Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 August 1872 — Page 4

For Sale.

FOR

BALE CHEAP, OR TRADE FOR lumber—a good second-hand detached Portable Saw Mill, complete, "Hamilton Make," anck one good Joe wagon. Enquire of, or address, ST McKEEN,

I.^OR

STRAYED

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Terre-Ilaute,

Indiana. JulyJKMt OR SALE-A FINE DWELLING HOUSE __ and lo», east, on Ohio street. For further particulars enquire of Hendrich Wllllums,ofllce over Prsdrio City Bank, next door to Postofflce.

SALE—LOTS IN EARLY'S ADDIlion. Apply at the office of Samuel S. E irly, Early's Ivoclc, 2nd street. Junel5 2m.

FOR

SALE-OLD PAPEKH FOR WRAPpine paper,for a^le at 50 cents a huudred at the MAIL office.

Wanted.

ANTED-TO EXCHANGE 100 ACHES of No. I Umber laud in southwestern lssouri, for a small piece of land near lerre-Haute, or a lot with a small house, or 4 for a stock of merchandise. Address, O. 5 Box No. 23-1, Terre-Ilaute, Ind. 3-2t.

ANTED-BY A MAN WHO IS EXperienced, can (jive good references, and has a good trade established to be fur-

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nlshed with a stock of general merchandise from two to three thousand dollars to Mil in Terre-Haute, will sell for one-half profits for one year and then will buy stock. Any one having goods, or means to Invest at a good interest will adilrees BEN10N, P. O. Box 592.

WANTi-lJ-AUEMOJustand

books, one a book published that is needed in every

family,

question, one

the

best

WSATUBDAYEany

selling books ever

issued from the press, and is especially suitable to be sold by ladies. Large commissions given. J. A. FOOTE, General Agent. 65 Main street.

ANTED-A FEW BOARDERS.—NICE rooms, well furnished. J. W. MATLOCK,

Poplar, between 6th and 7th streets.

ANTED-ALL TO KNOW THAT THE VKNISGMAIL has a larger circulation than newspaper published outside of Indianapolis, in

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State. Also

that it is carefully and thoroughly read in the homes of its patrons, and that It is the Tery best advertising medium in Western Indiana

Lost.

COW-A BOUT TWO WEEKS

ago or loss a cow without any distinctive except her mouth seems to be twisted. A person standing before her would notice that feature. Mix or seven years old. Also white. Will liberally reward ony one to return her or Klve information when1 nhe may be found.

S. R. FREEMAN, 161 Main street.

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STRAYED

SUMS OF MONEY ARE

lost every week by persons who should advertise In this of the MAIL.

Strayed.

HORSE—STRAYED FROM

the subscriber, about five weeks ago, a dark bay liorsc. white star In forehead, and considerably swuybiuked. A liberal reward will be given on return of the horse to WHITE & MELVIN, corner of 4th and Cherry streets. It-

OR BTOLEN-A LIGHT BAY

horse, nearly 6 years old, not quite 15 hands high, star in foroliead, a little white on left hliul foot near hoof, anil a scar on left thigh, not quite healed up. The return of tlie horse or auy information that may lead to the recovery of tho same will be liberally rewarded. Tho horse disappeared from C. Eppert's stable oo 4th street, two doors north or Oak, Ion the night of July 80tb, at which place apply.

JOHN H. MOORE.

Found.

TXUND-THAT

THE CHEAPEST AND

JR best advertising In the city can be obtained by investing In the wanted, For Bale, For Rent, Lost and Found column of theMAiL.

E. IIOSFORD,

Attorney at Law,*"

COR. FOURTH AND MAIN

Warren,'•

sri.

XTRA BARGAINS.

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Hoberg

& Co.,

Offer special Inducement*

TO CASH BUYERS

THEIR 4^4

Silk and Dress Goods

DEPARTMENT,

Shawl and Salt Department, op Embroidery and Lace Department, "White Goods and Linen De£&rtment, Housekeeping Good* Department, Domestic Department, 3*arasol Department.

This Week, Great Sale

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dote the Season.

