Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 June 1874 — Page 1

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE,

Town-Talk.

OCMOMOATtOSiL.

Nothing but tbe very attractive wb* jeet announced, would have tempted T. T. to attend church on such evening last Sunday.

Gluttony

Oluttony to June! The

thing seems impossible, and yet, aaT. T. tailed slowly up the broad steps leading to the Imposing edifice on Sixth and Cherry, be wee painfully reminded of the dinner he had that day eaten, and of tbe appropriateness of such a

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height of the windows from tbe floor. The exM*iv« plainness of the walls and ceilings, also detracts somewhat from the beauty of the interior.

The larrr and well-trained choir ia such a rehvJdng contrast to the quartettes usually found in feahkmable churches that loo much cannot be said In its praise. It la worth the walk there just to hear them chant the Lord's Prayer, at the conclusion of the one offered bv the minister.

The flue organ is skillfully managed by the gentleman whose handsome fece the mirror in the mnaio-raekso obligingly exhibits to the audience.

THIS COSORKlATtOS

Is not so exclusive as ia found in some of our city sanctuaries, yet there ia a large proportion of the blue, blooded aristocracy, merchants, whom repeated failures have rendered wealthy gentlemen of leisure, who live on the proceeds of their repudiated debts real estate brokers, gamblers, horse jockeys, and all of tho elements that form aristocratic society, meet and fellowship here together, bound by that Convenanfc made upon uniting with tho church. "Henceforth denying all ungodliness and every wordly lust, yon will live soberly, righteously, and godly in the world,-and will seek by prayer and faithfnl endeavor, a constant growth to grace, tuad such alikeness to Christ that, when the scenes of earth are passed, we may rejoice together to heaven."

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sight, but a more intimate acquaintance develops tho truth of that naughty proverb among the College boys. "He's little but he's h—No one could aocuae him of the vice about which he preached, fbr "he hath a lean and hungry look," aa if he fed on spiritual arid intellectual food, instead of new potatoes and strawberries. He ia considered by many to be the most talented minister In the city, and, in style, to strongly resemble Henry Ward Beeeher. ilia sermons aw practical, interesting and beneficial. Exceptions might be taken to several points in Ms sermon of Sunday evening.

H* a nw**t»er of times, that «int in anting wasaahurtftd aa Intemperance in drinking." Briefly it oM'.t be replied, i^t airs., ugh a man hiH r*T*i-«l, moral and Intu*i powers L, gluttony be cannot lly deMroy them, aa is often done by the use of strong drink. Tbat^odi* taken In the ptes n. the fiunflyand away fron the ev»i miluenc** of aw**--1"- gamble, Ac,, which generally a pany Intoxicating llquora. T'-'tt exoeative eating, instead of maddening and toelttog to w^kedr*cMoer ^y stop ia and atnoi of crl.uiv* ar- •om1 tr«d low and poverty siri.-kt classes who, a ml,-, a» «»«w«dto be Ul-fed

But, 1 upon w*-' mon, wLiUi vnwIe4ui nut 1, for a moment, Brother Howe* from tli-«eofat)m»-

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fe-..._id :,i last campaign, But

At tho polls, dWariiinSiiii? ticket* and -loul* to th« ran-lii].,'.'. or.nl'. to ,i fa J.' -o'-t fir si Ih» w**y 4*#-' uj-.n »ji u.n i-.ihui •:wi-.M% we !h 1 hihi. 1* ow fa ant paragraph^ at aaotlHnr,

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fbr memberahlp are not required to felly adopt or even perfectly understand." Briefly among theae may be mentioned the doctrine of tbe Trinity, thai three axe One, and One are Three. A man waa put to t&e Lunatic Asylum fer declaring "enee one is two." He ought to have said "once one Is three," and instead of being "toaano" he would haw only been **ortbedox."

Article Third declares that, "ainoe tbe Tranagrewdon, all are, by nature, without holiness and alienated Aram God." "O, what a fell waa there, my country men! Then I, and you, and all of

fell down!'* Article Seventh seta forth Intent Baptism, and the administration of the Lord's Supper, "to those only, who profess to have been renewed by the Holy Spirit."

Article Eighth the Resurrection, and Article Ninth, "that ail must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ, and receive a sentence of retribution, according to the deeds done to the body and that the wicked will go into punishment and the tightens into life, both of vkich states wilt be koui end."

