths or bcth. and until these demonstrations assume a ditferent aspect, it would seem that there is no immediate danger. The opening of manufactories, and the starting up of the rolling mills, and other Dranches of the workmgoisa s interests will materially lessen the socialistic farce, and quf II the excitement aiaontr the ignorant followers o! the designing leaders. Lu Id. W. WASHINGTON. A Badtret or b'osaiu From the rtatlonal Capital All About Autographs The Demand for DNtlugutahel Names-The Iiush en the Prtitirient for Ills Name Other Autographs. Washington, Jan. 1G The autogriph hunters are hard at work again. It is a cu rious place, is Washington. Everybody who comes here must carry away, he thinks, something with him to remind him of his Visit and to show his friends that he has rubbed against greatness somewhere. If he can get a chip of the Washington monument he is content, or If he dees not get this ha Eets about securing somebody's autograph. In this he is quite successful, for scarcely en V body in political life will refuse his autograph to any respectable look ing person except at the bottom of a check or cllicial decurnent of some sort. Of course the greatest demaid is for the autograph of the President. Let tare come from every direction every day aakinz his autograph. They are sifted out of the general correspondence by the Fa vate Secretary, who attends to the reception, opening and arranging of his mail, and thrown aside in a heap, each marked o n the envelope "Auto," to indicate that it is a re quest for an autograph. When the day's mails have been worked over these letters, which are sometimes a dozen or twenty in a day, are laid aside and opportunity awaited to present them to the President for hie sicnature. They are usually placed in the hands of Charley Loetller. the President's usher, who watches opportunity when the President Is not engaged or tired, and ob talcs the coveted autogranhs. Sometimes the autogiaph is a fixed to the letter request leg it, bat usually it is writtsn, or rather scrawled, on a card, which the experienced Charley has ready, waiting the moment when he may catch tbe President with samcient leisure for this work. Often a hundred or two of these requests will accumulate before the President cots time to attend to them; sometimes thev will even ran higher than that, and often his hand trets tired with the monotonous scrawl of "Chester A. Arthur," ' Chester A. Arthur," which he has aflizei in an official way perhaps hundreds of times during tbe day. It must not be suppsed, however, that the President eigns everything that bears his name or even that which ap pears to bear his "autograph." There are probably many people in this country, es pecially in the West, who are fondly suppos ing that they have the President's own sig nature, written by his own hand, simply because tbe came as signed to some official document looks like Mr. Ar thur's own signature. It would be be a physical impossibility for him to s:n all the documents required to bear his name, and at the came time attend to the more im portant duties cf his office. The ea'd war rants alone, for instance, are so numerous as to take constant signing of the President's name for several hours everv day. So there are certain clerks whose duties are eimoly to sign the President's name for him. And they fall into a way of making the sicna ture like his. But this does not apply to the question of autographs. Tbo?e are re garded as not the sort that may b3 delegat ed to others. It is at the Capitol, however, that tbe autograph collector is in his glory. There are great men to be met at every turn, and autographs may be had for the asking. The custemary method of obtaining thstn is through the services of the pas;e8 in the House and Senate. These little fellows are bright and quite ready for the opportunity to make a few dollars by this process. . for getting an album filled in the Hocse," said one of the pages of lb it b3dy, who, by jC8 way, is the grandson cf a noted member f the Confederate Cabinet. '"The Senate pages gat about the same for getting the autographs cf the pembsrs over there. If an album is to have the autographs of tie President, Cabinst oflicers. Supreme