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A splendid Linen Salt for $7,00, formerly •old at 110,00.

ADUTE!

100 Marseilles Bed Spreads,

Large 81w« at 11,60 each.

*100 pieces new slyle Csllco®, at S, 10 an JJS cents per yard. lte pteeea fast-coloied Gingham, at 1SH cents per yard.

o, Warren, Hoberg & Co.,

Op«a House Corner.

Contents of Inside Pages.

The lollowing are the contents of the Inside pages, the 2d, 8d, flth, and 7th, of today's Saturday Evening Mall. We think they will be found rich In variety and Interest.

SECOND PAGE.

HUGGING THE SHORE-Poetry. HOME'S A NEST-Poetry. STRIKING A STREAK—A Sport Ercaks the Strongest Faro Bank in Chicago. A LAUUFI ABLE I.OVE STORY. WIT AND HUMOR. i' T11E LITTLE PEOPLE. GOLDEN PARAGRAPHS. Funeral Postponed to see Barnum'sShow—

A Thrilling Incident—If he Said he did, He dld-Jtolng the Fair Thing-Blue Stocking —The Dutchman's StrikeHints for the Heated Term—The Woman Manifesto—Who Should go to YoSemite—A Fool for Luck, etc. ,fS THIRD PAUE. CONXVBIALITIES. MOTHERS-IN-LAW.

SIXTH PAGE.

IN THE HOSPITAL—Poetry. JOHN RICKSON'S TRIAL—An Intensely Interesting Sketch. A HORRIBLE STORY. HOW HELEN TAKES A BATH-A Strange

Creature, etc. SEVENTH PAGE. SPECTRAL ILLUSIONS-Some Strange

Stories Concerning Them.

Is beyond

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE-HAUTE. AUGUST 3, 1872

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Even lng, has a large circulation among fanners and others living outside of the city. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even lng, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city. Every Week's Issue Is, in fact, j.

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

THE Journal's political hash notes aro made op of Greeleyisms and Grantisms. You pays your money and you takes your choice.

MAXIMILIAN, it will be remembered was executed by order of Jaurez Siuce the death of the latter, the French government contemplate resuming diplomatic relations with Mexico.

THEY have a bureau in Washington for furnishing editorials to impecunious country Grant papers. A good many use them, and there is a visible improvement in tho style and vigor of their campaign articles. 7* if "1

TIIK clergymen and the undertakers of Philadelphia have formed what is called a Funeral Trades Union. At one of their meetings, they adopted resolutions that carriages should be sent for and placed at the disposal of the minis ters, and that funerals should be discontinued on Sundays. With the ministers and grave-diggers on a strike of this kind, it only needs that the doctors should join in also, to make it very uncomfortable for the living and the dead.

NOKTH CAROLINA held the first State election of the campaign, last Thursday. The campaign in the old North State has been exciting and bitter, and the result was looked for with interest. The lack of telegraphic facili tics in the State makes it one of the most difficult to hear from. The latest advices however, make it certain that the conservatives or opponents of the Grant administration have carricd the State by from 6,000 to 10,000 majority. Two years ago the Democrats elected their ticket by near five thousand majority.'*

A CORRESPONDENT of The Methodist Protestant writes in the following flippant manner about the lingual peculiarities he had noticed at a camp meeting: "I take my pen In hand to write yon a few lines, er, about a very "*unpleasant habit, er, which some of our good Methodist brethren have, er,

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when they pray in pnblic, er. It is adding a syllable to the last word in ev"ery sentence, er, which sounds very "much like er. Sometimes it is ah or "ugh, and I have heard it sound like nugh-hu. It is so strange they did not know it, er." The correspondent of The Mot hod 1st Protestant should remember in christain charity: "To err is human to forgive, divine."

