Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 March 1872 — Page 1

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Vol. a.—No. 36.

THE MAIL.

Office, 142 Main Street.

Additional City News.

THIS has been a very quiet week.

THE note of blue bird has not yet been heard. TBRRE-HAGTE, in addition to its other popular appellations, is attaining that ol "the city of cheap fuel."

THK services of a regular lecturer will soon be secured by the Spiritual Society of this city.

3 "GIVE me neither poverty nor riches" is the text of Rev. Mr. How's seremon to young people to-morrow evening.

THE Order of Patrons of Husbandry is being revived in this vicinity. A State Orange was organised this week.

THIS is a lovely spring day and the strreets are full of city and country people, greatly to the delight of the merchants.

TTAE City Court thin week has been remarkably quiet. Less cases have been»docketed than for any week within a year.

THB sale of tickets for the Moulton Concort commenced this morning at B. G. Cox's, and at the time we write the seats are being taken rapidly.

TOUTE'H BAND plays next week, on Mondny for tho Mrennerchor Fancy Dress Bull, on Tuesday at Mattoon, and on Friday at Sullivan.

MARSH H. SOHOOLEV is preparing to move, on Monday, his Wheeler A Wilson sewing machine office to Hudson's building, opposite the postofflce, where he is fitting up elogant quarters.

THE Vandalia road has a contract for 11 fly cars' from the car works of the Southern Penitentiary. The first car was turned out this wofik. It ls^also tho first car made at tho works,

THK Kellogg, Carrington, Paige, Klibourno and Richardson party had a line success with their second concert at Danville last night. They go on a similar mission to Mattpn next Wednesday ovonlng..

THE Station House record for the past month shows 82 commitments: 17 drunks, 13disorderlies, 2 fighting, 2 larcony, 1 shooting in city, 1 insane, 1 associating. 1 rape, 1 refugee and 43 transients -it

OIL.—The Chorry street oil well is now yielding about ten barrels a day of very line lubricating oil. We are informed that Mr. Rose is making preparations to rim out and thoroughly tost his oil well in the rear of the Terre»3laute House. &

THK LEAVEN WORKS. Mossrs. 3/IIommedlen, fltther and son, who were hero with the Cincinnati excursion party, have been in the city again this week, Investigating the feasibility of establishing iron and steel works. We learn, that they were favorably Impressed. .. *. T*"

THERE has been "much talkee" on the streets for a couple of weeks, about newspaper changes, consolidations, etc., but we l»elleve we speak authoritatively when we say that, with the exception of this paper, the several printing establishments will be run under the same proprietorships as heretofore.

THB Fancy Dress Ball, under the auspices of the M»nnerchor, at Dowling Hall, 011 Monday eveulng, will no doubt be a superbaffair. It will have all the pleasing features of elegant and groleaqtte!coatuu»e$,without the objectionable feature o| a masquerade. A number of beautiful tableaux will be shown from the stage, a llat of which is given In an advertisement under the amusement h««d. The attendance will be large and an arrangement has been made by which ladtes and gentlemen pan be admitted to the gallery, for sev*«nty*five cent*, where the danoing, the coetumea and the tableaux may be teen to the beat advantage. -1

OUR SIWTWAWCS,—We are are pleased to MO movement in relation to paved sidewalk*. In this regard the beautiful Prairie City is sadly behind her viator cities. This apparently unenterprising stato of aflkirs, is due to the 3fcot that the natural condition of the soil, the greater part of the year, rentiers paving unnecessary, but in the early spring and late autumn, such ia not the oase. Joat now, particularly, the sidewalks are a shame and a disgrace to a city of our reputation and pretensions. We learn that the prop

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owners on south Fifth and Sixth «tre*ta.have sign filed thier determination to pave with bricks the sidewalks along those thoroughfares from Main to Park streets and a similar movement will be made along north Seventh street. Let the good work go

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[For the Saturday Evening MalLl If 1 have offended any of the brethren by eating meat, I promise never to eat meat again as long aa I live." ..

