Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 May 1873 — Page 1

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City News.

THE strawberry crop promises to be Very large. JUNE bugs are on the wing, and Might wherever they see a light.

THE people of Terre Haute return to the Assessor for taxation $2,970,365 •worth of personal property for taxation.

EIGHT miles of water-pipe have been laid, and with favorable weather the work will be completed within a month.

THE Amateurs have split. One section has in preparation "The Old Curiosity Shop," and the farce of "The Loan of a Lover."

THE real estate fever is getting intensely hot, and affects almost every able bodied person with a small spot of land or a few hundred dollars.

THE Commissioners—Dowling, Blake and Weoks, meet in their first session one week from Monday. The course of the Board as newly organized will be watched with a great deal of interest.

BOTH the morning papers are now run without gas—except what the editors put into the columns. The great difference in the cost of gas and Richardson's gasoline has caused both establishments to adopt the latter, for ilJuminating purposes.

THE Trustees of the several townships will meet at the Auditor's office one week from next Monday to eleat a County Superintendent of Public Schools. So far as party politics go, wo believe the Trustees are now equally dividod, but this is an offloe, in which party feeling should not enter. Great care and duo deliberation should be exercised in the selection of the man upon whom more than any other depends the sucoess of the school system of the county.

THE Duprez A Benedict minstrel troupe is ono of tho most complete and "well in liaafl" organisations now traveling—but, really, we have becomo tired of laughing at -those same old Jokes. Although tho house-bill, with each returning visit, looks different, yet from tho going up to the coming down of tho curtain, we have "the same old show." It was good onoe, but unlike wine, it does not bear age. Please, gentlemen, go Into some summer retreat, and with the same old familiar i'acos, come back next season with an entirely new programme.

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IT is to be hoped that every family will If possible make it their aim to help provide flowers in abundance for the decoration ofgraves on Friday. Owing to the backwardness of the season the full flower time has not yet arrived, ami it will require good industry and great liberality to gather onough to make the deooration what it should be. Let every person who reveres the memory of the gallant men whose real na we are about to honor, esteem it ot only a pleasure but a duty to aid making the adornment of the graves abundant and profUso.

W. R. HUNTER took another big lot of mules to St. Louis, for the Southern market, this week. Fouts Hunter are doing a very large business in tho mule line, and the value of this heretofore much abused animal is on the ascending soale. Popular opinion has done hira great Injustice. It is truo that his heels are s*t on hair triggers, and that ho adheres to an opinion with a great deal of tenacity but it is not true that he Is malignant, short in intelligence, or lacking in affbetion. A mule launches out his heels because he doesn't understand the situation. With him the kick Is an instlaot of self-pro-servation. But let him understand that no personal harm Is intended him, and he responds quite as kindly as the horse. He keops sleek on scant, coarse fare, and is exempt from many of the ills to which his high-strung kinsman, the horse, 1s subject.

THK city press has wasted—or put to bad use—a deal of valuable space this jweok with descriptions of vltii* to, and the drunken ogles of a fishing party encampod upon the bank of the Wabaah, near the mouth of Otter Creek. From fifty to seventy-five men composed the camp, and beer, wins and

Uher liquors flowed into their mouths Jt freely as the waters of the Wabash I %i their feet. A strolling tramp printer stumbled into the camp. He quoted

Shakespeare, sang and danced, until [the party got tired of him when they "shook" him. They "shuok" him un(til his hide was hardly worth shucks.

Te came back to town more dead than! [ilve, with a pitiful tale of abuse, and pon his representation a number of! Lhe party were arrested. As we go to ?tess Esq. Nehf is tiylng to get at the ,ruth of the matter from the conflicting estimony given. R. S. Tennant and

John C. Briggs, for Hotchklns, the !rtater, and Col. Baird and Sant C. j^avis for Sam McDonald, are doing all iAey e*n to make a worse mesu of it,

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EUGENE T. HEIKEK, in claiming Dr. Pence's $500 reward for the detection of fraud in Mrs. Stewart's manifestations, is evidently in earnest and certainly means business, but his cool proposition to test tho phenomena Wy firing into the cabinet when a face appearsat the aperture, shows a blood thirsty disposition or, to say the least, rather uncivil treatment of guests. Mr. n»iner believes it to be the face of the medium, in which case, if his aim was well directed, a murder would be committed. On the other hand, the spiritualists look upon the faces which nightly appear as those of visitors from the spirit world—their guests for the time—and It would certainly be rather uncivil to send one back to the land of spirits with an ugly bullet hole through his head. No, Mr. H., that won't do. You must observe the "conditions," and then If you discover the trick, you can claim the money.

