Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 November 1875 — Page 1

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Vol. 6.—No. 21

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

THIKK Thursday of Theodore.

KEMEMRBB the O. U. A. M. ball OB the 25th. TILTDS will tangle bis btir at tbe Opera House Thursday nigbt.

IF you have steer* to abed, prepare to do it soon. NKXT year's almanacs will soon be ready to gatlier. 4 j.

FEATHKB-WOIUC is supplanting wax work a* a feminine "rage."

LfRXMK has been granted to II. A. Zekind to sell clothing at auction, on Fourth street, fur three months.

THE pork houses sro about ready to commence operations, and if the weather hi favorable, packing *111 begin week after nt»$t,

TUB Fairbanks distillery Is constJthing 1,800 btishels of grain dally, and paying the Government $125,000 a month for the privilege.

A IIUXORY tbelf stole the day's rations of fresh meat from a north Firth street boarding boose. He wrapped it up in a shoot of note paper and carried it off in his vest pocket.

Now that the season for accidents by mowing and threshing machines is past tho farmers have to content themselves with an occasional runaway until corn shelter* get ripe.

TUB Mendelssohn Quintette Club snd Miss Fannie Kellogg are announced for December 3rd and 4th—Friday and (Saturday nights. There is not a doubt of their drawing.

MR. HOWK'H lecture on "Great Britain and Germany" will take place at tho 0(era House, Tuesday evening uoxt. Two hundred tickets have already been sold and everything seoms to indicate a crowded house.

Os and alter Monday, November 22d, passenger trains will run as follows on the I,., M. W. R. R. Leave going North, Mall, 6 A.M. Kxpress, 2 P. M. Arrivo from North, Mail, 1:15 r. M. Express, 8:30 P. M.

IT is a little singular that none of the anti-administration papers have noticed tho fket that tho present postmaster of Paris, Illinois, is also Sheriff, nmihns aotcd as such ever since ho has had tbe post office, which, if wo are not mistaken, has boon several years.

TitKv were strolling down Sixtb. Quite a flno, large moon,'- remarked thegentleman. "Yea, very quite," answered tho lady, and then thoro was an eloquent silence unbroken by aught save a sutlboatlng chuckle from an Ar-gun-oared reporter who had happened to overhear tbe brtef conversation.

HKPORK his death, Mr William Coats made a request that on aooount of tbe peoullarlty of the dlssss? 'from which he was lufffcring, a post-mortem examination should be made. In pursuance of that request the examination was held Thursday morning by Drs. Kneetor, Thompson, Robberts, Read and Preston. It was (Sound that a fatty enlargement of tbe heart, resulting in dropsy, had caused his death,

TUB trial of Job a Trader tor the murder of Amen Martin, took place in the Criminal court Thursday. The feeta develop* were substantially tbe same as those heretofore published. Tbe jury retired at 5 o'clock r. x. and at nine brought In a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and a sentence of Impriaoament tor life. Ilia counsel, John K. I**nib, moved fbr anew trial, but tbe motion was not granted. 4

A «»maw*POXT»lcT of the Journal complain* bitterly, and seemingly with reason, that tbe filling of the new gas tank with water, by the Are department, a work requiring 120 hours of steady pumping, will cost the dty at least fQQO In way ot damage to machinery and boas. We do not believe the wear and tear will be equal to one hundred and twenty firea but tbe amount received for the work, 9100, is not to be applied on repairs, anyhow. The money is to be expanded by tbe a tan in fitting up a room and making it comfortable for the wlnt*r.' 'rj

A tmrxXKX man last evening stood up In front of a saloon, and tried to warm

taking to be a register, stood over it until be was nearly troma. And but Utile loss ridiculously, and old nan, who was also drunk, tried to warm at a stow on the sidewalk, in the aftaroooa. —{tvxprem.

That's the moot singular turn for the Jim jama to take that has aver come under our observation. 80 maay imaginary man warming thews! tea by Inu^ Inary articles. Bat then, it may turn oat that tbe writer of tbe paragraph has not yet'bought hi* winter drawers, and thus be accounted fbr. Foot Step! ^fg!

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Johnny find his girl have made it up.

