Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 April 1875 — Page 1

Vol.

5.—No. 40.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

[Written for The Mall.] WILL PAPA COME?

A mother stood at the front gate looking— Will papa come?" Yes! he will coma ray dear"— Patiently she stood wis'folly watching:

But the so-called father did not appear.

By the wlndsw leaned eagerly gazing, Out into the darkue&s Into the street. Expectant she leaned tremblingly hoping

Tlint Ills familiar form her eyes might greet. At the Are she sat the embers dying— "Papa won't come?" Oh! I don know my dear— stlrriRg the embers silently listening

But his heavy footsteps she did not hear.

On the bed she reclined, weary, waiting, For him who was once the pride of their home: ,, But now she laydreamlng.waking.feHring.

Lr.t mad with the drink her husband should Come. Cruel and sad the lot of this mother.

Almoit beyond what she's able t® bear But bear it she must, through toll and labor, Through watcliings, fastings, and heartrending care. Then what shall be said of snch a father!

Who for love of drink and ways that are

Consent* to'crush the wife and the mother And make desolate the home of hlscliild.

Night-Hawk.

POLITICS.

N. II. has observed within the last few days that somo restless spirit in certain parties, which dovolnps itself on the eve of each returning municipal election. There seems to be a general self-sacrificing spirit which pervade3 the entire candidacy for the good of the dear people, without any regard for the little remuneration which the offices afford. A great desire to do good and save the city from bankruptcy is the incentivs which prompts theso honest men to tako immediate action. It is not so much the dollars and cents—as a great many suppose—which inspires these patriotic ^itizens, but that piculiar love for ono's country, which, strange to say, bums most just about this particular timoofthe year, when the few loaves and fishos are ready for distribution. Thero is a buz also among tho political aspirants, and each party has it "clique" and overy "clique" has its man to offer on tho caucus altar. The number of these hungry wolves are much larger this spring than common. Numerous frauds are also being discovered which havo boon parpotrated on the taxpayers by tho present incumbents in office, and this fact is being whispered out loud to certain friends. Of course this is not done to damage any candidates' prospect for re-election, or dupe the poople the matter has just now boon unearthed. It was whispered to N. II. the other day that the present Mayor couldn't be reelected if he became a candidate that tho Workingmon wore all against him, and were going to put a genuine laboring man in his place. N. II. was somewhat surprised to learn this fact from the H'orA-w^n/ten. He had always supposed that Mayor Thomas was of that "persuasion." N. II. hoard another individual remark that wo didn't want a laboring man for Mayor, but one who could make a speech when the occasion roqulred it. Just so concerning other candidates thero is some particular objection which disqualifies overy candidate whose namo has been mentioned In oonuecUon witlj a£~ pf tb$ office? to filled this spring. Bnt the richest

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of ail is the objection wade by N. H's Mend to J. B. Edmunds, for ih§ offic# of Mayor, that "he's a temperance candidate." N. II. would vote fbr "Jim," but don't bollevo the alligation true. CAt.r. THIXOS BY Til KIR Rioirr NAMES.

N. II. has always entertained a peculiar uutlon on somo subjects, and perhaps Is ovor-exneting In some things, but it strikes him, very forcibly, that of nil tilings most contemptibly mean, the fact of lying on a dead man Is simply too intolerable to be borne. This matter was brought vividly to mind a few days ago by reading in one of tho city papers of the number of deaths which had occurred since tho last report, perhaps a month prwsedlng the one referred to. Iu said report it was stated that on such a dtp Mr. A. died of pneumonia Mrs. B. of cancer Mr. O. of consumption, and Mr. P. of heart dUoa«e, etc., etc. Now the truth in regard to the death of one of tbeae Individuals is, that he did not die as reported, from heart disease or consumption, but from tho nao of too mmek vkisJty. He died of "delirum tremens," and tb© report to the contrary was simply a scientific lie, and one that is told in all such cases where the person so dying happens to be well related, as was this individual. N. 11. would not dare speak so disrespectfully of the immaculate profession who reports these diseases fbr publication, had it not been his privilege to be present when the case under eonslderatlon ceased to fight with every imaginable serpent and horrid thing tkat erased imagination could conceive of, that was ready to drag him in to hell—as he oftentimes dating his «icknew expressed his foam. In feet X. IT. kaows, and so does the dead mao's

