Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 July 1872 — Page 1

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

Additional City News.

THE FOURTH.—Another Anniversary of American Independence has come, been duly celebrated,and is gone. "Various were the ways our citizens observed the day. The largest body ot people who left town went to Groendyke's Grove, where Senator Morton made the address and the day was pleasantly spent. The Prairie City Guards, with a number of their friends —some four hundred in all—went to Martinsville, Illinois. The Scottish games and sports at the Fair Grounds attracted many people,while numerous picnic parties occupied the many pleasant nooks on the neighboring bluffs, leaving the city in quiet repose, with a half Sunday and half holiday appearance. We did not hear of any serious disturbance or accident, and believe the day was more heartily enjoyed by all classes than would have been the case il more fuss and form, noi^e and parade had been the order, Indeed there 1 is no reason why a proper observance [may not consist of purely personal enoyment, by every one celebrating "on ais own hook" a holiday so thoroughly amillar to our people.

SPLENDID weather, this for reading Artie explorations. How we envy

Dr.

Kano when the mercury hardened like a brick, and even—"can such things be and overcome us like a summer's dream"—the whisky froze! The—Whisky—froze. Incredulity may smile in scorn, but impartial history relates the astonishing fact. It is agravating to dose, these days, along paragraphs of glaciers, ice fields and avalanches, to wonder what has become of the walrus, the seal and the polar bear, while your whole anatomy becomes as limp and flabby as the shirt upon your back, and "this too, too eolid flesh," becomes a burden which you would cheerfully lay aside, could you conveniently do so, content to "sit down in your bones" a nakod and unlovely skeleton.

THE Democracy meet in the several Wards on Monday evening to select delegates to the county nominating convention. As this convention is two weeks off, we pity the unfortunate fellows who shall be chosen as delegates, on aooount of the button-holing they will have to endure and then wo congratulate them 011 the kind consideration and the number of drinks they will receiv from expectant candidates and then again

do not envy them for the

curses they will get from disappointed candidates after the convention. But then, you know, there's a peck of trouble for every pint of pleasure in this little

world

of ours.

THE new city directory will class ine prominent business interests of this city as foilws: Confectionery and Rakers 5 Dry Goods, W holesale anil Retail 17 Millinery and Fancy Goods ... 18 Drags paints, etc, Wholesale and Retail.... 6 Groceries, WholesaleHardware and Iron .. Hardware, Saddlery and Leather 2 Lumber 2 Notions, Wholesale 8 stoves and Tin Ware....... Hides, Leather and Findings 5

The above give employment to 622 persons, have capital Invested to the amount of 1,944,000, and make annual sales of |5,950,000.- These figures haVe been very carefully preparod from statements furnished by so mo members of the several firms.

Du. G. W. COLI.INGS, tlieMiddletown desperado, who

seml-ocAsionally

turns

the lower end of tho county upside clown, has at last met his match and something he could not dodge as he has the offloers. On Wednesday, during a sudden thunderstorm he left Ms stable and was just entering his residence when a heavy discharge of lightning prostrated him, and rendered him insensible tor a time. Two horses ^ere killed by the electrlo bolt.

THB St. Andrew's Society of Brazil, iVho camo over to our Fair Grounds, with some six hundred Ulay County people, did better, financially, than either of the exourslon* from this city —making a little ovor five hundred dollars clear of expenses. The member* of the Society were well pleased with the visit, tho liberal attendance of our people and the result of the day's

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SOMK fttnny paragraphs get into the papers about our city. Cora Donnelly Gookins in a letter to her father, encloses this item cut from a paper published at Frankport-on-tbe-Main:

"Torre-Hante

has a church with seat-

J^^noltv of 10,000. Something like ygorSIhauThe, city has use For."

THB officers and directors of the Cincinnati A

Terre-Haute

Railroad pro-

tZ to give a big "blow out" on the

miles of their

road-the

5th of August.

Town-Talk.

