Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 May 1872 — Page 4
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N E E N E S I N E wishes to correspond with a lady of intelligence, and accustomed to goad society, about the age of 85, of good personal appearance, who would like a home In a small, healthy, southern city, pleasantly located. None need apply that cannot make home pleasant and agreeable. All correspondence tftrlstly confidential. Address, Box 1M, Fernandlna, Florida. ap27.
ANTED-A FEW BOARDERS.—NICE rooms, well furnished. J. W. MATLOCK,
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TJOUND-TH AT ENERGETIC MEN CAN JT secure permanent and profitable employment bv calling at the HOWE SEWIHS MACHINE office, on Ohio street, between 6th and Oth streets. SIDNEY SPEED, Manager. aprt7.
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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERRE-HAUTE. MAY 18, 1872.
SECOND EDITION.
TWO EDITION*
Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Even lng, has a large circulation among burmers and others living outside of the city. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes Into the hands of nearly every reading person In the city. Every Week's Issue Is, In fact,
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TWO NEWSPAPERS,
In which all Advertisements appeaj for ONE CHARGE.
Contents of Inside Pages.
The following are the contents of the Inside pages, the 2d, 8d, 6th, and 7th, of today's Saturday Evening Mall. We think they will be found rich In variety and Interest.
SECOND PAGE.
THE HUNTER'S REVENGE—A Rooky Mountain 8tory. NEWS AND NOTINGS. CONNUBIALITIE8. ELI PERKINS ON HORACE GREELEY. EATING BREAD AND MILK-Poetry. CHIPS. The color of clothing—Very Remarkable If true—Popular Falacies—That Is the
Question, etc., etc. THIRD PAOE. HOW TO SPEND SUNDAY. RED RIDING HOOD. '-'Hi
SIXTH PAGE
MY NEIGHBOR. THE PROXY SAINT. A DOUBLE RELEASE. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. Methodist Ministers Short Lived—Pleasure
Traveling In California—Not that kind of an Examination—People who play the Piano—Chemical Study of a cigarNo Juror, etc. 1
SEVENTH PAGE
THE LITTLE PEOPLE THAT'S A MAN!—Who 8ktnned the cat— A Hint to Grumblers—A Prima Donna's
Repertoire.
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^.ttorney at Law,
REFORM OF CRIMINALS. Of late much has been said and rnach has been done to improve the way of prison reform. This movement has been qaite general throughout this country and the old world. While it 0eserves all support and encouragement, that portion of it which looks toward the care of criminals after they have been discharged from prison,rather than to their comfort which in prison, is by lar more important. It is the almost impossibility of earaing an honest livelihood which ia many cases leads the convict back to his old wayB. He leaves his cell with the prison taint upon him, and while he is shunned by respectability he is warmly welcomed by those at war with the world, and ere long finds himself once more taehind the bars. Occasionally one will make a desperate fight to recover himself, but pounced upon everywhere, followed by his former "pals," the good that is in him is killed, and giving up the battle, he returns worse than ever to crime. Hundreds of our most daring outlaws would not to-day be found the savage brutes they are had one helping hand been held out to them the hour they became free, after serving out their first term in prison. They ooine forth oonvicts, their spirits orushed, and themselves discouraged, and unless they are met at the very gate and assisted in the right direction, they turn to the left and are lost.
SOMK wiseacres, who love to refer to the good old times and shake their head sorrowfully over what they are pleased to oonsider "modern degeneracy," have asserted and are trying to prove that there is a certain decay in the
00urage
and heroism of the race.
While individual oases may be oited in which the enervating luxury of modern living has decreased the physical vitality, and thus caused cowardioe, the great mass of evidenoe goes to show that the race is, If anything, braver now than it was in ancient times. Modern warfare requires more courage than ancient strife could have done. The roar of oannon and the whistle of rifle balls is infinitely more tryiag to the nerves than the clash of arms, the voices ot excited men, and the neighing ot horses, which characterised an anotent battlefield. Every war of modern times disproves the assertions ot old fogies and grumblers. Ancient history contains no more wonderful example of d*ah and bra vary than the charge of the six hundred at Balaklava and onr owa rebellion, and the late FraaooPruaaian war, afforded numberlees examples of th« same sort.
TSMUI HADTIIMI been lucky, In the way of eheap advertising that ia, it has been brought \oto notoriety by means which hare
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it little or noth
ing. And now we are promised another oard. It is among the probabilities in foot, it is quite possible that tar townsman, Hon. D. W. Voorbeea may receive the nomination at Baltimore, in July, to? the Preaideaay. It is quite oectain thai the eld line Democracy ceuld find a more representative man or en* who has been truer to the principles of that party, daring the trying timce of the past doaen years.