Court Justices, Senators and Representatives com plete, we usually get $25 for getting it filled. How do we get them? Go to the members when th;y are in their ssati and ask them for their autographs. They ealdom refua. Sometimes, if they are buey, they won't do it, but a fellow with tact won t zo to a member wh?n he Bees tlat he is busy. There are bo rue who dent like it much. Tbere's Mr. Belmont, fcr instance; he doesn't fancy it very much, but he usually signs, though. Then when we get the House we get some page in tha Senate to pet the benatora' names, end then f;ct the riding pace or some gcod-natared member tc get the President's and Cabiret clücers' signatures for us." They are a curl ou study, theje album?, aft?r tbey Lave bn p?i trocn 1 so A "We get from j to 110 or ?15 lled with signatures from the White House down. Some cf them are not onlv passed, but repassed and pasted eain. until they contain tbe autographs ot two or three gen dration of statesmen. It seems when one cets this disease he never recovers from it. and whenever there comes in a new lot of statesmen ths old album is brought to the surfsce and trotted around for more sign manuals. So it sometimes happens that one ct ttee albums has ths autographs of two or more Presidents, of a deren or so Cabinet cfE cer, of a hundred Senators and ex öen- atcrs. and of perhaps 500 members and ex- xuembeiaof the House. The perusal of one of these well-clled books is really interest ing. If a man's autograph is a key to his character, as is Eomtimes claimed, then some statesmen must have very crooked characters. If bad penmanship is a sign of tireatne9. then it is in -evidencs that we have m.iny great mon, for they are. many of these, 'pamfoliy bad. A few are "artistical ly" baJ, evidently written badly with mal- m m a S. A a . - ice aioremougai, out tns majority that are readable segm to be eo Le- cause tna vmier csn i ao anv Deuer, or e se b isa't time to. Take the sifrnatures of those two grpat tarifT agitators, for instance, Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Mor rison, of Illinois They res'Iy look as if the writers couldn't do any better. They look like Iba signatures of men who had bean ac customed to holding ths p!oT7, rather than wrestling with problems of statesmanship. And these of other tariff mon aro not much better. Mr. Carlisle, for instance, eises "J. O. Carlislo, Covington, Ky.." in a hand that reminds yon of that in which ycur batcher bills are rxade cut. Uurd writes a fair hand, and Hands! I sip;cs "Sam. J. Randall" in a clear, firm, business-like hand that is a pleas ure to read. Mills, of Toias, writes cs he tslks when on she tariff question very loud" his signature looking as though it had been written with a wooden toothpick, and covering naarly half a pace of the cl bum. Hewitt's hand is as unsteady &a his sleep, and his eignature is an) thins but pretty or strong. Wft3hburne, of Minnesota, writes a fairly legible signature, in big letters, and as it is eood for a million dollars sthen eigned to a check, it passes without criti cism. McMillan, ths Senr.tcr from Min nesota, writes a better hand than Wash- burne, but is cot worth a dollar. The hand somest signature in the Houss is that of Kleiner, cf Indiana. It is like "copy-pla'.e." There are some surprises in the matter of signatures. Heed, of Maine, who is big and fat and not mere particular In personal ap pearance than many othors about him, writea the pretiest little feminine hand im- agmable, while little Simmy Cox, whose name aod initials are bat fiva letters, spreads them over twice . the space that Mr. Ksed's name occupies. The Chief Ja&tico cf ths Supreme Court signs himself in a very neat band, "M. M. R. Waite, Chief Justico of the United States." Justice Field writes a brLk looking hand, "Stephan J. Field, Aszocia'.e Justice Supreme Court." Justice Harlan signs "Your Obedient Servant," and than follows with the name and petition. Senator Pendleton's srguature is not very handsome. It is a good deal after the style of Mr. Car lisle's. Wade Hampton's is a very neat and legible one. Mr. Walte, of Connecti cut, ths eldest man in the House, writes. "With the regards of your old frietd, John T. Waite, Norwich, Conn; "Mr. a on teer, of Illinois, writes, "lours very truly. W. M. Sprincer." Ochiltree, of Texas, signs "Tom Ochiltree" in a farly legi ble rcund baad. Mr. Phelps aizna "Wm. Walter Phelps" in a very plain business hand. 0'IIira and Smalls, tho colored mem bers, write signatures up to the average. Mr. Turner, of Kentucky, ßigns "Yours, Os car Turner, Gibraltar District, Ky." Mr. Stephens, ot Georgia, wrote "Alexander H. Stephens, M. C, of Ga ; Yesidence. Liberty Hall, CrawfoTQs rille, Ga." A v lrginia mem- her vrote, "John T. Harris, Harrisonbarg, a.. March 3. 