Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 July 1876 — Page 1

Vol. 7.—No. 4.

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

THE MAIL can now be sent to any part of the coantry for one oent portage, instead of two cents as heretofore.

ONS who has not sera them can have little idea of the extensive improvements that are being made at the Torre Haute House. It will soon act as a good stimulator of local pride.

THE use of the city hall has been allowed to the Sarsfield Guards, a local military company, for an armory. Good bye, city hall! It would have been Just about as well to let somebody have it for a livery stable.

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it j' MonAt. value is of little value at this season. A man who has walked un scat bed through the fiery and expensive 7 temptations of Satan's host will easily succumb to a small cucumber which might be bought anywhere at the rate of two for a cent. fi ifrm' HuHt' ffj JTHE greenbackers of Vigo county y, met in convention at the City Hall this morning. A committee on resolutions 4 was appointed after which the convention adjorned till half-past one o'clodk this afternoon. At this writing—one o'clock—it is believed that ne nomination of a county ticket will be made today, but that the convention will ad- ,' journ to meet again for that purpose in two weeks. The attendance at the con vention this morning is estimated at j. one hundred and twenty-five persons— spectators and all.

ONE ice dealer in this city, L. F. Purdue, sells from ten to eleven tons of ice ,-t per day. At present it is shipped to him from Eugene, and is ice that was put up winter before last. He gets, on an average, eight car loads a week, thus using at least a car load each day. To families it is sold at one cent per pound.

Mr. Purdue speaks rather despondently of there being a margin ot only nine dollars on the ton, but selling eleven tons a day, it seems to us he should not be so very down-hearted.

But come to think of it, we believe Mr. Purdue said that all the wasteage expenses of delivering, etc., bad to come out of the nine dollars. Perhaps it isn't a big thing after all.

MR. R. 8. TKWNANT enjoysthediatinction of being the only person that has -ri secured a low rate to the Centennial from the West. He obtains this flavor on account of promises from railroads over which he ran his excursion last year, that in case he wanted to ran an excursion over their lines he oould have the same low rates. The excursion trains will start on the mornings of

July 26th, 27th and 28th, and stops can be made at Niagara Falls, New York city, and Long Branch, either going or r- returning. Persons desiring to go straight through can leave here at 5 2^ o'clock In the morning and reach Phlla•Jj deiphia at 9 o'clock in the evening of the next day. An advertisement in an Jj| other column gives full particulars of the excursion—and It Is only necessary »•"s to add that every arrangement has been fully perfected to make this one of the pleasantest as well as the cheapest exit: cursion ever projected.

AMUSEMENTS,

TOT JKAtOt» TVIPTT. in E is a

famous by Mr. and Mrs. Oha*. Kean, will be played at the Stadt to-morrow evening. .j a v* nUNBKlTTO MR. HANCHKTT.

Mr. D. Hanchett, the veteran actor and manager has returned here to spend the summer months, and a number of his friends have arranged a benefit performance to be given at the Opera House ,. oil Monday evening, when will be presented the great drama of "The Long

Strike or, the Working Men of ManChester," Mr. H. assuming his great per- & sonation of Lawyer Moneypenny, a character in which be has few superiors.

The remainder of the cast will be made

up or amateur and professional talent In thia city,as follows: NAK W. WLWLW Jem. Btiu-k -.Mr. Jaram o«fbM Richard RAUy...„~..^Mr. Frank Danaldson Johnnie Rclky Arwltage Qrankahaw—. J^ r. Mohar* Hp«uTier— C.Newton Slack Mr.UCYan^ Brooks.... ....... —C. Helton j.. JUKI Leroyd Madame Johanna IN»tUa*ier

.....Mr. C.H. Anderson Mr. A Iphonm Oilman Mr. Chart ea Gould

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Bettr Rirtator Maggie -Mr*. Iceland HAVKHLT'S MimnrxKus.

There is no more welcome announcement to amusement goers in this oomfV4 munity than that "Haverly's Minstrels are coming." Hits admirable band of =1 Oorkonians will play at the Opera Hones on Friday evening next, introducing the js* latest ethlopian novelties of the day.