Tia first coal ever mined in the United States waa dog near Richmond Va. Bite moos coal waa mined there aa early aa 17W, end in 1779 waa extensively aeed la the vicinity. During the RevelaMea a Richmond foundry employed the eoalin mfcing shot end abed for UM aaeef the Continental force*,
TKRRE-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING ^AlilMAY~18.1872.
ARCTIC FOLLY,
Of Arotio expeditions there seems to he no end. Years ago, one fold explorer wae about aa much aa the Arotio regions oonld hold without inoonvenienoe. Thus Ross was suooeeded by Parry, who waa followed by Back, Franklin and others. De Haven's Amerioan expedition in 1850 waa followed by Kanefe and Hayes', and Hall has been the ambitious suooessor of these explorers in the neighborhood of the North Pole. The latter is onoe more endeavoring to asoertain whether the hyperborean regions are more pleasant than they onoe were. And the foot that he ia engaged }n such an investigation ought to be enough, but here comes a statement that three North Pole expeditions are in preparation in Europe, to sail during the present summer, respectively under the ausploes of the Austrian, Swedish and German Governments, making four grand movements of discovery converging upon the pole. Two or three months sinoe we remember seeing a statement of some gentleman with a foreign cognomen, who, in the pleasant latitude of New Orleans, was arranging an expedition to penetrate the congeated world, by way of Alaska. After reaching a certain point he was to push out upon a rait, and endeavor to reach the Polar Sea. We are not very sym pathetio with this Arctic tolly, but considering ourselves quite liberal in expressing a hope that the leaders of these adventurous expeditions may find something to repay them for the risks and sufferings they may undergo, although, at the same time the strongest kind of doubts whether they will find that the game is worth the candle.
MANY of our people, of late, have had their attention turned to the balmy clime of Florida as a winter place of resort, for recreation and health-seek-ing. It must be a capital place in which to escape from the wearisome turmoil of civilized life. They have railroads there, but of such a primitive style of construction as not to interfere with the Arcadian simplicity of life. A correspondent describes the St. John's River Railroad, which must afford some very "pleasant riding on a rail." The rails are of wood and wear out very rapidly, so that the cars are off the track about as oftqn as on. The train consists of three cars ol three several classes "The first or palace car," says the correbpondent, *'is an ordinary street car, and is drawn by two horses the next is simply a box on wheels, without a bit of glass in its windows, so that if it rains at all, or is a little cold, the traveler is bounced along in a sort of "Black Maria." This elegant coach is drawn by two mules—two good, honest, longeared mules—who do their best with an occasional bit ot encouragement from the driver's heavy whip. The third car resembles an English car by a slight stretch of the imagination, and has as a motive power an old, very old horse, who, to keep up the appearance of a railroad, puffs and blows, from some disease which he has, and succeeds admirably in making a noise very much like his iron cousin."
UNDYING THIRST.—Those who have never experienced the excruciating character of the thirst of the drunkard, can have very little idea of its power. A little item going the rounds of the papers shows it in its full strength to those who are so fortunate as to be able to control their appetites, instead of the appetite controlling them. At St. Louis, recently, a man given to the inordiuate use of liquor returned home while on a debauch, and found his child dead. The charity of the neighbors had enabled the stricken mother to get a coffin and shroud, and in them the corpse laid. The besotted father entered the house late at night, and found his worn-out wife sleeping. He did not arouse her, but removed the corpse of his child from the coffin, took the latter away with him, and pawned it at a neighboring rum-shop for drink? Man can pity, perhaps forgive, the drunken father, but not the worse than demonized dealer who received the coffin.
IT is said that the Emperor of Russia proposes to take advantage of the visit of Gen Sherman and Lieut. Grant, to show his appreciation of the kindness extended to Alexis in this country. They were to spend most of the present mouth in Rnssia, and it is proposed to make their entire sojourn a series of feetivitiee and pageanta on an unheard of scale of magnifioenoe. Among other things on the programme, it ia intimated that the Csar will hold a grand review ot the army, as the presence of Gen. 8herman would afford him a good excuse, and he has no. objection to ahowing Germany what he
an emergency.
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Mns Knxn Grant the other day witnessed the beautiful spectacle of the Onmde Kaux in the gardens of the palace at Versalllee. Until the midsummer theee magnificent fepntalna are not played, save upon "State occasions," or for the especial gratification of distlnjruiahed visitors. The fhet that President Thiers ordered the display is a noteworthy compliment to Misa Grant and through her to the whole American
WITH pardonable exultation the Texas prses palls attention to the foot that there ia not an alme-hoose in the State, and that there la no need of any man, woman or child suffering from poverty within its bounds. This ia a gratifying picture, and if It oould boaat of a similar freedom from violence and lawleaenesa it would be a still more plsasant showing.
