The match game of base ball played yesterday at Indianapolis between the Westerners of that city and the Nationals of Washington City, resulted in favor of the latter by a score of 106 to 21. A game between the Star City Club of Lafayette and the Actives of Indianapolis resulted in favor of the latter by a score of 54 to 31.
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INDIANA ITEMS
The little village of Bloomington is to have a planing mill and a sash and door factory.
A case of cholera was reported at Indianapolis on Wednesday. It did not prove to be fatal.
The Lafayette papers report that a mad cow in pasture near that city, attacked a German, a few days ago, tossing him about at a wonderful rate, but doing no serious damage to him.
It turns out that the young lady who disappeared from the circus show at Lafayette, on the 4th, eloped with her lover, and is now a married lady, residing in Chicago. She is an heiress.
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We learn from the Green County Union that Mr. Jno. L. Smith, of that county, came to his death last Friday under the following circumstances: "He was making arrangements to go a hunting, and wishing to ascertain whether his rifle was loaded, put the breeech of the gun on the floor, and told his wife to cock it while he blowed in the muzzle. In attempting to do so, the gun discharged, the ball entering his mouth and coming out of the top of his head, killing him almost instantly."
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KENTUCKY ITEMS
Rev. J. B. Thorp has purchased the female school property at Georgetown, and will open the Female Seminary at that place on the first Monday in September.
The Lexington Statesman gives the following account of a fight which occured at Lancaster, between Major Carpenter, a former Federal soldier, and three men formerly of the rebel army: On Thursday last, as we learn from two gentlemen who were at Lancaster at the time, three men named Kennedy, made a desperate assault upon Major Carpenter, formerly of Wolford's Cavalry, in the Huffman House,m of that place. Major Carpenter, as our informant states, was in the public room of the hotel, when he was approached by a man by the name of Kennedy, who said he intended to slap his (Carpenter's) jaws. Pistols were drawn and the parties left the house, Major Carpenter stationing himself at the corner of the hotel. Almost immediately the three men mardhed abreast, with pistols drawn, towards Carpenter, when he opened a staeady fire upon them. THe parties soon retreated after firing their loads.
It seems that the Major was in command of a detachment of troops at the polls in 1865, and refused to admit one of the Kennedys to vote, since which time one of them has threatened to kill him. Major Carpenter was formerly a Lieutenant in Wolford's cavalry, and promoted to the Majority of the Regiment. He fought as gallantly in this encounter, against three men, as his bravery was singularly distinguished throughoput the war.
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The Evansville Journal has an interesting notice of the game of base ball recently played by the Evansville and Paducah Clubs, one of the editors of the Journal, (Mr. Thayer), being one of the Club from Evansville. The notice is in the spirit of the strictness fairness, and is spoken of with commendation by all our Paducah Club. We trust it will not be the last of those kindly courtesies which we hope may mark the hereafter intercourse of the people of the two cities, and which may bind us in bonds of friendly association.
The 18th of this month is the day fixed for the Paducah Club to visit Evansville, to play the return game, and we doubt not they will receive in the fullest degree that gentlemanly courtesy which distinguishes the young men of our sister city. -- Paducah Herald, 16th.
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LADIES READING
New York Gazette
The July Fashion
It is impossible not to be convinced that the fashions are becoming weekly more and more remarkable and eccentric. If we were asked, upon the word of honor, what we thought was the style of the fashion -- to what nationality it most assimilated, we are bound to say we should consider it to be the Japanese. We lately noticed several ladies, and the effect of the round hat, high chignon, falling sleeves, high heels and short skirts, was altogether Asiatic. In fact, in justification of this supposition, if our readers will look at the plate, 1,266, they will find that the artist in copying the costumes (or at least one of them), which are to be found on this plate, must have himself some idea of the same kind, for it will be seen he has put in as a background that part of the park surrounding the French Exposition which is devoted to representations of Chinese and Japanese architecture.
