Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 April 1876 — Page 6

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Magnificent line of New Styles 75c, 85c, 90c, $1 00 and upwards. The well known popularity and great wear of our line^of

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is attested by all who hare tried them They are the best goods for the money now sold.

Our New prices 90 $1 00, SI 15, $1 25, $1 37}, $1 50, $1 65, $1 75, $2 00 and upward.

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A choice aassorttnent of Plain, Plai, and Striped Worsted Goods at 12-lc, 15c 20c, 25c, 30c, 35c, 40c, 50c and upwards.

ThtN i» ihe Eraol Low Prices.

Spring Calico* oc, 6*c, 7c, 8c. Spring Percales, 10c and 12Ac. Hill and Lonsdale Muslins, 10c. New York Mills and Wamsutta, 12Jc. Best Yard Wide Fine Brown, 9c Best Yard Wide Heavy Brown, 9c

New Bargains every day. HDBKBC ROOT & Co.

IMPORTED Toilet Soaps! WE

have ]u*t rvo*»lved DIRKtT FROM THK I.wPORTElW, lino antortment French. English and German Toilet Boat*, from the most celebrated manufacturers, which we ofler AT SAME PRICE as is paid for ordinary brands. These are much finer In texture, MoltK FKAURANT ANI) LASTING IN PEKFLME, and will wear twice as long as those ®t American manufacture.

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1ERRBHAUTE, APRILS, 1878

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OUR PAPER.

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TIIERK is certain sentiment about tbd idea of planting Centennial trees this year, that wo like much, and we sincerely wish it could be generally acted upon all over the oountry. It could be so easily done it is so shuplo a thing to plant a tree, and oosts so little to do It, that it wonid be a pity if it wore not. dooe. It Is a thing to Interest every man, woman and child in tbe oountry and to hold their interest as long as the trees grow. Trees planted on this one hundredth anulversary of American independence would be watched by all with peculiar interest, and he would be very ugly follow indeed who would wantonly injure one. In the course of a few year* they would add Incalculably to the appearance and comfort of every town, village and farm bouse in all the land. Trees, in a civilized oommnaJty, are evidenc^of good taste, refinement and culture.* In thiacase they would be all of that and something more. They ought to be planted—one for overy member of every temily, and It should make no difference to thoee who plant them whether they own the land on which they are planted or not. Plant the trees for the general benefit, as well as your own.

IT MTW* some day become a question ta this oountry whether It would not be better to provide against fires than to provide tor extinguishing them. Of course firo proof buildings aa compared with those of tbe ordinary oharacter, are very expansive, but an eflkieai system of water works and a large paid fire department are alao very expensive, and when one figures np tbe stnpendoua amounts paid for Insurance, and in the way of taxes to support fire department and water works, be is rather disposed to tbe belief that be would be better protected If all tbe money so expended were employed in making bis property secure ajpdnst damage (Tom Are In tbe

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DON'T this line loek familiar?—"A. H. Stephen* Is convalescent." eaeeaBssssnss

NEITHER Cincinnati nor Ixiuisvlllo will hold an Exposition this year.

MARK TWAIH has a new book in press at Hartford—"The Adventure of Tom Sawyer."

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THE rise In the lower Mississippi is doing immense damage to plantations bordering on the river.

THK entire volume of fractional currency wears out and has to be replaced on an average every six months.

A ooon many papers have already expressed a willingness to insert death notices of base-ball playiats free this season.

THE Senate on Tuesday refused to confirm the nomination of Richard A. Dana to be Minister to England, by a vote of 17 to 36.

THE articles of impeachment against ex-Secretary Belknap were presented to the Senate by the House Impeachment managers on Tuesday.

THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: "The prospect here is that rents, which were lower last year than the year be fore, will be lower this year than last.' Thore is a general declining tendency in rents in all of the larger cities,

IT has been suggested that there will be a strong disposition on the part of the people to hoard silver, when it is issued, and that "change," consequent ly, will be very scarce. If there should be a tendency.that way at first it will not probably last long.

IN Brooklyn, in order to economise, is proposed to cut off tbe use of 3,000 street gas lamps. This, the Union says, will save the city over $120,000 per year. It would seem from that that gas costs more in Brooklyn than it does here, |28 per post is the price here.

