Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 January 1873 — Page 4

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ENQ-

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The women of England are very mach disappointed and chagrined at the turn affairs took in the House of Commons, when Mr, Jacob Bright'* bill to extend the right of suffrage to "women householders" was introduced. The whole tfting was taken in such a humorous way, and there was so much fun in the speech-making of the occasion, that the laughter in the House was irrepressible, and far more damaging to the woman's cause than any grave consideration of the subject could have been.' A great deal of warm feeling and recrimination was exhibit ed at one time by both sides, but the turning of the matter into jest did away with this.

One gentleman condoled with the Speaker on the prospect of his soon being dispossessed of his place. "He was probably addressing the last male occupant of the Speaker's chair—his mock mournfulness kept the House in a roar. Altogether, it was a very uncommon scene tor the House of Com' mons.

Some of the prominent speakers were not very gallant to the ladies, and ex pressed themselves in language more plain and pointed than chivalric. They were heartily disgusted wLh the course of the women politicians, and did not hesitate to say so, calling them to account. The best educated women of England, one stated, had conspicuouslv, during the past year, proved their unfitness for politics.

A leading journal, in commenting on the debate, says: "The women of England, if they had their way, would put back the clock an hundred years."

John Bull bas no idea of being die tated to and interfered with in the exeroise of his constitutional rights. He thinks to give the women of the present day the right of jpfaffrage would injure the Commonwealth and be disastrous to England, an,d he does not hesitate to say so, and puts, his foot down solidly against it. Well, John Bull has learned many a lesson lrom Young America, and it is not improbable that he^ may yet follow America on this question.

STOKES SENTENCED.

Just one year ago Edwin S. Stokeq, it will be rememberedj-happened to be at the Grand Central Hotel, New York, when James Fisk, Jr., got in the way of a deadly pistol ball. Last Saturday evening a jury said Stokes was guilty of murder in the first degree, and on Monday the judge said he should be hanged on the 28th oi February. The verdict has surprised everybody, and yet satisfaction at the result is well nigh universal. It is )a strange state of affairs when the conviction of a known murderer causes more surprise than his acquittal would have done. It marks not only a change for the better in the practice of courts, but indicates a healthy change in public sentiment, in its relation to crime and'ptfiilshment. But Stokes is not hung by along shot. He has the benefit of an appeal tp two higher courts and after that the chance of executive clemency.

DBA TH OF NAPOLEON Charles Louis .Napeleon Bonaparte lato Emperor of France,-died an Cuiseihurst on Thursday morning. With his death closes a most eventful career, with which, all readers of newspapers are familiar. What- effect"his death will have on the French government cannot be stated.

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that it will strengthen Republicanism in France, others are oLihe opinion that it will benefit-the'Napoleonic dynasty. The ex-Emperor being now out of the way, it is not improbable that the Prince Imperial be upon the French throne.

MEDICAL science has lately made a Mghttul discovery. One of the most eminent professors of Paris has suomitted to the academy an invention of his own to kill animals by blowing air into their eyes. A few seconds only are Required for the operation, which, besides causes little suffering. Expert, ments, it is affirmed, have been made at Alfort which have succeeded perfectly. One remarkable feature in this new method of killing is that it leaves no trace behind it, and is as applicable to human beings as to animals.

NBWSPAPKBS throughout low* are discussing whether it would not be better to subscribe toward building factories so as to create a home market instead of building railroads, and then burning corn for fuel, because it does not pay to ship it.

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A PACTS raott ran ottttaxm.

in* through the Aral volume of the new census, snd from it we get many curious as well ss importsnt statistics. In looking over the tables the most striking feature is theCaumber Of -aationalitiea represented in our potmlatioa. We have three Greenlandera in the United States, five negroes born in Sweden, six born in Russia, 673 whites born in Africa, and 2,038 persons who are without a native country, having been born at sea. Five and a half millions ef oar population are of foreign birth. Of these 1,855,827 sre Irish, and sre distributed in the greatest number throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, and in the vicinity of New York city. The Germans number 1,690,410 and are most numerous in New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin sn4 Missouri. The En glish number 550,904, hnd sre the most numerously located in and about New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and in the vicinity of Providence, R. 1. They are also found in considerable numbers in Rochester, Cincinnati, Chicago and Milwaukee, and in the coal regions of Pennsylvania. The Welsh number 74,533, and the Swedes and Norwegians 231,574. The two latter reside largely in Minnesots, Wisconsin and Illinois, and are very numerous in snd around Chicago. There are 493,934 persons enumerated as born in Britiah America, and these residents are naturally found in largest numbers near the Canadian line, though they are well rep resented in the larger cities and in the manufacturing*districts of Massachusetts, The Chinese, about whom so much ado has been made, number only 62,674, and are mainly confined to the cities and mining districts of Cali fornia and Nevada. The French number but 116,240, the Spaniards but 3,701, and nearly a third of the latter live in the city of New Orleans. There are 17,149 Italians and 41,308 Mexicans, the latter nearly all residing in California and Texas.