The Good Book tells how years ago, At solemn feast In eastern clime, Occurred the wondrous miracle

Of turning water into wine. But, now, behold our modern Tommy Performs a still more wondrous feat! He seta to woik his mental mill,

And grinds his liquor into meat. J.

Town-Talk.

TOWN TALK aocepts an humble position on the verge ot the Mail's reportorial staff, and makes his bow to the Mail's Innumerable readers incog. An abnormal development of modesty, growing with his growth, and strengthening with the lapse of years, induces T. T. to spread an impenetrable veil of mystery over his personal identity, and he earnestly hopes that none of his readers will be tempted to lilt a corner of modesty's shield. Like the venerable Mr. Grimes, mentioned by the poet Greene, in the only poetical effusion that ever escaped his pen, T. T. has "no malice in his mind, no ruffles on his shirt." And his temper is as unruffled as his linen. He will, therefore, "deal gently with the erring." He will speak of faults and follies, of personal peculiarities, and of many blotches on the surface of social life, but will do it as friend deals with friend, "more in sorrow than in anger." For instance, he has a word of kindly warning for ,s

TWO YOWNQ MEN

Whom he chanced to meet on Main street at a late hour, the other night. It was fortunate for them that T. T. met them just as he did, else they would have lost the respectable and responsible business positions that they hold. Why? Because soon after they had reeled and wriggled past, miserably, shamefully drunk, T. T. met their employer, who would have oveHaken and recognized them in less than two minutes, had he not been stopped and held in conversation until they turned a corner. He is a rigid man of affairs, who tolerates no dangerous habits in the young men who serve him. He knows that inebrity leads to other habits that make their victim untrustworthy. Therefore, young men, be warned. You are on a down grade, going at a fearful rate, and Ruin is tho name of the station for which you are bound. Put on the brakes. ...

IS RR HORSE OR MAN

Old Leader was as fine looking animal as ever stood between traces. He was groy, silver grey. He was well built, fine, well rounded in body, sleek and soft haired, and stout of limb. Good looks were not all. He was, or could be, all he seemed. Many a heavy load had he pulled. Out ol many a mirehole had he startod a stalled stage. At all events, he had all the credit of doing It, and it is sure that, so long as he was about, it could not have been done Without him. Sometimes the suspicion would rise that Leader did not expend as much strength as he seemed, but that the other horses did the work while he took the credit. Perhaps the suspicion was just, perhaps it was unjust. At all events, Old Leader had one peculiarity, and it was this that gave him his name. He never would draw a pound except on the" lead. He would walk in his place without fretting, keep the traces taut, but not a particle ot strength was expended more thau to keep the traces straight. So he would walk all day, and seem to those not carefully noticing, to be as faithful a horse as any ol «the six. But come to a tight pull, and it was evident that he did nothing. He was not vioioua. fie never kicked or reared or plunged. But get into a mud hole, shout, crack the whip, get all the other horses sweating and pulling with all their might, and Old Leader would be as calm as a summer evening. Not a hair was wet on him, just strength enough to keep the traces straight, not a pound more, no fret, quiet and happy woulJ he stand,— as qalet and happy as if in the stable. There was something in his manner which seemed to say to the other horses, "Why don't you start it Sometimes the suspicion would rise that just as the load was about to move, he managed in a sly way to prevent it, either by drawing back a little, or, oflener, by exerting an influence to make (mo or more of the team pull less. There waa also in his manner something which teemed to say to the driver and passengers, "Yon can't get this load started, but I can I wont do it though." Neither would he, except upon one consideration, and that was that he be put oa the lead. Lay aside whip, give up urging and fretting and coaxing, lay down the lines, and surrender unconditionally. Then get off the box, unhitch the traces of Leader, pat him, talk of his fine qualities, bat be ex4

QIS, THOS. M. BROWN*.

Bays Tommy Browne, If I offend In eating meats, ray wars 111 mend, And, never, while I live, I swear,

IH get upon another tear.

