Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 July 1876 — Page 1

THE MAIL

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SECOND EDITION.

on A, THE LOST WIFE. In this issue of The Mail is given the conclusion of this interesting story. We believe that it has given more general satisfaction than any serial we have published. Arrangements are being made for the commencement shortly of another story, that will surpass In interest the one just closed. Tn the meantime each issue of The Mail will contain two or three of the best short stories, together with the usual miscellany, news of the day, events of home, etc., making up the cheapest and best reading that can be obtained. We hope that all the new readers who became acquainted with The Mail with the opening chapters of "Ora, the Lost Wife," will continue as permanent readers. Wo shall give in the course of the year at least three serial stories—alone worth the price of subscription—besides over one hundred short stories. The story department is made a prominent feature ot The Mail, and great care is exercised in the selection of the best class of Action—that which has a pure and healthy tone.

Town-Talk.

LOCAL POLITICS.

It is almost too early to say much about the political situation here. The activo business of the campaign will not probably begin for some time yet. Iloth parties are well organized, however, and both reasonably confident. The slight discontent that

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nominations—and which is inseperable from such always—has subsided, and both Republicans and Democrats now support their respective candicates very heartily. Thero has been some little greenback talk, and the Express has gathered a little squad of sore heads about it who declare their purpose to put a county ticket in the field, but the movement has no particular significance so far as its influenoe on the coming elections is concerned and here in town, is only regarded as an absurd joke. People in the countxy who do not know the character of the men oomposlng it are excusable for feeling surprised at its apparent strength. To bear one of these rag baby lunatics talk is like listening to a spiritualist talk spiritualism. You dare not dispute a word he says if you ever want to get rid of him, and as he has nothing on earth to do but to talk, and talks incessantly and very load and never pays the slightest attention to what you say in reply, a modest man is overwhelmed by him, as it were, and feels like there was about a thousand of him. In this way people in the country may have gotten an eroneous impression of the strongth of the so called "independent greenback" party.

People here aro not surprised nor deceived. The Express, though nominally a Republican paper, has long been hostile tt tho Republican party, and seeing what it thought a good chance to acquire a little notoriety and at the same time cripple the party enough to elect the Democratic county ticket, it, with a grand flourish of trumpets, formally withdrew, imagining the eyes of the whole country was on it. As a sensation it can hardly be called a success, and If it was to do over, it would hardly be done in altogether the same way. It has been about the worst case of "flash in the pan" that has occurred aiuce the war. "hU

Democratic papers and politicians have acted upon the belief that the real parport of the Express' diss

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elect Oel. McLean, the Democratic nominee tor Congress, and to defeat General Hunter, his Republican opponent, and with that view, have done all they could to enonurage it. This Is not an unreasonable belief, as it Is well known that fully three Republicans have joined this greenback movement to every Democrat bat the rank and file of the Express' party know of no such bargain. They are simply deluded by the dishonest oatit of such greenback papers as the Express, the promise of offloe or some other equally unworthy thine.

Bat whatever may be their reasons for making geese of themselves, or the Express' for inducing them to do it, will make bat little difference In the end. They are too insignificant In numbers, If in no other respect, to eat any figure in election times. It wenld be quite safe to predict that three months from MOW members of the "Independent greenback" party, In this ooanty at least, will be considerably eoaro»r than hens' teeth. They will be aoaroe because tboee who are after ofltoe will discover that it cannot be got In that way, and those who are honest will discover their error In respect to the currency