THB British Museum is now said— we clip from an exchange—to have 1,000,000 books in its library. The idea of printing its catalogue has been abandoned, inasmuch ss there are in the collection some hundreds of thousands of ephemeral publioatlons and broadsidra, which would swell a catalogue to a magnitude that, tor practical purposes, would be useless. The number of Amerioan books in the Museum is said to be greater than in any library of the United States. A separate catalogue of these books has been compiled by Mr. Henry Stevens, the gentleman who has had the largest share in procuring them. Since 1848 this gentleman has devoted most of his time in London to adding to the collection of American books in the British Museum, and also in enriching maay libraries, both publlo and private, in the United Statee, by his selection from the loreign Markets. The Museum contains no less than 175 various editions, in our own language, of "The Pilgrim's Progress," as well as 20 copies of the work in other languages, including Arabic, Bengales, Danish, Dutch, French, Gaelio, German, Maori, the peasant dialect of Norway, Oriza, modern Greek an-1 Russian also, 72 editions in English of "Paradise Lost," while there are 52 editions in other languages, inoluding Armenian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Latin and Swedish. Of "Robinson Crusoe" the library contains 74 editions in English, and 26 in other languages.
THE Chinese in this hemisphere show a remarkable aptitude for adopting the practices of Western civilization. In Idaho City they have a bank of their own, and no sooner had the bank been running on a sound basis, long enough to accumulate a goodly pile of dollars, than its most responsible officer proved to be a defalter in a large sum, and at last accounts the depositors were threatening to lynch him. What better evidenoe could we have that the Chinese can be very easily instructed in our waysT
A FRENCH geographer says that certain of the Islands of the Pacific constitute a peculiar primordial white race, resembling the Caucasian type, and characterised by oval faces, straight or acquiline noses, and thick, sleek hair, This race is represented by the native inhabitants of Borneo,Sumatra, Luson, Formosa, and the islands of the South Pacific. He proposes that it should be named the Oceanian ^ace,because of its insular origin.
A good many people have wondered what real purpose the rattles of the snake of that name were designed to subserve. A scientist who has given attentive observation to the matter says the rattle is actually beneficial to it, its object being to imitate the cicada, or other insects which form the food of many birds, tbus attracting them within its, power, and accounting for the appaient "fascination" of its prev.
THADDEUS STEVENS, at his death, August 11,1868, willed his library to a nepkew, on condition that he abstained from the use of spirituous and malt liquors, for a period of five years. In the event of his failing to keep the pledge his executors were required to sell the library and it has recently been sold by them at public auction in Philadelphia. The total sum realized by the sale was $3,100. »J
THE drum used by the President of the Kentucky Association for starting the horses at the meeting in Lexington this week, was captured at the battle of Tippecanoe, and presented by Genera) Harrison to the
Forty-second
regiment
of Kentucky volunteers^ This interesting relic is the property of Capt. Beard, whose father participated in the battle and subsequently commanded the regiment,
DOBS hanging decrease crime The Detroit Free Press says: "During the past week no less than eleven murderers have been sentenced to the gallows in different States and between this and the 1st of July there are to be eleven gallows' executions authorised by law. Five murderers have already been hanged since January, and nearly a soore are now awaiting trial."
THE only daughter of the chief of the Piute Indians recently married a young lieutenant at Salt Lake. A local Jenkins says: "The bride waa attired in a blanket deoollette, with oyster shell necklace, and partook heartily of the wedding feast of fricaseed prairie dog and pickled crickels."
THE Greeley Tribune, printed at Greeley, Colorado, is up for the oonteet, It says: "We will give a oomplete set of braes-mounted moes agates to any one who will prove that Horace Oreeley ever wrote a book or article entitled 'What I know
about
farming.'"
IT ia a remarkable fact that none tut insane people have committed murders in Minnesota for the last three years, ao say the oourta.
LJTOTANA AND THE CINCINNATI INVENTION.—Indiana, with almost ao strong and more harmonious a delegation personally, but weaker in ite constituency, exercised larger influence In the reeuita of the Convention. Their final concentration from Adams and Trumbull and Davis upon Greeley waa was the decisive blow in the nominating struggle, while their indifference to free tradein the platform led the Convention In Its impatlenee with the loog drawn contest on that question.—[Sam Bowles's better to Springfield Republican.
