Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 June 1871 — Page 7

GOOD-NIOHT.

11Y HESTER A. BENEDICT.

[We Uike pleasure in re-publishing this beautiful poem which appeared IntheMAiL three or four months ago.] Good-night, dear friend! I Bay good-night to thee

Across the moonbeams, tremulous and white, ..Bridging all space between u« it may be.

Lean low sweet friend! it IH the last goodnight:

For, lying mute upon rny couch and still, The fever-flush evanishwl from my face, 1 heard them whisper softly, "Tis his will:

Angels' will giv# her happier resting place!"

7"'

And

HO,

from sight of

TEAM

rain,

that fall like

And sound of nobbing smothered close and low, I turn my whit

face

to the window-pane,

To hay Ci'xxi-ni'jhl to thee before I go.

Good-night, good-night! I do not fear the end, The conflict with the billows dark and high And yet, if could touch thy hand, my friend.

I think it would be easier to die:

If I could feel. through all the quiet waves Of my deep hair, thy tender breath athrill, I could go down to tin- place of graven

With wyes n»tilne and pale lips smiling Mill

Or If may be that If, through all the strife And pain of parting, 1 nhould hear thy call, I should come surging back to sweet, sweet life.

And know no mystery of death at all.

Jit may not be. Good-night, dear friend, good-uight! And when you sec the violets again. And hear, through boughs with swollen buds awhile,

The gentle falling of the April rain.

Uemember her whose young life held thy name. With all things holy, In ItM outward flight. And turn sometimes from busy haunts of men

To hear again her low Good-night, goodnight

extra era from the "dra w-

ER" 1X If A Rl'ElVX MAGAZINE

FUJI ./ I'L Y.

In one of the interior connties of Missouri lived, some eight years ago, a man who followed preaching for a living. .lie was cullod Elder and was engaged to preach to the Campbellites. His peculiarities soon made him (|uito noted, and large audiences assembled to hoar him. of late ho has abandoned tlio pulpit, and is now a jiistice-ol'-the-poaco lawyer. On one occasion, when at the zenith of his fame, ho preached a discourse on the I deliverance of the children of Israel, in which lu* said "Brethren, there aro many dilllcult passages in tho Bible, and yon are likely to be led into error unless ide to understand thorn. Now, vim all have read this chapter wherein

Sloses stretched out his hand ovor tho Ked Sea, and tho waters became a wall, and the children of Israel went over on dry ground safely, nud how tho pursuing Egyptians, and chariots and horsemen, and all the hosts of l'liaraoh were drowned. Now, by brethren, as this reads it is hard to believe and ilittieult to oxplain but will explain it. It don't mean what It says fori havo read in the original (.reek, and it is there all explained and made perfectly plain and in the next translation of the Bible, which our church is getting out, it will all bo explained. Now this passage of .Scripture, when properly e*plirtnod, menus simply this. When Moses anil tho children of Israel arrived at the Ked Sea they camped all night, and it turned cold, and a "strong oast wind" caused It to freeze over anil the truth of the whole matter is plain, as you can soo, that tho children of Israel passed over, "dry-shod," on the. ice. Thero were no such things as great walls. The original Ureek will not pormit ol any such dilllcult translations. And again, when the Egyptians, with their immense armies, heavy chariots, and great weights, pursued the children on tho ice, they broke through it, and were all ingulfed, row noil, and lost. This, my brethren and sisters, is the true and fair explanation of this oireunistanco, and the original Greek in the next translation will explain it to you all, and make it plain."

At this point a brother sitting back in the congregation arose and said, "Brother B——, I would liko to ask a tiuesilon. if you havo no objections."

The elder, looking triumphantly toward the brother, answered, "All right, sir ask just as many questions as you want to.'* "Well," continued the brother, "my knowledge of myography and tho location of the Hed Sea snows that it is located nearly under tho equator, and Is therefore In a very warm country, and never known to he frozen. Will the gentleman please tell the audience where the ice came from of which he wpoke?"

The elder became excited, and answered, with loftv disdain, "If the brother who naked me the question knew half as much about the Scripture and the geography of the country as he pretends to ho would know, that this Hreumstnneo which I explained happened thousands and thousands ot years ago yes, sir, thousands of years Iwfore the age of geographies, and before there w«.i any tifiintor I think, i.. brethren and sisters, I havo answered tho gentleman completely!"