question and baye th^ manhood to acknowledge it. THK MOONLIGHT PICNICS. 5 ,•

Last summer there was a series of balls given at night in the small grove adjoining the Pikes Peak grocery, in the south of town. They were, in fact,given by the owner of that establishment, who is one of the licensed saloonkeepers against whose character the Commissioners are never able to find any shadow of wrong. They were attended by the vilest elements of both sexes, thieves, drunkards, prostitutes and pimps. They were a disgrace, a publio nuisance, and a source of great danger to the city. The orgies practised there wore of a character to shock even the most debased. People living in the Neighborhood wore disturbed of their rest, night after night, and compelled to listen to the vilest oaths, the filthiest obscenity, drunken cries and blows and Bhrieks of pain, and were kept in actual terror for their own personal safety and that of their property. Foolish young men ventured there to "see the sights" and were inade drunk, robbed, and in some cases beaten almost to death. Young girls, unaware of the disreputable character of the place, were lured there, outraged and ruined. No night passed in which there was not more or less of fighting and somebody dangerously hurt. It was a very nursery and hot bed of viciousness and crime. Without a single exception it was the worst place that has ever existed in Terre Haute. •.

Arrangements liave Been made lo carry on these "moonlight picnics" again this summer. John W. Fisher, the pro prietor, advertises in a city paper that "There will be a moonlight dance at Pikes Peak grove (this) Saturday eve ning, July I5th, 1876." "Busses will start from corner of Sixth and Main at half-pa)t seven or eight o'clock." He also announces that he "keeps on hand beer and pure liquors also tobacco and cigars," and the city editor of the paper in which the advertisement appears alludes to the coming "moonlight dance" twice, editorially, and assures his readers that the "feature of the evening" will be the "moonlight dance at the Pikes Peak saloon."

Thus advertised, Mr. Fisher will doubtless have a crowd. What kind of a crowd it will be can only be conjectured from what is known of the kind of crowds that have usually assembled there. There is no reason to think it will be of a different order from those of last summer. It is therefore right that decent people should be warned of what Mr. John W. Fishor is undertaking, and that Mr. John W. Fisher himself should be warned that a repetition of last summer's infamy will not be permitted in this community. Of course no person with any self-respect, or who makes the least pretensions toward respectability, will think for a moment ol attending such a placc, knowing its character. Those who are ignorant shonld be warned by those who do know. The mayor and chief of police have their eyes on Mr. John W. Fisher's place and will not hesitate to perform their duty when the proper moment arrives. .4sSia

THK Indianapolis News of Monday contains this item concerning the attempted snicido of a ci-devant Terre Hautean:

Last evening L. H. vSyphers seen red a choice cigar at Bryan's drug store, opposite tho union depot, lighted It properly, and while the smoke wasffracofully curling upon the sidewalk, drew his little pistol, aimed at his heart and fired. The nail struck a rib, glanced down inward, and inflicted a wound which is likely to prove fetal. Patrolman Murphy and Charley Botbstahler werd the first within reach, and to the first ho said he shot to try his gnn, and to the second, "I wanted a ohange." Sypbers wss clerk for Syphers, McBride A Co., on south Meridian street, and on the Fourth went upon a centennial jlmjamboree, from which he did not brace up till yesterday. For this he was discharged, and his dismissal Is tho only known reason for self-destruction. Today he Is willing to live and this morn* ing early asked for a clean shirt with his old time relish.

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The monster of flendlshnees, "Sitting Ball," Is thns described He la about five feet in height. He has a large head, eyes and nose, high cheek bones one of his legs is shorter than tbe other, from a gun shot wound in the left knee. His oountenance is of an extremely savage type, betraying that bloodthlrstiness and brutality for which he has been so long notorious. He has tbe name of being one of the most successful scalpers In tbe Indian copntnr. There has been a standing reward of $1,600 offered for his beaa for the last eight years, by tbe Montana people, who have special muse to know jis nrodons nature) some sf his worst deeds having been perpetrated in thai Territoty. ^mmm

TBB following figures showing the amount of Insurance paid by the Odd Fellows' Mutual -Aid Society paid on deaths inTern Haute, are furnished us by the agent, Mr. B. Heimes:

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Vol. 7.—No. 3. TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 15. 1876.

