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Vol.

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J* J.

5.—No. 20

THITMAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

[Written for The Mall.] SEA SHELLS.

IDA KAY DKPUY.

T/tni BCCS t'l' lain, whwewa»h the rolling wave,

Oft have they beard the row, And listened to the Till tongue caught up the «w«*»

Aiul hummed alow regain Who**' tone* the hearer* thrill Keberberating still.

They are gathered from the beach And bourne to far »tf lamlsYet still they sing the «»€*•.

Of their own native aand#, -a And murmur to a llst«nlWfBr' I A Ifr1* of oceans mad career.

Wherever be the shore on which

Is cast

a haman

heart,

Tvrill mould It front its clay, lt» color twlU impart And tell In words untaught, The Impress It hath wrought.

Like the sad wall of the lyre. The heart will moan ltsllfe, If reared In Joy teas 41s»ird,

RIGHTS OF PEDESTRIANS.

it**. humor—"comes up «nU-

°"h

tir^reat "forbearance

manblnd and T. T. might be open to 1

the charge of cowardly selfishness.

briefly, in regard to the insane mania

Violas, from the jaunty, dashing pheton, •with its trim nag,to the rumbling, noisy, heavy wagon, drawn by the heavy horses or ossified equininity, have imbibed the notion that the world was

made for their exclusive benefit, and I

have become saturated with the belief

tion have no rights which a Jehu is

bound to respect. In other words the

drivers are laboring under the phantas-

maooria that people who walk are born

prevailed

absurdlyjimbibed

evcrv^M,.

If colored by silent grief,

And echoe* wake within the soul, In ceaseless measured rail. L*t our »oulV music ever be,

The sweetest strains we long, The smiling heart we love Then, mingUng In life* throng. •»Tho* they may forget the singer. They will not forget the song.

Town-Talk.

daily, and there

in other days in the breasts of piy bear

to disabuse tiioir minds 1

Oov.rn.uent.

and fro upon the earth, on their &et.]ItMve

the laws. But among tho in valuable

t|fl,K

abridge thesseis clearly a violation of the

^«ariy allowed anil T. T. will find no

that individual undertakes to make him I Wrested in the success of a man and a 2«Sl-theUn»ta.«d lives even, of party than in the triumph of a certain LJL pedestrians, who have perhaps set of principles. It is not

seems

All readersofThe Mail will bear testi-1 stealing over the drivers, or else they ment reached. And^ these•

8"t"rd'y».U1.k.'."•!! ,h°Uli

exception that he Is *~.u I IourI off hia equanimity, or I spea 0

nation to bubble to the-surface. mo

Lr^ubl^d iU-te,n5r, a manifest\Z7 from being made the cen- politics is of more^concern count.injustice is 4one to the great body of

trai an(jall-absorbing

dit*ion to

Oiuea HW WVWWM Now that the elections are over per- est importance to social progress and

hap3 wo »n

tbing else

ereatesia

tbink

their

new8 aod

into the world saddled and bridled, the science of government was the chief creased study of these pursuits, a highei white their entrance into being is booted I business of the nation. The editorials I education of the masses, a 4Ud ^uw«l—whi^di democratic idea

on au

AfW* «at«avMy fw 1UU VI J/I

and any thing that would tend to I

ihe Southern nabobs. with those on politics. There are a few The popular mind would be moredrawn

new#papers,

wnally tntereited In U» greMe* good charming lltUe essay 011 some other

nenoie transact their business, and go to

0fthis

often WOndered

a klnd Qf

tbe

p. .M#t*al 4 jcation «f the vertebnas likely to find these qualities in ono b,t onfrfUiafitHr the animaki they!party as in the other? Probably the du a at uoct'! 1 nly *uro-looted, and Knickerbocker Commonwealth will 4ud the great 4a.^. 'u to thosp tttttor-1 prosper as well wader Mr.Tlklen's adjmvuO# pm§t* whoa* buaiMoa oeuijpeia ministratioB as tt has done under Mr. tix-tu lif the f' «L Dix's. Yet to have read the New York

T. T. U*# a 1 md tor tliat noble papers during the past few weeks one wad lodispenaabir unimal, the h*«r»e. I might bav« thought there was imminent less titua fifty T. danger of the State falling intoaspUla-

jMv^srteti «1ili a Sink ptlawr, fete a plight a* that of the Swiss cantons IrewBogttii i^a«u»aj4a under-Jond»r the tyranny of Oerter. The newsrr-"*** a ptrture of thi aoi- p*per* in vent all sorts ofsensati.ns, like

VariuUJ#IH i. »oflta-noi«nnn il, i'-ur u:ul 1!' h»par«%

lh'' of iiislBO" iiilit is la tbe idaWory 0 the brute er-^i ion.w This

jl.t-

T*.

