Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 5 March 1880 — Page 2

DAILY .NEWS

SEA VAN, LEWIS & CO,

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Publication Office, S01H Ohio Street, co^fter Fill#. Volume I No. 14. Entered «rtb« Post Offlc* at Terre Haote, Indiana, tecoad-cisM suuter.

FILDAYTMABCH 5.. 1880.

THE DAILY NEWS is printed every week day Afternoon, and delivered by carriers throughout the city at 10 cents per week—collections made weekly. By mail (postagepaid by the Publisher) one mtmlh J/5 cents three months $1£5 six months $2.60 one year 5.00.— Mail mbscriptions in advance.

A PROFITABLE DrVXtTlOPrT. One of the great needs of Terre Haute Is at least WX) small houses, of from three to five or six rooms each. In ouropinion. then* is no investment that would pay so well. There arc many men of means in this city who can make such an investment—men who have money lying idle, not earning a cent. There art* hundreds of good careful tenants who would gladly become occupants of these houses, and promptly pay the rental. We know of »»e vera I instance#, during the pant few weeks, where persona designed coming to this city to live, but did not do HO, because they could not obtain a house to live in. Land upon Which to build is abundant, and, we believe, cheap. Then whv not have the houses? If tlx- businessmen and real estate owners desire the city to "boom" along towards the high tide of prosperity, they must do something besides miy that Terre Haute is a good place to live in they must make it so by rendering it a desirable place for industrious, intelligent mechanics from other placus to immigrate to.

We have our full share of wealthy nonproducers. We want thousands of men who will produce something, who will make something to sell, and bring money to the city. One great inducement to such people to come is the knowledge that they can, for reasonable sum per month, find houses for their families that are provided with the modern conveniences of cleanliness and ventilation, and are constructed with some regard to neat outside appearance. Such houses are not for rent here now. Two or three families are to be found occupying a house not any too large for one the third and fourth stories over store rooms are made "to do," for the want of a better location and the inmates rendered liable, particularly children, to the influences of disease germs, the resultants of a lack of light, and ventilation. Let us change all this, good people, who can—if you will.

VITUPERATION.

The Indianapolis News of yesterday contains most an excellent article under this head, from which we jflve the paragraph below. The DAILY NKWS expressedits opinions in this matter in an article last week, entitled "Political Defamation."

The News has never dealt in epithets, and rarely in personal comments, iu its treatment of political subjects and politicians. Calling names is a puerility that its independent position, no less than Its disinclination, has enabled it to avoid. It is the strength of weak men, the resource of ignorance, the weapon of blind spite. And it is just as sure to damage the causc iu which it appears as a skunk is to infect the house it crawls under. Wherefore the News takes the liberty of suggesting that the provocations to personal attacks and vituperation being unusually strong this year, it would be a wholesome exercise for our partisan contemporaries to study moderation of tone and decency of personal allusion. They may feel perfectly assured that a single disparaging word from a paper that weighs its personal references carefully, will damage its object far more, and gall his friends far more keenly than a column of such stuff as this casually discovered in the columns of a paper long ago noted for its mastery of the style called the "forcible, feeble," where ft is applied to Secretary Sherman "the old penury broker," "the man who ought to be nnng," 'knows the value of lies and frauds and per juries," "soul damning perjuries." That is not invect ive nor 'denunciation, nor even respectable abuse. It is blackguardism. Kearney does better in I wing more prolific, He has a variety of mistiness In his allusions that betokens larger intellectual as well as mephitic resources. For the credit of American journalism and politics, we should like the world to see as little of this unsexed shrewishness as possible.

