Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 February 1873 — Page 4

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III. The most Important fact in that it has a vastly larger circulation than any paper In this city—larger than all three of the

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IV. It goes into nearly every household in this city, and is distributed by Xcwsboyt in the tvrrou.nd.ing towns.

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ANTEDS-EVERYBODY TO KNOW that I shall continue the auction feature my business this year. Selling indiscriminate^ all kinds ot articles on Saturday afternoons, at ray stand corner of 4th und Ohio streets. I am better prepared 1 his vear to accept consignments of merchandise than during the previous year-hav ng it ready enlarged my shelf room, enabling me to keep consignments constantly exposed for sale. I will attend t« sales elsewhere In the city or vicinity on reasonable terms. To parties desiring to dispose of household goods, can offer extra advanta-

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

TERRE-HAUTE, FEB. 1,1873.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday fSvenlng, has a large circulation among fanners 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,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

THEbroken rail," figures altogether too frequently in railroad accidents now-a-days with every cold snap. The fact seems to be clcar that the improvements in the rolling stock of railroads have increased in bulk with a rapidity entirely out of proportion with the augmented strength of the rail. Take, for instance, one of the most approved and improved oi our palace cars, in which a passenger retires as into a coffin, to wake up at the destination named on his ticket or in eternity. One of these finely-appointed coaches weighs as much as a locomotive—that id to say, five tons. It is nothing unusual for a half dozen of these bulky vehicles to be attached to one train. The merest apprentice in the strength of materials must know that the railroad rail is not calculated to resist such a weight as this. The wonder is that in such weather as we are now enduring, more rails do not yield to the combined assault of the intense cold and heavy weights. *.

THE New York papers tell us of the arrest of a seamstress for the crime of pawning clothing intrusted her charge. Upon examination, it was elicited that she was working for a Miss Phillips, who had contracted to pay her the enormous price of seventeen cents for making four pairs of trousers, fifty cents for twelve pairs of drawers, and twentyfive cents for six shirts. In laboring lor this princely reward the lazy girl failed to complete the garments at the time agreed, whereupon the philanthropic Miss Phillips wisely and,generously retained her pay. Thereupon, being ir^ Bead of something to eat, the seamstress pawned some other clothes belonging to Miss Phillips. "Alas! for the rarity of Christain charity." Had this unfortunate girl been a man tailor her compensation would have been sufficient to have banished from her mind the contemplatioa of such a terrible crime.

A WASHINGTON correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal, underdate of the 20th says the impression seems to have become general that it is the intention of the President to make many changes in the various postofflces throughout the country, and some go so far as to expect that all of the postmasters (there are only 30,000) will be removed and new ones appointed. This, however, is not the case as the President does not intend to make any changes. He will re-appoint all of what are known as "Presidential postmasters." That is, where the salaries are large but ether than this, no change will be made. The many hundred people, all of them applying for postmasterships in small towns, will therefore not gain anything by sending in their applications at this time.

THKRK is a shadow of the gallowstree falling across the doorways of Murderers' Row in the Tombs. Some one has to dangle at the end of a rope in New York. If Stokes escapes it will be all the worse for Simmons or some other cut-throat. We are told that Stokes, Foster, et. al., take daily reviews of the murder market, and estimate their chances of escape or execution by the absence or occurrence of the other murders. It is undoubtedly true, though, and'Foster is not so far wrong in attributing his final sentence to be hung to two new murders. A pleasant exhibition of that justice which never varies.

TUB American Agriculturist suggests that the girls wear "thick, home-made woolen stockings" instead of the gauze absurdities with which they now cover their rosy and dimpled (T) little extremities. The Agriculturist thinks that It would give us a healthier set of mothers. This is true, and the girls might as well, while they are covering up their feet, throw something around their necks and chests. It would be better in more ways than hygienic.

A LECTURER at San Francisco advertises to deliver a lecture on the theme "apeep into the heart," That would be a fearful lecture if it revealed the seorets of the heart, but as it Is a Doetor who makes the announcement it is not so very startling, as he profcably

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Stnrsxr On will travel In Iceland next Summer. He will find there the remains and legends ot remerkebly wise form of popular government. The history of loeUnd to little known, and deserves to be mora widely read.