THE Louisville Commercial speaks of the life insurance business as the grand delusion of the age. "Young men used to be dauled by the glowing accounts of agents, who pictured to them independent fortunes after a light servioe of a year or two. It seemod only necessary to allude casu ally to the subject to secure a policy of $10,000 or $50,000, according to the statements of these load-talking agents. When the fever was at its hight, from 1884 to 1869, men forsook good positions in mercantile houses to step into these hypothetical fortunes, and in a few months would be seen on the verge of suicide. Every counting-room and efflce was pestered by a horde of hungry solicitors, with the question, "Do yoa want any life insurance?" ever on their lips. We have pitied heartily the poor devils, for, with very few exception, they had been fatally fooled. The life Insurance goose does not hang quite so high in these days, and the business is worked by fewer companleoand fewer men."

LADY,

Homo

TFftKK-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.'AUGUST 3. 1872.

who is traveling a good deal

this summer, writes indignantly to the newspapers that her sex is very shabbily treated at the hotels^ and pleads for a reform. She says: "The register is generally as remote and no easier of acoeBs than il it lay in

other city. To go to the of

fice la unheard or to ask to have it brought into the parlor usually brings the clerk, but not the register and in replv to his polite question

Madam, what can I do for you?" she can only weakly say, 'nothing, thank you,' not daring to repeat the rash request which lias once been so completely ignorod. So her best friends may be on the floor below her, and she not know it, unless Bhe chanced to meet them on the hall, or in the elevator. If she stops for dinner only, her better half can quickly rid himself of the dust of travel in the bath-room provided for gentlemen there are none for ladies or if you do find water, there's never a towel, and a waiter at the office brushes and brooms him till bis clothing is as clean and fresh as ever. No waiter hovers around her with whisk broom in hand, «s she strolls into the parlor. To be sure, she can take a room, and for a pitcher of water pays its price for a dav. In comes my lord fresh and cheerful, but wonders why my lady can't 'take things as they come,' as he does, and not always look so forlorn when on a journey. While she, poor thing, goes into dinner unre fresiied and uncleaned, her clothing al ways heavy and irksome enough, doub lv so from being filled with dust and cinders'."

Here is certainly a chance for some some enterprising hotel proprietor to introduce convenient ladies' bathing and hair-dressing rooms, brush-girls and female reading-rooms. But, then if she was given all these things, to what length would she not go to get further concessions? What guarantee would her husband have that he would not be deprived ot his own little com forts

THE section of the Internationale, organized here some weeks ago, appears to have droppeji...out of public iio^ice —[Express.

It is very proper that this unwholesome oiitgrowth of French infidelity, sloth and vice, should "drop out of "pnblic notice." The Internationale has not had a cordial reception from America. It came here reeking with the blood of priests ot Paris, infamous from its tearing down of altars, dese crationsoi graves, burnings of palaces, and revolutionary onslaughts upon the institutions of France. As a consequence it received no favor from a people who honor religion, reverence the homes ot the dead, and who are willing to die for the government of their own formation. In New York, where the criminal population is greatest in the United States, where those too lazy to work and not too honest to steal, make their headquarters, the International Society found some low adherents, but they were insignificant in numbers and not respectable in any way. There is something in the atmosphere of the United States not compatible with its growth. Kk

IF there is any one thing in which Western papers excel it Is musical criticism. The Lexington (Mo.) Caucasian has a critic who thoroughly understands how to treat the most finished writings of the composers. This is the way in which he lays them out •'1 Knowesfc Thou the Fair Land,' which, whether thou dost or not, is an exquisite soprano solo from the opera of 'Mignon.' 'Our Little Darling,' a snub-nosed, paregoric cherub, a redfaced, and bald-headed catnip angel, done up In song and chorus. 'The Last Words,' a gizzard-squash-ingly sentimental ballad, guaranteed to draw tears from the eyes of a potato. 'No

Lettor for Me,' which, when

0V6ry

epistle is a hashery or washery bill in disguise, is a decidedly agreeable situation, bemoaned in a solo and duet. 'Good-by, Eva Darling,' a prolonged grunt, set to slow and tender music, in the form of a solitary and gregarious wail."