We all have read what Shaksneare said, There's nothing In a name For call arose what else you choose,

Its smell Is Just the same. It must be so, since Tommy Browne When he would drive a dicker, And win a vote from Sobersides,

Don't know his meat from liquor.

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Amusement Notes*"*

Moulton Concerts Opera HouseTuesday and Wednesday evenings. Mrs. F. W. Lander has been playing at the Chicago Academy of Music this week. \^,7

Two little Fa'nchons execute the shadow dance on Maggie Mitchell's hearthstone.

Neither Dowling Hall or the Opera House have been open'for any purpose this week. ,•

Christine Nilsson will return to England in April. She has an engagement to fulfill in London.

There are more variety theatres and low dance-houses in Chicago to-day than ever before. ,"2

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TERRE-HATJTE, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1872.

ceedingly careful neither to give any attention to any of the other horses, or attempt to lead him even out of hla place. After such a time as should make it seem to be a perfectly voluntary act on his part, he would walk quietly to the front and take his position. At this time it was necessary to unhitch the former leader and put him in the place which Old Leader had left. Now it was safe to get en board, but not a word must be said, not a hint given that it was desirable to start, for thitf would spoil all. In due time, and often it was due a long while, Old Leader would make signs of starting. The rest of the team then might venture to prick their ears, but must not be allowed to start till Leader did. Finally, when patience of driver, passengers and horses was so exhausted that they were ready for any effort, Old Leader would signify that the hour had come. Then passengers and driver must tug at the wheels, and every horse must do his level best, and out would come the load, Old Leader complacently taking all the credit. The real truth was that the load would have moved long before if an ordinary horse had been in his place. It was also often true that many a horse not half as strong as he pulled five times as much as he did. That is the way he got his name. Is it horse or man

Lotta has been delighting the people of Indianapolis this week. Wish she would come this way.

The Msennerchor Fancy DresS Ball at Dowling Hall, on Monday evening promises to be an elegant affair.

The report that Anna Dickinson will soon make her debut on the stage in tragedy is again circulated.

The Hoi man family are making preparations for an extended tour of variety business through the country.

Prof. Seager, who conducted a musical convention in this city some years ago is getting readv to cantate at Pittsburgh. af t*

Prof. B. F- Baker, who was here last summer, conducted a successful musical convention at Sterling, Illinois last week.

Josh Billings lectured at Indianpolis on last Tuesday evening on "What I know about hotels, their uses and abuses."

Circuses and traveling outside snows are already preparing for the Summer campaign and promise to be more numerous than ever.

Manning's Mintrels, with the veteran W. W. Newcomb, are at Pikes Opera House, Cincinnati, and will be here this spring.

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White's Dramatlo troupe from Indi' anapolis played three nights this week at Harlan's Hall, Marshall. Mr. White took over with him a handsome drop curtain which is to be a permanent fixture of the Hall.

F. G. White played Rip Van Winkle at Indianapolis, for his benefit last Monday evening. He may do well in the ftinny first act, but for the life of us we cannot comprehend how he can play serious in the last act.

We learn that a company has been formed with a paid-in capital of 91,000,000, for the purpose of erecting in Chicago a museum, opera bouse and a leoture hall. The museum Is to be the best that oan be devised, and the opera house will be a magnificent structure. The oldest manager In Chicago is at the head of the enterprise, and the building well be commenced during the summer of this vear. ..

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Mrs. Moulton, who comes to lis next week, gives a Matinee performance at Louisville this afternoon and sings at Evansville on Monday evening.

Prof. H. M. Fay and "Anna, the Little Blonde," as she is termed in the announcement, appeared nightly this week, at Louisville, in "thrilling and astounding spiritual phenomena.

Pro fa.

Kilbourne and Paige, Miss

Kellogg, Miss Carrington, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson repeated their concert as Danville last evening, for the benefit of the two

gentlemen first named.