Ti 1 un\ I,., h:»* cvt Ji.. h(„g ii'A.,ul to tlit. lima »beg he ewMd call a um«ui»ian it his own, \Vjwitvibi

n.lfu T. u.JU

|«i to UJ-« jtrn

of 1st 11 !y 1M S-

his driver or r,'» r,

utile essays on social and aasthetic

and

the notion that they we believe our candidate will adminis-

have some rights that horses are bound ter the public affairs better than his opto respect. The great difficulty seems ponent as that he is our candidate, that to be that horses have

not

tedun to the point of disobeying their success. Mankind want something to drunken or heartless drivers, who seem amuse themselves with and politics aptn act as thouirh they were empowered pears to have selected for that purpose, bv the grace of God, to

ride, heels, No

wheels, toe-corks and singletree, over ligence believes that a half or quarter or jackiess pedestrian that may take tenth of what Is written and spoken the libertv of a free man, and cross the during a political campaign is true, or street k®8

other child barely snatched from death, or if they see faults and deficiencies in

near the Postoftlce, being nearly under it, they will naturally set about correct-

to be a stolidity molestation and the bighes a

«nony that as a 8™™"?: entirely too| 0,T"S!! The arts andin-l It is a noble sight to see a murderer 311 intf

u^nthe while they The in-

off his equanimity, or therels I suffl^^ann^ hi^ But'latl I moral faculties and lead us into a higher I as a student of depraved human nature L*ed into a proverb that there is a ter]y

haa not been

raf

has almost been driven to des- sphere of living. These are what we

ceases t» be Lration by the utter carelessness of this need to cultivate. Politics.is on ac- Lho

virtue and when by swallowing ^agof people, and has had several nar- oessary to them, yet to the majority

figure in

ajtv wh|ch

nera yoQ wm

from choice or necessity. besides Town Talk. ^4*3^ f*i It is perfectly apparent that the major-1 1V ity of drivers of all characters of ve-1

anC[

causu-1things

Hence T. T- desires to say a word ot two, cfdents. Gentlemen, go slow, and draw to intimate that the science and practice

rein8 when

approaching a street of government are not'

that lu» the nudority .f .h.t el.» paring, „d for your Improved m.n-1 pie,._^ havtag th^min- tou, after a heroic struggle to cut a dash of our citiaens who drive horses either

have the thanks of many necessa^

Nubbins.

& No.

132.

(js*

kXfx:

OIVB US A BEST.

think and talk of some- correct living. These ought to bo at-

'TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1874.

much that

been educa- we become so deeply interested in his

person of modioum sense and intel-

any

T. T. is thoroughly in earnest about gotten up with a view of influencing a this matter. One of the most dangerous I certain portion of the community, feplaces is the junction of Sixth street and miltarly designated by the politicians as the south side of Main another is the "the rabble." crossing at the Postoffice. Only a day I am inclined to think that political or two ago a little girl was in great dan- government is a matter of infinitely less ger of being run over by a rapidly driv- moment than is usually supposed. Men en express wagon, whose driver strange- will always have as good a form of govly stopped, but the occurrence was so emment as they are entitled to, whethsincular as to attract the attention of er it be of one kind or another for it everybody. Not long ago T. T. saw an-1 is not so good as they think it might be,