THE drinking of toasts is an opera* tion with which a great many people are entirely familiar, but the meaning ot which lew- can lucidly explain. Drinking toasts originated in the jolly days of rollicking Charles II. At that civilized and modest period the gentlemen used to go and look at the ladies bathe. One day at the city of Bath a celebrated beauty was in the bath, and one of the crowd of beaux dipped up a glass of water from beneath her feet and drank her health to the company. One lively gallant was so enraptured that he doclared he would have the toast. He was prevented. It will be remembered that it was the custom then to dip pieoes of toast in _wine and liqaor, and the lady was the toast of the bath water. Ever since, the object of a health drinking has been called a "toast."

A CHEMIST annonnoea his ability and readiness to convert the remains of any dear departed at once Into a powder, which may be used to dry np ink in writing. Wouldn't it be comical for a man todrythe ink on the letter, which he waswriting to his" noxt" with the chemical remain of his first or how sweet it would be to waste the ashes of a dead mother-in-law in dally correspondence. We know two or three men that don't write once a month who would become famous correspondents at once if they could but put their mothers-in-law to such a use.

IT is stated that more peopfle have been executed in France during the past twelve months than in any year since 1815, when tho episode of the "hundred days" between two restorations sent so many people to the gallows.

"A NUBBIN."

Although it may be a rash experiment to cross quills with so ready and experienced writer as Husks and Nubbins," I do so with the hope, that a few grains of truth may be found on the nubbin herewith presented. I do not propose to touch upon the vexed question of constitutions masculine and feminine. I am not now prepared to deny that the brain feminine has the liner structure and more delicate action. Neither am I prepared to admit that the brain masculine has not greater energy and more prolonged endurance. The constitution of woman may fit her to be a soldier or sailor, the constitution of man way fit him to bo a house-keeper, or a factory operative.

But first allow me to correct, what I am sure "Husks and Nubbins" will concede to be an assumption, the idea that co-education of the sexes is all right and the opposite view all wrong. Says "Husks and Nubbins, if it is good to educate boys and girls together, why is it not just as good to educate young men and women together?" Now, I do not dispute that it may be good and wise to educate boys and girls together. But does not Husks and Nubbins" entirely overlook

#the

idea that it may- perhaps be better to educate even boys and girls lu separate schools? The mere necessity of the caso has not a little to do with co-edu-cation of boys and girls. The question ofexponseis an important consideration. If it were lust as cheap for the State to maintain separate schools for boys and girls as to maintain one 8 hool tor both, the conclusion Is legitimate that separate schools would oftener be maintained. The School Directors of Philadelphia and other Eastern cities by establishing distinctively "bovs' schools" and "girls' schools," seem to confirm the idea that it is a better thing to educate even boys and girls in separate schoo Is.

I know not "with what arguments the learned faculties sustain themselves in their conduct towards the young women of the country!" It is enough to know that the burden of proof plainly does not rest with "the learned faculties," but with "the young women of the country." Observation, however, will warrant the conclusion that the alumni of Harvard, Yale, and other first-class colleges at the East,deprecate the admission of women to the nails of alma mater. If such were not the disposition of the alumni, who doubts that those colleges would at once be opened to young women I oppose the admission of women to Yale and Harvard, because such a step must necessitate a revolution in the student life of those colleges. With the entrance ot women must pass away the present dormitory system at those colleges, and with the dormitories will pass away that good-fellowship, the mere memory of which brings yearly back' to alma mater hundreds of Yale and Harvard graduates. ifo one can deny that tho system of dormUory life makes complex the problem of co-education of the sexes at Harvard and Yale.. At Ann Arbor, not until this system was abolished, was the way open for young women. We may be sure that the faculties of Yale and Harvard, if they ever attempt to solve this problem, will make it as simple as possible at the outset.

But "Husks and Nubbins" will say, the dormitory system is a non-essen-tial. Wh.it young women want is the educational, not the social advantages of Yale and Harvard." I hope to show that the dormitory system is very essential. Depend upon it, that if young women are admitted to Yale and Harvard, they must be admitted on equal terms with young men. There will either be dormitories, or there will not bo. With domitorles there must be the surveillance of a seraglio or zenana, or (to put It more mildly) of a Claverack or an Oberlin. It is not to be supposed that the authorities at Yale ani Harvard, would oohsent to be burdened with so ignoble a service. The dormitory system, would be abolished. You then put students at the mercy of over-reaohing landladies, and by increasing the cost of board Increase the cost of education. Now,the "reformers" make a strong poiut, wi^en they say that' education is cheaper at Harvard and Yale than atvassar. But the cheapest and most inconvenient lodgings "in town" in New Haved and Cambridge are nearly, if not qbite, as expensive as the elegant apartments in the dormitories recently erected there.