FRED. A. Ross is an enthusiast in the real estate business. He expects to live comfortablv in Terre-Haute when it is a city of 100,000 inhabitants— [Journal.

Speaking of real estate, aa evidence of the excitement now prevailing in our midst is a placard a real estate man found on his office door yesterday, after an absence of fifteen minates, at which time he made appointments with half a dozen persons. It read: "What in h—1 is the price of Real Estate Why don't you get a clerk or stay in your office?"

Town-Talk.

"NIGGER! NIGGER! NIGGER!" Such was the hideous, hateful cry that ushered in the week. It seemed even more hideously hateful and hatefully hideous than in the olden time when frequent repetition familiarized the ear with such a barbarous political battle cry. This time it did not come from Bourbon or Democratic Hps. It came from men who are called Republicans men who claim membership and good standing in "the party of freedom and progress." It came from men holding office under our Republican city administration. In short, it came from the Chief of Police and a number of the policeman! Thfey took it upon themselves to get very indignant and make silly threats because it was proposed to put a representative of the colored race on the police foroe. Now T. T. doesn't believe in electing or appointing any man to office because he is black, or white, or because he is a

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or an Irishman. Neither does T. T. hold that color or nationality should exclude a man from office. But all po lltioal organization* have almost uniformly "recognized" the various "elements" in disposing of patronage. The present Council has been very careftil to "recognize" both the German and Irish "elementsand it was neither strange nor unreasonable that the colored "element" should ask for recognition. They wanted but little—no Important offloe—only the appointment of one of their raoe on the polioe. They named a good man just as good a man as there Is on the force. But the Chief threatened to resign if a "nigger" was appointed, and he further threatened to carry with him ont of the service all whom he could induce to follow his example. The Police Board hadn't sand In their craw. They quietly yielded to the insolent threat and to a little outside pressure. And so the colored "element" was not "recognized." Now It did not seem absolutely necessary to T. T. that a colored man should have such a place, or any other offloe, until the cry of "nigger! nigger! nigger!" was raised and the issue was made. Thrn it did become a necessity that the Republican party, for the sake of consistency, and for a wholesome rebuke to the "nigger equality" bowlers should pnt a negro on the police force. Had It been done It would have been a most timely, just and politic act. And not one of the force would have resigned. Did Democrats leave the United States Senate when Revels went in there? Not much. Did Mr. Voorhse* and his political associates stampede out of the House when colored membra took places there? Not a bit of It. And there isn't a member of our Council who would be foolish enough to resiga if a colored man were elected to fill a seat beside him. Why, then, do these petty officers put on such silly sirs? It is T. T*sopinion that the Polioe Board has shown no courage at all and that its action In this matter will do more te hurt the Republloan party than the appointment of half a dotes blade men would have done. "WHY IT? *1£

Can anybody—learned or unlearned, philosopher or tool, priest or layuoao— tell T.T. why it is that there is always such a pressure of applicants for positions on the police Why do well-to-do mechanics, prosperous tradesmen and small former* desire to leave their

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form and star of the police? T. holds, with all true Republicans, that all honest labor of head or hands Is honorable. Therefore there Is no actual degradation in doing tho work that policemen perform. But still it is strange that men desire so ardently to do such work Carrying beastly,filthcovered drunkards to the look-np capturing inebriated, Infuriated prostitutes "going through" the "Hollow Square raiding vile dens of infamy: dally contact with thelowestspeclmens of our race these are somo of the items of the policeman's programme. True, it is necessary work, and those who perform it faithfully, do the public good service and deserve thanks. But the plain fact that hundreds of men anxiously seek opportunities to quit other useful employments in order to enter upon this, is one of the most astonishing of all human phenomena. T. T. would do any sort of labor rather than go idle he wonld clean gutters, sowers and vaults and not be ashamed of his work. But he prefers more cleanly and agreeable business. This fastidiousness will prevent him from applying to the Board for a place on the police. "THAT COURT HOUSE" Is very unlikely to be built for some years to come. T. T. has heard from Commissioner Dowling. He will oppose any project of the kind, regarding himself as pledged by bis acts and utterances to wait till the people demand it, by fair expression of their wish. Mr. Weeks will coincide with Mr. Dowling In this matter. Commis-sioners-elect Felenzer and Bobbins are positively pledged to the same line of action, and cannot repudiate their pledge. It is useless for contractors to figure on Court House plans for Vigo county, .K f.

SUNDAY WHISKY.