T. T. has been as interested as the thermometer would allow, in the little fight over

THE NORMAL,

or its President, during the past weok. Some man calling himself "Felix," said to be a preacher, wrote a letter to the Sentinel In reference to the Commencement exercises of the school, and represented the institution as a "grand success," and gave tho glory to the President. Some other man calling himself "Bono," also said to be a preacher, wrote to the Gazette that "Felix" did not know what he was talking about, that the school was a failure, and that the President was responsible. This "raised the dander" of some other man calling hlmsell "Tom Tickle," not a preacher, and he told "Bono" that he did not tell the truth, and that when he did tell the truth, he twisted it so that it looked like a lie, and that he did this naughty thing just out of spite. This made the Rev. "Bono" madder yet. And what, made the affair very comical was the fact that he got mad at the wrong fellow, andjproceeded at once to give the Yankee preacher "regular fits," through a column of personal abuse. He told him that he "came from the land where they burnt witches and hung Quakers," and was a liar. He sent him to h—1. He asserted that he was a fussy, seli-conceited, managing fellow. He twitted him of his resemblance to a monkey, and ended all by hinting that he was a louse, and that he, tho said Rev. "Bono," was the fellow to "crack him." All this and much more was done to "blister" the brother who, he thought, was "troubled with wind." O ye readers of The Mall think of the delightful sensations which must have possessed his pious soul as he prayerfully wrote out this "blister" in his sanctum sanctorum. At its close he doubtless thanked the Lord for the inspiration granted him for so delightful and responsible an undertaking. For full twenty-four hours he enjoys the bliss of a good deed well done.

Alter due meditation upon this, ye readers of The Mail, think ol the sublime ecstacy which mast have so possessed bis soul that he seemed raised to tho "seventh heavens," when he road the announcement

I ami Tom Tickle"

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Yours respectfully, IUA DELANO."

O the bliss of such an hour It was not only bliss, but It was "blister." And just at this point appears on the stage the stately form of Hon. R. W. Thompson, the Secretary of the Board of Trustees. He sets up "Felix" who had been knocked over by Bono, and shows that instead of exaggerating, he had not told all the truth. He shows up "Bono" in a very dignified, but in an awfully scathing way, pointing out "a heap" of misrepresentations. In fact he knocks "Bono" "higher than a kite," and T. T. hears it said that the last wail heard, from "Bono" as he went up, sounded like Et tu Brute!

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If, as T. T. hears ft suggested, this attack originated In sectarian bgotry, then "Bono" deserves all he received and the "cuss words" hoaped upon him on the street are none too sovere. According to the showing up of his letter by Thompson it does look as if there was some malice at the bottom. T. T. goes with the majority and votes that "Bono" put his foot in it. This suggests to T. T. the thought that i-** ONE-EYED PEOPLE ,, *. Hre "too numerous to mention." There is a man with only a church eye. He sees everything through It. Public Institutions are valued as his church manages them. Fools in his church aro wise men. Candidates for political office are looked at through his church, and ho votes his church ticket every time. His society is choson from his church. Men of prominence are flatterod and fawned upon, that his church may get them. T. T. says, his church. It is his. It is not the true church of thoNazarene. Some men have only a political eye. Every thing is seen in it re at on to a Is it I It right?" "Ought it to be done?" these questions all resolve themselves into tho one question, "How will It affect the party 7" The church, and church relations are looked apon as means to help the party,or to help his own political prospects.