THK editor of the DAILY NEWS is in receipt of a private letter from Comrade William Eartiahaw, chaplain at the Soldiers' Home, Dayton, and Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he says: "I have read with care and great pleasure the manly and patriotic inaugural address, in the DAILY NKWS, of Feb. 83, you so kindly sent me. of Cora rade E. C. Snyder. Commander of Mc Pheraon Post, No. 7. Dept. of Indiana. I regard it as A clear setting forth of the character and objects of the Grand Army of the Republic, and well worth}* of an ex Union soldier in command of a Post made up of his comrades who stood bravely with him in the days of o«r glory. I do heartily wish his noble "words, just as I have them in the paper you went me, might come under the eye of every loyal ex soldier of the land," "JI-DOK" MARTIXIALK and John A, WUdtnan were not selected as delegates to Chicago yesterday. It is very sad.

DELEGATES AT LARGE.

Th# DAILY NKWS waited until .after 4 oclock yesterday afternoon to announce to its readers the names of Un delegates selected by the Republican State Central Committee as Delegates at Large to Chicago. These were not chosen until after& o'clock, and "after a protracted struggle." as our Indianapolis correspondent writes us. The gentlemen chosen are

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Ben Harrison, Marion. Geo. W. Friedley, Lawrence. Daniel B. Kumier, Vanderburg. .lames S. Collins, Whitley.

ALTERNATES.

Jesse J. Brown, Floyd. Leonidas Sexton, Rush. Thomas H. Nelson, Vigo. Byron W. Langdon, Tippecanoe. The following is a complete list of the delegates from Indiana to the Chicago, Convention, by districts, with their residences

First—Mai Alexander Gilchrist. Evanaville, and W. M. Iloggatt, Boonville. Second—John B. Glover, Bedford, and S. E. Kercheval, Washington.

Third—W. B. Sleminens, Cory don, and J. F. Friedley, Vienna. Fourth—John H. Crozier, Madison, and F. A. Adkinson, Lawreneeburg.

Fifth—David A. Beem. Spencer, and Joseph B. Homan, Danville. Sixth—Milton Peden, Kuightstown. and T. M. Little, Connersville.

Seventh—Roscoe O. Hawkins, Indianapolis, and James 13. McFadden, Shelbyville.

Eighth—Wm. II. MeKeen, Terre Haute, nnd E. H. Nebeker. Covington. Ninth—B. K. Higginbotham, Frankfort, and l)r

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F. Chittenden, Anderson.

Tenth—F. S. Bedell. Crown Point, iind

Thirteenth—Clement Studebaker. South Bend, and Senator B. F. Davenport. Elkhart.

CAM PA ION COMMITTEE.

The Executive Campaign Committee were appointed yesterday at- Indianapolis, follows: Hon Henry S. Bennett, of as follows: lion Henry Evansville Hon Isaac Jenkinson, Richmond Hon Alex. W. DeLong, Huntington Col W. W. Dudley, Col W. H. H. Terrell and Charles Dudley, of this city. Hon John C. New, as Chairman of the State Central Committee, is also an exotllcio member of the Executive Committec. _____________

GEN X. D. MAXBON.

James II. Rice, "Secretary of the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee, and politician-at-large," was in Cincinnati, on Thursday, and fell into the hands of an Enquirer interviewer, who inquired: "Who is the choice of the Democracy for Governor?" inquired the Enquirer. "There are two or three good men talked of, either of whom the Democracy will unite on without any trouble." "And these arc "Well, they are Landers, LieutenantGovernor Gray and Judge Downey, of Rising Sun. The name of the latter gentleman has come up recently, and he has many friends, especially in the Southern part of the State. Judge Holman was in Indianapolis the other day. and he is a strong friend of Downey." "How about General Manson—isn't he talked of as a possible candidate for Governor?" "General Manson has a host of friends all over the State, and many or all of them would like to see him advanced to that position. His name is frequently mentioned in connection with the office and I would not be surprised if he was the coming man." "What does General Manson say about it?" "The General maintains an eloquent silence on the subject. He is here in the hotel now and you might try your luck with him." The General hove in sight a moment later, but for all the information that the reporter could obtain from him he might as well have been a thousand miles away. While the General has nothing to say about the Indiana Governorship it is understood that he has opinions on the Presidency. A well-known politician, not one of his party, yesterday tells us that he is strongly opposed to the nomination of Mr. TUden. This was as near an interview as your representative could obtain with Indiana's old war-horse. It must suffice.

