Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 February 1874 — Page 1

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THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

Town-Talk.

TglUUBltE CALAJCITY?

A i)ibfl(«d»Dln»l rampant! P1t» Prominent Clergymen attacked and frightfully Hookbd!

Recovery Doubtful 1 Chare has Desolate and Inconsolable! Five Good Openings for Divine* in search of Pastures New!

Sad Warning! For full and harrowing pamcu»ar* of the event alluded to Above see tbe Evening Gazette of last Tuesday.

KKeASuntai

The great event of the week and (be staple of (be talk of the town has been the big finance meeting. Terre Haute haa spoken, spoken in thunder tones, toaohed off two of the biggest gnres— there are none bigger—loaded to the muzzle, and if Congress don't hoar and heed, it will be the worse for Congress. The conception of that meeting was grand in tbe extreme, and ita birth was tbe bogest of all huge affairs wbieb history ever had the honor to locate within tbe bounds of this city. #oll ten thqamfid people crowed into Dowling Hall. At least it seemed to T. T. that there could not have been less than that number present, as be look* nd down upon tbe sea, rather the ocean, or oeeans of turned op faces, each foee lifting Its nose like s6 many little hills, with a few big moaufeaiUs, into the air —not tbe pure air of heaven. In fact the male part of tbe city condensed itself Into that Hall, to hear tbe two pet orators upon their, and on* pet subject. It was t,clever thought, and constituted one of the chief attractions of the evening, to Introduce, on that occasion

TBS HAPPY FAMILY.

Of course everybody would have gone any way. But it made assurance doubly sure to announce that tbe silver locked and golden tongned Nestor of the West would, pour forth his eloquence under the towering, and wide spreading, and. gracefully waving branches of tbe Tall Sycamore of the Wabash. Barn urn's cats and mice In the same cage, or the Bible's lion snd lamb repoalng together, are nothing compared with Thompson and Voorbeee on tine same platform in loving sympathy, with only "the difference oftweedle dee and tweedta dum between them. This was the trump card. In short it wss combining in tbe same hand that the right rand left

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.... TH» KRY-JtOTK J,

Of tbe meetlag was struck by Col, Thompson in the opening sentences of his speech, "We want more currency." It was a happy thought in tbo man agemeat of tbla meeting to put forward two lawyers to make thla demand. They are so accustomed to demand more currency, and know so Well howmuobltwill do to demand aud are so accustomed not to jtbett* demands tilltbebottom dollar la reached, .bat theoe were tbe very men to give utterance to tbe long felt want of all classes in this city. They did

differ muoh. Thompson put the tlgure at 1800,000,000, and Voorbses at a round billion. The difference of tweedie dum and tweedledee. Tbe Col. was mistaken in saying that "No men want more currency more than Mr. Voor bees and I.# Kvery soul knows its own bitterness. T. T. la perfectly certain that be wants currency more than they do, and he know! lots of other poople ln the eame boat. When orator ask*d "Have we money eno«gh,w'No, no, *0*" wss the quick Hod honest response, wbieb forced Itself firom some lips, and was tco deep for stterano* in i^aay hearts. T. T. wants mom money. So do we all. And It to time ftgr Congress to supply thla d«ep foil necessity. 3U T. has begun lately to feeltbat he must have mote money or to work, snd be demands that Qonggess interfile and saye blm itam tbat disgrace. It Is not liirurioif That la demanded. T. T.simply wants bis pocket-book expanded to proper dimensions, and kept property expanded. He does not want ft Inflated. In fiction might butat it, and then he Would loee Instead of gain. Let Ctonggss* provide, T* T. with a sufficient volume ef wwiwy to expand hte pock&t-tkWfr,''. :td be will fight forodtonidy agaio&i inflation. T. T. simply sake that be md other ctUaaaa may bo •applied with what money tbey want, As was so eloquently aaW by Mr.Voorhe««, "We only wnttt what la reasonable." We want money. The govornn*nt can priet «ny nnmbK of greenbacks a* a sm ail espeose (T. T. would trtiUttglyp*y all the expenoe ef printing whfa he want* so that It would the j»vr^wnt nothing) and ought to supply wafct, There was an tlJrA*»W*|tA*a.R &mt7KKR In the plea of Mr. tlat, beeattse he and Col. Tbompeon had not managed ihetr own business so-as to make a financial ssopsae at it, therefore,

tbey are entitled to a place among "tbe beat thinkers and speaker* on tbe financial questions of the country." Any body can see that. T. T. can aay In truth that on thla ground he Is en titled to a very high rank among tbe writers and speakers on finance* Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster cannot hold a oandle to T. T. in this respect. He Is entitled to at least an equality with Thompson snd Voorbees. He also knows a great many wbo mast be among the first writers and speakers on finance. Then also there was