friendli know what was the cause of tho unfortunate victim's death. Nono of tho poor, miserable creatures relations want to cover up the fact that ho was a self-murderer, and repeatedly so expressed themselves during his last attack and N. II. can't convinco himself that the attending physician was so utterly ignorant of what caused the unfortunate man's death. No, it's a blind. It is simply a desire on the part of some people not to call things by their proper names, for fear of the damaging results to the living. This is a mistaken notion on the part of the friends of the man who dies under such a cloud of disgrace. No stigma attaches itself to tho living every tree is known by the fruit it bears and it were far better for society that every man who dies of "delirum tremens" as from other diseases, was so reported.

DECEPTION.

If there's a trait in .the human character which ought to disfranchise the person from respectable society, an«l alieniato the possessor lrom tho confidence of all honest people, that trait is the spirit of "deception" which prevails to such an alarming extent, even among people who call themselves christians. N. II. was forcibly impressed with the justice of this fact just a few days ago, A neighbor of his, a lady of some influence in christian society, in company with himself was passing down street, when they happened to meet a young lady friend of N. H's, who, by the way, was not dressed in the very latest approved style, according to fashionable dictation, but, nevertheless, is much esteemed and admired for her excellent qualifications and goedness of heart. To say that the pleasure of these two ladies meeting—according to optical observations—was an3*thing but mutual, would be to deviate from the truth, which seemed to be expressed in their very countenances. They embraced each other, and with kisses and many inquiries concerning each other's welfare, extended hearty invitations to call soon, etc. The affection which each one seemed to entertain for the other made N. H. feel like ho himself was but little above tho brute creation and deserved gnnihllation for his obstinacy and miserable selfishness. N. H. is not partial to cool receptions if such is his nature oh, no he has been the subject of toe many, and is satisfied on this point to his heart's content.

But since the sequel shows this lady to have been committing a base deception on an innoceRt person. N. H. must be excused for having lost all confidence in the sincerity of similar demonstrations.

Mercy, what a miserable dress that poor simple thing has got on I should be ashamed to be seen in company with such a looking fright as she makes of herselC I am really mortified evory time I meet her, she invariably insists on recognizing me, notwithstanding I have time and again snubbed her unmercifully." These and similar expressions were the utterances of the deceitful woman before the breath of an affectionate kiss had dried from her sinful face. Just what pleasure there is in such contemptible deception as this for tho little satisfaction It affords a depraved lust for popularity. N. H. is at a loss to realize, and has for the individual who can stoop so low as to bo guity of such base treachery to her aox in inexpressible contempt.

Husks and Nubbins,

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TltE HONEST FAHMRR.

This age Is not especially noteworthy for its honesty. Both in public and in private life a good deal of the opposite quality has boon found. Congressmen have not perhaps grown much in honesty during the past fifty years, and the politician still uses his wily arts as of old. We have not noticed that the chairs last longer now than they used to and there are occasional deficiencies in tho length and texture of fabrics occasionally discovered yet. And now, as if to put th% climax on the depravity of the times, the traditional honesty of the former has come to be doubted and impugned. Worse than that—there are those who hold that it never was anything more than a myth. "Talk about the honest farmer," I heard a man any the other day, in a tone of disgust. "I wasi just buying a load of wood on the market-place and bad concluded to take a certain load which seemed to be good, solid wood and all nice, straight stick*. The number of feet, tts marked by the city measure, indicated a little over a cord. Fortunately my eye caught a glimpse of a suspicious eavity in the middle of the lead and looking in I saw that it was ingeniously piled in the rack so as to leave a very considerable hollow place there which could not be seen from the outside ex&g* by the closest scrutiny. Honest formers," my friend repeated, "why there are nose of them but will cheat you out of your eyes every chance they get.** And this judgment was endorsed without protest by the small circle which beard him. A harsher opinion than this, however, was «xpre**ed by a leading journal of the

State recently, when, In speaking of the law providing against the payment of attorney's fees by the maker of a note, it said the law was undoubtedly passed In the interest of farmers who have but little or no sense of commercial honer.