GKXKRAL THOMAS H. NELSON, of Terre Haute, will be a candidate for Congress in the Eighth district. His reputation as a speaker and popularity as a man will make him a formidable candidate.—-/?«£«'-ahapolis Journal. •The DAILY NKWS agrees to a dot with the last sentence of the above. But, if Col Nelson i» a candidate, why don't he step to the front, and announce it authoritatively?

ENGLAND expects every man to do his duty, but is convinced that charity should begin abroad. The American contributions in aid of Ireland exceed $606,000. The amount actually subscribed in England is not more than $125,000.

BRICK POMRROY is getting hard up! AF the Greenback convention at SL Louis yesterday he said he "must now turn his attention to replenishing his purse and improving his material condition."

Kvery W«ri Tree. Indianapoli* News.

The Republicans of Indiana need not confine themselves to the shoal of aspirants for the nomination of Governor, in making their choice. There are many men in the State who would adorn that office, who do not seek it They believe the office should seek the man. ttBMsLMkltatWsy.

LaFavette Journal: Tilden is fastened upon the back of the Democratic party, and cannot be shaken off.

TkU Will Be UMIIIW—*i.

Evansville Courier: Indiana Is as ably Democratic as Texas.

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John W. Wiuier. BtMinett's StationV White ject of fine roads It is often difficult to county

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We "beat the world" toe matter of wheeled vehicles of every, kind, but w£ pay verf little altentionto ttevtoads ove* which mey are to run. Weliive neglect ed the science and art of road-making almost entirely. Few treatises on the construction of such roads have be^n publish ed ln the country, and they have had very limited sale. With a road on nearly every section., line, one may travel hundred miles without finding an expert at roadmaking.

Our numerous railroads have operated against the construction of earth roads of the excellence of those found !n foreign countries. The roads seen abroad were generally made before railroads were thought of, and the present generation is only taxed to keep them in repairs. Many portions of the West were supplied with railroads before any earth roads were constructed. This being the case, settlers only concerned themselves about roads leadiug from their farms to the nearest station. In some sections so many railroads were projected that fanners waited to see if one would not pass their doors I before they thought to construct a commou road to a station on some existing railway line at considerable distance from their places. As a rule they are heavily taxed in some way for the railroads, and they accordingly thought themselves too poor to spend much on common roads.

Another thing that has operated against the construction and maintaiuence of good roads is the general lack of local pride concerning them. Towns emulate each other in the construction of school houses and other public buildings. There is a great rivalry amoug the different denominations about the building of elegant churches. But there seems to be no pride, emulation, or spirit of rivalry on the sub-

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assemble at a meeting called in the interest of some projected railroad. But a meeting held for the purpose of arousing public sentiment on the subject of better earth roads, on which any one can travel without cost, would not be attended by a dozen people, and most of them would be opponents of the measure. Still the wagon track will be used fifty times where the car track is employed only once. Farmers and other people living in the country often complain of the expense attending the construction of good roads. They do not like to pay for them. They seem to forget that they are obliged to pay for poer roads and that they generally pay very dearly for them.

Poor roads wear c"t horse flesh, break

harness and destroy wagons and carriages. They prevent quick trips and hauling of large loads. They often operate against f^ys. The condition of earth roads generally depends on the state of the weather. During and soon after heavy rains they are almost impassable. As a consequence farmers are generally obliged to market their crops and stock when the roads happen to be in good condition. It often happens that at these times produce is low, while freights are high, and that the reverse is the case when the roads, owing to want of proper construction, are in very bad condition.

Neither town nor village people seem to properly appreciate the value of good public roads. The former are indebted to them for the principal portion of their trade and the patronage given to mechanics. llie latter owe much of their financial prosperity, as well as most of their social pleasures, religious advantages,,and the means of intellectual culture to the conditions of the roads leading from their homes to the large towns in the vicinity.