We are pleased to learn that there is a promise that the Evansville Philharmonic Society, nnder the directorship of C. C. Gennng, Paymaster of the E. AC.R.R. will produce "Belshaxsar" at our Opera House, in a few weeks— with grand solos, magnificent chorus and good orchestra. We promise them a cordial greeting.

When Olive Logan lectured in Nashville the Mil-poster stuck one of her lecture-strips over patent medicine poster in such a way that this surprising combination resulted RHEUMATISM FOSrnVEi.Y CCMD IN TEK

DAYS!

TRY ONE BOTTLE 6R

OLIVE LOGAN'S "GIRLS." A Pennsylvania paper, speaking of songstress, says: "She beats cats on high notes. There wss no music or chest tone in her voice, bat it wss shout six octaves above the screech of lost Indian, and would have thrown out of conceit with itself an enterprising railroad whistle." This Is what Is called high-toned criticism in Pennsylvania.

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People and Things.

Stokes is called the "dandy assassin." Nasby says Griswold is the greatest wit in America.

The Tribune is now called the only comic paper in New York.

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John Calvin has been fined for profane swearing. He lives in Ohio. It transpires at this late date that John Adams was jealous of G. Washington. "Doctor: Come to Jesus," was the order a Sedalia physician found on his slate. f|

The Pittsburgh Gazette calls Mark Twain "an over-estimated clown." This is very sad.

Adam's nativity has at last been discovered.

to Darwin,

a germ-man.*' Ifprtr.' Carl Schurz, when he speaks, wears spectacles, stands behind his chair and gesticulates freely.*

Master Fred. Grant, rumor says, is to be married to aNew York lady on his return from Europe. More relations!

Weston, of the gifted legs, is trying to get a divorce irom Mrs. W. If the latter is sensible she will make no opposition. ft Mi •,

A celebrated clergyman recently said that he had found more good in bad people, and more bad in good people than he ever expected.

Josh Billings says: "If a man has got eighty thousand dollars at interest, and owns the house he lives in, it ain't much trouble to be a philosopher."

Andrew Jackson's Adjutant has begun to die. William Thompson was the last one of him who shuffled off this mortal coil, but there are as many of him left as there was of George Washington's nurses at one time.' ,*

The little busy barkeeper in Boston, eludes the shining law by putting two barrels ot whiskey into a molasses puncheon and filling up the puncheon with molasses. When a customer calls he pumps whisKy out through the bunghole when a constable calls, he runs molasses off through the faucet.

A Connecticut paper speaks of a dejected individual who asked the editor what the charge was for inserting a notice of the death of his wife. On being told that it would be done for nothing, he brightened up considerably,and observed that "death had been robbed of half its terrors."

The principal of an Episcopal boarding school for boys in Boston, requested their, to select some article of food with whhch they would dispense during Lent. A conference was held with "closed doors," and after mature deliberation, they unanimously decided that they would dispense with hash!

Buck McKlnney, a life convict in the Southern Prison and formerly a Democratic politician of Columbus, Indiana, says the way matters are now shaping themselves it won't be long until it will be a mark of disgrace fora man to be seen outside of the penigrotiary. Bnck don't propose to comdjoot until his time expires, anyhow.

There is snob a thing as being "too smart." A Detroit thief went to the door of a house,rang the bell and asked the servant to call her mistress, as be hsd particular business with her. The Isdy came, when the stranger Informed her that Mr. naming the name on the door plate, hsd sent him to the house to get twenty dollars which waa doe him. But for one thing he might have got the* money. The lady's husband had been dead seven years.

Pleasant Crispins they have in Washington. Their mode qf securing customers Is novel, if not effectual. The Star of that city chronicles an Instance where a lady visited a shoe store, snd trying on a number of pairs of shoes without finding fit,was sbont to leave, when the proprietor waxed wroth^lapped the lady In the face and catching her none between his fingers, wrung it so that the lady's nose bled, and ahe was forced to call a police officer to her aid and have the Irate ahoemaker a re

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Fashion Chit-Chat.