Digest this at your leisure and also decide just how much righteousness will be required to secure eternal life and whether you possess the requisite amount. While you are thus engaged find, if you can, a single Congregational minister, of any prominence, who advocates this doctrine from the pulpit. Even Henry Ward Beeeher, the acknowledged leader of the church, when requested to preach upon this subject, said in his sermon, "The thought of endlcas punishment makes me Why then do they retain it as part of their Creed?

It would not be just to conclude this article without a tribute of praise and respect for the liberality which the Congregational church always exhibits towards other denominations also for the dignity and independence which characterise its government.

May Its members over be as upright and Heaven-aspiring aa its tall steeple, and as truthful and much "looked up to" as the dock which adorns the same.

Husks and Nubbins.

No. 110.

In an eastern religious paper appeared lately a description of sun-rises in Colorado which was done with the softest and daintiest touch of one of the most graceful female writers of tbe present day. It waa to feet a perfect little poem from beginning to endt Tho effect on the reader was not merely that of pleasure, but of absolute exhiliratton. So choice were the words that they seemed to be made of the very colors they described. The pictures presented were of remarkable beauty. It made one think he had never seen such a sunrise, that none such occurred ontside of the mountain regions of the fer West, if indeed they occurred there and were not merely a Action of the poet's brain. But they are no fiction. I doubt not the reality waa finer and grander than even the fltly-ehosen words of the writer painted it There were colon and shapes and shadowy, vaporous effects which wholly eluded even her dainty pen. There was in the picture a subtle beauty which could not be put into any words and which it was Impossible to convey to the mind of one a thousand miles away. The scenes were painted with rare skill, indeed, and produce a strong effect, yet we may well believe tho wri«M

«aw much that waa left untold because Trtwtttetable. Reading this piece one longs to see a Colorado sun-rise, to ataadon a hill with ur-it pllea of mountains behind him and wav1 the gates of dawn open in the Easter the Ood of day to pans through to watch tbe shifting of the clouds, their breaking up, thcif moving this way and Ih.i:., only to grow more beautiful with ty ugf ^ee the glintingsnd the UMiwtain peaks in the r. »tv. in- ii'-mr distance 1 to see and feel all that the poet writer has described, isu.'i inort' ps thai was not even 1 ved :-«t»» imnks this woold be a

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Vol. 4.—No. 50. TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1874. Price Five Cents.

becadse they lay abed too long bat rather because they get up too early. Tbey see the astUa an their fenns, the wheat and earn growing, the merchanta opening their stores, bat if you should talk to them about sun-rises they woold asy "it ia all in your eye."

He who cannot see unutterable under any pari of the firmament need not go to Colorado to see the ran rise. It would look to him there just aa it doea here, around thing aa large as the rim of his hat and of a yellow color. He would see to the clouds only the slga of rain or of drouth and would wonder whether there was any gold in the mountalna.

Colorado sun-ilies! I have seen pictures to the aky on summer evenings to Indiana, common place and unromantlc aa she la, that the word wealth of a doaen languages could not describe, have sat and watched the aJcy for an hour, after the sun had gone down, and there waa some rare accidental oombin atlon of clouds that made a picture of supreme beauty. Kneh moment the light changed, the clouds shifted, tho tints grew softer and deeper and It was impossible to tell whether the effect produced was not finer than the moment before. I have seen sun-sots which I shall never forget, which I.have remembered from boyhood and shall remember while I live—cloud-pictures that seemed to be Iloaven lowered for mortal eyestoseo. Perhaps it was partly the surroundings, that eyes long since closed, eyes which had seen many sad and many pleasant sights in the long span of life which they were closing and mine just opening to, looked Into that radiant sky-world with mo—perhaps it was this that helped to impress the image on my mind but there must have been some rare and subtlo beauty in that sky to have drawn us all from our work to witness it.

No, we need not go to Colorado to see what pictures nature hangs upon the walls of Heaven. I have often been grateful that the best things in the world, tho sun, the sky, the clouds, the air, cannot bo monopolised. Tlioy are for no ftvored few. Not many of us can afford a visit to the old galleries of Europe to see the garnered art of the world, faded and dimmed by time, but the grand paintings which nature is constantly turning out, wc can all see in their pristine freshness and brightness all aglow with the delicate color that has just flowed from her brush. Go where we will, the sun and the sky will be there. We cannot travel beyond them. And they will become art-teach-ers for us, sotting beautiful pictures before our eyes. We hear much of the wondrous beauty of one place above another, of tills atmosphere being marvelously clear and of another being foggy and dismal, of course it is so and yet I believe there is not a spot under the firmament so ugly and ill-fe vored that nature does not light it up sometimes with a rare radiance which would be worth miles of journeying to see. Beauty is all about us if we would but open our eyes to behold it, nor need we travel hither and thither to hunt it out.