At the present time there is nothing by way of public improvements that is so much entitled to attention as the common roads throughout the West. As a rule, tlujre is no lack of sufficient railroads and other means of public conveyance and transportation. In nearly every considerable town there are commodius schoolhouses and spacious halls and churches. But the roads are abominable. They are little less than a disgrace to our civilization. (tawftrditille Item.

Daily News, jrssterday.

William H. Ryker, one Of our old citizens, died at his family residence, on Eiist College street, last night at 10 o'clock. Capt Ryker lias long been a resident of this city and was one of the best known and respected of our fellow citizens. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, and will be attended by the Masonic Fraternity, Fire Department and Grand Army of toe Republic.

This morning when Mr Hole, the superintendent of the county asylum, went to the apartment of John Higntower, an insane young man who had been confined in th€ asylum for the past year, he found him hanging by the neck, life being extinct, but the body still warm. It is supposed that he had gone to the small aperature in the door, through which food and water were passed to him, and put his head through, and while in this position was taken with a fit (which he was subject to, and which were the cause of his Insanity), and choked to death before he was discovered.

Mtorch Manufacture. Cincinnati Enquirer.

The starch manufacturers of this country, now in convention in this city, did well in selecting Cincinnati as the place for the holding of their first National Convention. In the particular line in which these gentlemen are interested, Cincinnati, too, is interested. In the past year she manufactured 25,000.000 pounds of starch, sending it to nearly aU parts of the country and of the civilized world. In all of Europe, in South America, Mexico and Australia, Cincinnati's product in this linr is known and used in large quantities. In Germany, especially, the starch of this city has gained great favor, and Is supplanting rapidly the home manufacture in that line. The indturtry tore gives employment to hundred* of men at all times of the year, and brings to Cincinnati a round mnlioti of money each year in exchange for its product shipped to dealers and consumers in all direction*.

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Boston Transcript: Washington never toki a lie, but if the 15 puxide had existed in his day, we fear that fee mighfeave said "Oh, I've done it, done it lots of times but I can't tell just how."

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HOW I MET HER.

{CONCLUDED FROM YESTERDAY.] That night I had a singular dream. I dreamt that the door of my room suddenly opened, and the girl whom I had left but a short time before came into it, a lighted lamp in her hand, her eyes closed. She was in her night-dress, and last asleep. Behind her came a woman of forbidding aspect, who seemed to urge the girl forward, asleep as she was, by her energetic actions ana sharp words. The girl came to the bedside where I lay, and there paused. At an imperative sign from the elderly woman the girl slid her hand slyly beneath my pillow, drew forth my watch and pocketbook, and, before I could utter a cry, watch, pocketbook, women, all disappeared. ana I was sitting wide awake and bolt upright in bed, peering forth into the darkened room.

So vivid had been my dream that I instinctively felt lieneath uiy pillow. There, of course, were my watch and pocketbook. Ashamed of so childish a weakness, I turned over on my pillow, and was soon sound asleep. But all the night that girl haunted my slumber. She was always bent on some mischief, and there was tne shadow of another woman urging her on. I arose next morniug somewhat, disconcerted. I have no more faith in dreams thau I have in the deatlifetch but I was nevertheless annoyed, in spite of me. What if, on going to my laundress' house, I should liml my youiig protege tiown, and my laundress* minus linen and money I pooh-poohed at this but the suspicion would rise in spite of me.

After a hurried breakfast I sought the house where I had left the girl, my mind a little troubled as I knocked on the door but my laundress welcomes me warmly, telling me that "the poor craythur was in a swate sleep yet, and she'd no heart to disturb her." Leaving a message to the effect that I would pass that way in the afternoon, on returning from my place of business, and requesting her to remain quietly in the house until I came, I went down town in better spirits than those in which I had risen that morning. Agreeable to my promise, I returned about 5 o'clock that afternoon. The girl met me with a smiling face. Her hair was neatly dressed, her wet garments had been exchanged for comfortable and dry ones from the poor Irish woman's scant stock, and she presented a decidedly improved appearance upon that of the night before.