Hot soup produces a red nose. Ladles complain of the great dearth of clever men in society.

A real lady oan always be told by her gloves and handkerchiefs. Three skirts insisted of two, worn one above the other, is to be the faahion for street costumes next season.,

The fringe and lace for trimming a dress frequently costs more than the material itself.

A sarcastic young lady says the most unpleasant things in nature are lovers and pigs

The science oi good manners, says a oelebrated author, is to know when and how to keep still.

White cravats for gentlemen in full dress are no longer considered comrne faut, and black silk, black or brown lace, has been substituted. Vi

Black grenadines, trimmed with light-colored satins and silks, and flounced to the waist are very much used for full dress this winter for married or middle-aged ladies.

Ladies think that there ought to be a law against men smoking bad cigars in public places. There is a law—the law of politeness—but it is often violated.

The newest style of silver spoons, forks, pie-knives, etc., has the bowls of gold, and the handles the shape of a flower, with carved leaves, buds, roses, and lilies of the valley in frosted silver.

It has been considered the correct thing among fashionable young men in the eastern cities the past winter,' when a lady asks them to escort her to a party, to present her with a handsome boquet in a silver boauet holder. "ft*

The New York Mail is our authority for saying that a reform has taken place ately which is much to be praised, and that is that ladies have discarded pearl powder, rouge, blue pigment for the veins, and black for encircling the eyes, and show themselves now with the complexion which nature has bestowed noon them, be it good, bad, or indifferent

Here are some general directions that will be found useful: Eyes continue to be worn on each side of the nose and immediately under the brows. Black, blue and gray are still worn in the home circle, and are found very becoming in the nursery, at the family teatable, and social evening gathering. Noses maintain their position on the center of the faee. The grecian or aquiline are preferred but snubs have held their places, in defiance of a most determined opposition, and at present are looking up. Lips are midway betweeen the nose and point of the chin and area pale pink. The coral variety is no longer tolerated, except in girls not yet come out. Teeth will be somewhat larger, and of a bluish tint to correspond with the complexion, which must be dead white and magenta red. Ears are worn, on each side of the bead, with the hair all carried up, so as to give them a peculiar appearance of alertness.

Feminitems.

The young lady who refused a mechanic and married an editor now wishthat she had her old chance back again.

An old lady near Monroeville, Ind., shouts hallelujah because ahe has a daughter who Is not ashamed to work at the spinning wheel. 1

It is positively asserted that a majority of our girls would give up the fashion of wearing false hair if they only had some of their own. "Hair manure" Is what a young lady inquired for in one of the Keokuk drug stores last waek, when she wanted a bottle of hair renewer.

A young lady In Philadelphia hai become permanently insane from freezing her forehead. She went out sleighfltdlng, wearing a fashionable bonnet. flf"Now, then, children," said a Parish ^school-mistress, showing her pupils off on examination day, "who loves all men T" "You, missus," was the unexpected answer.

A Western girl who has been well brought np knocks down over man that kisses her, and she is so pretty that half tho married snd all the single men tn town hsve black eyes.

The first womsn voter ol Wyoming was an old lady seventy years of age, who voted on her way from the baker's and went to the polls with a yeast pitcher In one band and the ballot In the other.

Troy gtrlsnse their leap year prerogatives in a very decided manner. A young man in that city called upon his sweetheart, the other evening, snd when he arose to depart, be found the pockets, sleeves, button holes, etc., of his overcoat sewn fiast while his hat wss stuck full of pins. The young man is pious, so he didn't swear. But as be went home he kept repeating a hymn backwards. Mi

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Price Five Cents.

An Illinois woman rejoices in a "beautiful mustache and a coal black Imperial." Most women rejoice in the possession of the same adornments but they prefer a man with them.

The Chicago Post wants to familiar-' ise married men with this Important chemical foot:

If vour mother-in-law should take strychnine, don't give her opium immediately afterwards, or else the two drugs will unite forming an anomalous and harmless compound, and her life will be prolonged.