Miss Mattle Mack has returned from Areola. Owen Taller is at tbe Terre Haute House. ('apt. Ftord and wife of CincinnaJti^re. turned home this week. I

A. J. Crawford left this week for Iowa on a short business trip. I 8. 8. Early, of Baltimore, is registered at the Terre Haute House. 1

Ernest Hendricb is bsck In his old place at Wilson Bros^sndJHunity's. Clsude Msthews has been called to Ohio by tbe serious Illness of a relative.

Mr. John Moore, a well knowu Chicago sgont for Brazil ooal is in tho city.

Miss Fsnnle J. Kellogg will sing at the Opera House, Dumber 3d and 4th. Jacob H. Ilager is about again, apparently but little tbe worse for his recent attack.

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George Allen and Mr. Carey MilTerof Indianapolis, spent Sunday and Monday in this city.

Mr. J. M. Klnman has boen quite ill for tho past two weeks, but at presont is improving slowly.

Will Tuell and George F. Jonckes will make a tour through Ireland before returning home.

J. K. Gspen, the present business mansgor of the Journal, was, some years ago, city editor of the Express. ,.

Mr. Ellis, of Indianapolis, the mother of Mrs. General Chapman, is visiting Mrs.

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Fairbanks of this city.

"apt. Jonas Seeley has sold his coal mines and other property at Seeley ville, taking nearly nine thousand acres of Texas land in the trade.

Mr. Willi Hawkins has gone to St. I/mis to engage in the hotel business with his father, who has taken a house there and expects to have it open soon.

The parents of Messrs. James P. and Harry Townley, of this city, have been making them a visit this week. They reside in Cincinnati and will return home on Monday or Tuesday next.

It is rather a grave subject for remark, bnt Eugeno Bruening is very much addicted to attending fanerah^ so much so, in fact,that thoso who know him well neriously doubt his ever having missed one.

These who heard Mr. Howe's sonnon on "Newspapers" last Sunday evening, will probably bo interested in tho announcement that he will follow it up tomorrow evening with another on "Heading." ', 7

Roddick Harrell, ono of the solid men of Pike county, spont Thursday night and Friday In this city. He was on his way homo from tko meeting of the Grand I/xige of Odd Fellowst at Indlsuapolls. .V,

John E. Philips, one of the crooked whisky gangers arrested In Gibson county, was stationed here for a while. During the war he was General Hovey's Assaistant Adjutant General, lis entered the service as a lieutenant in a Petersburgh company.

One of the teacher's In IHnA ward came near entering tbe noose for life tbe other gay. Scene—third story, principal ringing tho bell, teachers talking to him, totting go suddenly, the rope entwines itself artfully around Miss Poland's neck, passing up under her chin and causing her to be lifted from her feet with a lusty cry. It was quits amusing to see tbe combs, earrings and tbe like sent in different directions across tbe ball. Tbe lady says one trial at the halter is enough for her.

Town-Talk.

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The recurrence this week of their regular annual ball, baa brought tbe police force of the dty prominently before the public, and givea ?. T. an occasion tor saying osrtain things about, and tor— and, possibly, against these guardians of tits public paaos, which It will not do them, nor anybody, any barm to bear. Whoever attended their ball, mart have been Impressed with two facta: first, that they were as intelligent and goodlooking a sat of man as wear stars anywhere and second, tint they were as polite and gentlemanly as they were good-looking. T. T. was there, aad heard many compliment* span their fine sppeamrtc* In a ball room.aod their general efficiency, outside, ss offiosrs. lie has slao beard tfami ihvorshiy spoken of on tbe strsst, by basins— man sad other*, times without number. Its has heard tham praised far thsir.eoaraga, their fli amass, their skill la Airmtag oat* crime, and thair til si tea patience and unflagging eosrgy In hunting down criminate and bringing tbeca to jostle*.