We aro far from asserting that there is no ground for these reflections on tho integrity of the farming community for there doubtless is, but we think such charges as these are unnecessarily and unjustly severe. There are farmers just as there are men in evory occupation, who will lie and deceive and cheat. But we do not bellove all the farmers, or the majority of them, belong to this class. We believe thereare many good, honest, upright, straightforward farmers who will not stoop to take any undue advantage of a man and whose sense of commercial and every other kind of honor is as acute and active as among editors, lawyers, manufacturers and merchants. There aro rogues in every business but it will not do to judge all by the rogues. But it is the old story: The honest and upright are overlooked while the knaves force themselves on everyone's attention. If your friend buys a good, sound load of wood, of more than christian measurement, nothing is heard of it. But let him find knotty and crooked sticks and basswood for maple and he will publish the fact from one end of his ward to the other. So long as tho grocer gets nothing but sweet, golden butter he heaps no slander on the heads of his country customers, but the moment there comes a roll with an adulterated chunck of lard in the middle tho flood-gates of his wrath aro opened and he maligns all farmers indiscriminately. It is the fight of tho city against the country. There is inisunderstandiug and malevolence 011 both sides,. The farmer, when he brings his load of hard-earned produce to town, frequently falls into the hands of a set of sharpers who swindle him out of most of tho proceeds, giving him little in return. The farmer goes back to his country home vowing vengeance. "All those city fellows are rascals," he says, "and I will get even with them yet. They don't scruple to swinble me out of my hard-earned money and if I can turn the tables on them I am going to do it." Hence come vacuous loads of wood and adulterated butter. Nevertheless there are many honest men in the pity who neither lie nor cheat and the farmer is as likely to wreak his vengeance on these as on any more, for the sharpers are not easily imposed on.

For our part we have great sympathy for tho farmers. We have an undying recollection of the weary length of cornrows we had to hoe when a bey and the inconceivable potency of solstitial heat in the harvest field. We carried from the old farm a distinct impression that the former come as near fulfilling the scriptural injunction about earningone's bread by the sweat of his brow, as anybody, and that impression has not faded out in the fourteen years that have passed since then. Of course tho farmer's hard toil is no excuse for misrepresenting his produce or cheating those who buy it of him. But the townsmen is too apt to undervalue the cost of the pound of butter and cord of wood, as estimated in the original labor which entered into them. There is a disposition on the part of many city peoplepoliticians and editors among the rest— to keep tho country in a sort of autyeotion to the town and hold the former to the coarser toil and drudgery of life whilo the latter practice the finer arts and enjoy its amenities. The many slurs

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lato legislature had their birth partially in such a feeling. We are glad to observe that the country people propose to agree to no snch thing. We are glad of it, we say, because we do not wish to see in this country that immense gulf which in some countries separates the rural from the urban community. We want education, culture and the graces and amenities of life to permeate all classes and be common to all, like the sun and the dir. The formers have begun to recognise the fact that if they are to be taken care of in the struggle of progress, they must take care of themselves that it will not do to intrust their interests wholly to the people who live in towns and cities. This is a fortunate discovery and if it results in li^ccting anew vigor and spirit of enterprise into the forming community, as it seems probable that it will, much good, both directly and indirectly will certainly grow out of it.

THE villagers of fier.ksh, near Antioeb, in Aria Minor, while digging near the old castle called Bughaxi, on the Akra mountains, the other day, came upon a leaden coffin having a lid resembling woven feather*. These were supposed to be the feathers of the samandar or phoenix, and on putting a piece of it into the fire it did net melt, vat assumed a different hue. The Government has given directions fbr the preservation of what remains of this relic.

