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PITTSBTJItG DISPATGH? MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1889.
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IT COSTS TOO MUCH.
A United States Senator Forced to
design and Go Home Because
HE COULDFT LIVE ON HIS SALAET.
Congressmen Begin to Think the Laborer
is Worthy of His Hire.
THEISI1T SIBIKE FOE HIGHER WAGES.
tiwg la Washington Considerably More Eipensire
Tnin it Ought to Be,
Congress is thinking seriously of increas
ing the salaries of the members of both its
branches. The cost ot living in "Washing
ton: is said to be too great for the salaries
now paid, and each member has so much
clerical work to do. Senator Chace, of
Enode Island, was forced to resign because
be couldn't lire on his income.
Washington, March 17. The resigna
tion of Senator Chace upon the threshhold
of his second term of six years in the high
est legislative body in the world has aroused
renewed interest in a subject that is bound
to receive early and earnest consideration
in Congress. Senator Chace, in private,
gives as the reason why he can no longer
serve his State and country as a legislator
that the compensation of a Senator was not
sufficient to warrant him in longer neglect
ing bis business. He has expressed the
opinion that be is considerably poorer for his
legislative experience than be would have
been had he remained at Ihe helm of his
business ship and directed its course through
the breakers of the past dozen or fifteen
years.
Senator Chace is one of the largest cotton
manufacturers in New England, and several
times during the recent tariff debate in the
Senate evinced his familiarity with that
subject in its relations to the industry in
whibhe-was interested, and gave valuable
assistance to his Bepublican colleagues in
the discussion of the Senate substitute for
the mils bill.
TALK OF KTCBEASCfG SAL AMES.
The question of increasing the compensa
tion of Congressmen has been receiving the
earnest attention of Senators, especially of
late, and there is an overwhelming senti
ment among them in favor of making the
salary of Congressmen $10,000 a year in
stead of $o,000,as it is at present Mem
bers of the House, while thoroughly in
sympathy with the Senators on this point,
are not yet ready to go to the iull length
desired bv them, fearing a repetition of the
outbreak of censure visited upon the Con
gress ot 1873 for its action in the salary
question. But it is argued by the advo
cates of the increased salary that what the
people were indignant about then was the
"back-pay grab" feature, and that if the in
crease were made to date from the end of
Congress no serious opposition would be
made to it
There was a frank expression of views by
the Senators on this topio in legislative
sessions last week, in Ihe discussion that
ensued upon the introduction of a resolu
tion by Senator Teller, authorizing the Sec
retary of the Senate to pay to committee
clerks serving on a per diem basis daring
the session of the Senate and the clerks to
Senators during the coming recess, the per
diem allowed by law.
EXTRA. HELP TO HIEE.
Mr. Teller, previous to presenting the
resolution, which was referred to the com
mittee on contingent expenses, said that in
bis experience as chairman of a committee
be had been compelled at times to employ
two men to attend to the correspondence de
volving UDon him, and it was a heavy bur
den upon bim. He believed Senators shonld
have an equal number of clerks because
their duties did not cease with the adjourn
ment of the Senate.
Senator Dawes, Stewart, Harris and Gray
indorsed the sentiments expressed by Mr.
Teller, but Senators Morrill, Mergan and
Hale said it would be impossible to provide
a clerk for every Senator this year, inas
much as the appropriations have all been
made, and in any event the co-operation of
the House would be essential to carrying
out the proposition. In concluding the de
bate, Mr. Piatt said: "Mr. President, when
the proper committee shall consider the
matters which have been spoken of here this
morning, I think that committee ought to
go further. I think it ought to consider the
question as to whether Senators are fairly
paid for the work which they do, and
whether the salary of a Senator of the
United States ought not to be raised.
KOI ALL BICH MEN.
"I know it is charged that the Senate of
the United States is composed largely of
rich men, to whom the salary is no object
To some extent it may be true that there
are Senators here to whom the salary is a
very little object, but there are Senators
here who have nothing to live upon except
their salaries, and who are paid therefor less
for services which they render than they
would be paid in any other walk or occupa
tion of life for similar services, and verv
much less. In addition to that, Senators
have a great many expenses which their po
sition entails, and the result is that those
Senators who have no income behind their
salaries are obliged to live in a pinched and
very unpleasant way in the city of "Wash
ington. Mr. Morrill May I ask the Senator from
Connecticut if he is not aware that no man
can come here with his family and rent a
decent house and live without spending
twice the amount of his salary?