ImrEnaiEKrra.—The following ia a list of interments to the city cemetery since last report:

Juno fr—Inftvnt of 3. Holer stlll-bom. Junefr-Child of Mr. Morreli, aged fl years and 11 month*.

Jane 7—Infant of Mr. Bhalt-r, Imperfect clrtralation. June 7—Mm. Margaret Thnrwell, ago 8S ytu* okl ngc.

JoneS—Mm. H. W. Halkuwcll, a«e yrs typhoid fever. Juno 1&—Mm. Ell*a Templo,

Juno 10—Infant of Henry rowelt, agedU months brain fever. MABIUAOX LIO*KS*S.—The

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marriage licenses have been issued by the County Clerk since our last report: Commodore 1'. WaUaoeaadSarah M. BrlaCO&.

Henry ftehwwler to liliote SWoekwlseh. William Wheeler to HarnhC. Reed. Thomas Ht-ndrlcKson and Phebe A. White. George Collin# and Telltha (Jhln walt. CliariMi W. Matheny and Kilaab^h Jones. Francis X* Oermlgon and Annie K. Malolt, THE monthly meeting of the Horticultural Society at Pence's Hall, on Tuesday, entertained by Mrs. Scholts, the well-known gardener and florist, waa one of the largest and moat interesting tho Society li*» ever had.

Tua oorrect answer, set down In the book, to tlx problem at which the city oonndl has been at work is A market boo so costing not over $10,000 and a wtwer paid for by property benefitted. rios is felr.and will satisfy the taxpay\m» w«»r.iHy.

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People and Things.

asssaiBabte baggage master's o^ha, There are ten Inlands in the hotel business.

Abram Lincoln haa just committed sulodde to Iowa* Thackeray hated Jo ase young men ^loafing en sofea."

Senator Morton hi carried in and out of the Senate in a chair. A. H. Stephens weighs seventy-two pounds and three-quartersk

It is no longer emotional insanity, even. Morbid impulse ia tbe «uphem ism. ttu world ta fbrgotfhl of its benefactors. Who knows the name of tbe man who invented chewing gum

It is said that Robert Bonner spends 1200,000 a year for advertising the Ledger, No wonder he's rich.

One ot our country exchanges says: "Our paper is like a widow we used to hug little, but, oh, so good."

The colored imputation of Kansas City have "Resolved, that negro minstrel shows tend to degrade our race."

Every winter Edwin Forest left orders with his grocer to refbseno poor poraonH credit and to send the kills to him.

In Naples, a barber will shave, cut hair, comb, brush, black boots, and givo you a cigar, and call it square ior ten cents.

A colored minister has graduated from Yale. John W. Morris is the first of his race who has entered the ministry through that door.

Never visit friends without some announcement of your coming. Crockett's motto is a good one: "Be sure you write, then go ahead."

A few years ago a man in Iowa committed a murder and was not hanged. A few days ago, whilo trying to swallow apiece of meat, he was choked to death.

Tho Troy Whig thinks that the reason the Boston Young Men's Christian Association does not admit young ladies to its ranks is because the members feel unworthy of such companionship.

The Burlington Hawkeye inquires: 'What shall it profit a man if he wear a cane, and a buttonhole bouquet aft large as a dinner plate, if hb optics are not built to stand a pair of spring eye-

A Connecticut man, whose son was ill, appealed to the physician: "Do bring him out of it right away, doctor do break up the fever at onoe, even if you charge as much as if he went through a whole course ol fever."

The new vest has a deep pocket that completely hides cigars, so that the man who asks you for

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hover bring a blush to your face by discovering it after you have told him, "I haven't another a fellow just gave me this."

It is a beautiful sight to attend an Arixona wedding. The bride in white— the happy groom—tho solemn minister —tho smiling parents, and from twentyfive to forty shotguns standing against tho wall ready for use, make up a panorama not soon forgotten.

Brighatn Young, jr., according to the Salt Lake Tribune, has an original way of complying with scriptural iitf unctions. At a conference meeting last Sunday morning, he thus instructed the brethren "I pray for our enemies, brethren, but I always pray that they may go to hell!"

The will of General Dyer is a model for imitation. It reads: "I, Alexander B. Dyer, Chief of Ordnance, United States army, reposing the utmost confidence in my beloyed wile, Eliaa B. Dyer, bequeath all my property, real and personal, to her. and constitute her sole executrix." J"*.**?.?*

Notwithstanding the warm weather, a New Orleans paper ia struggling wltl* tho two problems: Why is it that young men about town alwayseoniadersit necessary to grin when he talks to the other sexf and why can't he observe that it's a lovely night, or ask for a glass of water, without giggling like an idiot? They are unsolved as yet.