Then there are the men with a business eye, and others with the society eye, one-eyed men are all about, and a most disagreeable and unreliable set they are. Not satisfied with looking through their own single oye, they want to put out the better eyes of other people, and make them use their one peeper. fek

THE FRKK LIBRARY

is before the public now. Edmunds of the Journal, says It is not wanted Well, T. T. must commend his consistency again. Edmunds stands by his parly "through thick and thin." After next Tuesday he will not have any to

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stand by, but he will be consistent and stand by the place, the "old landmarks," where it used to be. Edmunds is consistent In not wanting a iree library. *Is not the man who often $25,000 for It, a deadly enemy of the Democratic Party? Edmunds d»n't want his money, of course he don't. The "Bourbons" don't read, and what do they want of a Library? If there is a Library, people will read, young people especially—"you can't teach an old dog new tricks,"but the young ones will learn,—and when they read intelligence increases, and then where is the Democratic party of the future? Why $25,000 for books '.a worse for the futuie of the Democratic party than $25,000 for arsenic. It is more deadly poison to the Democratic system. Want the Library! ot course they don't. They would be fools If they did. "There is death In the pot" and they know It.

Col. Btgblow says that the building Is not good enough. T. T. thinks that it borders a little on the porcine to say that to a man who offers to a city without a Library, a stone front building worth ?20,000 and $5,000 in cash. But nobody minds the Col. T. T. has known him for years and his blunders have long since ceased to worry. He don't mean any. harm when he says to the generous offer of Mr. Rose, "it is not what we want but If yon can't do any better by us we will take It." It is only his way, that's all.

T. T. believes that the conditional $10,000 will be forthcoming. If it is not then, Mr. Rose had better keep his building and money too. We have a fine Opeca House built at our own expense. We have fine residences and stores built at our own expense, excepting those who build on borrowed or stolen money. We have good school houses, built at our own expense. We are going ahead by "lightning express," and it is a pity if we cannot take a Library when it is offered to us almost "scot free." But we shall take it, and it will be a blessiog long years after Mr. Rose and the rest of us old heads rest in the dust, and long years after the children of to-day, and their children are gone.

THE DEDICATION

of the Hospital passed off as well as was expected. There was some grumbling that it was done on Sunday, but this is the day on which the Catholics do such things. It did look a little rough to form the procession at ths doors of a Protestent church at the regular time of service. There was probably no Intention to disturb any body, but it was just a little too careless. The drunkenness of the day was excessive. For this those having the matter in charge are not responsible. But when a dedication brings more drunken people upon the streets than had been seen for years before, the question suggests itself whether some other day is not better than Sunday for these things. T. T. is not a puritan, and don't believe in some old fashion notions of Sunday, but he don't like to see these things on that day.

News and No tings.

There were only three plural marriages in Utah during the past three months.

The Japanese are studying our police system with a viow. to understanding how not to do it. jt

The expenses of the Boston Jubiloe will amount to between five and six hundred thousand dollars.

St. Louis Is now nearly fourteeiVtYiilcs long on the river front, and has an area of fifty-two square miles.

Tho "Indian mounds" dxsaovered near Dubuque by "some scientific gentlemen" turn out to bo gopher hills.

Weaving threads into bank note paper is not a modern invention, colonial currency having 1»een printed on paper thus prepared in 1876.

An "electrical egg," that will neither stand nor lie in any position except on the pointed, or small end, is the latest sensation at Quincy, Illinois.

The physicians of New York report an alarming increase of cancer on the nose, caused by the practice of wearing eye-glasses that are held to the bridge of the nose by the spring.

Upon an average a steamer leavis Liverpool for this continent nearly evry twelve hours. During the last month the total number was fifty-three and to these must be added the French and German lines.

The Church News ill Epicopalian paper, has settled the correctness ot the doctrine of apostolic succession in such a manner as to leave no room for doubt. It says that "a church that has been able to survive so^pnany years of suffering from quartette singing, mnst be the true church."

Some idea of the immense exodus of people from the United States to Europe, this season, may be had from the fact that the number of cabin passengers who have left this season tor Europe is estimated at upward of 50,000, the majority of whom were ladies. Quite a shegira.

There Is a hotel in California composed of ten immense hollow trees, standing a few feet apart. The largest of these is sixty-five feet around, and is used as bar and kitchen. For bedchambers there are nine great hollow trees, whitewashed or papered, and having doors cut to fit the shape of the holes. literature finds a place in a leaning stump dubbed "the library."