Kvsry man who iwads this orast have beard neb mentions frsqosoUy. But be must hava also heard, now sod than, lU-nalar«4 remarks afeoat theas, and anaris and sateen and ugly storisa. T. T. hsa beard tbrnateai evarylndiviun«1 member of tbe Jbim He has beard

thom accused of cowardice, trickery, laziness, drunkenness, dishonesty,—all the mean things in the whole catalogue, In fact—but he hss always taken these ehargt® with a very large grain of salt. For the charges have, hi nearly every case, been made by somebody with a grievance and the nature of such grievance was generally revealed in the course of a tew minutes conversstion, if it was not apparent at the first moment. Sometimes it is a gambler who complains, sometimes a thief sometimes it is the keeper of some one-horse desdfsll who has been sellingliqaor unlawfully, or robbing a drunken customer sometimes it is a nois3*, brawling iellow who has been arrested for fighting, or other breech of the peace sometimes a man who wants a place on the force himself and toinetimcs it is only a disappointed politician, who curoes a grudge against the officer for working agaiust him at the polls. In short:— *0 rogue e'er felt the halter draw, iS

W 1th good opinion of the I Jiw." It is impossible for a policeman to do his duty—his whole duty—without making enemies, and especially enemies among a class of people who will not besitato in tbe use of any means by which they can work him an injury. They will slander him on every possible occssion and in every possible quarter. They will tell the most Infamous lies to secure his dismissal from the force and, if necessary, swear to them. They will work persistently and incessantly to disgrace him with tbe Police Board and the council, and it isiiot to bo wondered at that very good people, hearing these ugly stories repeated from day to day, fall into the belief that he must be a very bad man.

Policemen in this city are paid two dollars and fifty eentsperday, and work seven days in the week. There are eigbtoen of them, including the Ohief. Four of thorn are "day men" and the rest go 011 duty at dark and patrcl the different wards until daylight next morning three in the First ward, and two in each of the others. Tho force is a small one as compared with that of other cities of like population with Terre Haute, but there is scarcely a more efficient one in the country, when its sine is considered. This is duo in a great measure to its being seldom changed. Each policeman is expected to know every man In his ward, and to be able to recognize him under any disguise. He is inquired to note the arrival of every no^Jbmer, and ascertainji^bere he came from/what bis business is, and all about him and if there la anything suspicious in his looks or actions, to shadow".him until ho discovers what he is up to. The arrivals and departures of noted gamblers, "sports," "confidence men," "bummers" and prostitutes, with such particulars as may be of possible use in tbo future, are carefully noted down at headquarters and kept for reference.

Tbe officers composing tbe foroo are steady, attentive and reliable and with one possible exoeptlon, strictly sober men. They are good and useful citizen* and pay their debts perhaps more promptly than almost any other class. Among them are two or three ftharp detectives, considering their experlenoe and limited field of operation, as can be found In tbe country. Of course they are not without their faults, but it is but just to remember that absolutely perfect men are not seeking situations as poliosmen at two dollars and a-half a day—at least not In Terre Haute. T. T. gets out of humor with them occasionally, beoause they assist at horse-races and tho like, and sometimes fkil to assist in enforcing city ordlnanoea because they have had no special instructions to do so but in his cooler momenta, ss at present, be desires to do tbem full justice, and hopes that everybody else will do the same.

Husks and Nubbiifs.

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ro!»cK*xn*o "ooon cmxEXs." T.T. somewhat misapprehended our remarks on political matter*. We did not Intend to convey the Idea that chronic oflloe aseking la a commendable thing In a man or that it Is not thoroughly contemptible, as it is. What we meant to say was that a man might be ambitious for political place and might make a legitimate effort to secure his election. Tbars has new been a country totally destitute of statesmen which has stood long. It will not be disputed that soma rasa bave pscuHar talents for public life and can do better •errks there titan anywhere else. What would Germany be without Btatnarck? And what would yon do with Bismarck if not pat Mm at tbe helm sf state? We cannot see any harm In a man's aspiring to a seat. In tbe Senate or to a term in the Whits Houss If becoasdeatttously beiisven be has abilities forpab* lie life and would do the country honest and bonorebla smriee in those poaitkma. Probably T. T. would not object to this. What be does otgectto is that anyone should employ on worthy and dishonest means to achieve his political end*. 80 says evary good dtisso. Bnt we most distinguish between legitlmsta cad ille­