8°°d foundation in tact. It is

the feet of a couple of fiery horses, which ing them. Nine-tenths of this profes-1 were not checked a single instant by the sional rant about liberty, centralization driver to see what was tho result of his and the danger our free institutions are recklessness, or to rein in the impetnos- in, is the emptiest bombast, made to or ity of his team. It fell to the lot of T. T. der and unworthy of serious considers recentlv to rescue a young lady from tion. What a country needs is some between the feet of two horses attached stable system of administration, whe\h- giant intellect to the Beecher-Tilton to a wagon the driver whereof nonchal- er of one kind or another, that will go case. ently kept' bis seat, careless of the de- on without jar or friction and become charlotte Cushman says earnestness is nouement of the aflfoir. These occur- permanently settled. In a country

rences are not waife occurring now and thus governed the various arts, sciences

then, but similar instances occur almost and industries can be pursued witliou

than politics for awhile. The tended to and the others not neglected. josh» you're right.

-that people who are compelled to rely] amount of interest which this subject The newspapers, if they would devote jjartford man climbed a tree to adupon nature for the means of transpor-j

thepubllcmind has often been more apace to matters of art, science, lit- Lgt

ca^ of wonder to me. One might erature and even the more abstract I

from reading the newspapers,with studies, might do much toward awaken-

columns upon columns of political ing a greater popular Interest in tliese 18tung

comment, day alter day, that subjects. Tho result would be an in-

other subjects combined will sim- breadth of culture, and, by oonsequence

comparison as to quantity an improvement in the art of living,

ST5S* «.ntrlveP JP»ndwich a trivial .Rkir. to tho» of a higher ran^

and

to the greatest number, and It is very I between the ever-present polltl-1 useless waste and extravagance would ... ^bT.he gn^test numhar of le«le™ occasionally, but the exam- be stopped and the

Ueuise, upon thi» simple logic, it is not readers are really interested in works of art. It "is difficult to overesti- drojw a bad cent into the cigar-box, and UeuHHtwlratc that tills olaas are nothing but politics or whother the edit-1 mate the power of the press »n I accepts the 'Lord bless you just as the especial otye*« «Ttbe pra««3tion of 19nimaketheir papers

I rights of people are life and people buy them because they can do tbink and talk about what is contained

better. I am inclined to think that I in its columns, for it is the one book

principles of la#. These propositions topics ftwjuently brighten more eyes the newspapeni to say whether the pub-

dsflk-uity in sliowistg thrt these reck- the stirring leaders bristling with harsh with the consideration of P0^0" "r I

Ism drivers are culpably negligent. epithets. There certainly is a large por- whether other food of^a more healthit ia an averyday occurrence to aee a I tion of the reading community who arej ftil and nourishing kind shall oe onereo of "iftr**' nen-uU some wtnnen, interested in other matters than politics. to its all-devouring stomach, who If not may be considered After all the tossing and fighting what altogether too rapid—driviag along the {great difference does it make who holdl fHJS GOOD EFFECT. irtrtw at a spitd Utile abort »f bpak-1 the offices? Of course we want honesty, I [Grand Rapids Poat.] »«dt, and whkA wtmld be highly eom-1 integrity and ability in the conduct of We stood at the sixth ward polls on

the sake of keeping the public mind in a mate of political effervescence. We need laws and a faithful administration Of them but It does not lollow that we ought be required to read firotB two to fix columns of laudation of this man and party and abase of the other eve*y morning on thai account. After

J*O'HM» MM|

soothe or warm more hearts than lie mind shall be continually occupied I

w. no.

U*™- words "The} the third teann q««tion,for instiu»ce, for

governfrmit are

not chief businesK of menu They are a c.' nrther thau an on^. All we use. I mw*nt *»r fc. to na pe#ee I they hSreLnd

pursnito if liffi' Id ra tbe whistling so J—j-ali.^r. We are far mrv in-1 from the aer^ volumes, too late, too late.

lht„« la h» a

S.-.c

Ttilltk

People and Things.

Andy Johnson is happy. Tyndall squarely denies atheism. The negro never commits suicide. Neither Beecher nor Tilton voted. Oypsies beliove that death is annihilation.

In this country there are 5 per cent, more men than women. The donations to organ-grinders »*e generally from the poor. "Joined the majority," is the World's phrase for a man who died.

Pew of our American judges are paid as well as first-class actors. Tho President's next m^Saf&Tvill be rather interesting, perhaps.