Wirt Bikes and Mrs. Sikee, formerly Olive Logan, have resorted to moralising of late. The latter has taken the death of Tostee to point a moral, and now Mr. Slkes conies to the surfece with "Work feithfully and save carefully when you are young, so that yon may rest without danger or starvation when yon are old."—Graphic.

Tills Is an era of heroes. Cheney and Conroy are followed by a New York engineer who saw a child to front of his engiM, and so near that the train could not be stopped in time to save her. 6o he rushes out on to the cow-eatoher, makes flying tap, grasps the child, and roil- with it Into tbe ditch, where he lands unharmed, save by sprained ankie. It hi a very pretty story, and possibly true, but the way it his been done Is to pick np the child as theengine nears it, without the unnecessary ornamentation of the "flying leap."

Feminitems

Mrs. Caroline A. 8oule, the j*ory writer, haa taken to preaching. Christian Reid," the novelist, ia a Miss Fisher, of Savannah, Qa. i-

Five hundred mere maids from Va»sar College are about to cross the Ati^n tic.

The Rochester Express notes "the growing selfishness and insolence of women

In Columbus, if young Than cheat* at croquet, young ladies caress tho flange of his ear with a mallet.

Eastern modistes are said to be captivated with tho naivete of the Arizona girls, who wear ivory-handled pistols on their chatelaines.

The Boston ladles still talk dross reform, meanwhile investing to summer style atrocities, just to show how shocking thoy arc, you know.

A young lady wants a cookery book full of pictures. She says: "What ia tho use of telling us how to make a dinner if they give utf no plates?"

A Maud Miller laughed heartily at a young haymaker when the yellow jackets got up his nankeen trousers. But when they got up her'n, 'twas no joke.

A Cincinnati editor thinks that a woman in tho dress of the period adorns the street. Yes, and as she sweeps it, also, it is hard to see why anybody objects to the prevalent' feshiona.

Little by littlo the cause of Woman's Rights is making progress. Susan B. Anthony has been relieved of her fine, and female lawyers arc given permission to practice in the Supremo Court of the United States.

Mrs. Kate Irving, of Washington, is a young lady who distinguished herself during the recent collision on the Potomac by remaining seated at the piano in the saloon-cabin while all around her were in the greatest excitement.

The Christian Register says: Without doubt sewing machines are to do the work of the future, and the making of whole wardrobes will becomo more and more the business of large establishments, but it is hardly possible that this generation of girls will outlive home manufacture and a woman who cannot in an emergency make or repair a garment, lias one art less than a Pottawottamie's squaw.

There is a lady'at Benton, Mich., who subscribed for the Detroit Free Press in 1835, and has been taking it regularly ever since. The result is, she is now seventy years old and in good health. It Is astonishing how long a person will live who subscribes regularly and pays promptly for a good newspaper. If the doctors would prescribe fewer pills and more papers, the world would be modi healthier than it ia. ,,

Augusta Moore does not agree with Lucy Stone, Mm Livermore, and the rest of the brave sisterhood who want women to talk on public questions. She thinks when mothers speak to meeting their infants have to pay the penalty in cold feet and colic. She says many a poor babe haa kicked and cried all night, keeping an innocent papa awake, beeause its mother felt it her duty to exhort in the conference room or bear her public testimony to something or other.—[G raphio.

A match in bread-making lately took place in the Female Seminary at Hart ford, Conn., under the direction of Miss Catherine Beeeher. Four married women and the professor of chemistry were the judges. They tested the bread with butter, without butter, and finally with milk. Miss Mary Fitagerald got the first prise of for wheaten bread, and Miss lily Fitzgerald the second prise of 93, and three prises of peach were taken by three other giria whose names are not given. For brown bread Miss Ann Fittgeraid got the first |ri?e and Miss ]Mjotttlw amend.

An irrepressible writer in tbe Washington Capitol, writes that "Miss Sara Jewetfc is a beantifbl gifi. She is without exception the most teiautifal creature we ever saw upon tho st*ge, A blonde with dark eyes, ner complexion is brilliant, her hair a mm of nested sunlight, while her perfect head upon her rounded neck with the *wa& like ease and graee of a sculptor* dream. Add to this a toll, perfect, and petite figure, and you have one of tbe moat charming creatures heaven ever lost to Paradise, and man gained for She stage."