That day she told me her history. Her mother, a poor widow, had a year ago, in England, married a second husband. This man, like many another second husband, proyed a cruel stepfather—when drunk, a brutal one. They lived at Chester. From that place the stepdaughter had escaped to Liverpool, and got a place by chance as nursery maid to some children on board a vessel bound for America, and had come away almost penniless and without a change of clothing. Arriving in New York her services were no longer required by the family she had come out with, she having served as nurse merely to defray the expenses of her voyage yet they charitably gave her a little money. That being exhausted, she was homeless, and in that condition I found her. I honestly believed every word she utteredHer voice was musical, her dialect winning and her face beautiful.

In three days' time I found myself enthralled by the magic of her looks, her tones, her very tears. In a word, I loved her dearly, and could scarcely live out of hei presence. In one week's time she became my wife, and I took her on our bridal tour to a distant Western city, my birth place, and there presented her to my mother and sisters. Prosperous in business, happy in my marritige, worshiping my wife, surrounded by mother and sisters, who petted and spoiled me quite as much now as they had done when I was a boy, the days glided by deliciously, till suddenly a shock fell upon ine, and threatened to blight all my future life.

Soon after arriving my native town, I noticed a growing depression in Anna's (my wife's) manners. If I had left her alone for a hour, I found lier in tears, which she soon dried at the sight of me. Another peculiarity that I rallied her upon, although vainly, was that she never would sit alone in her apartment but with locked doors, and not till she heard my voice, and was convinced that it was 1, wou Id she be induced to open the door. Again, in the streets of our town Bhe was timid, and avoided observation. These were faint clouds rising in our roseate horizon, but they filled me at times wit| a vague feeling.

Let me hasten to the finale, and get the worst over. We were in the third week of our honeymoon, when my youngest sister proposed a visit to a circus that was showing fn the outskirts of the town. Our visit was fixed for that night. She had made

pation or pleasure was almost cnuaiiKc. The usual stale programme of a traveling circus had been nearly completed, to the delight of my townspeople, if not to mine: and as the tent was not and oppressive, I wsw congratulating myself that the end of the performance was drawing near, iff hen a sudden burst of applause greeted a gymnast who Was

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could not tell you my brain was iu a whirl. Irwas burning to drag from my w|fe thei^onfession who and what one of tj|?se m^B was to her. The music, the limits, the revolving figures of the two g^jnas^—the scene will ever be impressed on mf mind, as will the cry, the shriek, the heavy falling of. a body through the air, the sea of frightened faces arouiul me, and a voice heard above the din and confusion calling, ''Order, order! Ladies and gentlemen. 1 assure"—but I know no one hears any more—and the ring master! How strange! In the excitement. I take notice that lie appears for the first time in my memory without- his military cap. Crushing to the entrance, dragging my half-fainting sisters into the open air—"Is he dead?" ""Do you think he is killed?" echoed on all sides—I turn and look for my wife. She had fled.

I found lier, many hours afterwards, by the death lied of her husband. Yes. that man that bull-headed brute, was her husband. She shrank from him as she confessed the truth. He had tried to train lier as a traieze performer, he had beaten and ill-useu her and she had run a\v:y from him when they landed in New York. Her story to me hail been a tissue of lies. Her one excuse—she loved mc. That, at lesist, I know to be true.

The man is dead. I loveiMier. and I married her the second time.

Diphtheria.

AN IOWA PHYSICIAN'S MODE OF TREATMENT.

Dr. W. A. Seott, of Sandyville, sendu the following communication to the Chicago Inter-Ocean: "I have noticed in the newspapers llio terrible ravages of that fearful disease, diphtheria, and, knowing tliat. death by this disease would be an unusual occurrence if proper treatment was used, I send you mine, which I have used for about fifteen years, and through several terrible epidemics, with invariable success, if the directions were followed and the remedy used in any reasonable sUige of the disease.