The big whale that was beached at Point Shirly last fall has been prepared for exhibition in Boston, and is now set up so nicely that curious spectators may walk thirty-three feet right into the belly and yet stand erect. Any one can easily appreciate what a charming opportunity this is to see what pleasant quarters Jonah must have occupied a few thousand years ago. It took 108 horses to meve the skeleton to its present position.?

People and Things.

Mr- and Mrs. Thumb are about to retire. Macready, tho great actor, is, still bale, aged 79.

Edwin Booth Is quite regular in his attendance at church, 1 It is declared that Gilmore's next venture will not be in the Hub nay, it will be in Chicago.

Beecher says he would sooner under take to cure the wickedness of New Orleans than that of Boston.

A Lafayetto doctor calls his horse "Ipecac," because he is always sure to come up, no matter where he leaves 3 him*

A Waterloo, Minnesota clergyman names tho youngest of his four boys "Doxology," because he winds up the hims.

Joe Jeflerson thinks that being shut up in a darkened room for two weekB has too much of the reality o( Fyp Van Winkle in it to be pleasant,

Stokes is said to be but the shadow of his former self is constantly depressed, and hardly able to sit in the court room from mere nervousness.

Several of our exchanges are remarking that "there's a policeman in every man's conscience, though not always on duty." But Is there a conscience in every policeman? That's the 3 rt a «. *4

Wesley Walker, who was hanged at Colquitt, Georgia, on the 24th ult., assured his mother, who was standing in the crowd at the foot of the scaffold, that if "she didn't do better she'd go to h—11 a howling."

The intelligence that Brigham Young has suddenly quit marrying will be received with doubt. He is not a man upon whom such a reform could be wreaked all at once. If he concludes to go out of the business, he will taper off gently.

A Cleveland young gentleman, formerly a hard drinker, has refomed„aud as an evidence of how a man fully determined may rise in the world, he now has a lucrative position on a canal boat and is engaged to be married to three girls.

It is alleged that tho Rev. Dr. Thompson, of Jamestown, New York, has filed an affidavit in tho office of the clerk of Chatauqua county, setting forth that his relations with a certain married woman of that vicinity have been such as to form sufficient ground for her husband to demand and receive a .-•! id** divorce.

At Portland, Maine, the facilities for traveling dramatic troupes are limited. They have to put up with the City HBII where the accessories are by no means first-class, and, what with a cramped stage and diminutive set scenes,the actors aro confused and bothered. Sothern played Dundreary there recently. Emerging from the little doorway in cottage scene he relieved himself thus: "When a fellah comes out of that hole he feels like a ah—wot

Alfred Dometh, the author of the poem on the birth

Chr!st, through

which runs the refrain $

"In

the solemn mlgnlglit, ... Centuries ago/'

which is familiar to all readers of English poetry, disappeared about thirtyfive years ago, arid save for his being seen once in New England, had not been heard of nntll very lately, when he appeared in England with a 14,000-lined poem, and a wonderful account of bis life among the barbarians

The Grand Duke Alexis is not enjoying himself as well In Brazil as his reception in North America led him to expect. The warmth of his welcome in the United States spoiled him, and anything savoring of coldness would be quickly marked. The Brazilians scarcely noticed him, and the public attentions shown him were few and In considerable. Even Ithe press treated him with a marked coolness, and went so flir as to circulate disagreeable stories about his habits...

Feminitems.

FEMININE NAMES AND TIIEIR MEANING.

Frances is truly "fair," Bertha Is purely "Bright," Clara Is "clear" to see.

Lucy a star of "light,"

Felicia is "happy" as happy can be Catharine is "pare," Barbara, -'from afar,"

Mabel, is very "fair," 1 Henrietta is a "star,"

Margaret a "pearl" thrown up from the sea.

Muriel is sweetest "myrrh," Amelia Is "sincere. Agatha is very "good,"

Bridget is "snlnlng here,"

Matilda is a lady of honor" true Susan is a "lily," .» i. Celia, "dim or sight," vj

Jane a graceful "willow," Beatrice "gives delight,"

Elizabeth, "an oath," pure as raorningdew.