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SIKr PATHOS AS WILL AS ITN A2*8W ERABUI AAOTRXRST In the plea of the same gentleman that "perhaps If Col, Thompson aud myself bad thought more of our own personal advancement, and less of the welfare of tbe country and tbe public, wo would have been tetter off." We simply need for a moment to think, or make the effort to think—for it cannot be thought to its profounciest depth—of what, under sueh circumstances,would have become of tbe country and the public. The mind stands aghast at tbe mere thought, aud the lips utter one wild shriek for more currency. T. T. has himself felt for along time that It would be beteer for him to attend to bis own business. He bas taitbfully been attending to the affairs of tbe people for along time, and fl&ttera himself thst he baa beep very useful. Others may differ from him in this opiuion But unless more currency comes to T. T. from some source, he will be compelled to mind his own business, Tbere are multitudes of men who sym patblks with T. T., Mr. Voorheesand tin this. We mi more currency. fb.

THB CtrOSXNQ SCBNJES

Indicated the temper of the meeting, they came tbere to hear arguments in favor of expansion and to vote for the resolutions, and tbey were going to do It without any fooling. And they did it. If those who do not like expansion want a meeting, let them get one up themselves. When a meeting Is called for tbe purpose of making tbe Impres sion that every body ia in favor of an idea, it never will do to let those speak who are opposed to it. Anybody can see that. This ia a free country, but people muat not expect to speak and vote againut sxpaoaion when they are orly invited to come and speak and vote for it. It was an expression of public sontiment that was wanted, but only of tbe right kind of publio sentiment. mh

Husks and Nubbin^

il! XCV. THK WHISKY WAR.

This crusade of the women against tbe liquor dealers—good or not good WhAdoyou aay? Everybody ought to have an opinion on it. Tbe newspapers have been speaking of tbe move ment pretty freely but most of, them, so far as I have noticed, (and I have noticed a good many of them) are inclined to be a little conservative, leaning however to a favorable view of tbe matter.- Now the thing la either right or not right will either do good or not do good, and it Meme to me one ought to bo able to have a definite opinion in reference to it.

Fvr one I am free to say that I have very little faith In the practicability of praying the aaloons and Ititemperanoe out of existence. I have great respect for tbe earnest, Christian women who are Karageons etfougb to go to tbe grog-ahope and ring and pray in them or in front of them, when denied entrance but my £itb is week. The phtioeopby of tbe undertaking will not atand tbe teat of a erUtcal examination. The movement oontlmplates the in* sUhUneou# dest^efcaft of tbe liquor traffic. It ts on the principle of inataotaaeou* ofuverslons at Uierelig. ions revivabh-ln ft^ is %ei^ similar to auQh revivals, s#eepint| from place to

Ibroaghout the oountry. Start* ng somewhere In Oblto lt spread to adfoiaing towM, tbenc*. adjoining Btatw, and now It to becoming generally popular, town after town, and elty sftarclty Uklng'lt up. & will doubtlean be known In history "Tbe great Temperance Revival of1#7l."

I do not belle ve tbe demob of lntenkranoe ean be cxerelaed from Uie eorlitoa day or a year. The propensity of men to ua« intoxk«Usg Uqu»« baa extatod very neaorly sine* tb« time Of Adam lt ia one of the ««ol0 Adam" vkst, deeply rootod In hhrttfiium. If all tbo grog^sbops in tbe land w«r« oloied it would still be tber«» If "the worm of the still* should Oeaae to wrlxgleite vile and filthy poison out apon the world, there would still reMain UnlMdl ae^i thousand* poesear^dlof a depraved appetite for In* toxteatlag Steviy, wry alow» ly, can that vietoni propanslty be remerve4. It will be tbe work of the eetooole, tbe dtsrebei, tb» new»papev% OMlMture platform* and all tbe imapyllaneee eft elviUsatiou for yenrvacd for centuries to ooso*. The grand veeni* miI ?«ot W aooompltabed in tbe year Of grace, 18N will go on every

Sueh momentary excitement* which sweep over the country as tbe present Temperance movement is doing are of doubtful efficiency. We might as well have a crtwade against murder or licentiousness or profanity or any other vies against intemperance. But we cannot subdue all tbo sin and crinto In tbo world at a single blow. Like Charles Dudley W—nor'w "devil-grass" tbey will spring 4ip anew eat tbem down as often we may. Not that we must giv! them up on that aooouut bnt tbey oan only be sultdued and rooted out by patient and constant effort, by contlnuous delving In our garden.