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milk his brains and Chey won't 'give down has a most depressing look to all beholders,"

GAIL HAMLIW" is abler to Mrs. ff«kcr Blaine.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1875. Price Five Ceii

Items of Interest. Foreign.

An English authority says that tjje globo weighs 5,852,000,000,000,000 tons. The crew of tho Mississippi steamer, John Kyle, drew $19,000 in the lost Library lottery.

Gen. Sherman has kept a diary over since he was a lieutenant and is now about to publish it.

The oyster beds along the Shrewsbury river, near Long Branch, havo boon soriously damaged by the cold weather of the past winter.

Congressmau-oloct Jones, of New Hampshire, has given $6,000 for tho establishment of a high school in Barrington, his native town.

The population of the State of Colorado is 89,000, with 16,000 voters, which shows a large proportion of men, and they are mostly single.

It is estimated by Tho Boston Transcript that Daniel Webster, during his publio life, received over §1,1)00,000 in gifts from his friends and admirers.

There aro eighty-two priests, eightyfive churches, one hundred tmd sixtyfive chapels, and a Catholic population estimated at two hundred thousand in the three dioceses of Texas, 'f 4 Si

The oxcitcment over the newly discovered silver mines at Newburyport, Mass., continues. A very respectable amount of rich ore has already been taken out, and the work of sinking shafts and crushing the rock goes satisfactorily forward. $ •'. 'f

Mr. B. Hatha wayf* of Li tile Prairie Bound, Mich., who is one of the most noted of the literary men of the West, and a poet of genuine talent and inspiration, has been engaged for several years on a long legendary poem, giving the origin of the Indian Six Nations.

The final settlement of the estate of the lato John Hopkins, of Baltimore, shows the property to be worth $7,145,841, even putting some of the railroad s&ck at very low valuations. The John Hopkins University gets $3,148,840, and the John Hopkins Hospital $3,076,187.

At a meeting ©f persons interested in the proposed exploration of Palestine, at Boston, on Tuesday, it was stated that twenty New York gentlemen offered to givo $1,000 apiece, provided that one-third of that amount could be raised elsewhere, and Boston is asked for $5,000.

We ship from this country to foreign ports now about 120,000,000 worth of lard every year. This is a pretty fat- take for us, and our trade is getting greasier every year. It is regarded as a hoggish transaction by some, but our Yankee speculators do it so slick that they slip through without squealing

The last bit of the manuscript of Bret Harte's novel will be given to the printers on the 1st of April. They have been setting on it up to date, so that it will not be long before it will be in the hands of the public. Mr. Harte considers that he has put his best work into this book, and laughingly says that he became very much interested in the story when reading it over in the proofs.

Tiburdo Vasquez, the noted California bandit, was publicly executed at San Jose, on the 19th. Vasquez asserted to the last hit innocence of the crime of murder at any time during his career, but acknowledged the justice of his fate, having been tho leader of a murderous band, The coolness be displayed throughout his imprisonment did not desert him, but he maintained his fortitude to the last. '•».

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Arthur M. Page, who, with a notorious thief known as "Murdering Jack," robbed L. Lowndes at Clarksburg, West Virginia, in February, of $100,000 worth of government bonds, and who was arrested and taken to Cincinnati, has divulged the whereabouts of $50,000 worth of bonds, and that amount has been recovered. "Murdering Jack" is now in jail at Coluxibus. A requisition is expected from the Governor of Wert Virginia.

Edgar A. Poe's memory is to be hon ored with a monument at last. The sum desired, $1,500, has been raised through the efforts of the Public SchoolTeachers' Association of Baltimore, and the work will be begun at once. The design is an obelisk of pure Italian mar ble, with a bas-relief of Poo on one of the panels, and appropriate inscription* and emblems on the other three. It is thought the monument will be ready for dedication within a few months.