[From the Chieago later-Oceanic.] MAN AND HIS ABIDING PLACE. With all the boasted triumpba of our so-called science, even the wisest among ua know oomparativelv nothing. Newton compared himself to a child picking up pebbles slong the sea shore, and HumDoldt confessed that the ftirther we advance the more clearly we discover bow circumscribed is all our knowledge. Of the nearest stars, their sise, distanoe, and motion are known, but that la about all. It still remains a mooted qusatlon whether the sun is a vaporous oody, whether cold or in a glowing heat. Only recently the spectrum analysis has ascertained the earthly substances which are represented in the sun, but none can tell how it came about. Of our nearest associate and most faithful companion, the moon, very little is known. For thousands of years she has been observed with the naked eye, and sinoe the discovery of the telescopes we have incessantly examined her. Our whole scientific apparatus has been called into requisition to discover her secrets. But thus far she has revealed nothing. We are not even yet assured whether she has an atmosphere, whether the spots on her disc are mountains or valleys, whether she has a vegetation or an or-
eut
tnic life. There exist manv theories, none have been hardenea into foots. Science is as little capable of explaining the phenomena of our globe as those which surround it. The nature of the meteors which inoessantly traverse our atmosphere, and partly dissolve in it, cannot be accurately ascertained. Are they telluric and oosmic in their origin We may assume but cannot affirm which. Year after year the skies present the same magnificent phenomenon of the northern lights. The spectacle is admired by laymen and studied by scientists. How does it originate What forms the fiery clouds, pillars and waves Even the most learned are unable to answer this question with certainty. The same Is true in relation to eathquakes, which have so intimate a connection with the formation of the crust, the division of land and water, which raise mountains, fill up valleys, make abysses, and destroy cities. Man confronts the forces of nature in perfect helplessness. Where is their seat? In the interior of the earth, or near the crust? Is the center of our planet a fiery mass, which breaks through here and there? Do the fires originate by some means only a few miles under our feet Are they the result of a continual development, or of a gradual decomposition of the
8Lypotheses
lace which we inhabit 7 None know. conflict but not one of them is capable of proof. The series of shocks which we nave lately experienced has seriously lessened our sense of security and|confidence inj"terra firma." In various parts of Europe the soil heaves underfoot. Antiocn, the
Says,
reat beautiful and powerful of ancient has sunk in consequence of earthquakes which have visited her for centuries, to the condition of a petty trading post. Centuries passed between the visitations, but their memory could not be obliterated, the tradition could not die. After hundreds of years ot quiet, the half ot what was once the pearl of the east has again been destroyed. Instead of the 250,000 inhabitants destroyed on a previous occasion, the demon of destruction contented itself this time with 1,500, but only because there were no more victims. Slmultaneneously with Syria, the southern part of California was the scene of a series of violent shocks which have desolated whole regions.
Thero is no visitation more awful and fatal than an earthquake. All other chastisements of Providence, such as war, pestilence, famine,drought, may be borne in comparison with this. Like a flash of lightning from a clear sky, it surprises its victims. No definite premonitory symptoms indicate its dread approach. Mo human foresight or care can avert the deadly danger. Whenever it comes, whether in broad daylight or in the silent darkness of night, there is no safety, no escape. Those wbo manage to escape from the falling roof and tottering walls of the building only run the risk of being swallowed up in the gulfs opening in every direction before their terror-stricken eyes. When the earth heaves and yawns, man fully realizes his impotence. He can do nothing but turn his eye heavenward, and quietly submit to his fate.
Hardly had the earth ceased to sway and tremble on the Pacific when we hear from Italy that Vesuvius is belching forth pillars of fire and cataracts of lava. Who can say what next the mysterious subterranean powers may not have in store for us? Shocks and volcanic Irruptions may occur at any moment where they have never been seen before, and the largest and most populous cities may be blotted out. Science is utterly helpless in view of these perils. Since ages the wisest minds nave studied our planet and the universe beyond, but the knowledge of our wisest, wbo have inherited the intellectual treasures of past generations, is like a drop in the ooean. They all feel like Newton and Humboldt, that there are bounds beyond which no mortal eye can ever hope to pass.
ACCORDING to "what we know about farming," we should imagine what is called a "Potato Race" to be one of the most exciting of truly rural pastimes. Any farmer who has an abundance of potatoes can try It. Anew Hampehlre correspondent of the Boston Advertiser thus describee the potato race:
It is a very ourious trial of speed and strength. Three lines of potatoes are laid. Each line contains fifty potatoes, each a yard from the other. Of course each line Is forty-nine vards long. At the end of each line ts a basket, by which at the start a contestant stands. In this case there are three competitors. At the word "go," each one begins where he chooses on his line to pick up po to toes to bring to the basket. He must pick up but one each trip and carry It to the basket. This involves one thousand three hundred aad fifty feet of running, with such deductions aa may be made for an outstretched arm, when one comes to his his basket and with the addition of two turns for everypotato, or one hundred turns in all. The contestants entered and one of them performed the float in a little more than nine minutes, the other two were close behind him. if you ever have occasion to try the game let me tell you that the scientific way is to take your lona rua first when your wind is good. When you want to retain your breath, take your short runs, which Involve the delay of turning, but are easier for breathing.