HOME COMFOJKTS MISSING.
Mr. Piatt I have been aware and I
thfnk perhaps I may as well say it as any
one, because I think I am as poor a man as
there is in the Senate I have been made
mostpaintully aware of the inability of a
Senator of the United States to live in the
city of "Washington in anything like the
style and with anything like the comforts
which we have at home. "We are at a
disadvantage which we feel every day
of our lives; and there are Senators
here who will echo what I say, knowing it
to be true. Now, I do not complain of it
for myself. I can remedy it for myself, if I
choose to do so. If I do not choose to en
dure the privation for I use that "word
which a Senator ot the United States who is
compelled to live on his salary must en
dure, I can remedy that by resigning my
place and coing home to my constituents and
allowing them to sendsomebody here who
has an income which he can devote to liv
ing in "Washington. I think that it is quite
time that some plain words were spoken on
this subject, and I have taken this occasion
to speak them.
WILL ILiBRI ON FKIDAT.
John Rockefeller's Dnnghter to Wed a
Theological Student.
rSrCIAI. TELEGRAM TO TBI DISFATCn.1
New York, March 17. Miss Bessie
Rockefeller, eldest daughter of John D.
Rockefeller, the Standard oil millionaire,
is to be married to Charles Strong, son of
the Bev. Br. Strong, a Baptist clergyman
of Rochester. The wedding is set for
Friday next unless the illness of Mr. Rock
efeller's mother, who is sick at the home of
her son "William, shall prevent it. The
choice of J; naay Jor the wedding day was
made, not in set defiance of the old super
stition of ill luck, but because that was the
only day upon which Miss Rockefeller's
former preceptors and fellow students of
Tassar College could make it convenient to
attend; and they will appear as a bodv and
by special car at the family residence,
No. 4 "West Fifty-fourth street, where the
ceremony is to be performed. The wedding
will be a quiet one. Young Strong is a
theological student
ACEOSS THE BOBDEB.
The Investigation Into the Smnsgling ot
Opinio by War of Canada A Cum-
paten Orator Implicated
Jinny Detectives
at Work.
Bismaech, Dae., March 17. Up. to the
present time Curran, the man whose sentence
for complicity in opium smuggling was sus
pended, has made no confession, as was ex
pected, or, at least, if he has the detectives
'are the only ones who are aware of the fact
Enough is known to warrant the employ
ment of a large force of detectives, several
of whom are now in Canada in the hopes of
uncovering the members of the gang who
are operating on the Canadian side. It is
said that several wealthy citizens of San
Francisco will be involved when the final
expose is made, and that the smuggling
combination will prove one of the strongest
in the country.
Curran and his wife have departed, and
the rumor in official circles is to the effect
that they are en route to Canada tomeetthe
detectives and aid in the arrest of the smug
glers. The officers are dumb and refuse to
impart information, but it is well known
that they are on the alert for proof which
will lead to the capture of the wealthy
members of the gang.
The report is that General A. B. "Ward,
the scholarly fraud who climbed to the top
in Dakota politics and gained the confi
dence of the Indiana managers during the
campaign by his able speeches for Har
rison, is one of the smuggling workers.
To those who have studied the man it is
-considered more than probable that he is
now in Canada under another alias. At
the time Curran was arrested for transport
ing the smuggled opium several more ship
ments of the drug were being ms.de over
land, but the swindlers have so manipu
lated their wires that the officers have thus
far been unable to trace them.
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THE INDIANA IDEA.
Coal Operator Expect to Get Trade From
Other States.
Brazil, March 17. The Indiana coal
operators, who withdrew from the joint con
vention of the Miners' National Union at
Columbus, "Wednesday last, because their
demand for 12 per cent reduction in the
yearly scale bases was refused, will meet at
Terre Haute to-morrow to effect a State or
ganization. They claim they can get coal mined at 57
cents for bituminous and 70 cents for block.
No difficulty with the miners is anticipated,
and work will improve as the market is re
gained from Illinois, Ohio and Pennsyl
vania operators.