The disease is very dangerous because of its want of pain, or symptoms, to show its terrible character, and the whole system is frequently under its poisonous influence before the danger is suspected. This need not be when the disease is prevailing, for if there is any complaint of the throat it should be carefully examined, and .the trouble can be easily detected by the whitish-looking patches of mucus adhering to the tonsils,

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form on the trapeze a feat the name of which took at least the syllables to properly express.

He was a large muscular man, bullnecked and headed, with an evil eye, I thought, is I accidentally caught his glance directed—No! not at me, but straight at my wife, who turned deathly pale. I saw like a flash of lightning, so swift and subtle was it, the

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between them. I never turned my h«ad I never looked at my wife again I was hot and cold, and sat still as death, with aselfenforced calmness that was terrible to endure, while suspicion, jealousy, and a burning sense of wrong gnawed at my

The gymnast had just acknowledged the applause, when a young man dressed like him. bounded into the ring, He, too, bowed hb acknowledgement or the reception, and then the performance began. Both were perforating on the same trap ese. 1 saw these men, and yet I saw them not What evolutions they performed I

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at the top of the throat. The isease is undoubtedly local at the start, and I treat it as such. It is always contagious, and, I think, infectious also, so one should use great cure to luvu separate, and cleanse thoroughly before use by others, everything which is used bv the sick, and the room should be well ventilated and the temperature kept comfortable—not too hot.

Dissolve twenty grains of pure permanganate of potassa in one ounce of water, and apply it to tlio alilicted purls with a swab, gently but thoroughly, every three hours until better then not so often. After the patient gets better, weaken the solution by adding an equal quantity of water. This solution does not give any pain, nor is there any danger in its use, but it has a nasty taste which is its only objection.

Apply the following liniment to the throat outside, three to four times a day: Sweet oil, aqua ammonia, spirits of turpentine, of each half an ounce mix together.

Keep a cotton cloth, not woolen, around the throat till well. The above is all I use in simple cases, and all that is needed.

If there is much fever, I mix live drops of liquid extract of aconite root with four ounces of water, nnd give to a small child one-fourth of a teaspoonful a child 5 to 10 years, half a teaspoonful 10 to 15 years a teaspoonful over that age two teaspoonfuls. Give every one or two hours, as may seem needed to cool the fever.

If there is blood poisoning, which may be known by the bad-smelling breath and quick beating of the heart, give: Ex. chloroform, one fluid drachm com p. spts. lav., one drachm alcohol, one ounce mix. Five to twenty drops, according to age, mixed in cold water, every Iiour to two hours, as may seem necessary. This will quickly quiet the heart's tumultuous action, and aid it to tlirovv off the poison. Do not give harsh physics. If needed, give castor oil or purgative magnesia. Keep the patient

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from exposure to chilly air or cold baths. This treatment, which I have published in several medical journals, will rob this disease of its terrors, and save from the grave many a loved one.

Is It Strange 1

A correspondent writes to tho editor of the Sycamore Free Prm, and says "It seems to me marvelous how incorrectly newspaper men manage to record incidents of the day." The editor very truthfully mi UbLWI

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reliable. When it is remetnlered how great an amount it requires to fill a newspaper, how many Bteps have to be taken, sometimes for what proves to be a simple item, the only wonder is, as we have said, on the other side of the question. It iff pimply nonsensical for any one to suppose a reporter can see every thing that takes place or hear all that is said. He often has to go by the word of others Is it remarkable, then, that occasional Iv he prints an error, either through willfnl or unintentional misinformation? The carpers who have the most to sny about mistakes are just the ones that would soonest tire of newspaper work and send forth the most bogus intelligence."

One «r tfee Kr«f. Indi*n«potiK New*.

Their is not ranch disptttc arnotijET publicans that the Hayes administration will go into history as one of the purest and best the counliy ever had

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Louisville Courier-Journal: Kentucky will show a great advance in population and In industries.