Apart from an extreme advance in eccentricity, it can hardly be said that there is any general change in fashions for a month or two. Skirts are as short and as tight, bodices are close and plain, where they are plain, as they have been for some time, and sleeves as tight. The hanging sleeve has certainly not taken so successfully as it might have been supposed, seeing the long reign the coat-sleeve has maintained.
There is a tendency once more to revert to the double skirt of varying yet harmonious colors.
Perhaps the newest "thing" in trimmings is the use of the playing card "club" as a skirt trimming. It has the appearance of the wearer being part of a hand at whist, the more especially that the whole toilette where the club is worn appears to look upon this pattern as the very note of the entire toilette.
Perhaps the prettiest trimmings worn for bonnets are composed of spring hay and huge daisies. They have a pretty pastoral effect, admirably suited to the style of bonnet which is now prevalent.
The same idea of harmony leads to the use in bonnets of wreaths of field weeds rather than flowers, covered with summer insects and flies -- the real creatures, even to ants, very artistically dried.
For very young ladies, snowdrops and one rose is accepted, or a few violets very distinguishedly replace the rose.
Brides' wreaths are now made, to be quite fashionable, entirely in orange leaves, the blossoms being now looked upon as passees.
Brides' dresses are made double-skirted. They are trimmed, for the most part, with bands of white satin, cut on the cross, also with fringe of a very deep and exquisite character. Knots and bows of white satin are also used.
Another shape of brides' dress, of the very highest shape of luxury, is of white silk, covered with a princess robe in cluny.
One of the quaintest trimmings we have seen for a very long while consists of straw embroideries, diapered with crystal dewdrops, set in tiny sea-shells.
Black taffetas, where trimmed with flat bands, is frequently remarked to exhibit embroideries of flowers on the said bands.
The peplum has utterly vanished.
White silk muslin is much worn by young people.
All white bodices are trimmed with lace.
Embroidered silk stockings appear to be gaining ground.
Black and white checks, the black being a mere thread, are becoming fashionable.
A hem flounce, in the shape of a futing, again appears likely to be fashionable.
Long ends, falling either from the neck or waist, are gaining approbation.
Black lace dresses are becoming a rage. As they are guipure, they are very heavy. They are not fitted for wear by very young people.
Close cut dresses in mauve have been seen, worn with a tunic of black lace.
Accacia, after a long desertation, is now being worn by young people in bonnets.
Now that out-door dresses are worn short, much attention is being paid to boots. We get them ornamented in various ways, chiefly in the varying shapes of embroidery. In some cases, however, they are finished off with little collars, shiefly in red morocco leather, and where varying colors are used in these articles, the heels, which are always very high, are covered with silk on the most distinct colors used in the manufacture of boots.
Bright blue silk is the most in demand where muslin is worn, over any color at all. The bodice of white muslin dresses is frequently made in a jacket shape, square and cut at the sides.
Certainly the rage for flat bands still continues to exist. We get them in all materials, and notably in black and white lace. Lace medallions are also very favorably worn.
Recurring to boots, they are very effectively being made in black satin, the heels in these cases being worn still higher than under other circumstances.
By reference to most of our illustrations it will be seen that the rage for hanging ends can take one of many shapes. In the more notorious cases, they begin with the bonnets, whence they fall for the most part, in the shape of long lace ends, generally two in number. A sort of jacket, in suit with, the remainder of the toilette may be seen, which by cutting and gathering has the effect of being all ends.
Yellow (orange and lemon being the most favored combination) are found to be fashionable when worn with black.
The apron in front of the skirt -- the apron being that of the army sapper and miner, and to which we referred last month -- is to be seen in a modified shape, combined at the sides with some of the favorite falling ends, which by the way, arfe for the greater part pointed.
Bonnets are now -- in their most developed shape -- mere bands across the head. The handkerchief which the lady at one time, allowably she put round her head when leaving a crowded theater or ball room, was much larger than the bonnets of to-day. A mere band of lace and flowers tied under the chin with a lace band -- this is the bonnet of the hour. It costs quite as much as the coal scuttle shape, and demands the use of yards of stuffs. This is a millinery condition of things which Messeieurs -- les husbands -- cannot understand, and yet these latter pay just as much for the small short coats in vogue as they at one time paid for those which cane flapping down about the heels.