RxixiRmxa the heart of a murdered woman to the jnry ia anew feature in St» Louis criminal pra?tie«r

THE DISCOVERY OF INDIANA COAL. The discovery and development of our coal, is, or ahould be, a subject of interest. JFhp Jndianapflii* herald, commenting upon the rwna*kaof Professor Wincbell, of Michigan University, and recently Geologist of that State,- that Proftesor Cox was foreordained to discover the coal in Indiana, sayitbat Dr. R. T. Brown discovered ooal in this State wbile Professor Cox was yet playing marbles. The Indiapolis News says this statement is not correct, as the honor really belongs to neither of these gentlemen, for its existence was knowjt over one hundred years ago.

Those who have taken the pains to read up the history of the mineral developments in this State will agree that Colonel Croghan, a British officer, while exploring the country adjacent to the Ohio river, was made captive by the Indians, in the year 1763, and carried up the Wabash river, probably to Silver Island, in Fountain county, now owned by NOD. Thomas, of this city.

That officer reported that "on the south side of the Ouabache runs a high bank, in which are several fine ooal mines." This is the earliest notice of coal in this point of the coal field, and notwithstanding the antiquity of the distinguished Dr. Brown, this was several years before he made any declaration upon the subject. In 1836-37 the late Dr. D. D. Owen, Statd Geologist, published in his geological reconnoisance an account of the coal field of Indiana, and defined its area to be 7,700 square miles. In the annual geological reports of Professor Cox he does not claim to be the discoverer, but he has in a great measure cleared up the stratigraphical errors made by bis predecessors in the coal seams and has shown the existence of three distinct workable seams of block coal where only one was recognized before his survey. His survey carefully determined the value of the coal and placed them in the Chicago markets (where they were only known before as comparatively worthless) alongside the Erie and Briar Hill, and they now command the same price.

When Prof. Cox commenced his survey there were not more than three or four mines working block coal lor the market, and they had scarcely any business. The blast furnaces had their own mines. Not a railroad in or out of the State was using this coal for fuel. The condition at present is very different. Block coal mines have multiplied in Clay county ten-fold numbers are to be seen in Fountain, Parke, Green, Daviess, Dubois, Sullivan and Spencer, in actiye operation, and yet they are unable at this time to meet tie demands of the market. Many of the most prominent railway lines in the

State are burning this coal. This most important result has been brought about entirely by the survey of Prof. Cox. There is not a new railway crossing over coal fields that has not received aid from this survey to enable the builders to negotiate for money in Eastern and foreign markets. The Professor paved the way to the Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, New Albany and Fort Wayne, and owing entirely to his high recommendation some of it has been shipped as far east as Buffalo.

A glance at Brazil, where there are thousands upon thousands of cars laden for distant markets, and the question is easily solved: Whether this wonderful activity in the mining industry of the State, which has added pre-eminent importance to the commercial status of Indiana, is due to Colonel Croghan's capture, Dr. Brown's "discovery," or the developmentJy Prof. Cox.

WHAT constitutes a steady drinker? That question has puzzled many, but need do so no longer, for a judicial decision has been given on the point. A policy holder In a Cincinnati life insurance company died. When the claim was made payment was refused on the ground that the Insured had died from intemperance, and a clause in the policy provided that "if the insured should die by reason of intemperance from the uso of intoxicating liquors, the policy should be void and of no effect." A jury found against the company and the case was carried up to the^Superior Court, where Judge Yaple reversed the decision. In doing so he constructed a legal temperance gauge, by which the indulger in intoxicating beverages can regulate his drinks so as not to forfeit legal protection or Incur legal disabilities. There are three classes of drinkers, according to Judge Yaple. One class take their "tod" occasionally, even to the point of Intoxication, but can control the appetite so as to "take the glass from their lips in tho midst of a feast"—but whether to push it away altogether or merely to take breath for another swig is not judicially stated. That class can not be legally considered habitual drinkers. The second class have a constant thirst for alcoholic liquors and a steady habit of drinking them when they can be had. These are clearly "habitual drinkers." Then there are those with constitutionally diseased appetites who get fearfully drunk in spite of their resolutions to reform. Ia this esse they are "habitual drinkers" in the eye Of the law, thoogh they may not taste liquor for a twelvemonth— when they cannot get it. The difficulty %rith this judicial spirit thermometer is to mark the exact line between the first and second classes: men who only drink when they are dry or when they feel like it, and the men who are always dry and always feel like drinking.

[IE RATT1HHAV EVENING MAIL. FEBRUARY J.1873.

THE MONEY UE8TI0N FROM A WOMAN'S STAND POINT.

BT MBS. JOHN SMITH.