Thompson, ot Massachusetts, is said t" bo something of a wag himself. Rev. Talmage says: "Election day in this country is the devil's day."

In all our chief cities, are people who

hay0 becn gored by

vance" back wearing

la^*

The arts and in

our use. makioK life a. once both easier Dr. Junkin,,

enlarge and strengthen our mental and ton Police Courts, not as a prisoner, but

faculties and lead us into a higher

would make a valuable ad-1 politics to serve. by Professor Richard Owen. It means

the budget of melancholy ac- I do not wish to disparage politics or condition expressed by unconscious

Texas cattle.

(p ont your

witnessed" is that

Detroit judge's latest colloquialism Dr. Holmes urges that if a patient can't live* tho doctor should help him to I die.u

Ben Butler can now devote all his

thfl aecret of ber

tfae

career. Dickens said

The baldest head

man an iDjury

like the Springfield Rnpnb- from the contemplation of petty and I A couple of ^Makv^rt

more permanent character.

expenditure too

kind are comparatively rare, oiten made for empty show would be Detroit Free Press:

whether news- turned in the dlrectlpn of libraries and stops before the blind organ grin er,

as they do, through agency of education. Its influence is meekly as the

professional instinct, and the I universal and omnipresent. People jar/«

which all mankind studies. It is Every time betook a drink he would

Congress will go

a heavy scratch—[Boston

Transcript

the air," preachedL(t^,Re|

a 8tudent

of depraved human nature. all

There'8

a man who keeps a list of all

banks in

ab]e to

the country, soasto be

say that he keeps a bank ac-

which it is 1. Prelapsarian" is a new word, coined

nakedness

w*t

Geo.

isrtratioiTofpubiic affairs In their handeloua saUry of *800, Anally gave in, and should be closely watched and any er- stole {31,6M.. rors or wrong-doing on their.part point- They've been having high Jinks out ed out. What I protest against is the in Missouri. The other day one Mr. all-absorbing attention given to this Jinks was strung up to alimbg burn subject and the corresponding neglect of I ing wheat stacks. -jsaWifct* many other matters that are of the high- jjext jn point of meanness to doing a

Kingsbury, a bank clerk of Bos-

j8 to do him a favor and

every now

and then remind him of it.

swing) and

flHed uphlg

atTd aaked that they would tle- pers of the New York alms booses, posit them In the ballot boxes. Ihe though entering at an advanced age, good effect of the F®*""* average twenty years of easy life thereS.Xn^ a^rifane word was heiS after. All frem being flree from worry inside tbe building during the entire jret, trouble, anxiety, disappointment day. asMBSBBMBBaa

and

HOW %0 HANDLE THE FIRE FIEND.

lAkraa Daily Argn*.]

down on a wasp's

wbUe he tied a

howlod once or

sailor's knot. He

twice, and then held his

Detroit Free Press: A Troy man

arbiter I worth 175,000 hung himself the other

day. If tboy must do it, that's the kind of men to go about it, as it loosens the currency.

get to Mother house, this hotel leans. "The mean man

man who gives half a dol

An 0jd

gentleman in Stowe, Vt., tells

how be

off drinking liquor.

drop a shotin

the glass, and as the glass

drinks were smaller, until

dropped the use of liquor entirely

A young blood dining at a hotel was requested by a neighbor to pass him some article ©f food which was near him. Do you mistake me tor a waiterf" said the exquisite. "No, sir mistook you for a gentleman," was the

than fever. Thepau

botheration generally

84.C&ED CONCERTS. The Rev. Mr. Collyer, who decided iJ {N. Y. Herald.] ,, ,1 not to leave Chicago, says: "I waaadWe admit that "La TravlaU," wl)ioh

tbat if went

Bl^v'rt^Sd8^*'n2St™: I"66 a l0"^ drifted down Bufihlo Bill," at tbe Bowery Theater, from a carriage steed to an omnibus and "Kin Krfolg" at the Oermania The- ju«t as soon as tbe New York atre, are not sacred concerts in the strict found I didn't suit, they would sense of the term bntanameis ^"^n^ut, threw me to one ride, and

to New York

l»!t me go to tbe dogs."