The old Charleston good livers boasted of their wines, and some of their J* collar* were stored with the oldest and best. One of them, the well-known j. said that he had $70,(KM.) worth '•'of wine in his cellar when his house was burned during the war. He thought himself, and was thought to bo. tho best nidge of wine in the State. At a dinner party where he was a guest it was secretly arranged to bring him into disgrace in the matter of judgment, and the host sent out to a corner grocery, and (br a dollar bought a bottle of wine, and had it put upon the table as a specimen rare and extraordinary. Mr. I*—— pronounced it the Iwst they had had, and said he. "I recognine the vintage— it is 1T7: there is nothing better than this in America." The shout of laughter that followed assured him that he was sold, and the host explained that he had just procured it "around the corner." "Send lor the man," said Mr. I* "and let me see if this is so."

The man soon appeared, and Mr. L—— •aid to him, "Now I will hold you harmless if you will tell me frankly where YOU got that bottle of wine." "Well," answered the grocer, "if you will know, I taught it of on© of your niggers!"

So Mr. had them all, and the laugh was oa the other side.

The following description of R«»bP- $ •plerro la the most concise and best we have met:

A small, lean looking man, weak limbs, always palpitating with a nerS

TOUS shiver, and a timid, Irresolute gait, His drew* is faultlessly neat and precise. Head powdered, not a single hair awry. Bright blue coat buttoned tightly al the hips, but open at the hut's *11.

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chest to display the spotless white waistcoat yellow breeches, white stockings, shoes and buckles. This cos tume is never varied, except that the shoes are sometimesjexchanged for topboots. The face is sharp and peaky the forehead projects over the temples, and is compressed at each side like that of a wild beast eves blue, deeply sunken, with heavy lids, and a latent savage sparkle nose small, straight, expanded at the nostrils mouth large lips thin and pallid, and compressed at the corners chin small and pointed complexion yellow, livid, cadaverous. Habitual expression grave, with a halfsweet, half-sinister smile. Every muscle of the face working with a ceaseless twitch. Over the whole a terrible expression of concentrated purpose, when he speaks his gestures are awkward, his fingers work nervously his voice is shrill and discordant when agitated by rage or exultation it sounds like the scream of a hvena.

'"A OKN'TI.F.MAN" of this city, witty and agreeable, but with a slight impediment of speech, had it in his heart to Ijecome the possessor of a pure black-and-tan terrier, for which he was willing to pay a liberal price. A superior little brute was soon brought to him by a dog-fancier, who demanded for it the modest price of fifty dollars. Not being disposed to check for that figure unless sure that the dog was a good ratter, ho proposed to the party to meet him next day at a pit where dogs and rats were brought for sanguinary contest, and try him with a rat. Agreed. Next day, our friend having obtained a first-class rat of the "wharf" species, had hitn conveyed to the theatre of strife. Both were at the same moment thrown into the arona. After being pursued for a moment the rat turned, mado a spring at tho terrier, caught him on the lip, and made hiin howl with pain. In short, "he had him." Our purchaser turned and said, "I d-d-don't think your d-d-dog's g-good for anything. I)-il-don,t you want to b-b-buy my r-r-ral 1

It scarcely seemed worth the prico we were about to pay, and "Roe" seomod to be more thoroughly impressed with this idea than any ono else. Suddenly an idea entered his mind stepping out of the ranks, he stuttered, wildly, as he always did when excited, "I say, kick-kiek-captain, 1-1-1-let us gig-gig-get up a s-s-s-s-subseription and pip-pip-pay for tho cussed old gun."

NOT long since, during an exciting protracted meeting held in ono of the 1 rentier towns of Michigan, a man named Wilson, who for some years had sold milk to the villagers, becoming seriously alarmed at his spiritual condition, wont lorward to tho anxious seat, and solicited the prayers of tho conrogatlon. In due time he became pentent, and arose to make his confession. Among other transgressions of which he had been guilty, he owned to having frequently watered the milk he had sold. Tn'the midst of his confession, while tolling the milk story, tho minister, a very worthy man, who despised cheats of all kinds, exclaimed, "Sit down, sit down, Brother Wilson! If you say much more they'll have you in the penitentiary in less than a week!"