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THB BOW OF PROMISE,

Governor Hayes* letter annouuoing his acceptance of the Republican nomination for the Presidency has an honest and manly ring about it. It is quite evident that the writer of it has strong convictions on the important questions which are before the country and that he is not in the loast afraid to let them be known. He announces his opinions without auy affected modesty but with plain-spoken directness, as becomes a candidate (or the high office. There is not one Tallyrandish or Bugar-coated sentence In the whole letter. He says plainly that if he is elected he will conduct tbe administration on the old-time principles (now unfortunately long obsolete) of honesty, capacity and fidelity and that he will not parcel eut the offloes as prises for partisan services. This is a bold stand to take. It is giving notioe in advance to the hungry horde of professional politicians that no matter how lostily they labor during the campaign for him they need expect no reward tor such services, for the offices will be bestowed on the theory that "no partisan service is expected or desired from tbe public offioes." This is a bold position to. take and indicates very clearly that Mr. Hayes would prefer to be defeated rather than to enter the White House handicapped by promises express or implied to peddle out the patronage in the way it has been done for the past quarter of a century. That his pledgo to reform the civil service of the country, if elected, is something more than an empty promise is evident from this preliminary advertisement of the dissolution of the copartnership hitherto existing between the Presidency and the Politicians. If he should go into the office without any preparatory declaration of his policy he would find it a Herculean task to summarily dismiss from his presence the army of partisan place-seekers which would instantly gather around him demanding the customary rewards for their services. If he is elected after this pronunciamento he can dismiss every one of these fellows by simply placing in his hand a copy of this letter of acceptance, and tlaey will have no cause to murmur.

Not less emphatic is Gov. Hayes on the currency question. Well aware, as he is, of the wide diversity of opinion that exists on that subject throughout the country, he makes no ooncealment of his own views but plainly declares that, if elected, "he will approve every appropriate measure to accomplish the desired end (the resumption of specie payment) and will oppose any step baokward." It is plain that Mr. Hayes does not want the Presidency coupled with any misunderstanding as to his position. He will be his own master in the White House %r else he will stay out of it. He can get along very comfortably without it and only proposes to stay there four years at any rate. We admire in an equal degree the honesty, the courage, the independence and the patriotism of this candidate who places himself thus plainly and unequivocally before the country at the very beginning of the contest. This is the kind of man the country has needed for its chief magistrate for some time past and it is a matter for congratulation that he has been found in the centennial year of the nation's history. Two qualities ought to be united in tho statesman—integrity and wisdom—and of the two, in the present juncture of affairs, tho former is of far greater importance than tbe latter. A nation that Is governed by prudent and honest men, even though they be men of no extraordinary abilities, will go steadily forward in prosperity, while a nation that is in the oontrol of men of splendid genius but corrupt morals, is on the very brink of ruin and liable to dismemberment at any moment. The men whose names are Indissolubly linked with their country's prosperity were men characterised rather by sincerity of purpose and unswerving integrity than by the splendor of their abilities. This Is true of Washington and Lincoln. "Honest old Abe" was a soubriquet tbe appropriateness of which few attempted to deny. What the people should be most concerned about In tbe selection of a president Is that he be a man who has no price, who cannot be bought to countenance any betrayal of the public weal. Such a man, undoubtedly, Is Rutherford B. Hayes.

It most afford a genuine aatlafeotlon to every good dtlsen that both the presidential candidates this year are unexceptionable men. While, Individually, we prefer Hayes to Ttlden, yet there Is no disputing the foot that Til den Is an able and excellent man. By his career as governor of New York he has won the confidence and admiration pf many of the best dtisens of the whole oountry. He has given a practical demonstration of this Idea of reform and without doubt, If he tbould be elected to the Presidency, he would Inaugurate a similar policy ef reform in the national govern rngnt which has characterised his administration ef affairs in his Own

State. With both tbe candidates pledged to reform in tbe most solemn manner we may confidently expect great improvement in the Incoming administration whichever one of them shall be selected for tbe high duty. The fact is, the nation is entering on tbe second century of its existence under circumstances the most auspicious, for they give promise of a restoration, more or less complete, to the former purity and dignity in the administration of Its laws. And in this welcome change it is easy to discover the Influence of the non-partisan element snd the independent press, to whose earnest snd patriotic endeavors for reform bo all praise! It is easy for the Republicans to claim that tbe spirit of reform wss developed within their party and by virtue of its own inherent purity as well might the egg say that it hatchod itself without any assistance from the hen which brooded over it. Of this there can be no doubt or denial—the stronger the liberal element in politics becomes the safer will be the nation and the purer the administration of its affairs.