The total population of ti# country is 38,925,598. Of these 9,439,205 are males over the age of 21 years 12,505,923 ef the entire population are reported as engaged in"gainful and respectable pursuits." Taking into consideration that the number of persons in the country above the age of 10 years is 26,288,945, the fact above stated seems strange but an examination shows that a large portion of those thus reported are fe males under the age of 16. Of males between the ages of 16 and 59, of which there are 10,429,150, there are 9,586,734 reported to be engaged in some gainful occupation while 989,516 above the age of 60 are also properly accounted for. The rest are composed of the vicious and idle, the 'sick, the studious, and those who have retired from business. There are in the United States 2,885,996 agricultural laborers, 2,9?7,7ll farmers and planters, 136 apiarists, 3 55& dairymen and dairy women, 1,085 florists 31,435 gardeners and nurserynrieny i,112 wine growers, 2,053 actors. 2,Qil7 architects, 2,266|auctioneers, 458 authors and. lecturers, 23,953 barDers, 94 bath-house keepers, 1,220 billiard and bowling saloon keepers and employes, 425 billposters, 12,784 boarding-house keepers, 587 bootblacks, 73 chimney-sweeps, 65 chiropodists, 43,874 clergyman, 7,839 dentists, 975,734 domestic servants, 26,-394hotel-keepers, 940 hunters and trappers, 352 inventors, 5,176 journalists, 276 lamp-lighters, 40,736 lawyers, 1,186 mid-wives, 10,976 nurses, 52,383 physicians and surgeons, 250 sculptors, 1,151 sextons, 154 short-hand writers, 15,010 musicians and teachers of music, 2,673 whitewashers, 10,631 bankers and brokers, 14,362 bar-keepers, 7,262 commercial travelers, 120,746 draymen, hackmen and teamsters, 473 mule-packers, 1,002 newspaper carriers, 384 pawnbrokers 59,663 sailors, 1,996 undertakers, 93 wreckers, 27,680 bakers, 141,774 blacksmiths, 44,354 butchers, 22,286 cigarmakers, 34,233 engineers and firemen, 152,107 miners, 39,860 printers, 436 ragpickers, 161,820 tailors, talloresses and seamstreses.

The Superintendent of the Census, gives some valuable hints regarding the necessary changes in the law, which should receive the careful consideration of Congress. If a proper law is framed, and a new census taken in 1875, as proposed, we shall have made the first step toward elevating the census into the authorative position it should occupy. In almost every other feature than that of population our censusus, heretofore, have been without any adequate authority from which to derive economic deductions which might be offvalue and service, to the country.

Tax chimes of Old Trinity astonished the sedate New Yorkers by ringing out tho old and ringing in the New Year, in a manner to say the least, peculiar. It must have sounded strange to hear "Champtgne Charlny" rung out from Trinity on the midnight air,followed by the plaintive absurdity, "Put me in my Uttle Bed." Not a note, not an air more seriQua than "Captain Jinks," or the "Flying Trapese," was wafted to listening ears, and the medley was made complete by the enlivening strain of "Shoo Flj," closing with, ••We're a podding." Wonder if the chimes rung out prophesy of the musical taste of the New Yorkers.

THOSK who look upon tobacco as an abominable and filthy weed have bad provided for them a paradise to which they can emigrate and be free from the fames of the horrible cigar and the atrocious pipe.' A colony is being planted at Skiddy, Kan., in which no oa« ia teleraVni who dallies with the

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IKRRE-H A fTTB 84TrRl»AY EVENING A11 ..JANUARY 11. 1873.

Wi-Me toWgihatftbe grandest, military display Washington has witnessed for many y«aiy will be made en the occasion of Gen. Grant's Inauguration.

A BTBASoi and fatal cattle disesse hss made its appearance in Rosa coun|y, Ohio, spasms and extreme weakness being the prominent symptoms. Death speedily ensues after ap attack and no animal has yet recovered.

A CMTSMPORAKY, redting how a Chicagoan narrowly escaped being buried alive, says, in all soberness, that just as the coffin was lowered into the grave a stifled .groan told the startled spectators that "the oorpse was not dead."