Among the new people are the Daily Brothers, song and dance artiste, late of Carnoross and Dixies*, and Andy LeaviH upon the banjo. Reserved seats en sale at the Central Bookstore three days in advance.

Town-Talk.

Bxruum Axuuunsm

The picnic season has not panned out well. The rains and hot weather have been against it. T. T. cannot now recall half a dozen excursion*—large ones —this summer. This of course is better for the children and the oommunity generally but is hardly giving the brass bands, the railroads and the lemonadevenders a fair show. But after all, does anybody—except children—and it makes them sick—ever have any pleasure at a picnic 7 It is doubtful. Indeed the chief characteristic of the average .picnic is its effect upon men of sanguine and despondent temperaments. The one secretly wishes be was at home, and the other wishes he was dead. The redeeming feature of the picnio seems to be that it enables one to wreak a deadly revenge upon the man he hatee by persuading him to attend. All in all, T. T. is not partial to large public pionics (small private ones in decent weather will do very well,) "fcnd shall not grieve if not another one takes place this summer. There are many more sensible ways of enjoying the woods than by going to them with a noisy mob in crowded rail road cars.

But speaking of picnics T. T. must be allowed to express his obligation to the Chief of Police for the prompt manner in which he -squelched" the disreputable

MOtftftlOHT PICNIC

at ^ike'a Peak, Saturday night. Mr. John W. Fisher was informed that he would not be permitted to run that kind of a business, and gave his promise not to attempt it again. For this prompt and energetic action of Chief Johnson the deoent people of Terre Haute will not be slow to acknowledge their gratitude. It was once the case in this oity that a public nuisance of this character existed until some citizen, at the risk of giving ofience to a dangerous class of people, went to the proper authorities and made complaint in the regular legal and red tape form after which it might be one or two of the offenders were arrested and fined and the nuisance went on again until somebody else complained. This does not seem to be Mr. Johnson's way. T. T. wishes it did not appear to be so much

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in dealing with that notorious nuisance and public disgrace, the Cunningham establishment or "Bull Pen" on First street. This is as vile a'hole as ever existed in the slams of New York. In it no man's life is safe, much less his reputation ot property. A member of the city council lives In the same square with this nuisince, and so dangerous does he consider the people who ran it that he dare not make complaint against them, well knowing that if he did they would not hesitate to set fire to his store or commit any other orime to revenge themselves on him for the interference with their "business." Now would not any reasonable person say it was the marshal's plain duty to set vigorously to work to root out and break np this vile and dangerous don? It was once this officer's boast that he was "no smelling committee." Let him be a "smelling committee," to this extent for awhile and he will earn the respect of people who now openly accuse him of a neglect of duty.

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Peop'e who have returned from the Centennial tell T. T. that following their arrival at home they have been beset at every turn by Arsons desirous of making the trip themselves and anxious to profit by the experience of thoee who haVe gone before. More than anything else, most of them wish to know how muoh the trip will cost, and no information the returned visitor is able to impart respecting his visit, is of so muoh general interest as a detailed aooountof his personal expenses from the time of leaving home. Information as to routes, the most favorable time for starting, aooom modations while in Philadelphia, and the like, is eagerly received but the thing of surpassing interest to every body, almost, Is the item of expense. And this is very natural. Few persons, tills year, have any money to throw away and thoee who have made tip their minds to spend a limited amount in sight-seeing at the Centennial, vary properly feel anxiou* to make it go as Jkr as possible. Sympathizing with this feeling, T. T. has taken the trouble to gather np a few points which he desires to add to the general stock of information on the subject In the hope that somebody will be benefitted thereby, though the frets given may be neither •ery new nor very numerous.