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 20. 1875. Price Five Cents

gitimate methods in political life. Far be it from as to deride the old maxim that "the offloe should seek the man and not the man tbe office." As a general rule nothing oould be better but, like all general rules, Iv is somewhat general. It is another general rule that tbe people who get things in this world are tbe people who make some effort to get them. It is surprising how long a fellow of stainlesa character, pare purposes and universally acknowledged obi lilies is allowed to sit down in obscurity when be waits for others to givo him "a boost." Somehow or another every fellow seems more active In his own behalf than in the behalf of any other fellow. This is perhaps unfortunate but it Is truo and it is just as true, if not a little more so, in politics as in overy other thing. What is the conclriHlon? If a man wants apolitical position he mustn't be over bashful about helping himself. lie must condescend to let the fact leak out In some way and perhaps oven go farther than that. Wo do not for a momont suppose that T. T. would do so, but then maybe T. T. hasn't much political ambition "nohow."

Now it was to this legitimate and proper method of "setting things up" that we refev cd. For instance, we have in our own State two distinguished men, Senator Moiton and Governor Hendricks. They are both men of great abilities and have been much in public life. Next summer a now President will be elected. Will T. T. pretend to say that there is anything wrong or improper in either of these gentlemen aspiring to that high position Will he say there is anything wrong or improper in their using their influence with influential political and personal friends throughout the country to promote their interests in this direction? Certainly not, so long as they do not stoop to anything base and dishonorable. Yet these men might accomplish a great deal, within the bounds of the legitimate, towards advaucing their presidential prospects.

T. T. takes a rather hopeless view of the political situation. Everything is in the hands of tbe politicians, who are a bad brood and who do all manner of wicked things. They nominate the candidates not on account of moral and mental fitness but because they are "available," and the poor people have nothing left them but the choico between two evils. Now It cannot bo deniod that there is a great deal of truth in this but there is also a great deal in it that is not true. Very excellent and proper men are frequently nominated for office by ono or even both parties. Take tho County and State offices in Indiana for examplo and you will find that they are generally' filled by competent and honest officials. Yet these officers were nominated in the usual way. T. T. ought not to go any farther than the truth will carry him. Would it be too much to say that the majority of the men nominated by political conventions are men who do not steal or defraud when they get into office? There are exc* *tions, but tbey arc the exceptions surely. And as we said In our former article, national affairs have on the whole been administered with at least tolerable honesty and intelligence.

But even admitting things to be as bad as they are sometimes represented wboae fcult Is it and what is the remedy? T. T. says: "We need nothing to make our government the best of all governments except to take it oat of tbe bands of self-seeking snd offioe-seeking politicians and to place in power those whom the people regard as their best men." Just here the chief trouble arises. The apathy of the people more than anything else breads corruption in our political system. If tbe mass of the people were and always had been prompt in tbe discharge of their political dutiea public aflhira would not now be so completely in the hands of dishonest and unscrupulous men. It is Idle to suppose ss to hope that If honest citissns desert tbe political machine it will not Call into the hands of tbs politidana. It is bound to be run by aomebody. If good citissue will not take part in ward meetings and conventions and try to nominate "thair bast men" It strikes us tbe fault Is with themselves rather than with the politidana or anybody else. Tbe very men who refuse to sttend political convention are the first to complain of tbe can did a tea nominated. Thereto eocnething to be said on both aidea of this question. Is it that ths class of people who are embraced in the term "good cltlsens9' find It vastly easier to somplaln wbea the thing is done than to take bold and help to do It? It looks vary much like it. Politics oould be purified If pure men would take hold of tbe political maehioery aad not be^o much aftald of getting their hands a little greased aad bssmnttad. If this government ever fells it will fell through lbs apathy MM) inactivity of tbe "good dtiaenff" who display tbsJr vaunted goodness principally by neglecting their polities! dutiee aad letting bamsaam and scalawag* get control of tbe government machinery. Let T. T. turn his pan against this class for a Uraa sodsee whether be cannot spa them up to a of their daty.

People and Things.

A Virginia editor apologisea for a skip of three weeks by saying that be was very sick and didnt want to spoil bis chances for Heaven by writing any pufSk

The fact that six members elect of Congress have died daring the year will hardly deter the thousands who want to go to Washington from becoming Congressional candidatee.

A butcher at Galeaburg, Illinola, named Frank Oeetrelcber, has been arrested for cutting the eyes out of yoke of cattle that he could not induoe to enter tho slaughter houae.