PINS have been thought to be a comparatively modern invention but the London Court Journal says that a collection of twenty-five well-made pins has been found in the subterranean vaults of Thelies—showing that the modern pin Is only a reinvention.
HOBACE GBULKY has retired from the management of the Tribune.
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Insurance—Hager A McKeen. To Advertisers—Express Job Printing Co. Insurance—John G. Campbell. Sprasue's Flour—Daniel Miller. Marble Works—M. Hanrahan. imm, Wool Dusters—H. 8. Kiohardsen A Co. Liquor Store—I. B. Whlttaker. Gloves, Parasols, Ac.—A. Hen A Co. Clothing—Frank A Rothschild. Announcement—Martin Hollinger. Ladles' Suita—W. 8. Ryee A Co. Wanted—Washwoman. Trunks—V. G. Dlckhout. Boots and Shoes—Engles A Tutt. Pasture—J. J. Ferrell.
THE editor of this paper has made a struggle this week to keep out of a sick bed—part of the time unsuccessfully which fact must excuse any lack of interest in the several departments of THE Mail.
THE accident item mill has been out of blast this week. s,
THE recent election oost the city $120 for judges, inspectors and clerks.
THE idiots have commenoed gathering Presidential straws on the cars.
R. L. BALL'S new stove foundry in this city will go into operation, in about six weeks.
THE Mail is on sale each week at all news depots Dooley's, Craft's and Post Offlce Lobby.
THE candidates for county offioes are doing some first-class electioneer!ng# these days and nights, too. ujisi- h$"
Now is the sevson whloh maketh glad the heart of the paper-hanger, and sendeth the painter forth joy.
'IT is said that time makes ail things even," but it will never make even some of our sidewalks, we fear.
THE Sunday School connected with the Christian Church will go on an excursion to Paris next Saturday.
THE steamer Phoenix is now being overhauled and repainted preparatory to being taken to the lower Wabash trade.
A WEATHER prophet predicts a hot summer, because the bark ou the north side of dogs is much thinner than usual.",.
THE days are now lengthening at the rate ot one minute and a quarter per day. This will be the rate of increase till June 21st.
IT is as true as sad, says an exchange, that but one person in nine attends church, and but one In nine of those who attend does so for the good he may receive.,
THE hope that the festive potato bug had been frozen out proves delusive. They are appearing in large numbers and In good marching erder for the summer's campaign.
THE'latest edition of Mitchell's High School Geography gives us the information that the State House of Indianapolis is a splendid building.
Mine goodness gracious."
THE Mail is now distributed by'ttawsboys on the streets of Sullivan Kockvllle and Clinton, and is on dale at the news stands of W. B. Sheriff, Paris,and Walter Cole, Marshall. 4:
THERE is weeping and snuffling now in many once happy country homes, owing to the old man's fondness for eaAy horse raddish, which he insista on the women folks grating by hand to retain the flavor.
THE Vigo County Republican Executive Committee has called a Delegate Convention on the 15th of June to nominate candidates for County offioes,StateSenator and two Representatives ia the House of Representstives. ..
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THE first strawberries of the season appeared at Rippetoe's on Tuesday. They came from Southern Illinois and sold at fifty cents a quart. Home grown berries will come in next week, and plentifully the week after. The crop will be large.
THE sale of prize packages on railroad trains in the State of New York has been abolished by an act of the Legislature. The practloe of scattering stale pop-corn, high priced candies with pewter whistles for prizes, and flash literature Into the lape of passengers on the cars, haa been a nuisance which travelers have too long had toendure.
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OWE pleasing feature of The Mailespecially to the ladies, the young people, and those who are not so intensely .enthusiastic in saving the oountry—is the fact that political matters will be let severely alone. The crisis which gets along about every four years is now about due. It will soon arrive, and, like all its predecessors, will be the most momentous one. which ever threatened the welfare of this devoted land. The daily press from now on until November, will be filled with politics. Each party insisting that the success ot the other will ruin the Republic, the naturally timid become unusually nervous. Don't be alarmed, it's only in the play —and you will turn with pleasure from politics-surfeited journals to welcome the weekly visits of The Mail.