In the first place, he would give It as his well-matured opinion that Mr. Tenant's excursion offers greater attractions for the money than can be obtained otherwise. The particulars of this are very dearly set forth in an advertisment in this paper, which thoee intererted are advised to read. If the visitor prefers another route, or for any reason should not desire to join the excursion, be may buy a ticket to Indianapolis for two dollars and eighty-five cents,, and one from there to Philadelphia direct, Inking his

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choice of routes, for ten dollars and seventy-five cents, making thirteen dollars and sixty oents for the through trip. The return fare is the same. There has been no reduction In rates between this plaoe and Indianapolis, and through tickets at the reduoed rate are not sold here at all. To buy a round trip ticket to Philadelphia in Terre Hante would cost thirty-four dollars and eighty oents. At Indianapolis, through tiokets are sold to Boston via Philadelphia and New York, for fifteen dollars to Philadelphia via Cleveland, Buffalo and Albany at twelve dollars and to New York via Philadelphia, or vice versa, at the same prico. These tiokets are limited to five days and "no atop over." That Is, the holder would not be permitted to stop over from one train to another except at points where roads were changed, and even in that case the entire trip would hav.i to be made within the specified five days. For instance, if he wanted to stop at Niagara Falls, it would be necessary to pay extra fare from Buffalo to the Falls.

The be*t train upon which to start is the one leaving here at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. This istheone which crosses the mountains by day light. Take a "sleeper" at Indianapolis, to Pittsburgh. This will cost two dollars for one berth) which is wide enough, on a pinch, for two persons. At Pittsburgh, take a "chair car" for the remainder of the trip at an additional expense of one dollar anda-balf the increased comfort will more than repay it. If you have a nice lunch with you, prepared at home, so much the better and two or three dollars for meals will be saved. By this train— on the Pennsylvania Central—you will reach Philadelphia at 7 o'clock in the evening—twenty-eight hours after leaving home. If you have not previously engaged rooms, go to a hotel conducted on the European plan, at one dollar per day, meals extra and the following morning buy a copy of the "Public Ledger," the leading paper, and study the boarding-house advertisements. You will find it profitable, and other suggestions upon this point may be omitted. Finally, act sensibly, see all you can, and don't come home while you've a cent of money left.

De NOT get cool," is the Scientific American's hot-weather advice, the meaning being that a sudden cooling of the body is likely to induce bad colds, which are harder to cure in summer than in winter. It also says that ice water should be drunk slowly, with a pause after each swallow. Hot tea is recommended because "the debility and downward progress of the system is arrested by the warmth of the water and the stimulating quality of the tea, until strength begins to be imparted to the system." Gause worn next to the body absorbs perspiration, and preventsoolds, but should be often thoroughly aired and dried. Persons who allow mental overwork to exhaust them are particularly liable to sunstroke. "It is a foolish popular idea that this terrible malady is due to the concentration of the sun's rays on the head. Persons are frequently struck, as it is termed, in the night, but are more apt to be so late in the afternoon, when the system Is depressed by the heat and nervous exhaustion. The way to avoid sunstroke is to order one's doings so that vitality shall not be lowered, and the conditions favorable to the disease superinduced. A sunstroke, if not fatal, leaves ths patient less able to endure mental or physical work ever after, and requires from .him constant care against pulmonary disease or a second visitation.^

SOMEBODY who has had hot weather experience in India sends suggestions to the N. Y. Sun. He recommends the pith hat occasionally Men In oar streets, which has a ring Inside to fit the head, leaving an open apace for ventilation. He also says: "If people were to shut up

and

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 22. 1876.

darken their houses In the cool

est hours of the morning, leaving only apertures enough for ventilation and to thoee ajperturee apply, as folks In India do, loosely-woven mats of fragrant grassland keep them wet, every breath of air eomlng into the house would take up the moisture, and the temperature within would be reduoed many degrees."

TifB able speech of Councilman Schloes In the city council Tuesday night, impromptu as It was, demonstrated very dearly that a grave mistake WM made when he was removed from the finance oommlttee. His argument WM irrefutable and showed conclusively that he knew what he was talking about.

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Ms. ALBBXT STOWS, an old gentleman fifty-live yean of age, an employeof the distillery, was beaten over the bead with stone Monday by a drunken dead beat from Middleberry, Clay county, by the name of John link. So Ikr a* we can learn there was no provocation whatever for the brutal assault. link on a spree—had oome to town for that purpose—and attacked Mr. Stone because be "happened to be bandy." He was fined H&.7&, which waa "stayed" by some acquaintance.