A man never gets thoroughly disgusted with love's young dream until ho has given a girl a ring, and, three days after, discovers that she has been to a jeweler to ascertain its value.

Mr. Moody once gave us a salary of from $1,200 to fl,500 a year in Boston to go on a mission among tbe rough boys of Chicago. Mr. Moody was a rough boy himself until be was about seventeen years old.

Boston people won't eat any kind of peanut but the Afrlcau Importation. The African nut when classically shucked, is supposed to afford greater nutriment to the intellect than tbe native Virginia bivalve. ,4

ANew York merchant has been detected in measuring 34 inches to tho yard. Two inches is nothing on a towel, but it tells heavily on a woollen shlrl when the thermometer drops down.— [Detroit Free Press.

You appear in anew role, don't you, old follow was what the impertinent young man remarked as he dug a cockroach out of his fresh bread at the breakfast table. A roseate flush permeated the landlady's pallid cheek.

Let no young man evor permit it to enter his mind that economy is meanness, or that it is to bo despised, It is ho who saves that can afford to give and nothing is mean which is honest, and goes to establish one's independence.

Two hundred thousand Hindoos were converted last year." Thus roads a newspaper Item, and yet the reaidents of Terre llaute go right along spelling socks with an "x," and religious people think nothing of it.—[Cincinnati Sat. Nigbt.

All sorts of suggestions for the Centennial are being offered. The latest is that the Southern societies that celobrnto Mardi Gras bo present In Philadelphia, and show the northern people what a Mardi Gras spectuclo is. Why not rake up tho old Sons of Malta order and give an exhibition of its mysteries?

It is related that a New Hampshire minister recontly port rayed tbo history ef Jonah alter the following style: "I seem to see Jonah passing along tbo road to Nineveh I seem to seo him enter the ticket office, buy his ticket, and pay for it I seem to seo him walk upon tbe vessel I seem to see them lift their snchor, snd tbe stately ship moves grandly out npon the broad Atlantic."

Mr. Williams will answer to his name seven times when the roll of the next Congress la called. The patronymic Harris appears on tbe Hat three tiinea, and the following names are twice recorded Bagley, Bsker, Brown, Barchard, Caldwell, Cannon, Clarke, Hamilton, Hewitt, Jones, Landers, Mackey, Phillips, Rellley, Robinson, R«ss, Smith, Townsend, Vance, Walker, Wallace, Wilson and Wood.

A gentleman on Broadway noticed a pigeon entangled In some string on tree so that it could not extrioata Itself. A number of boys were throwing stones st It, but tbe kind man rebuked tham for their cruelty and drove them away. Then ha got a ladder and tenderly took tbe Crigbtened, fluttering little creature in his band, snd tbe next dsy he observed that It made one of ths beet pies be had ever eaten.—{Norwich Bulletin.

Conversions are the order of the day. Last year they wouldn't allow Adirondack Murray's "Perfect Horse" a stall In tbs library at Sonthbridge, Mass., because it waan't a flt book for a minister to write. Now they are going to get tbe aforesaid Marray to give tbe address at the dedication of a new block of bnlldlnga. Somebody who read tbe

Perfect Horse" ssid thst, minister or not, the author was a perfect brick. Perhaps this is the reason of his being selected to deliver tbe building address.

TVS Spiritual (dentist grasps the

known—tbe breaking up of fomJJlus, the flooding of tb« world lib slop, and the mental and often moral dlslnof all who hare much to do tji it. It baa occasioned the Insanity of Robert Dais Owen, and later still tbs Utter overthrow of Gerald Massey's mind. ftfaaMj was known as a fair poet who possibly had future before him. Ha be«am* intarAted In Spiritualism, and when bs lectured In this country a year or two ago his friends began to fear for his sanity. Mace his return to England trie Intellect baa utterly brttkan down and he is an undoubted lunatic. These are specimen fruit* from which tbs Strfritttsl Scientist woald bave tbe world Jodga of Spiritualism, and it la from these thst the world will uodoubt•dljrjodp. ...