Governor Kellogg baa issued a call for an extra session of the Legislature, to meet in Mew Orleans, On Wednesday, April 14th, to carry out the adjustment. The subjects for legislation are limited by the call to six: 1. Adjustment of political difficulties 2. Revenues of the State and mode of collection and disbursement 3. Amendment of Funding bill, so as to change the constitution of the Funding Board, and prevent the funding of illegal obligations 4. The financial condition of the Government of the City of New Orleans 5. The relief of the commerce of New Orleans from excessive port charges and fees 6, By request of a delegation of merchants, to incorporate aBoard of Trade*

Gen. Von Moltke's death is shortly expected. Mexico has been organizing a fresh earthquake.

To clean, dust and water the streets of London j^oper, cost that city £22,982, last yearr

Tho christening robe of Gen. Sickles' Ixiby, baptized in Paris recently, cost $3,000 in gold.

The Macombergun in England Is said to havo the enormous range of nine and a quarter miles. ,,

Spain settles the Virginius indemnity by paying us $80,000 in gold—the same she pays England.

The standing army of England tiad its origin in the trained body of household troops—the "hus-earls"-—ofKing Canute the Dane.

Germany was awfully crippled by her last war. It takes 2,800,000 armed men to hold up her crutches as she hobbles along to-day. jv

The public debt of the wbrld foots up some twenty billions of dollars. France and England are ahead of us in that line of paper money.

Russia having exhausted her forests, is looking to the coal beds of Western China for fuel, eoai being the greatest want of that immense country.

At a sale of the Dumont autographs at Paris, recently, a receipt for thirtytwo crowns in gold, signed at Home in 1548, by Rabelais, was purchased for l,050f.i

Tipperary has boen having a delightsome ruction again. A fewunenthusiastic failed to illuminate in honor of Mitchell's election, and the mob made it lively for'em.-

French writers say that "the great American people look upon France as the center of European civilization." It wouldn't do to disappoint them, then one good turn deserves another.

A dispacth from Trieste says that great preparations are being made for the unveiling this month, of the monument in memory of Maximilian. All companions of the late Emperor of Mexico have been invited.

The Girl's School at Yokohama, the first Christian school for girls established in the empire, and second to none other in character, is taught by two American girls, each of whom receives a salary of $854.

Mme. Furtado draws from the French treasury every three months the sum of 1,000,018 francs, the interest on govern' ment securities held by her, which amount to 80,000,000 francs,or$16,000,000 and this is but a portion of her wealth

Here's condescension! His Serene Highness Prince Hermann Eugene Adolph Bernard Franz Ferdinand August von Sayn-Wittagenstein-Hoheu steion is about to marry Gertrude Westenberger, who is only a common man's pretty daughter.

The Italian consul at Yokohama has sent to the Italian government a box of tea seed from the province Yamasciro. This seed will be distributed to the different forming institutions for the purpose of experimenting on the growth of the plantftn Ttaly.

Ninety-three tigers and thirty-two panthers were shot or poisoned in the Koimbator district in Madras, last year Only one man was killed by wild beasts and the number of the cattle destroy ed fell from 2,182 in the previous year to 265..

Lady Mordaunt is now, and has been for some time, an inmate of Dr. Tuke's private asylum at Hammersmith, near London, and her insanity has taken such a violent form that strong precautionary measures, have to be adopted in order to prevent her destroying her clothing.

On the close of the Franco-Prussian war, Berlin wrote a diplomatic note in German, of the deepest Prussian blue, to St. Petersburg the latter replied in good Russian, sixteen quarters black. The exchange of correspondence stopped then and there in those two languages, and French was resumed.

The India famine reports and the Viceroy's minutes thereon have been published. The estimated total cost will not exceed £6,500,000* About 100,000 tons of rice remained after relief operations were concluded. The total quantity of grain carried to the distressed districts was about 1000,000 tons. Trade statistics vindicate the policy of not prohibiting the export of rice.

Recent explorations show that the great Australian trees exceed in height, though not in circumference, the giants of California. A fallen tree in the recesses oi Dandenong, Victoria, was measured not long since, and .found to be 420 feet long another, on tho Black Spur, ten miles from H^alesville, measured 480 feet. The highest tree on the Sierra Nevada, Oal., yet discovered, reach only 490 feet, the average rise being 20 to 400 feet in height, and from 21 toM feet to diameter.