People and Things.

The word Sioux means "cat-throat." He has most enjoyment in the world who expects least from the world. "Men who play croquet," says the New York Herald, "are now called the third sex." 4

The more a man or woman knows, the less they gossip about their neighbors. Culture kills gab.

Hayes is a square man and will make an honest President, is what the Democratic editor in his native town says of him.

James Fisk, Brattleborough, Vermont, father of Erie Jim, seventy years old, has taken to the pulpit in New York.

An excursion was advertised in Boston "to go down the bay and see the water once cut by the keel of the May-

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The Washington Chronicle thinks that when the Washington monument takes a start the country will begin to prosper. •«.

The Government Superintendent of Railroads in Canada lives in a palace car that is fitted up with cooking and sleeping facilities.

It was a wise negro who, in speaking of the happiness of married people said: "Dat ar pends altogedder on how dey 'joy deyselves."

Man," says Adam Smith, "is an animal that makes bargains. No other animal does this—no dog exchanges bones with another."

Akron, Ohio, claims the oldest man in the world, aged one hundred and seventeen years. He took part in the celebration of the Fourth,

The New York dry goods merchant, E. S. Jaffray, who lives at Irvington, goes down to tbe city every morning in his yacht, and takes breakfast on board.

Spraguo, Hoyt fe Co., the great Rhode Island cotton millionaires, will only pay ten cents on the dollar. A dollars' worth of credit for ten cents worth of property is a sad winding up for such high-headed people.

The last year has been a hard one for newspapers. If the next is no better and you happen to step into a pointing office the proper question to ask will be: "Is the sheriff in T"—[Lowell, Mass., Journal.

Dr. Talmage, having preached a sermon on the sins and follieB of summer resorts goes to Martha's Vineyard to observe tbem further. He hais a present of a pleasant summer cottage furnished, on that island.

Bloomlngton (111.) Pantagraph: Tommy Hendricks will accept. Tommy objected to being made the tail ol a kite, but when his friends showed him that it was the hind legs of a kangaroo he would be, Tommy kangarooed what be had done and took It in.

Central Pennsylvania has potato bugs, and aa the worthy husbandmen in drab wanders about his garden, he remarks foelingly to his wife, "Verily, Martha, the spirit almoet moves me to eject with vehemenoe sundry of the quaint phrases common with the lost ones of the world's people."

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gentleman Is a rarer thing than some of ns think for. Which of us can point out many such In his circle—men whose alma are generous whoee truth Is oonstant and elevated who can look the world honestly in the feoe, with an equal, manly sympathy for the great and for the amaUl We all know a hundred whoee coata are well made, and a soore who have excellent manner, but of a gentleman bow many Let us take a little scrap of paper and each make his tnaifc.—[Thackeray.

Coster's personal appearttitt W** singular. Colonel Newball, who wrote "With Sheridan

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paign," deecribes him thus "Custer of the golden looks, his broad sombrero turned up from his hard-bronsed face, the ends of his crlmaon eravat floating

over his shoulders, gold galore spangling his jacket sleeves, a pistol in his boot, jangling spurs on his heels, and a ponderous claymore awinging at bis side, a wild dare-devil of a General, and a prinoe of advance guards, quick to see and act.'1 „i *,.V. ....

Sitting Bull claims to be a Teton, though his followers are outlaws nd hard customers from all tbe bands of the Sioux Nation. He defies tbe Govvernment and bopesthat be can get tbe Sioux Nation to join him. If they will only do thia he promises to drive tbe whites back into the sea, out of which tbeycame, aad utterly disbelieves tbe reports of Red Cloud and others who have visited tbe coast as to the numbers of the whites they saw. He says their eyes were dazzled by bad medicine "magic."