Brother Wilson sat down.

IN the way of manly frankness and patriotism, and at tho same time as evincing a knowledge of "seven up," wo havo seen nothing more satisfactory than the following resolution recently adopted with pleasing unanimity by tho bar of Nashville, at a lato term of tho County Court: irtf. That the portrait now placed over the chair of the Judge of this court, anil purporUitK to he the likeness of the father of our country,

General Ucorjre Washington,

but which looks more like the Jack of clulw, be removal from tills hall, unit the court house committee 1H» authorial to have a true likeness of the pure and patriotic George Washington put in Its place.

THK deeay of a nation comes sooner or later just as of an apple or a ship or a monument. Rut is it possible that a great nation like France is already mouldering awav as fast as General de Trobrland would have us believe Returning to this country from a visit to his native land, ho reports to The Snn the following melancholy words "The extent of corruption which the Empire has carried throughout every part ot society is astonishing. Demoralisation is universal among people of every class and he sees no solid ground oh which the nation can lie again built up Into greatness. Vigor of character, morality, all the manly virtues, seem to be gone. The nation is in dissolution, (lecllne—military, political, social and how to extricate it from its calamities is in his view an insoluble problem." Gen. de. Trobriand's statement is entitled to great consideration. Rut we are not prepared to believe that a nation which, one yearago. by common repute, stood at the head of the world's civilization, is now tumbling into collapse. France ia not old enough to die of longevity, and Is too vital to bleed to death front the wounds of a single war. With a settled government based on liberty, France will yet resume her equal sovereignty among the European States*.—Gttltlm Ape.

Winc« was right? de

rlr

It is related of Mrs. Siddons that' once, when dining at the country-seat of a friend, she frightened out of his wits a servant, who, wnen on the point of handing her tho butter, withdrew it quickly, saying, "Excuse me a moment, madame— there's a 11 in the butter."

To which tho groat actress, assuming a look and tone of intense horror, extlairned:

A Jh/, .say yr How gat he there Something of the same sort comes to us fresh from Rome of her neiee, Fanny Komble, of whom many droll stories aro told in society of her withering speeches to indiscreet persons. One of the drollest is this A meek young man was presented to her, and unluckily opened the new-born conversation with: "I hoar you have very line hotels in America." "Silt! I have no hotels in Amarica in a measured, contemptuous voice, that caused that young man to retreat with alacrity.

A gentleman who was on the South orn side during our late little misunderstanding relates tho following: "Roe," of our company, used to stammer fearfully, and while having a judicious admixture of prudence in his valor, was still ono of tho best and pluckiest of all. Ono of our guns had I boon captured by the Yankeos, and tho next morning the order camo down ••o recapture it il possible. It was a fearful task and as wo stood drawn up awaiting tl.e order to move forward at the double-quick, wo felt instinctively that many of us would stay around the spot where tho lost gun was.

Whero are two

accounts of the destruction of the Oolonne Vendonieo, one says it was broken into three pieces—the other that it was shatted into ten thousand fragments. There's a little discrepancy ol

it i-.

SUPPRESSING A BORE. A lawyer of more than local repute, ,G by name, dwelling and practicing his profession in a city not far from

Boston, had for a long time suffered the annoyance of an intolerable bore. Old A was known to every one as a meddlesome creature without grace or modesty, who invaded the sanctity of every office in the place, peered into private papers, always gave his opinion unasked, whoever might be present, and in brief, made a chronic nuisance of himself. Vexed at last beyond all measure, determined to give the party such a thrust as would pierce even his elephantine hide. Turning blandly upon A one afternoon, in the midst of half a dozen clients, after a series of beorish aggravations, the lawyer said:

My dear Mr. A you must have observed that my office is well arranged for the purposes for which it is designed. It

O, yes, I have often noticed that," the bore pleasantly interrupted, thinking, perhaps, that the counselor was about to express a sense of gratification in having him there.

It is warm, shady, well-lighted and well-ventilated Yes, yes, an unusually fine office, Mr. ."