1S?1. 10:40 p. m.: House ia si sakn: snowing, and great crowd in Wash ington." A Tennessee member wrote, "The dear little pszes. dally in hunt of auto- erapbs. will. I tear, soon bcoms tr3uble- some. Yours truly, Vm. K.Moore." Mr. Mcore is no longer troubled by autograph hunters, having been retired from Congress seme time since. One rural member in bis first i ssicn, supposing the albems belonged to tbe boys themselves, wrote "A good boy will asks a good man," and other Ben rxsnklinisnts, until he got a hint m some way, and shut down on the sentiment. Si irt of tbe autographs are, as intimated a bo tp, quite illegible, and would be s intricate as a Chineee puzzle. bat that tbe writer usually follows his name with his residence or Congressional District, so that the curious, by wrestling the Congressiaal Directory, may find out what the strange characters are intended to represent. Some of she most striking of tse "artistic" autographs are those of Con- trresscen E. John Ellis, ot Loui&iana: Ii. M. Murray, ot Ohio, and S. Dibble, of South Carolina, which thre. with those of Messrs. Morrison and Kelly and President Arthur, are given herewitn. Br Aif let. the African explorer, is not Btrried; he probably never will be. Whin be first started for Africa he was engaged to a pretty New York girl, who wept over him I or six months, gave hiai up for dead in a jeer, married another man within two jesrs, aad had a child before her plighted lover retarned from the dark-browed conti- I nsat This rathsr embittered his life. Tas Philadelphia Ledger records the deatk of ten cs ntenarlass daring 133 i, as follows: Rebecca Evans, eg3d 100; Martha Middleton, aged 103; Susanna Coyle. aged 104; and Richard Kic, aged 110; Sarah Baumgard ae Charlotte Fen tea. eged 100 years; Wil liam Myers, ojred 102; Chloe Lloyd. 105 jtars; Hester Smith. 103 years, and Mary damning, 115 years. William Bexry, a young Irishman who went to London to make his fortune almost twenty years ago, is said to be tbe hero of Mr. Black's story, "Shandon Belli." 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All the pianoa have the makers' Five Yeaiö' Warranty accompanying räch, schien we consider as good ai any raalters of Piano in the country. The 128 Elegant Parlor Organs Are from the celebrated Wilcox & White Organ Company and are eelld Black Walnut rases, beautifully ornamented; height, C feet 7 inches; length, 4 feet; depta, 2 rest. The manufacturers' warranty accompany e&ca. All the Diamonds V7a will warrant to be genuin Diamonds la Geld Betting. Tho Watches Are larga slre.Hnuting-Cwe.BUin-'rTlndlEs, Solid Gold, and Warranted. Has a tamer's - ROCBR OJ Ml BXJFI-A-riO, .IST. Y. Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers for the TL 8 Free! CD i n ) a Bollars The Silver-Plated Ware Is of the standard, well known 'Eoen Goods;" the hollow ware ia all warranted Quadruple rlate; the plated fiat ware, Double and Triple Flats. As before stated, we hare endeavored to Klect nose but first class articles, and tho?e that will give to our plan your favorabla consideration. The Sewing Machines Ate la keeping with ail other articles. The takle hiring a set ot drawers (2) on each end, with externum leaf; the machine being beautifully orcamested with nickel plate, the cover with French Walnut. Will have all the attachments which usually accom pany a rit-clau machine. Don't rail to look cvor tho entire liet of Dividend in our Hanmoth Catalogue, teat you moy, otocm perhaps a a a email oonaumer, e what uneqnjJed inducement! ttt offered you to Adopt "FnBzrcrx VI Ii h ft " for your futur e use. Certificate MacJei. S IfflLES ! SOAP! 1 Villa Soap. KEEP IT I ! I