THE House of Representatives on Monday adopted the articles of impeachment against ex-Secretary Belknap as reported from the judiciary Committee and elected the seven managers, as agreed upon in caucus last week. The date for the trial has not yet been fixed

IT is said that bed-quilts enough have been offered for exhibition at the Cen tennial to cover the whole State of Ohio, and the Commissioners have positively refused to receive another one. This will be a severe disappointment to millions of ladies who have failed to get in early.

IF anything could persuade us that dueling is a good thing it would be news like that which came this week from Texas—tho announcement that two duelists had fallen dead at the third firfe. There has also been a duel in Campbenl county, Virginia, in which both tl|o principals were mortally wounded, it would probably be as well to let dueling go on for awhile yet.

ANEW play called "Inflation," writ ten by D. R. Locke, ("Nasby") wis brought out in Buffalo last week, contains all the well-known Confederal

Roads characters and is said to be vorv amusing, not a .play of sentiment but one of pure, unadulterated fun and satire from beginning to end. Mr. Jen nings, who plays tho part of Nasby, is one of the best comedians on tho stage, and it seems probable that "Inflation1' will have a run.

ACCORDING to the American Manufacturer, Wallace «fc Sons, of Ansonia, Conn., must be tho boss magnet manufacturers of this country. It says that they have occasionally produced a magnet capable of lifting a locomotive from the track and that one they made a short tlmeago had a lifting capacity of 80,000 pounds. They have ono now in phcessof construction which will surpass all proceeding ones, and which is Intended forthe centennial exhibitionintended to draw a crowd, probably.

IK tho earth was not so thoroughly saturated with water, wo might yot, with favorable weather, have what Is called an early spring, but 1*6 probabilities are tbat farmers win be little later than usual in getting in theiVcorn and oats. Tho roads are bad yet and must for some time remain bad, and this keeps business back. But when settled weather and good roads come, wo believe tbat everybody will seo brisk times, and the beginning pf what we have, all been praying for so long.

Mn. W. J. JANUARY, of Minonk, Illinois, read with a great deal of Interest Ben. Hill's eulogy upon the merciful manner in which tbe prison pen at Andersonville was managed. Ho went into Andersonville prison weighing about 170 pounds, and, after feeding there a long time, he came out, weighing exactly forty-five pounds. Neither of his fttet was included in these figures. Both bad rotted entirely off four inches above bis ankles before he bade farewell to tbe fragrant towu. He now weighs 180 pounds* iC||

THB diaturbanoes In Mexico have as sutned such a formidable shape that It will probably be all the Government can do to prevent a successful revolution. General Diaa, the leader of tbe Insurrection, Is very popular with the people and besides tbst is a man of ability and courage. He has already seised Matamoraa, and a portion of tbe Government troops, among them General Toledo, have accepted positions under his command. There are good reasons for believing that tbe struggle will be frr'iar'f'l

lajfiftE HAtrTB SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

WHEN Newton Booth waa elected to the Senate from California, it was certainly expected that be would take a conspicuous position in tbat body and it la a serious disappointment to his friends that since he took bis seat he has seldom been heard from, and then only wbon voting with the Democracy.

UP to Tuesday, six thousand nine hundred car loads of goods bad been entered for the Centennial. Just think how many that is. To receive them all would require delivery at the rate of a ear load a minute for eleven days of ten working hours each. And still the entries aro going on. though the 19th lust, has been positively fixed upon as tho last day of entry.

SOME financial genius in Syracuse New York, proposes a sensible plan for wiping out tho national debt. He sug gests that 500,000 men pay down f2,»00 each and so on down to f5, and be done with it. It is a serious question whether that would not be the choapestand most sensible way. Tbe Express' plan of impressing money might be resorted to if tbe capitalists didn't come promptly to time. ________________

THE storm of last week showed the efficiency of tho signal service very conspicuously. From a single station on the New England coast comes a report that tho exhibition of tho storm signal enabled one hundred and thirteen vessels to put to sea in time to escape bo fore the galejstruck the coast. This Govern me nt never made a better investment than when it established tho signal service.