Don't Pay a Big Price.
"When the aristocratic people of the cities
want fine photograi bs of themselves or lit
tle ones they patronize the Elite Gallery,
516 Market street, Pittsburg, where low
rates and fine work prevail. Cabinets fl
"per dozen until May 1, 1689, so come now.
Use the elevator.
Read Our Spring Advertisement To-Day
In this paper we are ready for all spring
buyers and offer them great inducements
in all departments.
JOS. HORXE $ CO.'S
Penn Avenue Stores.
Gents' scarfs newest and latest made
to sell for $1, our price 49c.
DANZIQEB & SHOEfrBEBO,
Sixth st and Penn ave.
Barry's Teicopheeous removes im
purities from scalp, prevents baldness,
causes hair to grow.
SI Until Slay 1, 18S9. 81
12 cabinets for 51 at Elite Gallery. 516
Market street, Pittsburg, until May 1, 1889.
Come soon.
Choking Catarrh.
Have you awakened from a disturbed sleep
with all the horrible sensations of an assassin
clutching your throat and pressing the life
breath from your tightened chest? Have you
noticed the languor and debility that succeed
the effort to clear your throat and head of this
catarrhal matter? What a depresing influence
it exerts upon the mind, clouding the memory
and filling the head with pains and stranze
noisesl How difficult it is to rid the nasal
passages, throat and lnngs of this poisonous
mucus all can testily who are afflicted with ca
tarrh. How difficult to protect the system
aeainst its farther progress'towards the lungs,
liver and kidneys all physicians will admit. It
is a terrible disease and cries out for relief and
cure.
The remarkable curative powers, when all
other rem edies utterly fail, of Sanford's Rad
ical Cure are attested by thousands who
gratefully recommend it to fellow sufferers. No
statement is made regarding it that cannot be
substantiated by the most respectable and re
liable references.
Each packet contains one bottle of the
Radical cure, one box Catarrhal Sol
vent, and an Improved Inhaler, with
treatise and directions, and is sold bv all drug
gists for SL
Potter Drug s Chemical Co., Boston.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Rubies".
THIRD in importance among
precious stones in the extent
of its trade, and greatest of
all in price, stands the Ruby
the type of the warmth and bar
bario splendor of the Orient
It comes down the centuries
heavy with antiquity and its
steadily diminishing supply only
adds fuel to the fire of demand.
It is even more precious now
than in the days when Solomon
to exalt his mistress, wisdom
could find no stronger comparison
than "better than rubies."
Our stock of Rubies is now at its
best estate and we solicit for it
your critioal inspection.
THEODORE B. STARR,
206 Fifth avenue,
Madison Square, New, York.
Correspondence invited from in
tending purchasers.
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PITTSBURG, PA.
ABOUT CATARRH.
J.JL Jewell. Asst Sunt. Boys'
Industrial, School, Lancaster, 0.,
says: I have no hesitation in rec
ommending your catarrh remedy.
Tt Is bv far snoerior to anv other
preparation I have over used. Its curative ef
fect is marvelous.
Mrs. M. J Hatton, 72 Forty-third street, says:
The Anchor Catarrh Remedy cured me of an
aggravated case of catarrh of lone standing,
wmch 1 considered hopeless, aslbad used many
other preparations without relief.
We would be glad to have you give our ca
tarrh remedy a trial. You will never regjet it
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First Cabin, Winter rates, from $75 upward.
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GRAND CHANGE
ALL-AROUND!
Come and' See!
Only a few days more and we'll tell you
of our new project. In the meantime all
goods are slaughtered.
THEY ARE IN THE WAY!
OVERCOATS, SUITS, PANTS,
HATS, FTJBNISHINGS, BOYS' SUITS,
LADIES' CLOAKS and "WRAPS, .
"Will go for whatever will induce you to
BUY AT ONCE.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Corner Diaiuonl and Mim Streets.
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CHAS. PFEIFER,
Men's Furnishing Goods.
3 SMITHFIELD ST.. PITTSBURG.
100 FEDERAL ST., ALLEGHENY.
SECR.TS TO ORDER!