THE highly-praised Westinghouse brake now and then won't work, and once or twice t'raina on a Massachusetts road have barely escaped ranning into draw-bridges, which has called out an order that in every case, trains shall be braked by hand when approaching a a

IT is a peculiarity of the American people that they are ever on the alert to annex something—as if this uation wasn't large enough now. Tuere's Canada, Mexico, Cuba, San Domingo, and now because the Sandwich Islanders are temporarily without a king, there is talk of stretching the tip of the American Eagle's wing away out into the Pacific ocean. Not yet. The Sandwich Islands would make a nice stopping point on the way to China, but let's wait until the ignorant diseased heathens die off, as they are now doing rapidly. When a majority of the population is composed of Americans capable of self-government it will be time to talk of annexing the Sandwich Islands^^^^^^^^^^

SOME thoughtful and benevolent gentleman has introduced a bill into the Ohio Senate to exempt dentists from jury duty. It is a bill in every way to be commended. .When one thinks of a poor fellow enduring all the pains and agonies of a reckless tooth that ever threatens to jump out of his head, yet eveij resolutely clings to its socket, at last exasperated beyond endurance by the torture, rushing out frantically in search of the man with the forceps, and after a fruitless endeavor, finding that the said forceps man is locked up out of reach in a jury room, his heart must be filled with compassion, For the sake of humanity enduring the most intolerable and excruciating of all earthly inflictions, exempt the dentist.

THB barbarous practical joke, the amusement aflorded by which seems ip exact proportion to the cruelty Inflicted upon the victim, has beefa Ida proved by a charivari party at Wadena, Iowa, who carried the fun, literally, to the killing point by stripping a youth named Dorland and tying him to the back of a horse a la Mazeppa. The horse proving unruly, the poor boy WAS BO injured that he died in a few hours. Would that party of

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esteekn it quite so much a joke were it tosebd some of them to the penitentiary jbr manslaughter in. causing the death of Dorland? But would that not also operate to check the wanton brutality that is too much tolerated under t^e guise of jest urn

THERE is nothing like being moderate and jjudicious as well as appreciative wheni jrtu deal in praise. Of all these qualities in their highest perfection,the Dubujque Times gives1 us an illustrious example worthy of imitation if it could! be imitated. Hear it In a critical and '{discriminating notice of somebody ti lecture: "Without a written word for more than an hour he piled up gems and gold, truth and beauty in radiant tiers. We thought of it at times as a majestic crystal, brilliant in its noble bulk, and radiating from innumerable lines, facts philosophy, poetry, ethics, and religion. Seldom does so good amass of truth, so richly phrased and so luminously ut--tered, come within the reach or any audience."

Mine goodness gracious!

THE stringency of existing laws for capital punishment, on the one hand, and the farcical trials which tend to clear the guilty, on the other, have drawn attention to the penal law, which should be modified so as to meet the guilty with certainty of punishment, and at the same time do away With the so-considered barbarism of legal measures in cases of lighter crime. Looking to such results, Mr. Clinton, a well known lawyer, proposes to submit to the tiegislature of the State of New York two bills, the equity of which is apparent. One of these provides that in the event of unwillingness on the jart of a judge to convict of murder in the first degree, necessitating a judgment of manslaughter in the third degree, the homicide may be classed as murder ia the second degree, punisha-ble-frith imprisonment Isr life. The second bill attacks one of the most serious of court room dodges. If the twelve men in the box find the culprit Insane they are to render a verdict in accordance with such decision in this case the acquittal from the crime does not allow the man to go scot-free, but remands him to an insane asylum, (a •imiiiar punishment to be used for felonies not capital), for a period corresponding to the term of sentence imposed on a prisoner found guUty. In capital cases it is purposed to confine the guilty party in an asylum not less than twenty nor more than thirty years, and nntil he has been restored to mental soundness by the evidence of incontrovertible proofs If the legislative body of the Empire State shall concede the jnstioe of these provisions so far as to make them statutes, it will set an example worthy of imitation, and will demonstrate that some good, can come even "out of NaoajretU*"

SHOW TRICKS,

HOW THESE THINGS ABB MANAGED.