CENTENNIAL EXCURSION—Niagara Falls, New York, Long Branch, Philadelphia—Bound Trip $2^.

Husks and Nubbins*

No. 217.

THB SOUTHERN OUTSAGBS. The faot of Senator Twitcbell's passing through Indianapolia on his way from Louisiana to his former home in Vermont, and the death of his sister In that city from the effects of a shock to her system caused by the murder of several members of her fttmily in Louisiana, has produoed a renewal of the discussion of tho politioal outrages in the South, which promises to be continued more or less throughout the i^ipondlng campaign. Last Sunday one of the leading Methodist ministers of Indianapolis made the question the subject of his evening sermon, the announcement filling bis ohuroh to overflowing. Whether the reverend gentleman's conduct in selecting such a subject for pulpit treltinent was proper or Improper our readers may judge for themselves, as we do not care to discuss that phase of the question. We have, ho wever, a few suggestions to

offer

which go to the merits

of the case.- -s': We do not wish to apologize for or justify to sny extent whatever the orimes and murders perpetrated on politioal grounds in the South. Doubtless they have boen many and in some instances cold-blooded and atrocious. Still there are perhaps some mitigating circumstances which are usually lost sight of by thoee contemplating the facts, or what are reported to be the facts, from the distant stand-point of the North. In the first place we ought to take into consideration the condition of affairs and political feeling in the South. There was the great revolution which swept over that country, a revolution without parallel in the history ot the world. Its traces are yet fresh, its wounds unhealed, its effets still operative. It entailed an awful destruction of life and property and left some of the States submerged in a hopeless insolvency. It paralyzed ail branches of Industry and left business in complete stagnation. It brought utter social and financial ruin upon many who bad always enjoyed all that wealth could buy. It broke the spirit of a proud and high tempered people who were compelled at last to acknowledge their attempted revolution a wretched failure and to yield a reluctant submission to the power of the government. But, most'important to all, the revolution broke the shackles of four millions of slave* and put them on instant equality with their former masters. What a revolution was this! When and where was it ever paralleled in history! Now in the face of all this there are people in the North (and people of whom something better might be expected too) so blind, so thoughtless, so unreasoning, that they think society in the South ought not to be at all disturbed by theee things but that everything should be as quiet, severe and regular as if none of these great occurrences had taken place. And this sort of people attempt to write and preach and philosophize about the "outrages" that are committed for political effect in the South 1 This kind of people create public sentiment hero in the North aiftt inflame men's passions from the pulpits on the Sabbath day, speaking and reasoning In a narrow way and without understanding the real situation. That there have been murders and crimes in the South growing out of the results of the war we grant but bow could it be otherwise? V9ry possibly if we had been in the South awhile and were familiar with the real condition of affkirs there we would only wonder* that these crimes were not more numerous and more horrible than they are.

Let us look at another phase of the question. Even without any disturbing element from abroad we might naturally expect serious commotion among the people of the South and violent and deadly outbursts of passion between the conflicting classes. But they have not been left to themselves. Sinoe the cloee of the war there has been a certain amount ef immigration Into that section from the North. Now it beoomee pertinent to Inquire the character of that immigration. The people who have gone from the North to the South may be divided into three classes: first, speculators who have gone there with the sole otyeot of making money without regard to principles or coneequenoes seoond, professional politicians who were defeated or out of office at home and went to the South for the purpose of riding into offloe on the backs of the slave population and, third, qoiet and psaeeable dtiaens who believed the South offered a splendid ftstare to honest Industry and went there with the Intention of making an honest livelihood by honorable toil. Now as to the latter class we seriously doubt whether any of them have bad cause to complain of their reception and treatment by the Southern people. At any rate the writer has talked with several persons who have spent some time In various sections of the South and he has yet to see one who contradicts the general statement that the Southerner* everywhere receive with a kindly welcome all who go there

with this honest purpose of becoming bona fide and peaoeable citisens, of attending to their own business

and

LIVING RATIONALLY. [We should be pleased to comply with the request contained in the following letter, but our correspondent haa put the matter in such admirable shape that we do not indeed see wherein it could be Improved. We therefore print the communication as received and bespeak tor it a care Ail and attentive read-ing-T EDITOR OF MAIL:

In these times of scarcity of work and money, I like to see an occasional plain, practical newspaper article, addressed to the common sense of the people—indicating to them the direction in which lies relief from the Inconveniences useally attendant upon such scarcity. Not being competent to the proper construction of such apiece of word architecture myself, I drop you a few suggestions which I would like to have you embody in an editorial.