Feminitems. --j

When a woman will pay three dollars for a bird on her hat, and observe Thanksgiving with a pork dinner, wo can have no fear of art dying oat.,

Two women can talk to each other the length of a pew, without being beard by any man right behind or right ia front of tbem, and yet clearly understand each other—so wonderfully expressive Is a woman's month.

A photographer aaya that at eighteen a girl will sit twelve tlmea for a photograph and then bo dissatisfied. At forty the same person will sit onee and take the picture evon if tbo artist pointa out three or four defects.

A fashionable woman's clothes weigh twenty-four pounds, exclusive of hat. Airs and rubbers, while a man's outtlt hardly goes over fifteen pounds. This Is a free oountry, however, and any woman Is at liberty to carry as much as a mule can draw if she wants to. St

Kettledrums are to bo revived under the meaningless title ol "Blue Teas," a style of entertainment said to have been introduced at Newport by Mrs. Julia Ward llowe. Russian "samovars" will also be included among tbe social dissipations of tho ensuing fashionable season.

A woman in Minneapolis recently as* tonished a crowd who were trying to start a balky horse by thrusting a handful of dust and sand into tho animal's mouth, exclaiming, "There, he'll go now." To the surprise of overy one, the horse started immediately without showing the least stubbornness or oxcltement.

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Tho women of the Karen tribos in Chinese Burtnah wear riugs of thick brass wire bent round tho wrist and elbow, and again round tho knoo and ankle, confining thom so in every niotlon that they oannot possibly squat down on the ground in the usual Oriental fashion, or kneel to pray as tho men do, while In walking their feet mako two separate tracks afoot or so apart.

In theSan Francisco jail ia a girl only sixteen years old. She is cxoesslvoly shy and demure, bluslies wbeu looked at by visitors, and faints "when drunkards are brought blseding and yelling into the prison. Her laoe ia dcllcate and expressive of retiring, modosty Ityid gentleness. Her name is Annotto Gillard, and she is awaiting trial for stabbing a man four times with big butcher knife, and then smashing his skull with a brick.

Lady lawyers are coming to tlio front Let them come say wo. ('hicngo boasts of two Mrs. Myra Bradweil and Mlas IIulet. Michigan is similarly blessed, our city contributes ono to Indiana, and Iowa does not propaso to be left behind. The Dubuquo Herald, of lato date, noticos the admission of Mrs. Ellen J. Foster to the practloe of law in the Supreme Court of Iowa—the first honor of that kiud accorded to a lady In the state. The lsdy's debut before the above tribunal was very creditable to her. It appears that she presented her argument in a clear, conciae and ahlo manner, ahowing herself mistress of the sitnstion in all of Its legal bearings. Tbo Herald says her manner upon the platform was dignified, assy and ladylike, snd ths effects were certainly pleasing, snd thst tbe Dubuqae bar is disposed to take kindly to lawyers of tbe femalo persuasion. Ilor husband is slao lawyer at Clinton, Iowa, and both the husband snd wife are partners in the firm of Foster A Rice. Mra. Foster is said to be a logical, learned, and penuaalvo advocate.

Somebody writes thst it is too frequently tbe case thst women Isy the cause of tbelr failure in working to their sex instead of tbelr own errors, and thus they are prevented from making any real progress. Tbey are apt to think that every rebuff tbey meet with Is offered them because tbey are women, and therefore the natural victims of injustice. It is so much plessanter to have imsginsry ensmiss than to recognise one's own Incapacity for the task undertakoft that the delusion ia always maintained. In this way women will persist in attributing to personal hostility what is really caused by lack of talent and industry. If woman falls as a writer, a lecturer, an actress, a dramatic reader, her indiscreet friends are apt to assume thst she fails because she Is a woman. But, in feci, in these days, her sex helps quite ss mad) ss *t binders her In most or all of these pursuits and the chances are that where she fails a man of the same qualifications would have felled quite as badly. There ought to exist among women, and among men also, more courageous spirit In these matters, aad at the ssme time more humility. It was said of Hayden, the painter, that "If he bad taken jm much trouble to paint good pictures, ss be did to eon vinos the public that be had printed them, be would bave died a suicide, on account of his failure." If people are not inclined to value woami's work, 1st tbem make it of sach anqoestkmsblc worth that It cannot b* resisted.