The hair, when most fashionably dressed, has about four times the area of the most fashionable bonnet. That shape of the chignon where it most utterly loses itself at the sides in the remainder of the hair appears to be the one mode which is admissible.
Playing card "dimond" shapes threaten to be as prevalent as the "club" design. If this goes on, ladies will look like an animated pack of playing cards, and then, depend upon it, we shall have a costume in imitation of the fashions of the queens of hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades - quite a new idea, and one which so far had not been worked.
The hair is still worn over the forehead. The newest shape of ends consist of a long ended knot of ribbon, beginning between the shoulders, and the ends taken one on each side round the skirt, with a loose band, and fastened in front. It really works for all the world as though the wearer had put herself in harness.
Another fashion for ends is that os being fixed at the throat, one end passing under an arm at the armpit. Under these circumstances, the lady looks as though bridled, and ready to run for a silver cup. Are these fashions the result of the passion for raving, which is more fashionable in France this year than at any other time?
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NOTICE - A meeting of the Resolute Base Ball Club will be held at Masonic Hall this evening at 8 o'clock.
By order of the President,
E.B. Morgan, secretary.
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BASE BALL - The members of the Resolute Base Ball Club will meet at the office of the Merchants' Union Express co. at 3 1/2 o'clock this afternoon, in uniform, to go to the grounds for practice.
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CITY NEWS
Rain - There was another fine rain yesterday afternoon, continuing for nearly three hours and at times quite heavy. It seemed to cool the heated atmosphere and will benefit the growing crops.
A NARROW ESCAPE
We are told that a small child fell into a privy vault, up town, yesterday, and was rescued barely alive.
MURDER AT BOONEVILLE
We heard late last night that a quarrel occured at Boonville, Warrick county, between two brother-in-laws, which resulted in the death of one by the hand of the other. We did not learn the names of the parties or any particulars.
A SUDDEN FALL
Yesterday evening, just as the rain was commencing, a man was driving a wagon down First Street at a rapid rate, evidently to reach home before the rain overtook him. Just in front of Heilman's foundry, both hind wheels of the wagon simutaneously dropped off and let the rear of the wagon down. Some envious or malicious "cuss" or some practical joker had doubtless drawn the linch-pins, and the above was the result.
MORE ROBBERIES
During Thursday night some one or more of the nice young men, who may be daily seen supporting corner buildings on the streets, borrowed a ladder from the back buildings of Mr. Charles Viele's residence, by means of which being they entered his bed room by the second story window, and captured his entire suit in which he had perambulated the streets the day previous, including his fine gold watch. Mrs. V's fine gold watch was lying on the dressing case close by, but it is supposed the robber or robbers became frightened and left precipitately.
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RECORDER'S COURT
John E. Williams, who appeared a few days ago under the euphoneous cognomen of John Henry William Krumbach, was again presented on a charge of disturbing the peace. He was fined $1 with $13.35 costs. Lou C. Stenson went his security.
Jim Mulligan, the incorrigible and infortunate, had a hearing yesterday on two charges, one for being drunk and resisting officers, on which he was fined $100, with $6.95 costs. The other for assault and battery on Chris Wonderlich, in which he bit the latter's arm, on which he was fined $50 with $4.35 costs. Of course he went to jail and will again be set to work, and as now owes the city about $275, which he will be required to work out at 60 cents a day, he has a permanent job for about 460 days. His promises will not again be taken, we presume, by the city authorities.
Wm. Gogin, a true type of modern Conservatism, while loafing on teh street on Thursday, in company with Jim Mulligan, discovered a negro --Peter Fountain, laying a pavement. This was an evidence of progress towards negro equality which no Conservative could stand, and thereupon sweet William pitched into the African. For this very natural and highly Conservative act, William was fined $5, with $3.35 costs, which he was unable to liquidate, and goes to work on the street today.