And well-furnished with chairs, tables books, and stationery. Then, too, I ha^e an elegant house up town "Yes, indeed," the old fellow chuckled, rubbing his hands in the charming prospect of an invitation to dine with the Lawyer. "A beautiful, house, Mr. I have often heard."

Yes, it is, if I do say it. It has an abundance of room, gas and water all all over it it is splendidiy furnished, and very recherche as the French would say." •I've no doubt of it," softly murmured the victim. 'That place cost me ten thousand dollars if it did a cent. I have excellent servants, and they do say that I ive good dinners."

Ah, yes, Mr. I know you do." Now, these places, Mr. A both my office and my house, ore especially intended for the use of my friends—for their business and pleasure

Yes, Mr. For my friends, sir! And," continued the lawyer, glaring fiercely into the eyes of the astonished A and bringing his fist down thundcringly upon the table, "by George, sir, I don't want you at either place i,

Antl he never did after that

WHO THE TUNKERS ARE. Tho Tunkers have no book of forms or faith. They have and use only the Bible and hymn book. In cases of offences committed by members, the accused is tried by the Bible, and such

unishment meted out as is suggested tho New Testament for the offence named.

We have no idea, says the Rockingham (Va.) Rcgistv, of the number of members connected with the Tunker Church. In the valley of Virginia they are among the most numerous of the religious denominations. Their ministers labor without remuneration. They havo no paid officers in the church. Churches aro erected and other necessary expenses are mot by the voluntary contributions of the members. They havo no paupers. Whenever a member bocomes helpless and infirm, and unable to take care of himself, the church maintains him. Thus a Tunker pauper has never been known.

Tho Tunkers are almost universally agriculturalists. They generally aro good farmers, and are noted for their frugality and industry. As a matter of course, they are successful farmers. Their children are brought up tinder tho most stringent rules of morality. Hence tho Tunker boys'and girls, as a general thing, are examples of sound morality and propriety. It would bo a wonder to see a young Tunker drunk, or to record a violation of the proprieties by the daughters of a Tunker.

They aro opposed to litigation and lawsuits. Cotroversies between tho brethren aro settled among themselves without referring them to tho Gentile world, vi

CoNFK.SNINO SINS.—If a man lies, I think he ought to confess it, but it is not expedient to toll all our sins openly. Nothing is more disagreeablo to mo than to hear of a man's ailments. If a person has a sore, I don't want to hoar about it. I don't care to bo regaled with tho state of a man's stomaclior liver. I have ills enough of my own. Yet some people will get together and croon and talk about each others' sickness, and about corpses, and how many they havo laid out, and have a regular gravoyard banquet. It is tho same with spiritual ailments. There are times when man should make confession of specific sins. If a man has been carrying on the liquor business, and is converted, it is quite proper for him to confess that he has been doing the devil's work. If he has been engaged in any wickedness t)iat has been open to the wholo community, his repentance should be open. It is not necessary to give an inventory of all one's faults, but if we say anything it is better to be specific than generic.

TERRE-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. JUNE 24, 1871.

liownoiN College is nearly two centuries younger than HarvaVd, but has

graduated

one President of the United

tates, two Cabinet officers, two foreign ministers, seven United States Senators, twenty Congressmen, eleven Governors of Stales, eleven presidents of colleges, forty professors, four major and six brigadiergenerals, the poet Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the great romancer of America. She may well be proud of her work, though her contribution to the Presidency was anything but creditable but then the Presidency is a sort of contribution-box into which a good many nickles and brass buttons aro droppod.—Golden Age.

JjH.)l'RTH OF JULY

For One Dollar!

Printer's Excursion!

FROM TCRRE-HA1TE TO PERRVHVIL1E,

O.V E O O 1*.

Address** will *»e made by R. W. Thompson and Ttoos^Dowllng. The Declaration mf Independence will he rend fcy Frank Rennmn. Tanle'a Ml* ver Band famishes the innslr.

This will he the Larfvat Celebration ever held In Western Indian*.

FAKE FOR THE KOCXD TR1P: From Terrv-Haute and Clinton I From Montemma 75 cents From Newport so aents From Eugene, 35 cents

"yj^HEN YOU

OflE TO TERRE-HAUTE

To lay in your supply of

E A S

COFFEES

AND

STJ C3-Jk.IEtS7

!. GO DIRECTLY TO THE

New York Tea Store,

,. Whl ... WHERE YOU CAN,.