A man is owing me a debt of twen-ty-five dollars, which'has been overdue about nine months. He Is earning three dollars a day, yet constantly pleads poverty to stave off payment. I saw him out walking on Sunday. He had on a plug hat, five dollars broad cloth coat, thirty-five satin vest, seven doeskin pantaloons, fifteen handsome sewed boots, twelve and trimmings to match aggregating about eighty dollars. He was sweltering under his weight of apparel and a July san, making a fine show and feeling, very, uncomfortable. 1 ff,'

I took an Inventory of my own habiliments: A pair of light ahoes, three dollar* cotton socks, twenty cents cotton drawers, seventy-five cents shirt, one dollar paperoollar, one and a quarter cents linen pants, one dollar ami sev-enty-five oents linen ooat, two dollars and straw hat, seventy-five cents aggregating nine dollars and forty-six and one-quarter centa. I was oool, comfortable, contented

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not odnsplcuousj

having dresaed for my own oomfort and not to be sera of others. Suppose the other tun had dressed at a rost of nine dollars and a half Instead of eighty, he would have had a balanoe of seventy doUan and a half wherewith to have paid his debts—be would have felt oool and comfortable—he oould have looked every man In the eye Mid walked the streets a king, instead of dodging round the corners and taking a furtive glance at every little knot of man be came acroas, before venturing to pass them, for fear of encountering one of hia masters, that is—one of his creditors. By thus dressing, and carrying the same Idea into all the details of my living— that !*, consulting first oomfort and health, and, while not outraging the esthetic, yet making appearances always a secondary consideration—I have through very unfit vorable circumstances reached the age of forty, free from debt and several thousand dollars ahead of the g*ifljf| Tb«?ther man is as poor to

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for the sake of stirring up party bitterness and hate. It la the speculators and carpet-baggers who have caused much of the blood-shed and reaped in many instances a summary retribution for their crimes. They have gone among the Ignorant negroes, some of these political carpet baggers, and by playing on their prejudices and passions, organized a following which waa sufficient at the ballot-box to carry them into office to the loathing and disgust of the helplees minority of intelligent citizens. And when in office they have swelled and strutted in cock robin importance until their conduct was more than human nature oould bear. It is hard to justify murder but some of these fellows got no more than their just deserts. We do not say that Twitchell or any of his family was of this stripe. We don't know whether he was or not. Nor do we say that no innocent men have suffered. It is not improbable that some Northern men have fallen victims to Southern vengeance who honestly and conscientiously believed they were doing their country servioe and were making martyrs of themselves for her sake. These men were Inconsiderate rather than bad. They could not realize that there must, from the very nature of things, be a wide difference between Northern and Southern feelings and sentiments and they resolutely endeavored to create in the vicinity to which they removed the same politioal atmosphere that had surrounded them in the North. Opposition was caused by this conduct and believing, as they did, that their principles were at stake they reeolved to maintain them to the bitter eud. These men brought calamity upon themselves and their families through a mistaken zeal in the cause of political freedom. Many of the crimes that have been committed in the South since the war doubtless grew out of personal rather than political causes. Subtract these from the aggregate number and then take into consideration the facts above mentioned, with others of a kindred character, and there is at least a foundation for the belief that the outrages in the South have not been whelly without mitigating circumstances.

Price Five Cents,

day as when he started out in life, besides being in debt, with a prospeotof old age, poverty and toil in the near future.

Now can't you, on this text, elaborate asermoif which will be of practical benefit to yonr next Sunday's audience?