Ai my husband was reading bis paper last eysnidg I said to nirti: "My dear, did you. know, Mrs. Brown was going to teach school t" "Teach school! Why has Brown failed in business?" "No, be is doing very well, I believe. "Then what in the mlschiel Is she going to teach for?" "From what she said to me this afternoon I infer that she would like to have a little spending money she can call really her own, and not have to go like a beggfer to her husband every time she wants a pair of gloves or a ribbon for her half."

John laid down his paper and looked at me ih his most over-powering manner. "Mrs. Brown is a very foolish woman. I hope she will not instil any such notions in your mind. I have, often told you and I want you distinctly to understand that not onethird but one-halfof all I have belongs to you. Whenever you want money, ask for it as freely as you would present a check at the bank. I don't want you to feel as if it is my money and only yours as I choose to give it to you." John resumed his paper and I my thoughts, but before I tell you what they were let me assure you that John is one of the best of husbands, kind and generous, but neither he nor any other husband can ever understand why wives are so sensitive on the money question. Well, my thoughts put into words were something like this:

Before I waB married people could not understand why I taught school. They would not have wondered could they have known the solid enjoyment I experienced every four weeks when I went to the bank, not timidly and reluctlantly as I used to approach my father on a similar errand but proudly and fearlessly as much as to say, "You have eighty dollars of my money, I will take it, if you please." And at the end ofa-nother four weeks when I put in an appearanee for another eighty! O, what happiness to know there was nobody to look at me in severe astonishment and exclaim, "More money! what have done with the last I gave you?—to lecture me half an hour on the shameful extravagance of women and finally count out the precious dollars with the injunction, "See if you can make that go a^-little farther for I don't know when you'll get any more."

No, there was none of that. The money didn't come like drawing teeth, but it was presented to me with a bow and a smile that made me feel as if I wero conferring a favor by accepting it, and when I saw something so pretty that I wanted so much I didn't have to count over my nickles twenty-five times and wonder and speculate how long it would be before I got any more if I spent these. I bought what I pleased and when I pleased, secure in the thought that (ahem!) I kept a bank account. It is probably such recollections as these that influence Mrs. Brown to resume her old occupation, and, in some degree, her old independence. I will not lift the veil from her private life more than to hint that she is only too well accustomed to hear somebody say, "I will not have this in my house. Jlly money shall not be spent for that," etc,

As for myself, I trf tl make the best of it and be contented, but I am sometimes sorely triet1. ror example—I wanted make John a Christmas present, for I love John dearly, but how should I do it I had no money of my own and if I asked him for the money it wouldn't be a present. At last I decided to deny myself and save up my money. I made my own hat and saved ten dollars. I cleaned my neck-ties and glovos and made my winter dresses myself, and finally saved quite a nice little sum which I invested in a handsome preseat. John was sufficiently grateful and I was very much gratified, but listen A few days afterward he was exhibiting it to a friend and this is what ho said "I tell you Charley, it is mighty nice for a fellow's wife to make him a Christmas present when he has to foot the bills."

Let me give you another example, I occasionally use what are called "bywords." This grieves John, for, like other husbands, ho wants his wife to be the center of all virtue. Indeed, so magnanimous are these 'husbands that they are not only willing but anxious to be entirely destitute of a single virtue themselves and to shine only by the borrowed light of their wives perfections. Well, since I saw that my little slips of the tongue were a source of uneasiness to my husband, I confessed that I ought to be more careful and suggested to him the fact that he swore about ten times as often as I used bywords. After some hesitation he concluded I was correct. "Now," said I, "I will make a proposition every time you swear you shall drop a nickle in our little bank every time I use a by word I will do the same."

O, no," said John, "that will not be fair, for I shall have to pay for my transgressions and yours too." There it is you see, I haven't a nickle I can call my own,

I might give you a hundred exam plea of the ways in which we wives are made feel that we cannot say of a single dollar "it is mine," and when one out of five hundred ventures to do like Mrs. Brown, and earn a few independent dollars, what man extols her for it I spoke of her before three married gentlemen last evening. Said one, "If ahe were my wife she should never have another dollar of my money." Said another, "If she were my wife, I should tell her since she wanted to be so inde

pendent she might take hqr ^lothes and go." Said a third," She is a tool," I myself have houra of leisure. My neighbor over the way hinta in vain for one to do her fine sewing, embroidery Ac. Such things are my forte. I told John I was going to do some Vprk for her. He forbade it. Might I teach then? No. Finally an acquaintanoe wrote that without leaving her room she was earning eighty dollars a month by copying. That was just what I wanted. At night I unfolded my plans to John. He said all he wanted me to dowas to keep the house^ neat, look pretty and meet him with a smile when he came home in the evening.