Beth Green,the pisciculturist,!* eer-

tbat fish

Tho flames ran flreely from room to! ted his theory in public, recently. To room, licking »p as they went the walls {demonstrate bis opinion be asked we of an eieganthomeuntil they all seem-

liand

arrange themselves In doe?

one wf

rs to check their

may be sclent, but what prao- untied a string

A.*an

There are thirty or forty different kinds of religion in this country, and it worries tho celestial entry clerk immensely to have people tumbling into heaven in such singularly assorted lots. [Brooklyn Argus.

A Pittsburg preacher has been requested to repeat his sermon, and "say it slow." In one of bis sentences be remarks "The marvelous multidinoosness of the minutlie of tbe cerroborating circumstances are the insurmountable difficulties which unmistakably prevent the skeptic from discovering truth."

Feminitems.,

Janauschok says she woifld like to live always. Jennie June spc^H

the whistling ^it^Zn'.Pve got a Wtel" lu the gutter. Gathering up the rags I The Pop Corn Fiend.

TO^yof^the

jet insanity." 1 i?" Jennie June says a "shirring mania" exists in ladies' drafces. j^x

An Iowa critic likens a certain tall ress to a limp kangaroo-ess. All of Charles Reade's heroines writhe like a snake, under emotion.

Why shouldn't house decorating be one of the feminine professions? Julia Goodale, of Nashau, N. drowned herself, owing to a cancer.

A Michigan woman has just made her ninth husband the happiest man in the world.

A civil rights bill compelling hotels to accommodate unaccompanied ladies is wanted.

Seventy-five ladies of Rochester are out in *a card denying that they sleep in their corsets in order to keep their forms graceful.

Charlotte CusblMT'eaiinot say that she was ever really in love, and she has lived to be gray. There must be something wrong with her heart. I

The wife of a Texas bandit is said to be highly educated, a fine pianist, and as expert with a six-shooter as any of the gang ef whom her husband is chief.

Miss Thackeray says the sum of the evil done by a respectable and easy going life may be greater in the end, perhaps, than that ot many a disastrous career.

Grace Greenwood doesn't believe in liquor as a beverage, but she says there is something pleasant in drinking just enough wine to make one feel at peace with all the world.

Lotta is said by the Philadelphia Bulletin to evidence great kicking power in hernew play of "Musette." "She kicks at the furniture and at visitors," says that paper, "and when she has nothing else to kick at, she kicks at space,"

Columbus (Miss.) Index: "A few Sundays ago a negro woman at a babtizing ner tbe ferry, exhibited her Radical proclivities during the excitement always attending such occasions, by shouting at intervals, "Sweet Jesus, clear Yankee Jesus, how I love you."

In an Illinois town, not long ago, one of the attractions of an evening entertainment was to be a tableau of the Prodigal Son, after Dubufe's painting, But the best looking young man in the place had been selected for the Prodigal, and every one of the girls wanted to be the woman who should hang on his shoulder and look lovingly at him, and that broke up tho business.

Two Brooklyn girls, belonging to respectable and wealthy families, and as beautiful as only Brooklyn girls can be, were stopped by a policeman on Myrtle avenue late on Thursday night as they were weaving along from side to side, arm in arm, and singing at the top of their voices, *'We wont go home till morning." They were promptly escorted home without waiting "till daylight dotii appear," and it was discovered that bottle of wine they had taken slyly from the dinner-table and drank in their bed-room, was the cause of their disgraceful appearance on the street, they having stepped out "just for a little ftin" as they said

Tbe New York Clipper relates this: "A touching incident was witnessed the other evening while attending a minstrel entertainment. A young and pretty Irish lass and, judging by her fresh and ruddy complexion, not very long from her own green isle—entered the auditorium, and, before taking her seat, dropped on her knees in the aisle, made the sign of the cross, slowly rose, and then went to the chair her coupon called for. We subsequently learned that she is an exemplary member of the Catbolin church, and this was her first appearance at a public place of amusement, and tbe Ibn* of habit induced the observance of a custom peculiar to the Church."

A squaw sat down on the curb in front of the post-office in Austin, Nev., and nnrolling a bundle ot calico, com me need the manufacture of a dram. In 1

p'» "ere. peg there, and

in anotter

pla^ maxle

know better one step, and presto! tbe old clothes lay The boy with bananas.