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Odds and Enas.

Theodore Tilton, why don't you stand up like a man, plead "guilty" and save the expense of finishing your trial

Correctly is not a hard word, yet all the spellers theji aie worsted in the spelling matches foil because they cannot spell correctly.

Tom Hood speaks of a bird building its nest upon a ledgo over the door of a doctor's office as an attempt te rear its young in the very jaws of death.

An attendant at a spiritual seance in Fairhaven, Vt., seized the materialized form of his grandmother, and she turned out to be the medium in disguise.

An Englishman has failed fbr $10,000,000. Onee more this Yankee nation asserts its superiority. Jay Cooke still straddles the pinnacle ot bankruptcy.

A St. Louis man gave a justice a $50 bill by mistake as a marriage fee, and he had to sue the reverend and sell the judgment at a shave of fifteen percent.

A man carrying twenty-one polocat skins was not jostled irf Frankfort, Kentucky, although the street through which he walked was densely crowded.

The following notice, written on tho door of a village schoolhouse would seem to indicate that tho schoolmaster is abroad: "Kea at the wuden hous necks dore." ^7

A petition was recently presented to the Massachusetts Legislature, asking that the sentence of banishment against Roger Williams, passed in 1535, be revoked.

He who haunts a printing office, and talks so loud that he can be heard ten feet from the person he is addressing, is not sufficiently saturated with common sense.

Three things are named by a St. Louis journal in which it is unwise to reposo confidence: A Democratic Legislature, nitro-glycerine, and a mule's sense of honor.

Mark Twain says "To the poor whites along the Mississippi river chills are a merciful provision of Providence, enabling them to take exercise without exertion."

nothing," says the director. "Then," replies the woman, by no means disconcerted, "you should give him tho prize for perseverance."

The New York Timos publishes a letter from a Chinaman named Ah Sin. The substanoe of it is that he gets no part of the school system in America. He puts the case as between himself and the Irish-American citizens, as follows: "Why me no all same 'Paddy Paddy cally hod. Me cell cigala. St. Patrick good man. Confucius good man. Me no like 'Melican schoolee. All same 'infidel,' Me want schoolee. No get schoolee. No washee. No sell cigals. -AH SIN."

A book Arm in Columbus, O., sends out postal cards, asking postmasters to send names of

Nobedy ever committed suicide more elaborately than the late Mr. Hugo Byor of Texas. On the 19th of February he took two ounces of laudanum on the 20th be swallowed two ounces of laudanum and three ounces of chloroform on the 21st he partook of two ounces of chloroform and one-third of an ounce of morphine on the 22nd he bolted four ounces of chloroform on the 23d be drank two ounces of chloroform and one ounce of chloral. Still he lived until the 25th of February. The local paper says: "This will surprise tho oldest medical man of the age." And the younywt, loo. we ahould say.

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Jay Gould never smiles and this is about the only difference between him .M*g and Satan.

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A lady," who is indignant at having ris /p to zouave over tho muddy boots of a conductor, scathingly inquires: "Why are these crossed-leggers the exclusive. owners of slim shanks and big feet?" ^r» 1,

A foppish fellow advised a friend not to marry a poor girl, as he would find matrimony with poverty up-hill work." "Good," ^aid his friend "I would rather go up Jbili tbaiv.dpwn hill anytime."

An old bachelor says, of ail the solemn hours he ever saw, that occupied in going home one dark night from the Widow Bean's, after being told by her daughter Sally that he "needn't come again," was the most solemn.

A curious instance of dental vitality is reported from Paris. A nun, aged 90, died in that city recently, who, in addition to the two sets of teeth which grow in her youth, had anew set at 47, another at 63, and a fifth set a few years before her death.

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and preachers of the Gospel who will act as agents for its publications. The following verbatim reply by an Indiana postmaster to one of these is published in the Cleveland Plalndealer. "I can't give you the name of any Sunday-school soollars for I don't know them since preachers of the gospil have acted so like hell & Dam nation all over the countrey Sunday Schools and other regions teaching A modes of worship have go ten blow par In this section."

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