Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 July 1876 — Page 2

Vol. 7.—No. 3,

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

OR A, THE LOST WIFE. In this issue of The Mail is given tbe 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 inter* est the one just closed. In the mean time 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. We 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 of The Mail, and great care is exercised in the selection of the best class of fiction—that which has a pure and healthy tone.

Town-Talk.

T/K'AL POLITICS.

It is almost too early to say much about tbe political situation here. The active business of tbe campaign will not probably begin for some time yet. Both parties are well organized, however, and both reasonably confident. The slight disoonlent 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. There 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 influence 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 composing 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 tn 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 thocountry may have gotten an eroneous impression of the strongth of the so called "independent greenback" party.

People here are not surprised nor deceived. Tbe Express, though nominally a Republican paper, has long been hostile tt the Republican party, and seeing what it thought a good chance to acquire a little notoriety and at tbe 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 tbe 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 samo way. It has been about the worst case of "flash in the pan" that has occurred since the war.

Democratic papers and politicians have acted upon the belief that the real parport of the Express' disaffection was to elect 0*1. McLean, the Democratic nominee for Congress, and to defeat General Hunter, his Republican opponent, and with that view, have done all they oould to encourage It. Thts is not an unreasonable belief, as it la well known that folly three Republicans have joined this greenback movement to every Democrat but the rank and file of the Express' party know of no such bargain. They are simply deluded by the dishonest cent of such greenback papers as the Express, the promise of offloe or some other equally unworthy thing.

But whatever may be their reasons for making geese of themselves, or the Express' for Inducing them to do it, will make but little difference in tbe end. They are too insignificant in numbers, if In no other respect, to cut any figure in election times. It weuld be quite sale to predict that three months from now members of the "independent greenback*1 party, in this oounty at least, will be considerably scarcer then hens' teeth. They will be soaree because tboee who are after office will discover that it cannot be got in that way, and those who are honest will disoover their error in

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question and knowledge it, THH MOONLIGHT PICNIC'S.

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, public 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, nigbt after night, and compelled to listen to the vilest oaths, the filthiest obsoeuity, drunken crle9 and blows and shrieks 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 made 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 nigbt 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 tbe worst place that has ever existed in Terre Haute.

Arrangements have been made to car ry 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 evening, July I5th, 1876." "Busses will start from corner of Sixth and Main at half-past 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 read ers that tbe "feature of tbe evening' will be tbe "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 ofadifterent order from those of last summer. It is therefore right that decent people should be warned of what Mr. John W. Fisbor is undertak ing, 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 tbe least pretensions toward respectability, will think for a moment of attending such a place, knowing its character. Those who are Ignorant should 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 tbe proper moment arrives.

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

Last evening L. H. Syphers secured a choice cigar at Bryan's drug store, opposite tho union depot, lighted it racefulerly, and while the smoke was curling u^xn the sidewalk,

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fired. The nail struck a rib, glanced down inward, and inflicted a wound which Is likely to prove fatal. Patrolman Murphy and Charley Botbstahler werd tbe first within reach, and to tbe first he said he shot to try his gran, and to the second, "I wanted a change." Syphers was clerk for Syphers, MoBride A Co., on sonth Meridian street, snd on the Fourth went upon a centennial Jimjamboree, from which be did not brace up till yesterday. For this be was discharged, and his dismissal is the only known reason for self-destruction. Toto live and this morn* dean shirt with

day he Is wlUltiji to llvi log early asked for a his old time relish. m-*-® "SITTING ULLS**''5

Tbe monster of fiendishness, "Sitting Ball," is thus described: He Is about five foot 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 tbe left knee. His countenance is of an extremely savage type, betraying that bloodthustiness 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 country. There has been a standing reward of 11,000 offered for his head for the last eight year*, by tbe Montana people, who have special cause to know lis ferocious nature some ef his worst deeds having been perpetrated In that Territory. wamaemmmmmem

Tan following figures showing the amount of insurance paid by the Odd Fellows' Mutaal Aid Society paid on deaths in Terrs Hants, are tarnished us by the agent, Mr. Bt Helmes:

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No. 21fi.

THE BOW OF PROMISE.