By the abolition of the dormitories, you also render the student population more difficult of control. Massed in dormitories, as at Yale and Harvapd, the students are easy of control bv the faculties, and the orderly habits of studentson the college squares can hardly be disputed. But distribute those students throughout a city of the extent of Cambridge,or New Haven, atid you place them completely beyond the personal control of the college authorities. It will not be strange, if tire re should in this case be excesses, especially asour American police is not omnipresent. In support of my position is the fact that when hazing prevailed a few years since at Harvard and Yale, the vicums, in nine casea out of ten, WQre freshmen living in lodgings In town." The excesses of stuaeQts In a certain Western town, where dormitories do not oxlst, seem to favor th6 doi-mitory system. We must remember, too, that the aveiage freshman of Yale and'Harvard is but a boy of 18, and certainly needs some supervision on thejMirt of the faculties.

But I maintain that the strictly educational advantages oi Harvjyjd and Tale are not their onljr tdvantagee. Their social influenoes aro Hot loss Important. When Yale and Harvard borrowed from Oxford and- Cambridge the life of the college halls,, they did a wise thing. The "Verdant Greens" ot the English universities, and the awkward ireshmen of Eastern (saying nothing of Western) olleges receive no less benefit from the secial life in the college halls than froui^helr intercourse with books and professors. The study of text books, ana intimacy with genial professors, undoubtedly hsa a refininginflnence upon astndent. There are, however^ various angularities and idiosyncraoiee which are worn off and removed only by the closer intimacies of the college hails. The dormitory life is a school unequalled for the studv and discipline of character. There all give and get their just dues. There all shams and mere pretences are heartily despised and exploded. But where atudenta meet only in the recitation room, the acquaintanoe among members of large classes (like those at Harvard, Yale, or Ann ArbojQ,

must be Blight. Those laatlng friendships which bind together Yale and Harvard graduates are comparatively unknown where the domitory system does not prevail or where it exists la an imperfect form.

While, then, I shall always rejoice at the prosperity of Wells, Ingham, and Vassar, I can never approve a stop which shall give the death-blow to the life in the college halls of Yale and Harvard. May heaven forefend it should soon be said that as Old Yale and Fair Harvard the age of the fcoodfellowshipis gone!

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

Special Correspondence of The Mall.] .. .. NEW YORK, July 29,1872. THE EXCURSIONS FOR POOR CHILDREN, inaugurated and managed by the proprietors of the New York Times, are, il possible, a better hit than the raid of a year since upon the Tamtpany thieves. Finding that thousands of children were dying.the Times sent reporters to learn the facts concerning }hem. It then spread those facts before the public and appealed for aid to relievo the sufferers. Aid came in generous measure, and the managers of the Times became all at once a Benevolent Society as well as a business firm. It met the responsibility nobly. Now It has the city districted and heads appointed over each district to attend to tbe relief of the sick. Hundreds are relieved and doubtless many lives have been saved, and inauy more will be. But the feature of this work which is most novel is tho excursions given to poor children. Already five have been given. Tickets are judiciously distributed among tho poor little ones, to the number of 800 or 1,000. On some certain day these children are taken, generally by boat, to some bsautifnl spot in tho country. They are led with sandwiches, cake, and ice cream, washed down with ice water and lemonade. Thus a day is speut in tlie pure air and freedom of tho country. Many of the little things never before sot eyes upon forest8 or green fields. Their delight is said to be unbounded. The boys let •out their gladness in shouts and leaps and tumbles. The girls are more quiet, and sometimes come to the ladles who accompany them, saying with eyes full of grateful tears, "I am so happy," or, "I never was so happy.*

Next Tuesday 900 newsboys aro to be taken out to the shores of the sound and fed with clan chowder. If I can possibly* stay till that time I shall go.