Always Find a Large Stock

TO SELECT FROM.

Tattle BdyN IVoni First Hands

AND A

Very Small Profit

SATISFIES HIM.

It's a common thing for him to retail from Three to Five Barrels of Sugar, and from Two to Three Bags of Coffee per day.

1HE OLD

I O N W O S

TERRE-HAUTE, IND.,

Are now in

First-Rate Working Order,

With a plenty of good workmen. 1 respectfully invite all who are needing

NEW MACHINERY, CASTINGS, OR OLD MACHINERY REPAIRED,

To Call and Examine my Stock.

I MANUFACTURE AND KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND Stationary A Portable Engines, Saw

A FlonrliiK Mills, ami Coal Shaft Machinery, Of the most approved Patterns. Also Corn Shelters, Cane Mills, Shingle Machines, both Hand A Pow er. Ball's Celebrated Steel Hottorn K. R. Scraper, also Cast

A Wrought Iron Scrapers,

Fotjferrf* ttse. Also a great variety of School Heats and Desks, which for beauty and durability cannot be excelled.

Together with castings of all descriptions for general use In this country, all of which I warrant to be as good as the best, both in material and workmanship, and as cheap as the cheapest, quality Uiken into considera^ tion. (ee3m) J. A. PARKER

A RT EMPORIUM,

And Music Store,

il nx- n's'

R. GAGG,

No. 91 Main Kt.lict.3d ami -Kb.

PICI'URES, FRAMES, LOOKING GLASFTESJ

Picture Framing: done lo order at Low Prices. 47-tf

piANOS.

Steinway Pianos,

The best in the World, _-

Terre-Hante Musical Institute,

OVER THE POSTOFFICE. i*

Cheaper and second hand Pianos on hand. Old Pianos taken in exchange f«r new ones at their full value. 31-6m.

•Q H. WRIGHT,

PHOTOGRAPHER,

10S MAI* STREET, fWJ-' OPPOSITE OPERA HOUSE

All Kind* of Photograph* Plnlahed la (he Finest Style. Also, Copying Old Photographs, Coloring in Oils, Ac-,

AT THE LOWEST PRICES.

AU work warranted satisfactory or na chaige. ee-3m

LIFF & SON,

*AJtCrACTCRBHS OF

Locomotive, Marine,

STATIONARY, TUBULAR,

CYLINDER BOILERS,

Iron Tanks, Sheet Iron Woifc, Door Stepc, Ac.

il-tf. Cor. Canal AMain Street.

IT I A 5 1

r-St

IcKay F. T1

ARTISTS' MATERIALS, *1 MUSICAL ISTRUMENTS VI* AND SHEET MUSIC.

loxnpson.

SOMETHING NOVEL S. R. Henderson, the Stove Man,

Is trying anew Advertising dodge. His Circulars are now all numbered, from One to Five Thousand, and one of them corresponds with a like number now on deposit at the National State Bank. The person^ vlio happens to get this number will receive Twenty Dollars in Gold.

The idea is to induce people to preserve these Circulars. The Twenty Dollars is the inducement. Of course no one feels like throwing away Twenty Dollars, and as the chance of getting it, though slim, costs nothing the scheme, as an advertisement, is meeting with great success.

A copy of the "Certificate" is appended, and an invitation extended? to all to try one:

GOLD CERTIFICATE.

JYO.

On the 25th day of December, 1ST1,1

TWEJS TY DOLLAliS IX GOLl), Provided that the following conditions are observed, to-wit 1. The blank space above must be filled up with the holder's name and address, and deposited entire at my store, between the 1 bth day of September and the 3Mh day of November, 1871. '2. The Number of this Certificate must correspond with a number selected and now sealed and deposited at the National State Bank. 3. No person shall use more than one of these Certificates for his own benefit. •1. This Certificate must be deposited by the Signer tn person.