Taylor Murphy, from the rural districts, also gave vent to his intense conservatism by pitching into a little n____(**transcriber note --disgusting but this is how they treated African-Americans in print) who passed an innocent joke upon him. Taylor asked **n__ what time of day it was, and received for answer "the same time it was this time yesterday." "What do you mean, you d__d black son of a b____?" was the classic reply, accompanied by a blow vigoursly followed up. The proof was overwhelming, notwithstanding a strong witness Murphy produced, and he was fined $1, with $5.85 costs.
Murphy put in a plea that his wife in the country was lying dangerously ill and might die if he was sent to jail, and the Recorder, moved with compassion, let him go, but at dark last night found Taylor and his swift witness in a drinkery up town in a state of joyful salubrity, utterly oblivious to the sanitary condition of Mrs. M. The police were instructed to keep an eye on the parties.
MORE VILLAINY
On board the Legal Tender, on her way up the river, two men were engaged in a friendly game of poker, and one of them being a little short of ready money, asked an unsophisticated youth, who was looking on, for a slight loan till he had time to go to the office and draw his money. The unsuspecting youth handed out $275, all of which was lost by the time the boat reached this port, when the players quickly stepped ashore and disappeared.
A warrant was obtained, and at a late hour last evening the sharpers were discovered and are now in jail.
ANOTHER
Yesterday forenoon, Mrs. Thomas Stafford, whose husband is out of town, and whose residence is on Fourth Street, between Cherry and Oak, went to the Post office in expectation of a letter from her husband, leaving her small children at home alone. While she was absent, one of the prowling thieves with whom our city is infested, entered the house and rummaged the bureau drawers, stealing $74 in money and a music box, making good his retreat before Mrs. S returned.
It is almost incredible that these daring robberies are being perpetrated almost daly in populous parts of the city, and yet not a single man is detected and brought to justice. It is indeed time that our citizens were becoming alarmed in reference to the state of morals in this city. The exemption from punishment with which crime has been committed in this city, has caused rogues from Louisville, Madison, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St Louis to flock hither, and the city is now full of them.
Some of our citizens have armed themselves, and are preparing to protect themselves, not only from the insolence and impudence of these gentry. The state of affairs is becoming intolerable, and citizens must protect themselves if there is no other remedy. Any evening at dark numbers of men who are entirely unknown in this city, may be seen flocking in by all the avenues leading to the city. Those men can be found lurking in the woods adjacent during the day.
A WILD DREAMER
While the Morning Star was lying at the wharf on Thursday night about midnight, while almost all the passengers were abed, a wild scream, succeeded in rapid succession by others, startled all on board. In a moment, a man in a perfect frenzy of excitement, and uttering the most unearthly yells, rushed from a state room, with a portion of the bedclothes in his hands, which he was furously shaking. He rushed frantically forward, out the door, and back aft on the larboard guard past the wheel house until striking a stanchion with the corner of his eye, which awoke him from his horrid dream, and probably saved him from leaping overboard.
He was taken in charge by some of the passengers and was found to be covered with blood from the wound on his eye. He was led to the barber shop, where Dr. Clifton Wharton, of Louisville, washed off the blood and skillfully dressed the wound and quieted his nerves. At first, we supposed it was a case of "snakes" of mania a potu, but after being thoroughly aroused, the man showed no signs of enebriety, but said he was subject to terrifying dreams which aroused him often in that manner from his couch. He gave his name as John Terrell, of Union County, Ky, and was on his way to Louisville.
The terror on board the boat for a little while was equal to that produced by the cry of fire, and the cabion and outer guards were quickly filled with men in Georgia costume, and in their drawers, and by women dressed to suit the season, or ready to play the Black Crook. When the real cause of the fire was ascertained, there was a regular scudding -- under almost bare pole in some instances -- to bed. It was the wildest scene, for a time, we ever witnessed, but ended in uncontrollable merriment among those who were up and dressed. We shouldn't like to travel on a steamboat with Mr. John Terrell on board. Not much.
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