AU my heart«od sympathy are with tliuee who are striving against groat discouragement to overcome ths terrible vice of Inteujpersnce, but 1 toake this prediction now, that tbe present "crusade'* against the evil will not result in that permanent auecoss which tbomc»g*g«d fa ft so oofrtidentiy expect. JKA* I'ACI*

MUM.!!1.1".

Iw c!«aa!ng out an old w«*ll recently near Bethlehem church, Boone county, several balls of snakes were found In the stone work, aoina black and some spotted, ranging from two S£ six Met in length. Sever*! of tbe belle were taken out and found to contain, in all, lis «a«k«, lVy were dorttt -r' wheat found, bm after exposure to he sun showed! uwa'v nf Uk

AH eoetfria p4ptr ib** t* estimated tMs «uly Jit j,-ire t-\ ..."tfc# butter s»st to tuarkvi really holes.1 Tbla mean* only five per eent. ct farm-, srs and of former*' wives t/rt and carefol enough to make butter. Tbe km mrnminHt for U»«ee »ay bo natal a*m H' totw ef «sotu*1IV.

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VoL 4.™No. 35* TERRE-HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 28, 1874. ifePrice Five Cents.

other effort for tbe improvement of the race, no alower, no foster. Nature is inflexible she works by tew, leisurely and orderly. All moral reforms go on in the same way. Tbere iano rush, no hurry, no jerky, spasmodic effort. Month by month and year by year tbe battle of the right against the wrong goes on snd sorely and steadily the right advances. Sometimes it chances that when an army pushes forward In too much baste it meets with a terrible rrpulse and ia driven back over the ground which, with proper caution and prudence, it might have held securely. I greatly fear that this will be the result of tbe ne temperance movement. There is too much hurry and hurrah about it a superfluity of seal which oanuot last long. Tbe novelty of it will attract for awhile, but tbe novelty will wear off, the seal will, as it must, languish and then comes the reaction, the weakness and lassitude which are the inevitable ooncomitanta of over exertion

These "temperance crusaders" think they have gained a great victory when they have compelled the stony-hearted saloon-keeper to come to terms and, with tears in his eyes, acknowledge the baseness of his business and pledge himself to abandon it. And

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be Is Individually concerned tbey bave but what if it be the sentiment of tbo community which made him a saloonkeeper at all and will raise up another in his place? What If he himself is the creature rather than the creator of the public sentiment

I bave sometimes thought tbere ts too mnch of a special war made against intemperance that the sin is too much eet out from other ns and treated too exclusively. Instead of preaching against it in his regular sermon the minister now and then announoea that he will preach a "temperance sermon" and lecturers bave gone about over the country haranguing on tho subject, until the public has become thoroughly sick of It. It has been noticed that the sons of clergymen are frequently worse than those of lay members and thefoctis accounted for on the ground of a superabundance of moral and spiritual Instruction given to them. It becomes "an old story" and ceases to affect them. I think it is somewhat so with the temperance movement. There is too much of the bug-bear about it. The temptation is painted in such strong oolors as to become absolutely irresistible to Young Americas. To illustrate what I mean: If when a young man of good sense and correct habits is asked to take a drink by a few of bis companions he seems utter ly confounded and outraged by tbe proposition, they will very naturally jeer at and make sport of him, probably Intimating the existence of some occult connection between him and his mother's aprou-striags. If, on tbe other band, be coolly and composedly informs tbem that he does uot fbiDk the stuff is healthy or good for him there is no more to be said about it than if be bad refused a certain dish at dinner on the same ground. His refusal then ceases to be heroic and degenerates into mere prudence and bis exsmple is much more likely to be followed by the sensible1 among bis companions than it would be were be to affoct tbe air of hereto martyrdom*

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W«ek is at worn titan ttanal excellence.