... I adopt this as a means of advertising my Stove Store. I ofler my customers a chance to niake TWENTY DOLLARS by it. I solicit your patronage, and guarantee that I keep as line an assortment ox

STOVES, TINWARE, &c.

as can be found in Indiana, and soli as cheap. I manufacture, and do all kinds ot out-door work, such as guttering, rooting, Ac.., and warrant everything. Ingratitude is no part of my nature. If you trade with and lend me your influence I shall appreciate it, and shall endeavor to oblige you in every way possible. You shall at least never pay me iiuore for goods than you could have bought them for in another house.

These Certificates are all numbered from One to Fire Thousand, and this one is as liable as auy other number to draw the Twenty n,-•-T Dollars in Gold.

Very Respectfully, Ac., .,

R. Henderson,

111 Main St., South Side, bot. 4th ftth.1 No.

THE BRANCH OFFICE.,

w,t,J

at their officia

Wilson Sewing Machine Company Bartlett Reversible Rartraw A Fantom Manufacturing Company Lamb Knitting Manufacturing Company 421 McKay Sewing Machine Association i!»

JAS. SKATH. J. B. HAOKB. yiGO FOUNDRY

AXD

TERRE-HAUTE.,

Cars and Car Wheels

Of all kinds.

MACHINERY,

AND IIKAVl CASTINGS.

Highest price paid for Cast*Scrap Iron.

Repairing promptly attended to.

WORKS ON CANAL, ...

pRAIRIE CITY

iU sen!

CAR WORKS,

SEATH A HAGER, PKOPR'H.,

Manufacturers of

Between Main and OMo St*."

ORDERS SOLICITED. :::-r

•c SEATH* HAOBR

LAMOREUX,

TERRE-HA WTE

Marble & Granite Works,

Monuments and Tomb-Atones

In every variety, oowitantly on band and made to order.

JSIXTH ST., oppmile tknoUng Hall,,

{By Town Clock,)

I-tf. TERRE-HAUTE. INDIANA.

1ERRE-HAUTE HOUSE,

7\erre~HatUe, Indiana.

E. P. HUSTON, MtKAcn.

The Street Oar* pta thl* Home every I XinntM, from the Depot and River. The Artesian Rathn are connected \atti 1-tf. IMm HUH.

RRB-HAUTB PKiVTlNO HOUH&- A oomplete Printing buhiuntm, fww Prenea, and Ibe bwUWfcf ilaMml 0,J.taltb*ilv,

sptp

Fy to

—OF— ,• •../ u*~n. ..

THE SINGER

Sewing Hachine Company,

76 MAIN STREET, TERRE-HAUTE, 1X1).

All persons having SINGER SEWING MACHINE bought within the last five years can havo them adjusted by competent persons at this ollico

FREE OF CHARGE.

sales, Carpet ceived by agents so much noise, when the truth is that their latest improved makes loss noise and runs more rapid than anv other first-class machine in tho market. Persons wishing to satisfy themselves will be shown through their largo stock with

^According to the sworn returns tho number of machines sold by oach maimfacturer in 1870 are as follows THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY *... :....]27,fW:i Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company Howe Machine Company 7.t,l«f Grover & Baker Hewing Machine Company n7,-l(r-Weed Sewing Machine Company Wilcox A Gibbs

Sewing Machine Company

American Buttonhole & Overseainlng Company !,•. Florence Sewing Machine Company 17,««0 Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company yEtna Sewing Machine Company Empire Sewing Machine Company Finkle A Lyon Msuufacturing Company Parliam Sewing Machine Company

J,7«i

I0(i

PLANING MILLS/

CLIFT& WILLIAMS,

Mnnufticturcrs of

Sash, Boors, Blinds,

WINDOW A DOOll FRAMES,

MOULDING BRACKETS

STAIR RAILING, BALLUHTERM,

Newell Posts, Flooring, Siding,

And all description* of

FINISHING LUMBER.

Wholesale and Retail deatern In

Pine Lumber, Lath & Shingles,

Slate Roofing,

AND ROOFING FELT.

RATIONAL HOUSE,

Ji:

Ountom Rawing. Planing ami W*vl T«nIng done to order. All work war

Or. Ninth Mulberry a-tf.

COR. MAIN AND SIXTH ITi..,

Terre-Haute, Indiana.

5-«m. JA COB VTZ & SON, Propr't.

WATERS A ELDER,

O A I

PHYSICIANS,

Cherry Nlreef, bet. Clh iad 7ib. 51-U