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The widow of the late Senator Stunner has obtained permission to change her name.

A ladjr ts now captain of a schooner plying between Jacksonville and St. Augustine.

According to the New York Mail, the wife of Dr. Helmbold haa entered a convent in Paris.

The Michigan Methodists, in State convention, have just passed resolutions in fevor of female suffrage. That church is an element of decided power to the Northwest, and it may yet determjpe the vote in fevor of the reform.

Three young ladies, of Dallas, Texas, by the name of Welsh, whcee ages range from sixteen to nineteen, have purchased a piece of land eight milea west of that city, and intend cultivating it themselves. Not a man, old or young, good or bad looking, shall come on their pre-

Hero after hero departs who bath not lost a hero? BarbaraFreitchie ianow proved by very competent authority not to have said anything like: "Shoot, if yon like, thia old gray head, but spare your country's flag but simply and forcibly to have remarked: "Don't muss my porch get out of that, you lousy pack!"

And thia ia the way the Tipton Slasher talks of Lady Sartoria: Nellie Grant had only twenty-five trunks foil of elothes when she started across the ocean. Fourteen years ago when ahe drove the old biina horse In the bark mill she kept her duds in an empty soap box. The whirligig of time, along with a few contracts, works wondera.

Conntibialities.

As an excuse for rejecting a widower, a feir young damsel informed a friend that "she did not want a 'warmed over* man."

The Detroit Free Press tells us that Wisconsin won't let clergymen kiss the bride any more, and fees have jumped from fifty oents to |S.

Courtship," observes Sterne, "oon* sists of a number of quiet attention*) not so pointed as to alarm,- nor so vague as not to be understood."

A Kansas girl wouldn't be married Without a yellow ribbon around her waist, and a boy rode eight milea to get it while tbe guests waited.

A young man of this city, who was engaged to be married, saw one of his swaet-heart's stockings floating frema clothes line the other day and concluded he wouldn't.

A woman should never consent to be married secretly. She should distrust a man who has any reason to shroud to darkness the act which, to his own estimation, should be the crowning glory of his life.

TW* »••.. S .i*'

Four thousand women, of Halt ^Lake City, have petitioned for prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors. The misery caused by a drunken husband In a family of fifty or sixty women and children most be great indeed.

An editorial writer in the Cincinnati Times says that "the Buckeye girl flirts desperately down to the proposal. Then ahe accepts or she refuses, and the young man is turned out like to an empty ass, to shade Ms ears and graze in commons."

James Bochmar did not fttlly appreciate his acquisition when he married a young and languishing girl in Louisville, Kentucky. Now he is better informed, because at the end of the first week she threw him down stairs and broke both his legs.

At a woman's tempcrance crusade meeting, held to the Union Methodist church, Covington, Ky., on Tuesday, Mrs. Merriam, one of the principal speakers, said: "My heart is deeply affected when I meet a young man." Is Mrs. Merriam a widow? If not, what doea Mr. Merriam think about it?—

Cincinnati Enquirer. If a Brahmin dies his widow dons a garb either all white or all red. As these ladies of Bombay marry when seven or eight years of age, they are not unfrequently widows at ten, alter which they are forood to remain single and do the drudgery for the household. There is no joke about this item.

At a recent English wedding, while the bridal party wore kneeling around the chancels, the groomsman poked the groom in the side, he laughed, the bride laughed, and so did the bridesmaids, and the clergyman retired to high dudgeon from the church 12 o'ciock came, after whtah no marriages are performed so that they had to go home, and spend twenty-four hours cultivating a serious frame of mind.

A Burlington Board of Trade maa go* into trouble by letting his business weigh too heavily on his mind the other night. His wife heard him murmur in his sleep, "Ella, dear Ella," fondly and tenderly, and as her name ts Mehitable, she woke him with the bald end of tho hair-brush, and asked him who? "I was thinking of Ella Vator," the wretched man said cahnly, and chuckled oft to deep sgain.

Hie New York Ledger comes to the rescue of old maids, as fellows: "Shriveled and withered you to say they are! Men and women grow old and grow gray, whether married or single but many an eld maid lingers to-day on this mundane sphere who would have died long ago, an unhappy but popular and admired wife, had she consented to marry some man whom ahe does not love, but did despise, and said 'Yes' where conscience snd Ood commanded her to say W Long live old maids, and lei no woman, from the fear of becoming one, ever wMftiliy and deUbentely riflce herself, rt is the next crime to suicide,"