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People and Things.

Parlor colouring J& growing fashionable In New York society. Now we shall a«e if Mr. Disraeli will remember bis nioe little flirtations with the woman suffragists.

Will S. Hays, the musical composer and editor, is now a journeyman job printer in Louisville, Kentucky.

Tbe La Crosse man who touched a buw-saw with bis foot to see if tbe saw was running is ready to go Into oourt and swear that it was.

A Montreal man said "By tbe Lord Harrvf" and a jostloo fined him $t and costs, How could a Yackee ever put up a stoveJn that oountry? if]

For selling a blind man a pair of boots of different numbere, Thomas MoDermott, of Providence, R. I., wUl languisb in jail for ninety days.

A boarder of a Shabspearian turn says that his bed reminds him of Richard III,, because it is "deformed, unfinished," and "scarce half made up."

Tbere are so many Johnsons in Peoria that they distinguish them by saying: "The Johnson with a red nose "the Johnson with a blonde wife," etc,

Sam Foster, of Washington county. New York, threshed by hand ninety bushels of oats in thirteen hours. Sam should get out a patent for bjms?|£ Immediately. ""f:" "Dried tongue," was the answer which a minister, just going cut to "exchange," gave some one who asked him what be had in his carpet-bag— which contained seven sermons.

The Chaplain of the New Hampshire State prison says that for twelve ^ears no professional man haa been confined In that institution. Is this broause justice is lax, or the professions so vir tuous, In the old Qranite State?

Asa Packer, the twenty-five millionaire of Pennsylvania, began life as a canal driver without saga penny, And If be had only kept oln'driving a canal-boat be might bave been without a penny to-day. Tbe mor 1 is obvious.

In bis day, Brabanito, tbe Venetian senator, must have been one of the conservative sohool of politicians, opposed to the "hay-seed1* movement, for he says in Othello, act I. scene 1: "What tell'st thou me of robbery? My house is not a grange."

General Custer has sent to the three scouts, Wild Bill, Texas Jaok and Buffalo Bill, to engage them to head scout ing parties on the plains, and in oonsequence these gentlemen have telegegraphed their advanee agent to make no further engagements for them.

A few days ago a very handsome lady entered a dry-goods house and inquired for a "beau." Tbe polite clerk threw himself back and remarked that

be was at her service. "Yes, but want a buff, not a green one," wss the reply. The young man wen| on measuring goods Immediately.

An Iowa school-teacher has been discharged for the oflensa of klsaing a fomale assistant. Whereupon a local pa per Inquires "what inducement there is for any person to exile himself to the country diatrtcts of Iowa to direct the young idea in its musket practice if he is to be denied the ordiniary luxuries of every-dsy llfo?"

It wn at a party ihat some young la dies were discussing the relative bene fits of tbe sparrows snd tbe worms, when one of tbe folr ones appealed to young Pisstetop w|o had just joined them, and bad not caught the drift of the conversation. Which 3o you think tbe worse, worms or sparrows?" What did tbe stupid brute do bnt innocently answer, "I don't know 1 novor bad sparrows."

Tbe Rev, Charles L. Thompson of Chicago declined a call to Louisville, with a sslsry of |o,000, acknowledging that the offinr was a generous one. and tbe feeling wbieb inspired ft was very grateful to bitn, «ut adding "none of theee things move me." Promptly oame back tbe telegraphic response: "We have v&ted fSOO to move vou and your furniture/1..

A man out weetha* been the viotlus of* "sell.'' He bas a gun that scatters shot badly, no that it la not of mnch acoouttt. Awhile ago be aaw ant advetUse meat in a city paper, offering to send information whereby such "scattering" of shot should, bo effectual^ prevented on reoelpt ef of SO cents. H* eent tbe money and in due time was informed that to prevent his gun from "MssttorfOg" he sbonK! "put la only one abot.ff.

A Wisconsin Solon bas strode a deadly blow at railroad discrlminfttlons. He dean fends that each depot shall be pro* vkkwl with a pair oi bay-soalee, and that every shui wbo purchases a ticket shaJl fiiat be weighed, nod shall then be charged so much per pound for his ir vaaportation. Tbe railroad problem win fee solved eventually, if it conUn-

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whi a tbe "bast diods of the country" are now giving H* •—•••. ,•

Senator Sumnsr is aa dall berate in speech in private as in pobito. He studies bis phrase* and qynonyms as closely as though he were addressing a publio audience.