We' make all our own shirts, and our Custom
Shirt Department is the best equipped in the
State, we carry a full line of Full Dress, all
over embroidered P. Ks., and Embroidered
Linens, and guarantee a lit. If you cannot get
a fit elsewhere give us a trial.
Cleaning and Dyeing Offices at above 'loca
tions. Lace Curtains laundried equal to new.
Full Dress Shirts launaried, Hand Finish.
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. WONDERFUL PRICES.
Shoes for Youths at 85c
to $1.
Shoes for Boys at $1 to
$125.
Shoes for Men at 85c to
$125.
A SPECIAL BARGAIN.
Gents' Fine Calf Sawed Shoes, in
button, bals. and congress. A $3
Shoe at 82 50, equal for wear and
style of any $5 Shoea
NEW ADVERTISEMEST?.
Tempting S P R N G J!!E
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N. B. Store open until 0 P. M. except Satur
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GROCERIES AND TABLE DELICACIES,
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DO NOT BUY YOUR SPRING HATS UNTIL YOU SEE OUR H
i EXTENSIVE LINE. OHILDRENS NOVELTIES
AT POPULAR PRIOEa
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To Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin
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FROM NEW YORK EVERY THURSDAY.
Cabin passage S33 and (50. according to location
of stateroom. Excursion S6S to (90.
Steerage to and from Europe at Lowest Bates.
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3 Broadway, How Yor.
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WEDNESDAY, May J, May 29. June 26, July 84.
Largest and finest passenger steamer afloat.
Saloon passage, 960 to 1100; second-class, 830.
GLASGOW SERVICE.
Steamers every Saturday from New York to
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Cabin passage to Glasgow, Londonderry, Liver
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ATTENTION, GREENSBURGERS !
WHEN YOU LOOK FOR
WA.LIj PAPEE,
Or any kind of Wall or Celling Decoration, consult
WM. H. ALLEN, 51sIS?fa
PITTSBURG,
For Style, Variety and Cheap Prioes.
"WIXiXIAIH TRIIVTCTJE. MANAGER.
Samples sent tor approval by daily messengers.
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From Basement to Dome of Our Magnificent
Stores, One Vast Bargain Emporium of
Newest and Choicest Spring Fabrics.
DOUGLAS MACKIE
Take very great pleasure indeed, in submitting for yonr inspection and approval their first
spring stock since opening new stores, and feel confident in asserting that never before in the
history of the Dry Goods Trade in the two cities, has such a startling array of first-class goods
been offered at same temptingly low prices: in fact, the enormous selection, lovely fabrics and
weaves, combined with our well-knbwn extremely moderate charges, are bound to recommend
themselves to your superior judgment and favorable consideration.
We've got GOO pieces of the prettiest Challis the sun ever shone on at 6c a yard.
Aconpleof cases pure, fast color, Turkey Red" Tabling, to go at 25c a yard: they're well
worth and sell all over at 38c.
Another 100 pieces of those lovely Cream Damasks, nearly 2 yards wide, and only 60c a yard,
usual price 65c.
GOO dozen of the biggest and best Linen Damask Towels yon ever saw for the money, in a
variety of pleasing designs, to be offered at 25c each; they're considered cheap enough at 40c.
100 dozen Ladies' Cold Kid Gloves, Pique Racks, will be sold at 45c a pair, usual price 62c.
Then you shonld see our famous 50c, 75c and SI 00 lines; they're well worthy yonr attention
100 pieces 36-inch fine Cashmeres, In all the new and pretty spring shades, only 12c a yard!
worth 20c.
GO pieces 38-inch Silk and "Wool Stripe Suitings, choicest colorings, only 45c a yard, real
value 60c. ,
One particularly attractive line of 42-inch all-wool French Serge Plaids, will bo laid out at
60c a yard. At this price these are EXCEEDINGLY SPECIAL.
An elegant display of Plain and Stripe Brllllantines, 44 inches wide, will be submitted at GOo
a yard; you've seen worse selling at 65c before now.
Our snperb collection of 50c and 60c India Silks, must really be seen in order to be thorough
ly appreciated.
A beautifully fine lot of Black Surah Silks at 62c and 75c, worth 75c and $1 00.
Now,' we've only had time to enumerate a very few of the many good things in store for you.