Sophia Is" wisdom," Lettlcla is "a Joy," Edeline "a princess,

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Julia a'"'jewel toy."

Rebecca "is faithful' as the light of day Constance is "resolute," Grace is a "favor meet," ,, -v

Chailotte is "nobility," Harriet an "odor sweet,

Abigail is "Joyful" as the robin's lay.

Sarah is "a lady," Isabella is "fair," Lucinda is "constant,"

Jemima "sounds In air,"

Carolina is "noble-spirited" and brave Lydia is a "well," Judith "a song of praise,"

Cornelia "harmony," Prise 11 la "ancient of days,"

Selina "a nlghtengale" where branches wave. A Bedford girl ran her hip out of joint.

The Clafliu Brunettes is the new name for the New York S5th. A girl resides at Mason City, Iowa, whose actual name is Dolly Varden.

The ladles of Paris, Ky., are forming an anti-speak-evil-of-your-neighbor society.

Theatrical critics of the best order condemn the assumption by^ females of male characters.

Madame Leutner touches high easily, which speaks well for her hygiene.—[Lowell Courier.

Daniel Boone's sister Hanna is living in Caldwell county .North Carolina. She Is eighty five years old.

A Fond du Lac matron gave birth last week to four healthy Infants, whom It puzzles her to fondle lacteally.

Ladies are apt to hover their balls while playing croquet, and move them to an eleglblo position under cover of the darkness.

Julia Ward Howe was not allowed to speak at the London Peace Society, because "they had never had a woman speak there.

An affectionate wife in Ohio has recovered a vedieff of $7,000 against a liquor dealer under the new law, "for the loss of her husband's society for three xronrs" Vt' years.

The Danbury News says "A dying Bridgeport woman wanted to be buried in a Dolly Varden. A nice spectacle she would present on resurrection morning."

Mrs. Mary Line Bishop, aNew York widow, with an income of $12,000, died last week of jim-jams. Mrs. Bishop consumed a gallon of brandy a week, other beverages in proportion.

That item about tho three young ladies of the best families who are seen drunk in the streets is going the rounds again. Every editor who sees it locates it in some town to which he has a special antipathy and starts on its rounds again.

Connecticut is excited because a young lady has been caught at robbing the mails. Why, bless the unsophisticated Yankee heart, this is what women have been persistently doing over since Eve robbed Adam of his share of Paradise.

Japan must bo a pleasant place. There are no old maids thero. When the girls don't marry voluntarily, the authortties hunt up husbands for them, and make them marry. We know of several ladles who intend emigrating to Japan as soon as tho weather becomes a little less melting.

Henry Ward Beecher said to his congregation in a sermon on home-life and hospitality, Sunday, "I honor the woman who comes to mo when I call, in a dress suited to her work. I don't like to sit buried in plush In tho parlor waiting three quarters of an hour for a toilet. What is good enough for you is good enough for your friends."

A woman In Wyoming, who does not agree with the notions of her sex of the strong-minded persuasion, being forced to serve upon a jury against her will, carried her baby with her. The unmusical protests of the youngster soon soon induced the court to grant permission for both to retire, and they went off rejoicing. St

A Detroit woman saved herself and children from a rabid dog by seizing and bestriding the animal and holding him in such a position that he could not bite. She then dragged him to the gate, flung him out, and shut and bolted the gate. The dog made a desperate attempt to get In again, but got bis head fast and was struck with an axe, when he struggled out and ran across the street, where he was killed.

The first daily paper published in? England Is said to have been published^ by a woman in 1702. It was called the'' Daily Courant, and the name of Ihe, proprietor was Elizabeth Mallett.

An exchange says that Mrs. Laura? De Force Gordon "is determined to re re el in at on if possible, but failng in that, will strip-.* for the campaign in favor of Grant and Wilson." We protest. The ordinary fashionable evening toilet is badi enough, and this thing that Laui a proposes to do is really too much. She must be prevailed upon to change her® mind.