Who shall say there Is no progress when a newspaper firm, up to its ears, in business, and over bead and ears in politics, uan find time and inclination for such truly Christian work as this. Good as well as evil is contagious, and already other cities, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia are Imitating thisAoble example. Whether New York is the worst or best place in the vyacld depends npon how you look at iU It is both. On the Tammany side it is the worst.' On the side of true religion and philanthropy, it is the best.

I have taken a TURKISH BATH,• and can tell you all about it. It is a mighty funny affair, and so I will tell. We entered a fine mansion on Brooklyn heights. Iu the office a doctor with the noted smilo of the oriental takes all*your valuables. I had none with mo, my wife and boys, the only ones I possess, not being present. Thus divested of worldly treasures, we passed to a room nicely furnished, surrounded by little st&lls like those seen in some eating houses. The curtain drawn the clothes are removed, and the loins girded with a towel. In this light uniform, we are shown into a room with marble floor, furnished with chairs£with cane seats and backs. The marble at first burns the bare feet. The room is heated to 125 degrees. The attendant, turning to a marble wash stand in the corner and letting on the water, bids us first wet our heads, and then take a glass of hot lemonade and sit down in the chairs and put our feet in the little tubs of hot water which are placed there. Here we are left alone for somo ten minutes, sipping hot lemonade (no stick in it) and holding the feet in the hot water. Of course the perspiration started from every pore. If it does not it will by and by, for at the explratiou of ten minutes we are bidden to move on. We enter another room, the marble floor of whigh

has strips of towellin to protect the feet.

upon 3t

iperaturi

temperature

of-this' *oom is 140 degreos. Here we

sit.! or lie as we choose, and little rills, miniature waterfalls, small cataracts of perspiration form Ml over the body. At the expiration of about five minutes two colored persons in a uniform the same as ours appear suddenly at a door, and bid us follow thein. Obediently following we are taken to separate rooms In which is a marble slab about as high as an ordinary table, oovered with towelling. "Take off that cloth," is the first order. Of course our uniform is removed. "Lie down on that board," meaning the marble slab. Here every part of the body is first vigorously rubbed with the bare hand. The "man and brother takes a brush and scrubs the entire body. Then while laying on the stomach he beats the back in a peculiar manner with the thumb and fingers so curled as to leave the hollow of the hand cup shaped, and each blow sounds like the drawing of the corks from champagne bottles. Playing a tune upon the oack in this way—whether Yankee Doodle or Old Hundred I ootfld not tell—the order comes, "sit on that stone. Will you be sham poo ned "Yes." Shut your eves." And at once followed such a snampooning, O, ye barbers, as you never dreamed of giving a customer. First it Is warm water. Then cooler and oooler, till it is cold. Apoth# door is opened and a large tank, fifteen or twenty feet long and eight or ten wide, with water four feet deep is before us, and the rier comes "Plunge. And plunge it is, and mighty nice. Here we enjoy a fine little swim, the water being at a temperature of about 70, or nearly like the river water In a warm day. Next comes a good thorough rubbing by the attendants, in which we too bear a hand to help circulation. We are then wrapped in a dry sheet and permitted to lie uppn a lounge or sit in an easy chair until perfectly dry and thoroughly rested, even taking a nap if we desire. Then dressing at our leisure, we are through with our first Turkish bath. If any one desires the pleasant sensation of feeling strong enough to whip six men at once, while in too good humor to disturb a mosquito, let him take one of these baths. It may not seem nice in print but it is OMfvuly good in reality.

WANDERER.

letter from cape may.

Correspondence of The Mail.] CONGRESS HALL, July 23,1872. The favorite 'seaside resort is throng-:! ed with visitors, nearly ten thousand! being accommodated at the various ho-. tela and boarding houses located here. In addition to these thero area great number of cottages owned principally by residents of Philadelphia and Bal-& timore, who annually enjoy the com-|? fortablo surroundings of home at thelf most delightful of all the watering places on tho Atlantic coast. Some ofjj these "cottages" are almost palatial ini* their proportions and architectural designs, and the wealthy and hospitable# owners have plenty of funds to enter-' tain during the "season." which is now at its height. The crowd is simply immense, several of the larger hotols havlng over a thousand guests each.