Notably, our Dress Goods and Silk Departments are fairly running over with the choicest
weaves and novelties, ALL AT AWAY BELOW PAR PRICES.
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rSIEIN- .A.S "5TOTX ALL IKILSrOW
We're headquarters for Ladies and Misses' Spring Wraps, Jacket, Newmarkets. Jerseys, Lace
Curtains, Lace Bed Sets, Portieres, Cornice Poles, etc:; stock very expensive and prices lower
than ever. In truth, they're come-at-able by all.
151 and 153 FEDERAL STREET, ALLEGHENY.
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KAUFM ANNS'
Boys'and Children's Clothing
Our formal Opening of new Spring Styles cannot help but attract
the attention of all thinking people. If it is worth something to
buy your Boys' Clothing at a store that sells none but thoroughly
reliable goods, made according to the late3t prevailing fashions, and
sold at prices that are within the reach of all, then Kaufmanns'
should be your place to buy. As for variety, we have no rivals in
the field; our present showing aggregates no less than 322 different
styles of Kilt Suits, 975 styles of Short Pant Suits and 'about 500
styles of Long Pant Suits.
Men's Suits and Spring Overcoats
Our stock is calculated to supply every want and requirement, every
taste and purse. Some of the materials of which our Men's Suit3
are made: Cassimeres, Cheviots, Wide Wales, Corkscrews, Worsteds,
while our Spring Overcoats are cut of such fashionable woolens as
English Broad Wales, light weight Meltons, Covert Cloths, Vene
tians, Scotch Cheviots, etc., and in these materials we show all the
latest shades, colors and patterns. We have set out to capture the
Men's Clothing trade .of Pittsburg this spring, and, if the offering of
superior inducements will do it, our success is certain.
.:. FINE CUSTOM TAILORING .:.
Garments "made to order" js a specialty with us. There is not
another Clothing house in this country'that turns out as much cus
tom work. This is a fact well known to the trade. It is equally
well known that we import and buy direct from the leading man
ufacturers and in turn supply many of the merchant tailors with
cloths. As jobbers we buy at much lower figures than are obtained
by the exclusive tailors of Pittsburg. This advantage, combined
N with the fact that we carry about three times the assortment of
fabrics and patterns that can be found in any other local house, ac
counts for the popularity of our Merchant Tailoring Department
with fine dressers. The lowest prices the best workmanship and
the largest stock are the three factors responsible for our supremacy.
Ladies' Wraps, Jackets, Jerseys
Our Cloak Department enjoys the distinction of supplying the most
aristocratic and fashionable Ladies of Pittsburg with new spring
garments. Our importations frrm Berlin and Paris of choice styles
of beaded Wraps, beaded Shoulder Capes, tailor-made Jackets and
Jerseys have caught on, and the tide of trade continues to flow to
our popular Cloak Departments. Some special bargains will be
offered this week.
NO END OF FUN AND AMUSEMENT.
FRfcfc77 THE BOYS .CFRfcg
Kaufmanns', with their characteristic liberality toward their
little friends, the Boys, and their proverbial enterprise to always
"get up" something new, wiJJ this week give a
CALLIOPE,
THE LATEST MUSICAL
WONDER OF THE AGE,
gratis with every Boy's or Child's Suit The Calliope, like the
Piccolo or Flageolet, emits sweet, mellow music, and any tune can be
played on it with ease, after a short practice.
KAUFMANNS
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EVIDENCE OF CHEAPNESS
Can you call to mind any -wideawake
town of 1,000 inhabitants,
where lots can be bought at Prices
we ask and on such easy terms?
:. $40 IN PAYMENTS OF FORTY CENTS A WEEK! .
ONE PER CENT CASE THEN ONE PER CENT EACH WEEK THEREAFTER UNTIL FULL AM0TJNTJS PAID,
".PORTLAND .:.
Has 5,000 population. The Evans
addition is less than a mile from
the Court House, on the main
street, with three-fourths of the
population lying between it and
the Court House.