As for an active mind that craves employment and a proud spirit that hates to be dependent even upon a loved one—it certainly seems a mistake for a woman to be born with such things. ....

But if you ask the "What I am going to do about it I answer you—just now, nothing, hereafter the problem will be solved. 1

What would the world think of a nTan who sat down in idleness and let his wife support him and why does it condemn a woman who refuses to do the same thing? If her household duties are light and no children claim her care why should she not use the powers nature has giyen her, and assist in furnishing the necessities and luxuries oflife? Is the bread of dependence so sweet that women should be thankful to have it furnished them What man is there would like to ask his wife for every cent he used even if he did think that it belonged to him, and how would you like to feel ev6ry time yon bought anything you wanted but didn'tr really need, "thers my Wifa will think I'm extravagant—I wish I hadn't done it."

Now do not understand me to say that every woman should earn her own living, (though I think ev?ry married one should,) but if a married "woman choose so to do it seems grange that she should meet with no man's approval. If times are hard and money so scarce, why should not the wives help earn it?, and yet, what man is willing for his wife to do it Sorely you must have one of two reasons, either you fear the disapproval of the world,or,—well, you know Southeners objected to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Some day there will come a radical change in customs and opinions and, in the meantime, if you don't want your wives to help hurry up that day, give them a bank note occasionally that they haven't had to ask for, and don't talk quite so much about "my house and my lands and my money.

The City and Vicinity.

To mail Snbscribers.—Watch the date on your direction label. It indicates the time when your subscription expires, at which time the paper wiU, invariably, be discontinued without further notification.

THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL is on sale each Saturday afternoon by A. H.Dooley Opera House. S. R. Baker & Co., P. O. L«bby. M. P. Crafts, Opp. Post Office. Will B. Sheriff, .......Par s, Ills. Walter Cole, Marshall, Ills. Harry Hill, Sullivan, Ind. James Allen, Clinton, Ind. J. B. Dowd, ....Rockville, Ind. Frank Smead...„ Brazil, Ind. C-V. Decker Mattoon, Ills.

J- Feltus Greencastle, Ind.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Opera House—"Divorce" Valentines—S. R. Baker A Co. Notion of App't-J«hn Wfer, Adrn'r. Admr's Sale—Scott A Duj% Att yrt. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, t. Smolanders Buchu. Notice—L. Goodman. The Jones Plow—Jones A Jones. Dentist—Dr. L. H. Bartholomew. Masquerade-Terre-Haute Mtennerchor. Dry Goods Sale-R. H. Balding A Co. Chamberi Encyclopicdia—C. D. Denio. Seeds—J. A. Foote. The Alphabet-Bee Hive. Legal—Blake A Bondinot, Att'y. Terre-Haute Commercial College. Legal—C. E. Hosford, p. p. Legal—C. E. Hoslord, p. p. Shoes—W. A. Ryan. 1 The Dollar Chromo Sale. Washing Soap—Ryan's. C-Wanted-W. A. Ryan.

DIVORCE next week.

THIS month brings Valentine's day.

WHO is keeping count of the shows this winter?

WEDNESDAY morning was the coldost of the season.

WM. PATRICK'S card is crowded over until next issue.

THE ground hoganytblng about it.

SKVBRAL

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CAN'T we hope ttiafc,J.he back-bpne of winter is broken j'*

IT is said that the peach crop is killed now, certain, sure. ii——

THE street sprinklers have not been out this week, but the dust is not anno in S

IT is cold for the poor here, bot it may be hot for the uncharitable rich hereafter. r. "THK Beautiful Snow"—sing the livery men as they take In their four dollars an hour.

Cot. THOMPSON'S lecture on Woman Suffrage at the Opera House on Thursday evening next. *.

IT

is believed that the glaiss works if started again, under csreftil an (Improper management could be made profitable.

SUBSCRIPTIONS received at this office for all the leading magazines and periodicals, and money forwarded at our risk. vr-:

Tan opponents as well as friends of the woman auffrage movement should, and will, hear Col. Thompson's address on Thursday evening.

manu&cturing establish*

ments have been compelled to cease woik this week on account of the intensely cold weather.