Price Five Cents.

just shed, the nable daughter of the forest cast ono look of triumph on the spectators and skipped gracefully off in tbe direction of the Indian carapt A prominent citizen, who was aa interested witness of the transaction, mildly remarked that he would give $30 if,Mrs. P. C. oould shed herself liko tbat.

The Pittsburg Leader is thus critical: Miss Carey, the singer, is a Baptist minister's daughter, and when she began her public career doubtless had a good many strict Baptist notions in her little head. Naar, however, we notice that she is announced to sing in the Sunday evening concerts, in tbe Grand Opera House, New York. Verily, the musical world moves, but every one will have his own private opinion as to which way it moves. _______________

Connubialities.

Stokes* wife has got herdlvoroepapdrs. Childless couples in Oregon can be divorced by simply living apart

Burly men almost always pick small wives.—[Phrenological Journal. Constantino, the Russian Grand Duke, wears bracelets made of his wife's hair.

A mother-in-law Is not a heavenly body, but she has been known to eclipee a honeymoon.

A wealthy and devoted husband in Chicago, according to a local journal, keeps hia wife ^illuminated with brilliants."

Anna Dickinson wears amethyw settings in her garter clasps, but nobody has ever seen them

A bad, wicked newspaper man announces the nuptials of Mr. Bean and Miss Bacon under the head of "A Dish of Pork and Beans."

This time it is a Baptist minister,, lie lived in Auburn, Illinois, and had a wife and three children. Last week be skipped out with a dressmaker.

The lady who was married in a balloon in Cincinnati the other day, has sinoe shown how it affected her by blowing up her husband higher than a kite.

Mr. Stansberry, of Easton, while splits ting kindling wood by the light of his lantern, severed his left thumb. Ha doesn't deserve a bit of sympathy. He had no business to usuiy the duties of his wife.—Norristown Herald^

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A married lady was complaining to a widow of her husband's cruel slanders Upon her, when the Widow grimly replied, "I've had three husbands, and not one of 'em lives to say a word against me. Dead husbands tell no tales."

A Brooklyn woman sues her husband for divoroe, one of his trifling offenses being the entering of the room in which she was sleeping with a lighted candle in his hand which he held in a position so that a drop of melted tallow fell into her eye!

It is reported from Florence that Mr. Joaquin Miller, the poet of tho Sierras, has eloped with an Italian married woman, the mother of several children. The affair Is said to have produced a great commotion in the society of that free living city.

lvi^

There is a man in East Lynn, Conn., who has kept his bed for six years, because he was once disappointed in love. He isn't sick, but simply chronically sorry that he didn't get the girl. His mother waits on him constantly. Tho man onoe had a brother who lay abed for five years.

The Troy Times says: A trunk checked for Chicago at the depot yeaterday had the following inscription pasted on, written in a delicate hand: "For Heaven's sake, play light on this trunk. All I've ^ot is in it, and every cent in my pocket I will have to spend to get a divorce from a shiftless husband."

Here and there we have information of wealthy oouples wedded without ostentation or offensive newspaper parade of the bride's outfit, etc., but the instances are rare. Foreign lands and foreign costumers are laid under tribute to supply the requisite adornments for tbe

woman

who is to take upon herself the WMM "Si --rfUf

marriage vows,

A cynical correspondent of Serlbner's, who says he keeps his eyes open, declares, in regard to railroad traveling, that upon every train on which he has been, tbe following persona may bo found:

A dull woman, with a double chia. A young woman, with freckles. An elderly woman, who drops parceis. A baby who wont sleep, and will bawl.

A baby who sleeps through everything. feA The boy with loj»ngesr

A passemger who has omitted to buy his ticket. Two young ladies, who giggle at every

A/oung couple, who forget they are not home. Tbe man who treads on corns.

The flustered woman who lias forgot-: ten where she is going. Tbe boy with apples.

Two counter-jumpers on a holiday. A mincing miss, with mock jealousy. The boy with Carleton's novels. A clerical gentleman in a white choker.

A seedy young person with a flask in bis pocket.