Feminitems.

Buttoned stockings have made their appearance. *t ... It looks as though Mrs. "Woodhull had reformed. She has stopped her paper and her lectures.

Dlo Lewis says that a young lady will eat twice as much corn-beef when alone as she will in tho presence of other peopla- :-7%

Love never reasons, but profusely gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little.

The Baltimore man who advertised for two hundred and fifty women to pick beans was only joking. When the women found it out they picked him.

Miss Johnson is a Georgia singer whose voice "falls upon her hearers like spray upon a sea of molten gold dotted with floating diamonds and precious pearls.*' nifsiJ

Mrs. A. *T. Stewart has given away about four hundred thousand dollars since her husband's death. She is making a will it will be hard for her relatives to break.

Mary Clemmer is sorry, very sorry, that Mrs. Hayes Is a Methodist. Mrs. Grant is of that persuasion, and she hoped better things of her successor in tbe White House.

Milliners are beginning to trim bats with veils they twist them about the crown, fastening them at one side with a ribbon bow or wing, and allow along end to escape to draw over the faoe when desired.

The Sioux warriors throws a blanket over his own head and the head of the squaw to whom he wishes to make love, and their courtship is thus hidden from obseivation. Such a mode may do for heathens, but in this part of the country, when a young lady spends three hours doing up her hair, the fashion is not likely to obtain.—[Norristown Herald.

One thing which is quite remarkable and very convenient about the modes of the day, Is, that any thing, provided it carrios with it a certain style, is fashionable. Every taste may be suited. Very elaborate and very extravagant dresses may be worn or inexpensive ones. Last year's costumes, and even those of the year before may be brought out and freshened with groS'grain bows, or a pretty fringe, and pass for a late Paris importation.

Two girls, near Adams, Jefferson oounty, says an exchange, determined last week to "go in swimming as the boys do." They had a splendid bath, in a secluded place, but a strolling cow took up a position near their clothes, and they sat on the opposite bank all the afternoon and callod that cow hard names. They were relieved when tbe farmer's boy came after tbe cow at milking time.

No one can express wonder In these days if women are Idle I A dress made In the height of fashion absolutely prevents her from using her feet or arms freely. Her dress Is so narrow and drawn back so tight that anything but a short slow walk Is Impossible, and tbe arms are eo encased—to say nothing of the waist and hipe—that to arrange her collar or necktie Is an exertion, and'as for readjusting a hairpin she Is absolutely dependent on another person to aid her.

The sale of Circassian girls to Turks oonttnuee. correspondent of the London Tlmee says that a Moslem dealer makea choice of four young, unsophisticated girls, imports them to Constantinople sells them, and then goes back for more. If be can achieve four such tripe In a year he can make a good living out of sixteen women. "Many of tbe Circassian are settled in Turkey, and there actually breed Children for sale, having no more ehame about it than a fashionable KngUsh mother may feel about bringing out her giria for the matrimonial market.

At the German baths ladlea give as much attention to their dieasts as If they were going to a grand evening reception. The bathing salt la generally of flannel but there It no restriction as to oolotv and p*le pink, blue or corn color are Just as commonly use&ijyjMt

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dark navy blue Is here. The hair is beautifully dressed and ornamented with diamonds, feathers, etc., and on tbe shoulders is frequently seen an expensive 1acejtcku. The hsnds are encased In very long wristed lyle thread gloves, and on tbe arms elegant bracelets are worn. Ladles visit with their friends and gossip as they mig*ht at home over a bit of needle-work many of them remaining in for a whole morning, Invigorated meantime with numerous glasses of champagne. -.

In a recent Washington letter ftfary Clemmer says: "We are approaching that line in the thermometer when from a natural law human affections cease, and even woman ceases to be a lovable being, for I persist that a woman with a perspiring face in a sticky muslin, fighting flies, is not a lovely or a lovable being. It is merely a question of weather when the capacity for romances ceases and tbe power of human affection dies out of the human heart. Surely it must be easier to be affectionate at tbe North than at the South.