T. T. has most excellent reasons to believe that several drug Btores in this city are doing a large Sunday liquor business and that some of the soda fountains are doing the same thing. The latter mix whisky with soda water. Any person who can wink in the proper way can get a "stick" in his soda. Now, Is this better than the regular Sunday saloon business If so, how much

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I have just finished refedinfc'for the first time, (and 1 hope for the last,) Le Sage's immortal work, Gil Bias de Santillane. Why do I hope I may never read it again Because It is not good No, but because it is infinitely tedious. It has ihe stamp of its age. One would think those old romancers were paid by the page and were concerned only to multiply the pages, from the ad infinitum way in which they spun their stories. Richardson with his dozen-octavo-volume novels, was only more prolix than Fielding and Smollet, and the works ot any of them make one sigh for the times when people had leisure even to read them and still support their families out of the fragment of time that was left. But there were no newspapers then, which perhaps accounts for the marvel

But if Gil Bias and Don Quixote are tedious and prolix they are something besides. There is tnuoh whey in them truly, but there is no lack of cream also and while we would be glad to take the cream alone, it is unfortunately not at all on the surfece of the pan, as nature arranges it, and we are fain to drink the "clabber" In order to get at it. (In this respect these works resemble Husks and Nubbins snd may also be compared to persons embarking in matrimony, who take each other for better or worse.) Bat one mnst be on the look-oat, too, or be will not distinguish the cream from the milk.

The author of Gil Bias is not Ignorant of this fact and illnstrates the esse by the story of Peter Garcia*. Two travelers on their way to Salamanco stopped at a spring to drink. Inscribed on a stone by the side of the spring, in letters half effaced by time, were these words: "Here Is interred the soul of Peter Garcias the Licentiate." One of the travelers exclaimed agaiost the absurdity of the Inscription which could speak of a soul being Interred aad abruptly went his wsy. The other wss Intent on solving the riddle and, digging round the stone snd turning it up, he found a purse containing a hundred duoats. The inference is obvious. We msy read Gil Bias without getting at the meaning there is in It and have our trouble for our pay. And so,' doubtless, it hss many a time been read, notwithstanding the author's introductory caution.

But tn spite of its simplicity of style and interminable chain of incident, which are well calculated to engross the whole of the reader's attention, there ia a deeper meaning In Gil Bias than is always at first right apparent. As a sample of good-natured, though scathing satire, the book is perhaps not surpassed. It Is a mirror large enough almost to reflect the whole age in which

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It was produced. Nothing would seem to be overlooked. From the peassnt to the king, and from the lacquey to the arohbishop and minister, every clsss and condition of society is exposed. Literature, the stage, politics, religion, all are impaled on the saterist's keen scalpel and made to contribute something to the folly and hypocrisy of the times. And if the etchings are full of humor to us who live nearly two centuries after they were drawn, how much more appreciable they must have been to the contemporaries of the author, who were familiar with the follies and foibles he exposed. But while some of the humor of Gil Bias was necessarily local and temporary, much of it is general and capable of being applied to every age and people—the humor of human nature, which is much the same always and everywhere.

Of such a kind is the caricature of Doctor Sangrado, who would cure all distempers by bleeding and copious draughts of warm water, and who, when his patients invariably died, was satisfied that it was because they had not lost blood, and drank water enough. And the Archbishop of Grenada, who was justly proud ot bis eloquent homilies and, for fear that he might continue to write after age bad impaired his faculties, commanded Gil Bias, on pain of losing his friendship if he failed in the matter, to advertise him of the fact whenever he should perceive that the genius of his grace had began to flag. Not long after, the Archbishop suffered from a stroke of the apoplexy which left his mental powers greatly enfeebled. True to his orders Gil Bias admonished his eloquent master of the change which he noticed, and what was his surprise to meet with an angry rebuff as the consequence! "Adieu, Mr. Gil Bias," said the offended prelate, "I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste." Poor Gil Bias! he learned by sad experince the lesson which many have learned since him, that an ounce of hypocritical flattery will go farther than a pound of honest and generous frankness. And the poets, too, bless them! Fabricius, the son of barber Nunnez and his companions. Gil Bias had given them a dinner, when one of them, searching among his papers, produced a sonnet which he read to the company with great emphasis. In spite of his vehemenee Gil Bias found the performance so obscure that he oould not comprehend the meaning of a syllable of it. The author, perceiving his perplexity, said: "This sonnet does not seem very clear to thy apprehension! Is it not so?" Gil Bias confessed that he' coald have wished it plainer. The poet, laughing at his ignorance, explained: "If this sonnet is not intelligible, so much the better. The natural and simple won't do for sonnets, odea and other works that require the sublime. The sole merit of these Is in their obscurity and It is sufficient if the poet himself thinks he understands them." To this Gil Bias demurred, when Fabricius explained: "Poor Ignoramus! Thou dost not know then, that every prosaic writer who now aspires at 'he reputation of a delicate pen, affects that singularity of style, and thoso odd expressions which shock, thee so much. There are of us five or six bold innovators, who have have undertaken to make a thorough change in the language and we will accomplish it (please God) in spite of Lope de Vega, Cervantes, and all the fine geniuses who cavil at our new modes of speech." Query: Was Le Sage writing a prospective lampoon on some of the poets our own age, or is "the son of barber Nunnez" duplicated in every generation