FROM present indications the Black Hills will be the most thickly populated portion of the West, this summer. Charitable peoplo may as well begin making their arrangements to contribute money with which to bring the poor fools out. It would bo base flattery to call that region a glittering gilt-edged fraud. It is a man trap. r,

Pnor. C. V. REILLY, the State entomologist of Missouri, in the course of a recent lecture in St. Louis on "Insects" said that the annual loss to farmers, caused by insects, averaged $100,000,000 a year that the chinch bug alone, during 1874, caused a loss of $30,000,001) in the Western States, of which f19,000,000 were lost In Missouri. Prof. Reilly estimated the losses by locusts (grasshoppers) during the last three years, at 150,000,000. si

THE Indianapolis Journal has epitaphs on Pendleton and Hendricks. The former is said to have "died in Washington, March 10, 187G, of enlargement of the pockct, complicated by ossification of the conscience." Of Hendricks we are told: "Daring most of his life he took an active interest in politics, and was several times elected to office, though the record does not show why."

THE army headquarters were, according to General Sherman, removed from Washington to St. Louis on account of the vicious organization of Washington society and the expense of living there but the newspaper correspondents say that it was on account of difficulties between Secretary Belknap and General Sherman and that the removal of Belknap having disposed of tho difficulties, the headquarters will return to the National Capital.

THE programme announced for the opening of the Centennial will include "Tho Grand March," by Richard Wagner Invocation of the Divine Blessing, by J. G. Wbittier Original Cantata, by Sydney Linier of Georgia, and Dudley Buck of Cincinnati Presentation by the President of the commission to the President of tbe United States an address by General Grant, in which he will declare the exhibition open. Tho fiagf will then be unfurled, the artillery will fire a salute, the chimes and bells will ring, and 000 voioos will render Handel's "Hallelujah" chocus. At a signal from the Prealdent the enordious engine will be put in motion and t!be exhibition opened to tbe world.

THB story of Admiral Farragnt's being lashed to the rigging during the naval action In Mobile Bay Is provoking discussion again and ia liteely to have all Its pathos removed WfSre the Bublicgets through with it. Firftt (km# Admiral Joukins with an emphatic denial that Farragut was lasbed to the rigging at all. Follows a sailor on the flag ship, who states that he himself lashed Farragut to the shrouds without the great Admiral's knowledge. And uow comoa Page, tbe artist, who declares that Ffcrragnt told him about tbe tying and stated that be did it so that his body might be savqd for his family In CM» he were killed. As Page has tbe bit of with which the Admiral showed bow the tying waa dona, he may bo considered "ahead."

THK New York World has beeri aumming up the debts of our ckics. Mince 1867 the debiof Allegheny City ha« Increased 600 per cent. Albany 230 per cent. Baltimore60 per cant. Boston 113,900,000 to 000,000—taxes in proportion. Chicago has multiplied her debt by three and taxes by two. Cleveland has quadrupled $ Detroit and Loulivllle doubled Milwaukee multiplied by two and two-thirds. Newark ewes fQ,GOO,000 New Orleans 122,000,000. New York has quadrupled Philadelphia doubled. Portland* baa increased by three, and Providence by seven. Richmond owes Urioe as much. St. Louis has increased her debt from 15,500,000 to 110,600,000. Rochester has inereaasd by five, and Pittsburgh by four and a half.

Do** pKftfto, Emperor of Brasil. Is expected to arrive In this country about the 1Mb Inst.

A PABTY of well-known scientists have been excavating and exploring the mounds st Spoonville, Mich., which were supposed to conceal the remain* of pre-hiatorio inhabitanta of that region. They found human skulls, pottery, copper utensils, hatcheta, needles, et& It was the unanimous verdict that tbe articles are at least two thousand years old. Further exploratious are to be made, and the scientists are of the opinion tbat tbe discoveries will prove the richest of tbe kind on this continent.

THB last fashionable fantasy is singing quadrilles. All the dancers sing the same tune and time, or r.re supposed to do so, dancing to their own melody. Tbe rehearsals are said to bo rather god fun, the master of the ceremonies leading tbe tune, and setting it by a tuningfork. How waltzes are to be managed remains to be seen. How charmingly suggestive would some airs be: fancy an "intending" couple swinging round to "Come Rest in this Bosom." This fashion bids fair to be the rage this season.

A CHAIR of Chinese language and literature, the first in the country, has been established at Yale college, and Dr. S. Wells Williams, of Utica, New York, who was for many years secretary of the American legation in China, and who is said to be a perfect master of the Chinese tongue, has accepted the professorship. We bavo often thought what a grand thing it would be to live long enough to be able to read the lettering on a tea-chest. Some of us may resize that wish yet.