The hotels are nearly all convenient-^ lv located for bathing purposes, and a# the lime appointed, from 11 to 1 o'clock, the scene upon the beach is one of in4$ describable oddity and picturesque va-fe? riety. Think of five thousand persons arrayed in harlequin costumes, clashing into and being dashed by the "sad sea waves" into all imaginable attitudes.: Dignity is at a discount when one isr. thus arrayed, and I have reached thei, conclusion that the bathing costume-? solves the question of social equality mors practically than anything else: at^ all events In the surf we notice a common^ levol highly suggestive of the complete demoralization of the pride, vanity^ and ambitious pretentious that are 80t» frequently encountered iu our daily ex-f-1 periences.

Several deaths by drowning have occurred this season, none of them however attributable to the dangers of the!, coast. The victims have almost lnvarl-H ably been excellent swimmers who, confident of their strength and ability^ had voutured beyond the breakers.! Yesterday a gontleman was seized with-v,. apoplepsy while bathing, and drown-"' eu uefore assistance could reach him.^ These incidents cause a temporary^ gloom, but amid the whirl of exclte-S ment and gayety they are soon forgotten, except by bereaved relatives and friends.

As political matters are now the cur*!*' rent talk, It may not be amiss to statou that I have failed to notice any enthusiasm for Greelev outside of Baltimore. His old friends have deserted him by%. thousands, and throughout the por-J, fif T)0lftWflpa Vaur ntiA:^ ed

tions of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania tnat I have visitea there has not been at attempt at a ratification that has not resulted in an inglorious fizzle. The prospect for the Republican party was never more promising, andv the conviction is strong that the prosent administration "will be continued."*) If time permits I will write you against

E. M. W. TL

The City and Vicinity.

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TISEMENT3.

Wanted—Book agents—J. A. Foote. Strayed—Horse. A Dairy Man Wanted. Anction Sale of Fine Furture. Strayed or Stolen Horse. T, Legal—Hosford vs. Ostrom. ct al. ... W an ha el an

Wanted—Stock of Merchandise. Knights of Pythias Excursion. Ladles Goods at Riddle's. J. I Hair Goods and Hair Work—Vleira. Early Fall Dress Goods—W 8. Ityce & Co... Building and Loan Co. meeting.

THERE is a lively trade going on lathe city to-dav. 'J

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THE political oampaign is warming up and becoming interesting. 3

CANVASSERS for the right of way arel now down along the route of the South-'* a a I

OWNERS of dry wells are praying for at rise in the river, but even the big rain# have little effect on the sluggish,v stream.

TOUTE'S BAND has three calls next Tuesday—tho railroad excursion, Bra-» zll and Mattoon. It will go with theft excursion.

THE colored citizens of this city and country, on Thursday evening, metl and resolved not to desert the Repub-1 lican party as advised by Senator Sum4 ner.

THE "Democratic Temple" is what| they call It—it is located on the corner! of Ohio and Eighth streets, is to be? dedicated on Wednesday evening, and{ Hon. D. W. Voorbees will make ther speech.

TOM GIST'S line of omnibusses up and down Sixth and Third Sts., carrying passengbrs at five cents, areaflnan4 cial success and a great convenience tojk people residing south of Main street.

BEFORE Esq. Denehie yesterday^ morning, Jeanette Parsons was acquited of the charge of killing young Bat-r ton. It was very clearly shown that* death was not caused by the blow she! gave him with the towel-roller. «£.'•

WE are safe in saying that from twelve to fifteen thousand men, womeh, hoys,t girls and children—(even the babies cry for it)—read The Mail every week. What a splendid advertising medium to reach the people of this and surrounding towns. We do not claim that' many subscribers, but can lay claim to near fifteen thousand readers

THE record at the City Cemetery for the month of July shows a greater mortality was ever before known in this city during a single month. For-ty-flve interments were made. Of these fifteen were adults, five children, over one year, and

twenty-five

one year of age.

infants under

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