Governor Hayos' letter annouuolng his acceptance of tbe Republican nomination for tbe 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 any affected modesty but with plain-spoken directness, as becomes a candidate (or the high office. There is not one Tallyrandish or sugar-coated sentence In the whole letter. He says plainly that if he is elected be will conduct the administration on the old-time principles (now unfortunately long obsolete) of honesty, capacity and fidelity and that he will not parcel eut the offices as prises for partisan services. This is a bold stand to take. It is giving no tioe in advance to the hungry horde of professional politicians that no matter how lustily they labor during tbe campaign for him they need expect no reward for such services, for the offices will be bestowed on the theory that "no partisan service is expected or desired from the public offices." This is a bold position to.takoand 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 tbe way it has been done for the past quarter of a century. That his pledge to reform the civil service of the country, if olected, 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 they will have no cau'se 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, "be will approve every appropriate measure to accomplish the desired end (the resumption of speoie payment) and will oppose any step backward." 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 tbe 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 tbe centennial year of the nation's history. Two qualities ought to be united In the 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 tbat 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 tbe control of men of splendid genius but corrupt morals, is on the very brink of ruin and liable to dismemberment at any moment. Tbe men whose names are indissolubly linked with their country's prosperity were men characterised rather by sincerity of purpose and unswerving Integrity tbsn by the splendor of their abilities. This is true of Washington and Lincoln. "Honest old Abe" was a soubriquet tbe sppropriateness of which few attempted to deny. What the people should be most concerned about In the selection of a president Is that be be a man who has no price, who cannot be bought to countenance any betrayal of the public weal. 8uch a undoubtedly, is Rutherford B. Hayes.

It most afford a genuine satlafactlon to every good dtlsen that both the presidential candidates this year are unexceptionable men. While, individually, we prefer Hayes to Tildcn, yet there Is no disputing the feet that Til den Is an able and excellent man. By his career as governor of New York he has won tbe confidence and admiration pf many of the best dtisens of tbe whole country. He has given a practical demonstration of this Idea of reform and without doubt, If bt ftbould be elected to tbe Presidency, be would inaugurate a similar policy ef reform in tbe nationsi government which has characterised bis administration ef aflklrs in his own

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State. With both the 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 the high duty. The feet is, the nation is catering on tbe second century of its existence under clrcum stances tbe most auspicious, for tbey give promise of a restoration, more or less oomplete, to the former purity and dignity in tbe administration of Its laws. And in this weloome change it is easy to disoover tbe influence of tbe non-partisan element and the independent press, to whose earnest and patriotic endeavors for reform bo all praise! It is easy for tbe 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

^y that it hatched 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 tbe nation and tbe 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 tbe world.

Men who play croquet," says the New York Herald, "are now called the third sex." *, /h' 1

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, Brattleborougb, 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 tbe water once cut by tbe keel of tbe Mayflower." v«.

The Washington Chronicle thinks that when tbe 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 sleep-' ing facilities. .,! "3 »v

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 n^akes 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 tbe celebration of tbe Fourth.

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

Sprague, Hoyt Jfc 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 tbe proper question to ask will be: "Is the sheriff in [Lowell, Mass., Journal.

Dr. Talmage, having preached a sermon on the sins and follies of summer resorts goes to Martha's Vineyard to observe them further. He has a present of a pleasant summer oottage furnished, on that island.

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

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

A gentleman Is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Whioh of us can point out many audi In his circle—men whose aims are generous whose truth is constant snd elevated

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tbe world honestly in the fece, with an equal, manly sympathy for the great and for the small! We all know a hundred whose coals are well made, and a score who have excellent manner, but of gentleman how many 7 Let tis take a little scrap of paper and eaoh make his mark.—{Thackeray.

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Coster's personal appearand was slngular. Colonel NewhalL, who wrote "With Sheridan .in Lee's Last Campaign," describes him thus: Custer of the golden locks, his broad sombrero turned up from his hard-bran sed fece, the ends of his crlmsoa ersvat floating

over his shoulders, gold galore spangling his Jacket sleeves, a pistol In his boot, jangling spurs on his heels, and a ponderous claymore swinging at his side, a wild dare-devil of a General, and a prinoe of advance guards, quick to see and act." vV.

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

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Buttoned stockings have made their appearance. *0 It looks as though Mrs. Woodhull had reformed. She has stopped her paper and her lectures.

Dio Lewis says that a young lady will eat twice as much corn-beef when alone as she will in tbe presence of other people. vv

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

Tbe 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 voioe "falls upon her hearers like spray upon a sea of molten gold dotted with floating diamonds and precious pearls." t-« t.-,

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 hats 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 firom observation. 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 Hcrald.