Fashion Chit-Chat.

Japanese parasols made of straw are the latest. "Japanese paste" is thelatest devicef' for ruining the complexion of our| belles. s|

Bishop Jone8,having forbidden round dances as well as ritualism, is of course*? out of favor in fashionable circles.

Bustles without names are indefinite articles, but when we speak of them a»|, "Tho Lady of Lome," "Martha Waslv-|f ington," and the "Reine Margot," we£ know what wo are talking about.

A woman writes to the New York Tribune to say that really women can• not stand up in horse-cars and ferryboats—unless, she hints, the men will, stop admiring small and pretty feet,and allow them to wear broad-solcd, lowheeled shoes. I. jj

Ever since the introduction of the modern hoops, a quarterly announce-*™ ment has been made to the world that,. hoops were on the decline. It never proved true, hoops aro worn as much. as ever, although the style and quality is very much changed. Some snchv. contrivance will always remain necessary to give massiveness to the rich silk and to prevent any lighter materials from clinging to the figure.,

Dolly Varden has had a short and

very ignominious career in London,|t: No lady," says the Queen, the ladies' newspaper, "will hereafter disfigure herself by wearing one of these vulgar costumes."—[N. Y. Paper.

There, that settles it. So farewell' Dolly Varden. You are in decadence.^ Curtain calico has culminated. Fashion's fiat has gone forth that Dolly Var-f, den must die, and speedily. Of courseV plenty of gaudy continuations will be persisted in by American girls generally, who resemble the old gray mare of metrical memory, of whom it was declared that "when she goes, sbo goes it." But the bon ton over the water and here, drop Charles Dickons' gaudy creation with the month of July. So the Eastern fashion modistes tell us. The attack of this spotted fever of fashion was

VERY GUSHING.—A fan was found by a reporter in the street yesterday. It is nuently the property ol Mrs. Small

property

feet, wife of tho well known and highly respected merchant of that name. We hero produce a few remarks which are written on it, so that the owner may be positive that it is hers before calling at our office for it: "June—, Dear Smallfeet was here last night. He said twenty times that I was his best beloved three times that I was tho Ktar of his existence seven times that without me for a companion his path through life would be over thorns and through briars. He squeezed my hand at least forty times, trod on my loot fifteen, and it was an hour and a half from tho time he took his hat and said he must go until he reached the front door. June —, Dear S. was here last night. He said he was transported with jov, that he felt ineffable pleasure at beholding me so radiant in beautv. He was very loving all the evening. He said I was the fount of all his happiness, his dearest treasure, the light anu brightness of his life, the noblest WIBest, gentlest, most beautiful of women. He could not comprehend how one «o f^r above him—ft® ftbovo him, was his expression, as tho Peak of feneriffe is abovo the brambles that grow at the vnonntaln's base—should have ever deigned to stoop so low aa to love him. His idolatry, he said, was aa true, as pure as that of the Persian for his sungod, and bo loved me with a passion that time could not abate and a devotion that eternity could not wither.

He squeezed my hand so often that I gave up counting, and my corns fatill ache from the Intensity of his foot-love. I thought last night that he had been drink iug probably he was onlv intoxicated with what he calls tue deep draughts of love he drinks from my beautiful eyes."

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vere. It is natural that the subsidence should be sudden, and so it is. The community at large are not as faithful to Dolly as she was to Joe Willetts. So good-by, Dolly. Your triumph was tremondous but brief. Farewell.

Bridal fans containing the different terms of endearments used by the husband during his courtship are all tho rage in fashionable circles now. When the happy man gets cross or forgets his promises, a threat to lose her fan usually fetches him down to his work again for no man likes to have the world know how loolish he was at one period of his life. It would be anything but agreoablo to a man to pick up tho morning paper and read something like this about himself—though he wouldn't cry if it were one of his friends:

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