An Atlanta paper says: "We are dreadfally drove with job work just now, but we'd cheerfully look np tbe office and loee a whole day to attend Jeff. Davis' funeral." "Clod does not kill tbe devil," says Rev. Mr. Bailey of Springfield, Mass., in answer to Gerald Massey's question* "because the devil is to be tbo agent of punishment hereafter:" *fin ittwr v^eminitems. mi

Phoebe Coustinais lecturing on "Women as Lawyers." Tbey identified a dead woman found in New York the other day by the newspapers in her bustle.

Curiosfty ooncerning Saxe Holm will be heightened now it Is kuown that she Is an unmarried ladv

Elephant's breath" la tbe Istest color dictated by the fashions. '4'Tickle me with a feather' will be nfexl.

The lady oarber of New York baa found It necessary to procure balf-a-dosen more assistants of ber own sex.

An sdmirer of Hawthorne who lives near Cleveland, and haa seven grownup daughters, calls bis house, 'The house of the seven gabblers.,J

Miss Id* Greeley has the rotation of being a daring horsewoman. When at Chappaqua she dashes over tbe hills and far away with the greatest sest.

London ladies are wearing a wrap called tbe "Brlghtou." This Is a sort of double breasted sack coat with immense buttons, and looks very comfortable.

The grand duchess' dowry and presents are to be returned 10 St. Petersburg in the ease of tbe death of the princess without children^•**¥ Thrift, thrift, Horatio.

Twenty-one years ago a young lady from Portland, Me., deposited 9175 in the Lowell Institution for Earnings, and then went away. Wben abe remembered it, she found thst $788 was awaiting her G&11<

Another lady preacher haa eeeured a pulpit in Boston. Her name isLora Haines, and she haa been soveral years studying for tbe ministry. Sheis thirty years old, and has a "pleasing, but not beautiful faoe."

A dentist, wbo was questioned tbe other day as to tbe decay of teeth and bis lucrative practice, out tbe conversation short by referring to a charming young lady's order, which consisted of pickles, preserves, ioe water, coffee aud cream potfs.

Miss .^nnie M. McDowell has a de partraentin the Philadelphia Sunday Republic. She charges that tbo ladies and gentlemen of tho committee eat lunobee, drink wine and amoko cigars, all of which are paid for out of the Centennial funds.

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Women are self-denying and uncandid. Men are aelf-lndulgent asd outspoken and this is the key to a thousand double misunderstandings for good women are just as stupid in misunderstanding women.—['White Lies,' by Charles Reade.

A band off Ohio women gathered in front of* lawyers's ofQqe l^y mistake and prayed and sang half an boor before tbey learned that tbey bad been throwing away time. It is ^calculated that their prayers wouldn't bave bad any effect under eighteen months.

The New York Tribune says: *'It Ig apparent that we bave all underrated tbe strength Of woman's enthusiasm mid devotion. These generous and Christian Impulses are soaoietbing more than outbursts of sentiment tbey ar important foroes in tbo gorarnmeut of society."

Tbe latest fireak of the (Jtothaui wo men of ton is a ladies* riding club, wblch meets in an ampbUtmtre, rides around tbe ring to the atusUs of brass baud, and looks like an amateur circus. How "iamooefn" this r&ust be to tbe ladies, bnt it would be mors so were they to wear tights snd spangles-

Tho young Pittsburger of Rood family who went mad because Zsluma Agra, tbe Clrctastian Wataty, declined bis nttentlooa. Would, were bessne, bave been soothed to bear |»or remark, in tbe dulcet accents of tbe native Orient* that If she'd a known that tbe omadhaon wor in earnest, bejabers sbe'd a married him at all,stall.

A rather 4m using feature of the oold weather In Italy Is tbe Means the women of tbe middle and lower alaases take to ks^qp themselves warm. Yon see tbem going about the bouse, walking In tbe street, or standing gossiping at their doors* holding an oanbon pot fitted wttb bot ashm and live eoals under their aprons, and when saving or kaltttng tbey rest their feet upon tbem* I eomUdered tbo name given to this article of female comfort a rich satire. "Il Mart to" {the husband) they call It. —[Rome Letter.