One thing which is quite remarkable and very convenient about the modes of the day, is, that any thing, provided it carries with it a certain style,isfashionable. 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-prain 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 tbe boys do." They had a splendid bath, in secluded place, but a strolling cow took up a position near their clothes, and they sat on tbe opposite bank all tbe afternoon and called tbat cow hard names. They were relieved when the farmer's boy came after tbe cow at milking time.

No one can express wonder in these days If women are idle 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 short slow walk is impossible, and tbe arms are so encased—4o say nothing of the waist and hips—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 continues. A correspondent of the London limes says that a Moslem dealer makes choice of four young, unsophisticated girls, imports them to Constantinople sells them, and then goes back for mors. If he can achieve four such trips ins year be can Alike a good living out of sixteen women* 'Many of the Circassians are settled InTuHwy, and there actually breed children for salt, having no mors shame about it than a feahlooable English mother may feel about bringing out her girls for the matrimonial market.

At the German baths ladles give as much attention to thelf dresses as if tbey were grim to a grand evening reception. The bathing suit la generally of flannel but there It no restriction as to colors and pale pink, blue or corn color are just as commonly used, as the

dark navy blue is hero. The hair is beautifully dressed and ornamented with diamonds, feathers, etc., and on the shoulders is frequently seen an expensive 1acejtehu. The hands are encased in very long wristed lylo thread gloves, and on tbe arms elegant bracelet* are worn. Ladies visit with their friends and gossip as tbey migfeit 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 recent Washington letter Mary 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 feoe in a sticky muslin, fighting flies, is not a lovely or a lovable being. It is merely a question of weather when tbe capacity for romances ceases and tbe power of human affection dies out of tbe human heart. Surely It must be easier to be affectionate at tbe North than at tbe South.

With the fair aex the "laws of the ring" are: A plain or chased gold ring oft 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 the left hand. When married, tbe third finger receives it. If tbe fair one proposes to defy all siege to her heart, she places tbe rings on her first and fourth fingers—one on each, like two oharms to keep away the tempter. It is somewhat singular that this disposition ef rings is rare! iv

THE BUSTLE ABOMINA TION.

A Woman's Protest Against an Absurd and Uncomfortable Fashion. [Correspondence of Washington Chronicle.]

Does it not seem fully apparent to you that the chief aim of our fashionable inventors is to perfect a rare combination of discomfort and discord in female wardrobe Tbey seem to think women area lot of silly fools, who are bound to wear anything, no matter how ridicuis it mskes them appear, so it is fashionable. We do not claim that tbey are veiy far from the truth. The latest styles of dress, to say the least, are abominable—the more wrinkled and looped, and hitched, bent, doubled, twisted, puckered, contorted, curtailed and retailed, convex and concave a woman's dress can possibly be made, tbe more stylish and fashionable sbe is, and her value and position in society augmented in the same ratio.

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

Tbe ungracefbl movement it gives to the skirts and walking gait is one of its feults. 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 ago if any man doubts it, let him

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rat one on and try it, and particularly him try to sitdown with it on. Again, tbe idea of all bustles is indelicate, and this monstrosity is doubly so, and a positive nuisance in every way. A lady is subject to ridicule with one on, and an object of remark if seen on tbe streets without it, so in either case it is an abomination. It might be serviceable in a family as a pigeon-coop, but it is out of place on a lady. There are two styles or this most ingenious monster bustle. One is veiy long, reaching nearly to the floor in other words, it is a bustle of the wholesale order, the very superlative of fashionable folly. Witn one of these on a lady nearly makes a figure of herself the clothes jump from side to side as she walks tbe 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 fest I"

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

HOME INFLUENCE ON DAUGHTERS. The daughter needs yet more of the home influence, for in her heart must an ideal home be reared to be wrought ontin all the years of her lile—and sbe is always a daughter though her children come with her to visit the old home that grows more and more beautiful in memory's golden light as the years go on. until atlut the picture grows bright with the rays of the endless home that is pening Its pearly gates above. Ho* (ten must tne yeung girl go to stran gars alone, when a word, an hour, a step may change the destiny of a life forever! How the cries of the lost oome up to us because home was not home to their

soul, as tbe cause, of the ihame that curseS it. More than all, should children have In their tenderest rears the sweet ihflnence that can only be found within the sacred walls of home—home in its deepest and broadest meaning. Without it the buds will never come to fruitage, even If there should be flowers, and "might have been" must be the judgment of the angels who find, where much was given, "nothing but leaves."

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