Is not the low price of labor due in a great measure to the improvidence of the workman, who by constantly living up to or beyond his Income, keeps himself In such an impoverished state tbst he is at the meroy of the^ employer, who well knows his condition, which is, work at some price or starvation?

Why will a man spend eighty dollars for clothes to Bwelter in, when for ten dollars he can get clothee In which be will be comfortable and appear well especially when he knows that by such expenditure he is robbing himself of the only weapon of defense he has against the greed of his employers? Suppose for the next ten years every workingman should live on two-thirds of his wages and put carefully by the other third, how muoh would oapltal own labor, or to what great extent could capitalists dictate starvation wages.

Relief to the laborer is not to be found in the Greenback panacea offered by the demagogues, who are striving to make stepping stones ofworkinginen's ballots on which to mount into office but must come from the correcting of their own improvidence, and learning to live rationally. M.

THE SILVER BILL.' I S [N. Y. Graphic.] The Silver bill, substantially as reported by the Conference Committee, passed the House yesterday. It authorizes the purchase of $20,000,000 of silver bullion in addition to the $10,000,000 already provided for, but it limits the amount of subsidiary silver ooin to $60,000,000. and all proposals to make silver a legal-tender for more than $5 were voted down. This is a decided point obtained, though it falls for short of the wishes of the advocates of silver resumption and the apparent needs of the oountry. But the committee were intimidated by the sudden and uprecedented fall in the price of silver in the London market. The whole question will come up under better auspices next winter. Meanwhile an effort should be made to provide for an international monetary congress. France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy have entered into an arrangement, under what is known as the Latin Union, to retain their present monetary stsndard till 1880. But all of these have Intimated a wish for a

neral International oenferenoe, sinoe action of German? in demonetizing silver has deranged prioes, embarrassed trade, and produoed a wide-spread commercial and financial depression. It is a serious question whether in the present state of the civilized world, when the relations of

commercial

tions are ao Intimate and each is so dependent upon and bound up with all the rest, a single nation has the moral right to adopt a policy that will prove disastrous to all the reet. It Germany adhereato Its present policy other Europeean nationa will be obliged to absorb and carry ita cast-off silver or demonetize It. The former course would lead to endless embarrassments, end the latter woul create a revolution In the prices of all commodities. The true theory is fttr all commercial nationa to agree in adopting a uniform monetary system. This would save a vast deal of trouble and inoonvenienoe, and prevent tho recurrence of such embarrassments as we are suffering from to-day. For our present hard times and prolonged business depression are undoubtedly due in a great measure to the arbitrary and impolitic action of the German Government.

People and Things.s

I watt tdTfe an Indian,

it A Modoc or a Ute I'm tired of being a white man, -r An unprotected brute. 'V I want to be an Indian,

A warrior of the plains, I want to wield a tomahawk,,: Aml aooop out people's brains.

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I*want to build a camp Are, On a human being's breaat, And watch his writhing agony

With a noble savage scot, I want to be an Indian,

And beg and lie and steal, ,•* "With that placid sense of safetr That a white man cannot feel. I want to be assured, too.

That In the worst event I'm the pet of humanitarians, *. And a ward of government. The New York waiters propose to hold a state oonvsn tion.

Some statistician announces that more people have been killed by accidents en the Fourth of July than were killed in the revolutionary war.

Tt eocurs to the Louisville CourierJournal to observe that Adam participated in eight centennials.

The game laws of the Pacific slope permit the shooting of Chinamen all the year round.—[Chicago Times.

When Tllden becomes President, Morrlsaey will be our Secretary of Stakee,—be has held a good many in bis time. 1

W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) is now on the plaina, acting as chief soout for Gen. Oarr*s command. He will not set the ooming season. BUI las good marksman and be ought to "shoot" the stage.

The actress Lotta, and Beecher, mefon the Exposition grounds at Philadelphia, a few days sgo, and were introduced to each other by Commissioner Donaldson, of Idaho. Beecher said, "I'm glad to see yon, ma'am," In a fktherly way, and Lotta said, "Thank yon, sir," la her most demure manner.

For part leu lirs see Fifth Page, Top of Fourth Column.