With the fair sex the "laws of the ring" are: A plain or chased gold ring ofe the little finger of the right hand implies "not engaged," or in plain words, "ready for proposals, sealed or otherwise." When engaged, the ring passes to the first finger of tbe left hand. When married, the third finger receives it. If the fair one proposes to defy all siege to her heart, she places the rings on her first and fourth fingers—one on each, like two charms to keep away the tempter. It is somewhat singular that this disposition of rings is rare!

Ua:'r THE BUSTLE ABOMINA TION.

Woman's Protest Against an Absurd and Uncomfortable Fashion. |s

[Correspondence ot Washington Chronicle.] Does it not seem folly apparent to you that the chief aim of our fashionable inventors is to perfect a rare combination of discomfort and discord in female wardrobe They seem to think women area lot of silly fools, who are bound to wear anything, no matter how ridiculous it mskes them appear, so it is fashionable. We do not claim that they are very for from the truth. Tbe fa test styles of dress, to ssy the least, are abominable—the more wrinkled and looped, and hitched, bent, doubled, twisted, puckered, contorted, curtailed and retailed, convex and oonoave a woman's dress can possibly be made, the more stylish and fashionable she is, and her value and position in society augmented In tbe same ratio.

The new bustle perfects and combines this idea of general disorder and discomfort it might as well be worn on the head, for being concealed from view by its intended position is a positive impossibility, and a failure in that respect.

The ungraceful movement it gives to the skirts snd walking gait is one of its faults. No one can sit down on one of them easily or oomfortably, neither can it be worn long at a time without positive weariness and injury to health.

It is the most abominable invention of the age if any man doubts it, let him put one on and try it, and particularly let him try to sit down with it on.

Again, the idea of all bustles is indelicate, and this monstrosity is doubly so, and a positive nuisance in every way. A lady is subject to ridicnle with one on, and an ebject of remark if seen on the streets without it, so in either case it is an abomination. It might be serviceable in a family as a pigeou-ooop, but it is out of place on a lady. There are two styles or this most ingenious monster bustle. One is very long, resching nearly to the floor in other words, it is a bustle of the wholesale order, the very superlative of fashionable folly. With one of these on a lady nearly makes a figure of herself the clothes jump from side to side as she walks the bustle heaves and tumbles about like tbe keel of a small schooner "in a blow," and a sailor would feel inclined to cry out: ''Steady tbe helm there hold her fsst I"

The short bustle is a little abbreviation in length, but utterly unmanageable in a street-car or anywhere else when the unfortunate wearer desires to sit down. If a woman makes up her mind she will sit down in spite of nor whalebones, she finds on rising the whole affair entirely bent out of shape, and one or more loosened bones that burst from their confinement by tbe pressure are stabbing her In tbe back to her utter misery and she takes a big vow silently never to put it on again as long aa she Uvea, faahion or no fashion, so thero 1 Speed tbe time, O ye gods, when a woman oan dress herself comfortably and decently and be respectable in the eyes offeehlon!

HOME INFLUENCE ON DA UGHTEAS. The daughter needs yet more of the home influence, for in her heart must an ideal borne be reared to be wrought outin all the years of her life—and ahe la always a daughter though her children oome with her to visit the old home that grows more and more beautiful in memory's golden light as the years go on. until at last the picture grows brignt with the rays of the endless home that is opening its pearly gates above. How often must toe yeung girl go to strangers alone, when a word, an hour, a step may ohange the destiny of a life forevert How the cries of the lost come up to us because home was not home to their heart'a hungry yearning and the young soul's deepest need. Homeless might be written on the record of every lost eoul, aa the cause, of the ehame that cursefe It. More than ill, shonld children have in their tenderest years the sweet Influence that can only oe found within the sacred walla of home—home in its deepest and broadest meaning. Without it the buda will never come to fruitage, even If there should be Cowers, and "might have been" .mu*t be the judgment of the angels who find, where much was given, "nothing but leavee."

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