THE office of United States Treasurer does not seem to be a very desii one. Under the existing law, all losses by theft or otherwise have to made good by the Treasurer, and as he lusn'ttlje privilege of selecting his own subordinates, it is an exceedingly risky business. Treasurer New has already used up more than his salary in balancing his accounts and is anxious to retire, but it seems to be rather difficult to find a successor for him. The appointment has beentende:od to three different gentlemen, bnt none could secure, under the circumstances, the requisite fl,008,COO bond. Tho salary is f6,500.

CENTENNIAL tree planting grows in popular favor. The KtAsas Legislature at its recent session, by concurrent resolution, requested tho Executive te designate a day to be known as "Arbor Day," and to recommend a proper and general observance of the same throughout the State. Governor Osburn accordingly issued a proclamation setting apart Saturday, April 1, as such and inviting all the good peoplo ol the State to devote tbat day or a portion thereof, to the work of beautifying the country by the planting of trees and shrubbery, especially commending to tbo popular care the streets, highways and public reservations of every character. The proclamation was more faithfully complied with than Gubernatorial proclamations usually are and the suggestion occurs that it would be well to establish "arbor day" as a spring holiday all over tho oountry substituting it in New England for tbe antiquated "fast day."

HO W-1 WOMAN READS A NkTVSPA PER. Somebody says tbat ono who will watch a woman read a newspaper will get somo new ideas on the characteristics of tho gentler sex. She takes it up hurriedly and begins to scan it over rapidly, as though she was hunting some particular thing but she is not. She is merely taking in the obscure paragraphs which she half-believes arte put in out of the way places for the solo purpose of keeping her from seeing them. As sbo finishes each ono hor oountenance brightens with the comforting reflection that she has outwitted the editor and the whole race of men, for she cherishes a vague belief that newspapers are tho enemies of her sex, and editors its chief oppressors. Shie never reads the headlines, and the huge telegraph heads she never even sees. Sbe is greedy for local news, and devours it with the keenest relish. Marriages and deaths are always intereeftrg reading to her, and advertlacments aie exciting and stimulating. She Cares but fltt|o ^r]|-rintad Jokea, uaTcs* they reieet ffd^tile upcfi men. anl thfn she deligkts In tbem, and never forgtfes them. Sho pays particular attention to anything enclosed by quotation marks, and conltideni it rather better authority than anything first-banded. The columns it) which tbe editor l|irs his opinions In leaded hifalutin sho rarely reads. Views are of no importance in her estimation,1ut facts are everything. She generally reads the poetry. 6 be don't always care for it, but she makes a practice of reading it, because she thinks she ought to. She roads stories, and sketches, snd paragraphs indiscriminately, and believes every word of them. Finally, after she has read all sbe intends to, she lays tbe paper down with an air of disappointment, and a halfcontemptuous gesture, which says very plainly that she thinks all newspapers miserable failures, but is certain that if sbe had a chance she could make the only perfect newspaper the world ha& ever seen.

CUTTING DOWN SALARIES. [The Nation.] There oould probably be no belter illustration of tbe darkened state of tbe pubtkf mind about the causes of enr nreeent political disease than tbe approbation with which the present rage for cutting dqwn tbe salaries of public officers is regarded, as a measure of economy. par from being a measure of eeonotny it Is one more step In tbe proeess bv which a middle wall of partition has been erected between tbe honesty, capacity snd energy of tbe American pee.ple and the government It dearly love® •ud would Cain be proud of.

disposed of the first robin: A robin comcs flitting clear op from the south, \Andon the limb sitting

He op«ns his mouth. He *ees nary spring, Catches tuberculosis, lu attempting to sing-

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He hesitates, linger*, Weeps, fli udders and sIk^s, Hlows hisnosAon his finger*# Keels over and dies.