Pirating, "Tteasing,

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We haven't bad enough snow thla winter to justify a republication of "Tbe Beautiful Snow" rhymea, so wo give place to tbo following on "The Beautiful Belles: Oh! the belles, the beautiful belies, Weaving th«ir wicked, naughty spells Always flirting and mi«ehler maklHr, And our soft bears forever ttresfctOfe.

4,*,* Vv All the year long. Beautlnil you do everything wrong Oh! the belles, the beautiful belles, With their roguish eyes, where mischief dwells ju'rtadtngtw, weak, unfortunate ereateres, wnth their ebignoitt, rooge, and other features,

Beiievinc. .lMselvlng,-' a By day and by ntgbt—

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Oh! 'be belles, the beautiful belles. What a world of joy their faces veils? What a halo or splendor tlieir presence What admiration their beauty spreads

Hustling, Through parlor aud hall—

BeauufUi heues, yob're true women for all. A Trenton belle, while purchasing some goods of a dashing young clerk, recently, made some remark that Implied doubt of bis muscular ability, and waa promptly challenged to a trial of strength. Tbe young lady accepted tbe banter, and stepped out into the street, and was followed by tbe clerk, who did not believe that tbe challenged party was In earnest. Tbe moment the young man cleared the aidewalk, a vigorous tns«el followed. In defense, the clerk exertod all bis strength, bot was thrown to tbe ground, where, with hie bead in chancery, be got his faoe nicelv washed with snow.

Ttaoro are only ten regularly educated practicing lady phyaidans in tbe metropolis. Their names are Drs. Anthon, Angell, Baker, Cushier, Judson, Leggett, Lutken, Wells and Putnam. The last named is a daughter of the latelydeceased publisher, and she is making a considerable stir In the medical world. Five years ago tbe number of female physicians wss three There is a regular female medical oollege here, but tbe graduates choose rather to scatter all over the country than hang out their shingles here,—[Now York

Connubialities.

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Lasy husbands are knownjout West as "stove-watchers." A Buffalo mother-in-law has msrrieil herself to her deceased daughter's widower.

A billet-doux did Williatfi^ndf® To tell the love that burned him But it was more like "BHly dont!"

The answer she retumod him. A Wisconsin town hsq ban tbe luxury of an old-time "Dutch wedding"— two days sud nights at dancing, $48 for the musicians, and twenty gallons of whisky to help keep merry.

A man and wife wbo separated sixteen years ago, by "mutual consent, bave been re-married in Montgomery, Ala. They had lived all the time in neighboring towns, but never met nor, bad a daughter, born after ths separation, ever seen her father until ths day of tho reconciliation and now marriage.

Saturday a policeman in Detroit heard that a citisou of Twelfth street bad been badly injured,and be milled at the house to obtain particulars. He found tbe man lying on tbe lounge, bis head bound up and his face badly scratched. He asked: "What's tbe matter—ditl he get run over or foil down stairs?" "No, not exactly," replied his wife, "but be wanted to run the bouso bin wsy, and I wanted to run it my way, Mid there be is

Tbe Supreme Court of North Carolina bas affirmed formally tbat the old Stato law, permitting husband to chastiso bis wife with a switch no bigger tbau his thumb, cannot be pleaded successfully aa a defense in sggravated case o£ wifo-whipplng but adds that "in order to preserve the sanctity of the domestic circle, the court will not listen to trivial complaints in ~ases where no permanent Injury bas been inflicted."

A fortune-telling adventuress ha« fust been arrested In Baltimore, and' her tricks, by their SUCCMH, forcibly indicate the weakness o& mind of bercustomers. One witness testified to having at furious times paid an aggregate of six hundred dollars to have her husband's love restored, and a case of family quarrel came to light where a wife bad paid fifteen dollars for a preparation to poison her husband, and tbo husband had given twenty dollars for an antidote. Each prescription waa a harmless powder.

Mary Costlgan waa murdered in Emitters, Connecticut, last autnmn. She was found with ber throat out, butsbo lived long enough to make sworn statement tbat ber assailan was Frank Powers, a negro of tbe neighborhood. She told a circumstantial story, and nobody doubted tbe guilt of Powers, wbo was at once arrested. Subsequent revelations, however, showed tbat the real murderer was ber husband, and that the wife died with perjury on ber Hps to shield him from punishment for his crLne* His trisl hss just ended in bis conviction of manslaughter.

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