These are only a few chance illnstftltlons of the Infinite humor embalmed in the history of Gil Bias of Santillane. Those who want others should follow the example of the traveller at Peter Garcla's spring, -f

Pepple ahd Things.

The men are the greatest eaters. Enough, with most men, is always a little more. "..

Old John Robinson admits newsboys free to bis circus. George Francis Train it master of twenty lsnguages.

The Chicago hackmen Ulk of having grand Jehubllee. A New Orleans church had a baby •how to raise money to pay the pastor.

A. blacksmith can not only shoe a hone, but he can make a horse-shoe himself.

If you feel something wiggle under your right shoulder blade.teu to one It's tape worm.

Stokes' relatives are (dear discouraged, and they have plainly told him that he most go hang.

The Davenport Brothers have sued a Southern paper which called them a twin pair of sooundrols and deceiver*.

The foxea have holes, but William B. Astor doe^-rt know where to lay his head, for k* has &,000 homes is New York City to choose from.

An Iowa clergyman who had a donation party the other night, has beans enough to last him thirty-seven years.

John Peterson, who is to be hanged in Georgia next month, has, since his sentence, fallou heir to a fortune.of $30,000.

Lincoln used to say that if he had son who would part his hair behind he would maul him to death with a squash.

A Baptist minister Speaks of a class of preachers known as evangelists, as wandering, sanctified gentlemen, who carry their religion in a carpet bag.

It is estimated that two thousand industrious, nice young men were thrown out of employment by the recent raid on gamblers in New York. They should be kindly cared for on Black well Island.

The Minneapolis Tribune says: "Congressman Dunnell undertook to sanctify his drawing of back pay by giving seventy-five dollars of it to his pastor, but the worthy minister sept the money back."

Whitelaw Reid is said to get two hundred dollars a week on the Tribnne. He wears tight lavender pantaloons, a natty monkey-jacket of purple velvet, and carries a delicate bamboo with a corn-colored tassel.

To settle abet a petition was recently presented to a worthy citizen of Detroit, Mich., praying for the abolition of the fire and police departments and his own execution. He glanced at the first few lines and "chalked" down his -Lll&k"

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A handsome thing in shawls—a pretty girl. The bustle and panier are going out together.

The Modoc switch is the latest, in.the way of capillary attractions. Mf* 1 Fashion turns the heads of the ladies in the church as on the street.?,

Almost every young lady now-a-days seems to be given to building castles in the(b)air.

Rev. Celia Burleigh has resigned her pastoral charge in Brooklyn, Conn,, by reason of illness.

Mfs. Llvermere is said to have been invited to become the President of a female college in Ohio.

Another Iowa woman lias been giving herself heirs in the matter of four pairs of twins in seven years.

New York women, in a number of instances, are adopting the profession of surgery, and with success.

The Chicago Inter-Ocean is the best newspaper in America—to make a bustle out of.—[Colnmbus Journal.

There is a venerable and respectable old lady in Detroit who was once the betrothed of Jefferson J)avj£,: They |?till correspond.

Any woman who wears false hair is not a fit person to sit In the house of the Lord," said an Indiana preacher in his sermon.—[St. Louis Globe.

A young lady sends an exchange a recipe, "How to make Kisses." If that young lady will call on us, we shall be happy to show her how it is done.

The eduoation of girls in this country is not what it should be. It is too feminine, lacking the robustness which characterizes the training of girls in Europe.

Miss SophroniaLucinda Patch, an ancient maiden lady of Chicago, petitions the Sapreme Court to change her name to Lovelace. 8he has given up all hope of changing it In the regular way.

Qulncy has anew club called the "Society of the Golden Fleece." The Se«retary and Vice President are blooming young ladies. The young men remark that they are remarkably "true to name."

Woman members of the Congregational churches propose to raise an endowment of $20,000 for the female department of Iowa College by contributing each one cent a day for the next five years.