History of the Black Crook—Hov a "Clergyman was Reminded of the New Jemsalem bg the Transformatum Scene,

Appropos of the oocnpa&on of the Opera House by the Black Crook spectacle, we print from the Cincinnati Gazette* correspondence a very readable •history of that remarkable success. Many at the circustances are already familiar tothe pnblie, but the whole story has not been correctly detailed before. They ran aa follows:

In the latter part of 1865, Harry Palmer wss walking np Chestnut street, in Philadelpha, and encountered Henry 0. Janet, who bad just come from Baltimore. They fell Into conversation and atjjournea to a neighboring oyater shop. "What are yon doing now, Harry?" said Jarrett, sa thev waited for the fulfillment of their orders. "Nothing," said Harry, with that precise intonation for whlcn he is famous "not a thing, and I am looking round for something to do." "That'sjust my case," replied Jarrett. "Suppose we get up a show together. How much money can you raise

About ten thousand dollars." '*That'a my figure, too," said Jarrett. "What do you say to getting up something to travel about the country with "Agreed," said Palmer, and just then came the oysters, and temporarily stopped their months. They remained an hour or so in that restaurant, and before they left it was decided that they would sail on the steamer two days later from New York. Jarrett hastened to the Baltimore train to say goodbye to his family, and arrange his preparations for departure. Palmer telegraphed lor a state-room on the steamer. and next day was in New York, where Jarrett joined him a couple of hours before tne sailing of the steamer.

GATHERING THE MATERIAL. With no very definite purpose beyond that of finding an attractive novelty, they arrived at London and began loo'klng around among the theaters. For several days they found nothing that suited them, ana at last came to Co vent Garden. There was a showy performance going on there, with a closing scene that reminded them of the "Seven Sisters," though it was more gorgeous. After they had looked at it^ one of the pair suggested:

Suppose we buy this closing scene, get up a ballet company, and then show the two together. We can take it through the country, and it ought to draw."

Just what I was thinking," said the other. They talked awhile about the matter be'ore going to bed, and the next morning opened negotiatious for the machinery and properties of the scene, for which they were to pay three hundred pounds, the delivery to be made at the end of the month, when the piece was to be withdrawn. This purchase wss what afterward appeared as the transformation scene in the "Black Crook." Then tuey set about ^engaging the live material lor their ballet. They engaged a few* dancers id London but could not find a star that suited them.

Their plans were all settled to take this transformation scene and a ballet troupto America, run it a month in New York, a fortnight in Boston, and soon through all the cities and large towns. Jarrett started for New York to arrange for a theater fot the first performance, and Palmer went to the continent to secure the star performers. Jarrett arrived here and found Niblo's Garden under the management of William Wheatleigh, the best for his purpose. It was not doing a good business, and Wheatleigh Was looking around for something new. Jarrett unfolded his plans, and it did not take long to arrange a bargain. Jarrett, Palmer, and Wheatleish formed a partnership, in which the mouey the two first had expended was to be set against the lease of the house. The receipts were to be "pooled," and after paying expenses therei was to be an equal division of profits.

I THE BLACK CROOK.1 Tney were sitting in Wheatleigh's office, and had just oompleted negotiations, when there was a rap at the door, and the attendant announced Mr. Barras, dramatic author, who wished to see Mr. Wheatleigh, if he was not too busy. The manager hesitated a moment. "Tell him I'm out—no show bimin be may have something that we want." BAITS* came in and explained his business.

He had written and just completed a a play which he called "The Blaek Crook,Ti and wanted Wheatleigh to produce it. Wheatleigh askejl bis price and he named|2000and a royalty or |20 a night, or 93000 outright. He was told to call next day, and leaving the manuscript, after explaining some of the points, he went away.

The two managers'looked over the manuscript. "Not much of a play," said Jarrett, "but the title Is first-rate and will do for our show. We can tnke a few scenes from the piece an| stick in the ballet or rather stick the soenee in the ballet. We can make the piece run six weeks, and we had best take thispioce and pay him 92000 and his royalty. That will be. cheaper than buying it outright.

Jarrett left Wheatleigh to complete the negotiations, and tumped on a steamer for England. Wheatleigh arranged for the play, and wrote by the next steamer that be had done so. Jarrett reached London, telegraphed to Palmer, who waa in Berlin, to meet him in Paris. Thither they hastened they met in the evening, and sat up until daylight, talking over their plans of their campaign. In a couple of days they had everything satisfactorily settled. It was before the days of the Atlantic cable, and the only reliance was upon the mail. Wlftile they were talking over the buiness, Palmer suggested:

Let ui make a sure thing 6f It. You have just time to catch the Cunard steamer from Liveroool. Go for it, see Wheatleigh, and take the next steamer back to help me cast over the ballet troupe and machinery. I will have everything ready by the time yen get here."

Jarret assented, and in five minutes they shook hands and separated. He caught the steamer, and on a Tuesday forenoon, at ten o'clock, landed in New York. In half an hour he was closeted with Wheatleigh. and in a few hours the time and all the details of the product ion of the piece were arranged. They took dinner together, and late in the evening Jarrett went on board the outgoing Cunard steamer, which was to sail tne next morning.