XO POOR MEN NEED A PPL Y. [From tin-GraphicJ Ono of the Boston ministers has had the courage to attribute muchcf the dishonesty of public life to tho number of poor men ele«ted to offluo. There isL truth in this which our peoplo seem utterly unwilling to appreciate. Tho salaries are generally only abool half largo« enough to support a public officer in good style, ana if he has no private fortune to a raw from he Is constantly tempted to make up the deficiency as. best he can. So long as tho people aro unwilling to pay puulio ofilcers enough to keep them honest they sahonld elect of ti I

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Do not laugh at tho drunken man reeling through the street, however ludicrous tho sight maybe just stop to think. He is going home to somo tender heart tbat will throb with intense agony, some doting mother, perhaps, who will grieve over the downfall of hor once sinless boy or it may bo a fond wife, whose hesrt will almost burst with

^rief as she views the destruction of her or it may be a loving sister who will shed bitter tears over tno degrada- a tionofher brother, shorn of his manliness and self-respect. Rather drop a tear in silent sympathy with those hearts E so keenly sonsitive and tender, yot so: proud and loyal that they can not ac-1 cept sympathy tendered them either in, word, look or act, although it might fall upon their cruabed and wounded hearts as refreshingly as the summer dow upon the withering plant. "c

A IIUGE BLOCS OF SIL VER. [New York Sun.] The City of Havana brouglst to Now York en Thursday a block of puro sil-i ver weighing 4^200 pounds, worth $G4,000 in gold. Tbo block is a foot in» diameter, and has six sides each threo feet long. It is perfectly smooth and

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highly polished. mejillo & Co., bankers of the City of? have consigned it to! of 9 Gold Slip the Mexican ducts at the Centennial. It was exuib-

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itod at tbo Mexican exhibition in Mexico last year. The silver forming this immense block is said to havo boon dug from the Real Potosi, one of the oldest mines in Mexico. The treasure lies in a hexagonal box in tho hold of tho steamship City of Havana. The purser of the Havana says that the silver'olock, in its box, lay a day and a night unguarded on a wharf at Vera Cruz. "It wouldn't stay long on a wharf in New York," be added. Tho silver is to bo! examined by the United States Apprais-. er to-morrow, and then it I* to be do-

osited in the New York Safo Deposit vaults to await orders from the Mexican Centennial Commissioner,

SOME MODERN SA YINGS. Honesty is tbe best policy, unless you can get about $100,000 and a settlement at fifty per cent.

Honor thy father and mother, particularly about circus time, when you don't know whore to raise fifty cents.

Never run in debt when you can avoid it. It is better to go snubbing. aronnn in a broadcloth coat than to bo in debt for a suit of Scotch mixed.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Borrow his plow, hoe or horse whenever you can, but if ho wants to bo#row yours tell him that you ore sorry, but you were just going to use them yourself.

Be guarded in your conversation. There are times wbon you may freely express your opinion on a political candidate, but you had better wait until his friends are over in the next county visiting* ,,

Jtospect old age* If you have a maiden aunt thirty-three years old, and she is passing herself off for a girl of twenty, there is no excuse fbr you to expose her. $ The more you respect her age and keep still aboat it, the more she will respect you.

Remember that appearances aro often dooeivfos. Many a pale, thin young ladywiU eat more corned, beef than a blacksmith. Because you find her playing tbo piano in the parlor it is no sign that her mother is not at tbe corner grocery running in debt for a peck of potatoes. v*'»

ENGLISH LAND O WNERS. I From the London Spectator.} Whatever else is uncertain about the poekmn of English landlord?, this one faet is certain: Seven hundred and ten in iv id a re an a the soil of England and Wales, exclusive of takes, roads, rivers, London waste f. spates and crown property, and within a fraction ol a fourth of the entire geo-, graphical area of the country.. And those seven hundred and ten own also,: immediately or in reversion, one-seventh ol the enti«*e rental ot tho kingdom, a proportion, whioh, if London oould be included would* be very greatly increased. This is exclusive, be it remembered, of almost all mineral property, which fn 1873 was not at to or

Mr. Bright was undoubtedly wrong in ,believing thst the Englishmen have been divorced from the soil, for a million heads of families are free-holders 21),000 own no re than an acre, and 43,000 possesses more,than 100 acres bat he was as nndoub&dly right in believeing that a most limited number of gentleman—less than the congregation of an ordinary west end chapel—of WWG—HUIG more thftn h-iif, for example, Mr. Haweis' audience on a fall dav less by three hundred than the members of parlament in both hounea— wield still an enormous territorial and political influence. They own a fourth of the kingdom—more, probably, than the same class possess in any country in Europe, unless it be Hungary or Bohe. mia. $

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A pHtwiciAN boasted at dinner that he cured bis own bams, when one of his nests remsrked: "Doctor, I'd sooner your ham than your patient."

Ir you would bo known and not know, vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known, live In a city. '-l'n r-