A distinguished aeronaut atatea, as If It were something to wonder at, that a woman's voice may be heard at an altitude of two miles from the earth, while that of a man never reaches above a mile. Surely It Isn't neoessary to go up in a balloon to find out that women^ pitch their voices higher than men.

The Woman Suffrage Association of Maine, having petitioned the Legislature to grant them suffrage, a faoetlous member moved to refer the petition to Committee on Change of N«mes,whereupon Mr. Barker, of Exdter, Chairman a it to

Yes, let them meet us at the polls. I Though dressed In gown and Jacket, If they oan stand onr sordid souls,

We'll try to stand tlielr racket.

A number of Michigan girls recently ascended the pyramids with the emperor ol Brasil, and one of them wrote home that the emperor not being sufficient for the emergency, the young ladies were assisted in their ascent by rude natives. Unfortunately the letter was published in a Kalmnazoo paper, and the sentence chronicling this oircumstanoe metainorposed into "we were assisted in our ascent by nude natives."

Miss Atnl&da Way, the tfeil-knrfwn temperance advocatjp and editor, has been licensed as a preacher by the North Indiana Conference. Speaking of this new departure, the Winchester Journal says:

Miss Amanda Way has been lioensed as a preacher by the M. E. Church, and on Sabbath evening last preached at the M. E. Church in this city. A larger portion of her discourse was written, and partook more of the character of a well wrilten essay than of a sermon. The audience was a large one, and listened attentively to the speaker. Miss Way is a pleasant speaker, but we agree with her brother in his opinion that she speaks much better without manuscript than with it. .While some of the other denominations are squabbling over this question of woman preaching, we are glad to see the Metnodists of this district take this forward step in this right direction. Miss Way has the ability and will doubtless make a valuable accession to the ministry, and she has our well wishes for unbounded success In her new field of labor. We believe she is the first licensed lady preacher in the North Indiana Conference, if not in the State.

TAKE IT TO YOUR HOME.—It Is so much the fashion nowadays to convey Information, and moral truths and sentiments, In the form of Stories, that even some popular lecturers have adopted this style of address. The mass ot people, especially the young, demand stories to such a degree, that papers filled with sensational novels and exeiting, trashy stuff, have a wide circulation. To forestall this taste, and supply something better to the masses, the Publishers of Hearth and Home, In ad dition to the usual variety of that paper, have engaged a corps of first-class writers, among whom are Jean Ingelow, Edward Eggleston, Mary E. Dodge, Louisa M. Alcott, Edward Everett Hale, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Rose Terry, Maria R. Oakoy, Lucia G. Runkle, and many others who furnish to this Journal the best Original Stories, of the purest character and highest grade—thus conveying much instruction in a pleasing form. Besides these, the weekly Hearth and Home contains a large amount of first-class reading, editorials, literature, art, science, amusement instruction for the housekeeper, the gardener, the farmer a capital department for Children and Youth the news of the day financial and market reports, etc. Its engravings, costing over |25,000 a year, are of a high order of merit, unsurpassed by any illustrated paper in the world. Altogether Hearth and Home Is such a Journal as may be safely and very profitably taken Into any family. It is supplied at the low rate of |3 a year four copies for fu and ten or more oopies for $2*50 esoh. Orange Judd A Co., Publishers, M6 Brofdwsy, New York City.

A NEW WAT or FARMINGOWSHAKES. —The following conversation is vouched for ss true to the letter, by one of our sovndest citizens:

As Mr. John W. B. walked^over to Main street, lsst Saturdsy, he met with a farmer of the nomadic Kind, owning no land, always "moving," "renting," "cropping on shares," etc. Mr. B. had lost sight of him for some time, snd on mating asked, "WelL Cuppens, where do reu live now •w the Widow Stiven's place."

J^Are^ou renting?"

"Boaght, may be?" ., "Not been buying." "Cropping on shsres, then "Weil, sorter crapping on the sheers^ for you see the widow, snd me is married!"—Lexington (Va.) Gazette* 1 $