PATROKS

of The Mail, in thesur^n

rounding counties should bear in mindni that by adding one dollar more they can get both The Atail and their eounty paper. i"

THAT of T. J. Langford was, we believe, the first death in this city of a member of the Masonic Insurance Association. His widow will get soinQthing over 94.000 1 pf* *A MEETING of citizens, quite respectable in numbers, at the Council Chamber Thursday evening, decided adversly to the proposition to loan the credit of the city in aid of manufacturers. 1 1 1 ii

COL. THOMPSON delivered a good temperance address on Saturday evening to a fair sized audionce, but the whole town heard a more impressive temperance lecture the next morning in the sad news of the terrible death of a welT known oitizen from delirum.

HOUSEKEEPERS should not scold, these cold mornings, if the milkman comes late. Thoy should remember the time and labor consumed in thawing out pumps before the vender can. start out. The milkman's life is not always as happy and bright as a Summer's day, and the beautiful snow is not equal to water for mixing purposes.

'MANY novel sleighs have appeared upon the streets this week. The most unique affair was a long ladder, drawn by two horses. Plank were laid upon the ladder, and seated upon chtirs were about a dozen young ladies and gentlemen. A sudden turn at the cor* ner of Sixth and Poplar streets threw the entire party to -the ground. There was a hearty yell and a few bruises but then it was ftin •ki

TiiE Saturday Evening Echo Is th^ title of anew weekly paper to be started in Evausville. The proprietors are Messrs. Herr, Gray A Earle, late of the Brazil Miner. Mr. Isaac Herr will have charge of the editorial department, which insures a paper of no ordinary merit. The readers of The Mail will be gratified to learn that Mr. Herr's removal to Evansville will not prevent him from contributing weekly his Husks and Nubbins to thld paper.

THE death of Thomas J. Langford, which occurred at his residence {Sunday morning, is very generally regretted. In years gone by he has been known as an energetic business man, occupying a high placd in the esteem of his fellow-townsmen. Naturally of a jovial, genial disposition, generous to a fault, It was Indeed sad to him "his own worst enemy," and, by putting an enemy into his mouth to steal away bis brains," following the downward road yearly trodden by so many thousands. His remains wefe taken to Grand view, Illinois, for interment, on Tuesday, accompanied by members of the Masonic fraternity, and sorro%ing friends and relatives.

ANdffiiiEK RAILROAD.—Time^^was when the starting of a railroad enterprise was the occasion of no little stir in the community but now-a-days companies are organized in a night, and from some distant paper we have the first intimation that a locomotive is soon to come snorting into the city from a new direction. This week we learned from the Indianapolis Journal, the formation in this city of a company to build what is termed the Chicago and Ohio River Railroad. It is to start from a point on tho Ohio river, opposite the town of Owonsboro, Kentucky, and connect with the Cincinnnatl and Terre-Hauto Railroad about twenty-five miles from this city. The Directors for the first year are: Harvey D. Scott, Linus A. Burnett, Samuel Magill, A. B. Quackenbush, John S. Alexander, Luko T. Brien and George C. Duy.

DIVORCE.—The Opera House will be occupied on Monday, Tuesday and WednesJay evenings next by the Fifth Avenue Combination, in the presentation of tho great sensational drama of "Divorce." The company presenting it is said to be one of the best now travelling. The Indianapolis News says no such acting has been seen on tho Academy boards this seasen, and no one who loves a first class play will neglect seeing Divorce. It is not of the harrowing, sensational style which freezes tho the young blood and all that sort of thing, but a very interesting genteel comedy. A late member of the Cincinnati Enquirer besides speaking in mark* ed terms of commendation of the combination, has the following in relation to the play:

It is not strange that "Divorce should have been the reigning sensation for months, at the famous Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York City. Knowing that the play dramatized from Wilkie Collins' powerful novel, "He Knbw He Was Right," that the manager, Augustin Daly, fathered the play and superintended the writing that the real author of the dialogue was one of the most caustic as well as most reckless Bohemiam writers of the Metropolis, we wondered not that all fashionable, as well as intellectual, Gotham rushed to hear a great lesson beautifully taught. "Whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder" had been thundered from the pulpit, and musically and impressively read on joyous and solemn wedding hours, until the words fell meaningless because of their constant repetition. It was for Divorce to reach, the end in a novel way to teach it by opening to the sinning people their own hearts and homes. Almost realistic in everything else, dramatic license was taken as to time, and men and women saw their present conduct traced to ite result In years to come during a single evening.