In all sges women have taken more pains to adorn the head than men and, indeed, some of those female srebitecta who raise such wonderful structures of ribbons, laces and flower* are much to be admired.

The Boston Post says: "We scarcely know what additional article the ladles oaa suspend frov§ their waist-belts. Fans, umbrellas, vinaigrettes, handkerchiefs and card-books now dangle at their sides when promenading."

A woman'a place truly is her home, and she should be truly thankful to God for assigning her to such a noble calling, but that need not in her young days keep her from gaining a thorough education and a ussful trade, j^

The young woman in Pennsylvania who upost the oooking-stove on herself and had the manufacturer's name branded on her arm by the accident, says that she doesn't see any poetry in words tin** ban, scattered from a pictured urn,"

If women would only learn to be sensible and honor one another, and give less time to dissecting and pulling each

A New York paper says the young lady in tho fashionable costume is notlceable for a complete absence of panniers. Bustles cease to exist, and the young lady wraps the folds of her skirts tightly around her hips to show the human form beneath the woolen drapery. The fashionable New York girl of today is a draped statue—the bottom cf the skirt hugging the fcet. Her back is as straight as a board, her shoulders have erected themselves, and she stands proudly—a Diana. •-4 n'-V si!

Connubialities.

A Danbury man once got angry because his girl's mother wanted her to help do the washing. She now does it for the neighbors.

When a man has trouble be takes to drink, but when a woman meets with misfortune she merely goes over to her mother's and takes tea. l£lO

A widow in Louisville complains that the only pleasure she has is going to circuses atid funerals, having no hueband to take her anywhere olse.

A bereaved husband, in an obituary notice of his deceased wife, wrote, "Sho has gone to hqr eternal rest but to his horror the newspaper printed it, "Sho as go to he re a a

A Fort Wayne man, married iwontyone years, didn't know the entire contentment of married life until his wiio fell down the other day and bit her tongue so that she couldn't talk.

A Minnesota woman stood by and saw a fight between her husband and a wild cat, and when the man whipped sho acknowledged that she was a littlo disappointed, having bet on the cat.

Nearly fifty years ago a couple were married in Will county, Ills., and soon after divorced. A few days ago they were re-married, the husband having in the meantime buried two other wives.

An immense demand for easy-firing pistols has sprung up among the married men of Bay City, Mich., in consequence of atypical mother-in-law having accidentally shot herself with her daughter's husband's revolver.

This is how a country exchange puts it: "The sad effects of matrimony were never more terribly depicted thsu the other day, when a meek-eyed man who had been married about a year patrolled the village streets all day trying to swap a meerschaum lor, a secondhand cradle.

Mr. Tlttermary of Reading, Pa., married Mary Schultz, and she is now Mary Tittermary. Mary's case is almost as bad as that of the daughter of a romantic foreigner named Roso, who christened his daughter Wild, making her Wild Rose. Sho grew up, and married a man named Stephen Bull. Then she was Wild Bull.

A writer says that "what tho triuv man most wants of a wife, is her companionsbtp, sympathy, courage and love." He is right. The true man wants his wife's companionship when he has to get up in tho night to see what I that noise is in the cellar. Her courage is eminently valuable in the general neighborhood debates over the possession of some domestic article, and her love is absolutely indlspensible when he gets in late. Bat her sympsthy! Well, sny one who hss ever picked up the wrong stove-lid with his bare band can estimate the value of that."

In Judge Knight's court in St. Louis, the other day nuraeroqp divorce suits had been tried, and, after patiently listening for several hours, His Honor became disgusted and summarily ordered an adjournment. The same thing once happened In the Massachusetts Sapreme Court. That sound but eccentric old Judge, Uetcalf bad been hearing divorce case* all day. In tho course of the afternoon be began to grow fretful and snappish, until at last he astonished everybody by exclaimIng: "I think that we have done enough of this dirty work for one day. Mr. Crier, adjourn the court until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock." And it was accordingly adjourned.

The following advertisements are printed In the Waverly, Iowa, papers, jast ss we put them, one Immediately after the other:

All persons are hereby notified not to trust any person, my wife included, on my! account, as I shall pay no debt of other's contracting. JOHN BOYKR.

Alt persons are hereby notified not to trust my husband. John Boyer, on my account, as I shall pay no debt of bis contracting.

The said John Boyer left my bed and board becafoe I refnsed to give him a deed of my property. I shall try and get along without using his credit. After be has wasted his substance in riotout living, we may sina:

We'll all drink stone blind, When Johnny comes marching SARAH BO

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