PRODUCTION OF THE SEXSATIOJC. In due time Jarrett and Palmer arrived in New York with their heterogeneous materials for the great spectacle, and in due time, in August, 1866, the first performance came off, and the house wss crowded it was whispered

that there waa a gnat nosibsr of deadheads and hired clacquera in the audience, but the mutagen strenuously deny that then waa anything of the sort. At all events, then waa veciferoua applsuae, though then was an ap* pearance of nervouaness among some of the apectators when the eorpe N taftol with clothing foarfally suggestive of the Venus de Mediel altera bath In red ink, made ita entree to the "demon danoe." Then was bnathlessnaea for a moment, but a round of applanae settled the timid ones, snd the suocess of the place was secured. The triumph of the evening culminated when the transformation scene displayed Its wonden and opened up a fairy world, such as had never before been known In America. "I never imagined anything half so gorgeous," said a clergyman who made a surreptitious visit to the "Blaek Crook." after it had run a few weeks. "My imsgination never equaled this, and? have obtaiued a realizing sense of the New Jerusalem."

ANXIETY.

In the manager's office, that evening, before the opening of the doors, then was an anxions trio. The expenses of the prapsrations had fiar exceeded the original estimate, and the firm of Jarrett, Palmer A Wheatleigh had very little cash to show. Befonthe sale of tickets begun they had spent all they could raise, with the exoeption of a single 5-20 bond of 9UXKK to whioh they clung as the fund out or which the first week's salaries should be paid. The 5-20 bond was locked up in the safe, and only the three managen knew of ita existence. Had the piece failed, the salaries would have been paid on Saturday, the forfeit money for the foreign artists, already deposited in Europe, would have been surrendered, the company dismissed and the "Blaek Crook" would have been numbered with the hundreds of theatrical wrecks that have preceded it.

TRIUMPH.

The receipts for the flnt night were 92,900 for tne second they were 93,200, and so they went on, at aa average ol 93,000 for each performance of the flnt week. The managen bad counted upon running the piece lor six weeks, but on the first evening they considered it would last two months. Next morning some of the papers assailed the performance. "Good for three months," said Jarret, as be glanced over tho criticisms, On the following Sunday a sensational preacher began to denounce it from bis pulpit, and his sermon was reported. ''The piece will ruu six months," said Palmer as be read the Abstract of the sermon "put the fellow on the free list, ahd have. good seat for him every time he wants U." .«

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Next the Herald ass&ijed it, and the papers generallly took up the discuss:i ion. "We will nave a year of it now. and quite likely a year and a half," said Jarrett "we let ourselves in rather badly by not paying Barras his price outright, instead of giving him a royalty."

The "White Fawn" was the natural successor of the "Black Crook" and cleared 985,000 profit. The subsequent revivals of the "Black Crook" have been profitable, and bring smiles of dolight to the face ot Zimmerman, the treasurer.of the establishment.

SOMERODT says truly that many a man is rich without money. Thousands of men with nothing in their pocket,

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TQB Pennsylvania Railroad Company is a name which includes a number of subordinate associations, making altogether one of the most powerful corporations in the world. It controls not only the Pennsylvania Cfintral road, but the various Northern branches of it that run through the Pennsylvania coal districts, and through Northwestern New York to Lake Erie a line from Philadelphia through Baltimore and Washington to Richmond a line from Pittsburgh to Chicago a line from Pittsburgh to St, Louis an incomplete line from Illinois to Texas and through Texas to the Pacific and a line reaching from St. Louis towards the Pacific., Some of these lin^nj it controls entirely others it ownfc a large interest in, and partially directs. These lines an 14,273 miles |n length, and Involve an aggregate dapital of 9078,697,503. ?,

Postmaster General Credwell has written to the Prussian director of posts on the subject of women in government service. He reports seven hundred women employed In the postal depdrtment, Ave hundred of whom are postmistresses of local offices,

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The "Blaok Crook" ran five hundred and a few odd nights, and netted 9810,000 to its managers. Barras, the author, received over 912,000 for bis share. It was alwaya considered a good joke by many persons to assert that the piece ever nad an author, as it was little else than a string or a ballet performances without any particular con! tinuity. The name and the noanlation scene were about all that were used of the original piece as Barras delivered it to Jarrott and Wheatleigh, and the author has never yet qdite recovered from his ohagrin at tne sad mutilation which the child of his brain reoeived. I am told that he has repeatedly offered 950,000 to have the piece produced as it was originally written. It ooutainled no ballet, nor anything like one, but was simply a melodrama of the sensational and hobgoblin sort.

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