. SECURES A
, IFOIRTXi.A.IEriD,
. the county-seat of Jay county, In
diana, is half way between Fort
Wayne and Richmond, and n
miles from Cincinnati by rail, or
about 90 miles in a direct line. It
is in the largest continuous district
of natural gas-bearing land in the
world a district which has been
developed and tested by hundreds
of gas wells, demonstrating beyond
all doubt that the gas supply is in
exhaustible, and its quality forfuel
and illumination unsurpassed. The
gas ' wells now in use at Portland
,have an output of over 15,000,000
cubic feet daily, and this supply
may be increased ad infinitum.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana
Railroad and the Lake Erie and
Western Railroad give Portland a
north, south, east and west outlet
iThe county is one of the richest
agricultural and stock-raising coun
ties in the State. Portland has fine
public schools, a Normal College, -two
newspapers, viz.: "Commer
cial, "Sun;" a building and loan
association, seven churches, two
fine hotels, besides lesser ones, an
'opera house, and does a large
wholesale, retail and manufactur
ing business.
BUILDING LOT W THE 'GREAT NATURAL GAS AND OIL FIELD AT "PORTLAND. INDIANA.
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The EVANS Mill
ADJOINS TfTR
North Corporation Line of the
City of Portland,
And Lies Directly on the Principal
Street of the Town, Less Than One
Mile from the Court House.
Lots are offered in this subdivi
sion upon the following 'terms, viz.:
One per cent cash with order, then
one per cent each week thereafter
(or more if so desired by pur
chaser), until full amount is paid,
when warranty deed will be exe
cuted for the property. A rebate
of 10 per cent will be made for all
cash in advance. On receipt of
first payment a bond for a deed
will be forwarded to the purchaser
with the amount duly credited; also
a large plat of the property and a
colored township map showing the
exact location of the addition.
THE TITLE TO THE LAND IS
ABSOLUTELY FREE MVs UNIN
CUMBERED. A complete abstract of title fur
nished free' to all purchasers on re
ceipt of first payment.
THE LOTS ARE 25x140 AND
LARGER, fronting on 50-foot
street with 15-foot alley, and are
equal in value to lots selling in
other localities of the gas belt at
$ 150. We advise taking two or'
more lots to secure a good frontage.
There are 12 lots to the block.
WE OFFER LOTS AT PRICES AS
FOLLOWS: $40, $45, $50, $55,
$60, $65, $70, $75, $80 and $85
4 each; Meridian street lots are $90
and $100. All without interest, and
free of taxes until deed is executed.
If any application is received
after all the lots are disposed of
the money inclosed for first pay
ment will be returned. No atten
tion paid to inquiries unless the one
. per cent for lot is inclosed.
Remember the number of lots is
limited, 'and "first come, first
served.
BiH
GAB WELLS ARE WITHIN 100
FEET and lie at southeast and
southwest corners, while just
west of it is the
. OOTjY OIL FIELD IN THE STATE
PORTLAND, INDIANA, March i, 1888.
I have made the survey and plat of tke land comprised
tn the Evans addition to the city of Portland, Jay cpunly,
Indiana, and Jureby certify that tliere is not a lot in said sub
division tiat is not suitable for Building purposes and suscep
tible of good drainage. The subdivision adjoins the corpora
tion line of the city. Meridian street, which passes through
the property, is the, principal street of the city and the main
thoroughfare of the county leading into the city. Sixteenth
street is also anSmportant highway.
C. E. ROGERS,
Ex-County Surveyor and present City Civil Engineer.
We, the undersigned, are familiar with the above de
scribed property and indbrse the foregoing statement in refer-,
ence thereto.
THEODORE BAILY, Mayor of the City.
P. M. HEARN, Abstractor. - ,..-.-
E'.J. MARSH, Editor "Commercial"
SE BRING BROS., Grocers. ' - '
. C LOWRIE, Postmaster. " .
' H. O. WELDON, Proprietor Merchants' Hotel.
PORTLAND is develop
ing quite ,rapidly since the
discovery of Natural Gas and
Oil in that locality. Popula
tion is increasing and land
advancing. A number of new
factories, business blocks, and
over ioo dwellings have been-
built within the past year.
There is every reason to 6g$
lieve that an investment madt
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'now will bring to the pith
i
chaser large returns in tfitg
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A. M. EVAJN8, TKUSIM, JUTLAND, IND, OR ROOM 76, JOHNSTON BIJILDING, CINCINNATI, 0.
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