Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 September 1876 — Page 1

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Vol. 7.—No. 14.

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SECOND EDITION.

TKARS.

BY MKS. M. BUTTS.

Is it rainy, little flower! Be k)A1 uf ruin. Too much nun would wither thee

Twill Mhlno again. Tin- clou Uuw wry black.Untrue Hut Just behind them Mullet* the blue.

Art thou heart? He K'I"Iweary,tender

of jmin.

In norruw swe«t**t things will grow, As flowers In rain. (t'Kl watches, and thou wilt havesun Wheucloml* their jK-rfect work have done

GOSSIP.

These arc the very apideis Of society Tln-y weave tlieir petty wetw of lies and Kiifer*, And He themHt'lvut in ambush for the spoil. The w.*b seems fair, and flitters In the sun, And the jwxir victim windt him In the toll liefore he dreaniH of danger or of death. Alas, I he misery that such Inflict! A word or look has power to wring the heart, And l'-ave it struggling In the net Spread by the false a*«l cruel, who delight lu the ingenious torment they contrive.

Town-Talk.

T. T. has lived long enough in Terre Haute to ontitlo him to all the rights and privilegos of "an old settlor" and may therefore speak in as -'ogmatic and authoritative a manner as bo chooses when comparing any present condition of local affairs with that existing at any period lie may chooso to name, or leave unnamod, in the past. If he, or any other old settler, says, for example, that this is tho worst weather for thirty years, It would of course be very improper for anylxidy not an old settler to question the assertion. I!' he says the summers am getting hotter every year and the winters longer and more severe, it would be highly impertinent for any young person to hunt up and parade a metoorologic.il record proving the contrary. Whouover an old settler settles a |ti! tion of this character the settlement should by all means be considered conclusive. And this rules applies to all questions coming under his jurisdiction. T. T. is particular about settling the |Kint because he desires, as an old settler, to speak of political matters as thuy were years ago, and as they are now.

All old settlers know that in the past, political matters were managed in the most admirable and correct manner. Corruption in office was unknown and professional politicians did not exist. Candidates were invariably selected by tho people purely on account of their special titness foroffifeeand no one was ever nominated If there was the slight est opposition to him by any man in the party. There never was auy scheming done by any one to get a nomination and no unfair means employed to socure HII election after he had gotten it. Con. sequnntly nono but pure men were ever elected to office, except by the opposite party. Tho political campaign was a sort of holiday a friendly, good-natured con tost, not ior the offices, but for the glory of coming out ahead. Tho big mass meetings, barbecues, and the like, were gatherings at which a man could enjoy himself. Instead of abase, the jolly stump-spoakers of thoso days Indulged only In anecdote and pleasant railerv.

Hut nowadays, speaking as an old settler, T. T.

As an old settler, T. T. must agree with both parti en and repeat that it is tho worst *taU of affairs be ever knew. Of course there are the Greenbackers claiming that they are all immaculate saints, enjoying a monopoly of all the honesty and all the sense there is in the country, but a* a party they are rather too vuall to be counted. If they were numerous enough to cut any ti^u ^eiu the elections it might be found that even greenbaekers were not unlike other men. Of course such a state of

affairs is very diaooHraging to an old settler who remembers better times, and is calculatod to unsettle bis faith in even his own party and it is plain there is going to be, as a result of all the talk, the most fearful amount of "scratching" doue at the coming election that was ever heard of in America. The good old plan of voting a "straight ticket" wil llnd but little favor *vith anybody, and If it takes about three days to count the vote in this city nobody need be surprised.

In the oil days, newspapers nover quarreled and nobody was ever suspected, much less charged, with importing votes or doing anything in the least questionable to influence an election, and if an editor had been caught suggesting that kind of business be would have been Immediately taken out and hanged. Nothing was over done secret ly, and no money was ever known to be used in a campaign for any purpose Everybody was honest and campaigns were conducted in a moral and edifying manner. It is qulto different now. Aa an "old settler," T. T. has no hesitation in saying tb*t the corruption and villainy that characterizes the present political campaign are the worst that ever existed, aud he begs all other old settlers to join him in giving the fact the widest publicity. Just what good will be accomplished by making it appoar that everybodp at the present day is dis honest, is tot clear, but it will be carrying out a cherished principle of old set tiers, and this ought of course to justify it.

There are people who have the hardihood to claim that political affairs are no more corruptly managed now than they were in every election since Andrew Jackson was a candidate. It is the duty of every old settler to indignantly repel the scandalous charge. The country Is going to ruin and every old 6ettler knows it, and all engaged in politics at the present day are utterly devoid of truth or purity, and have no higher aim or ambition than to bring about a state of affairs by which they can fill their pockets dishonestly at the people's expense. Old settlers know this, and they must not be backward about proclaim-

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political nutters arejn a very bad way —worst*, unquestionably, than they ever wero in this country and the higher the office, the worse seems to be the matt who is runulng for It. It is dreadful to contemplate. Heading the Republican papers and hearing He publican politicians talk, be finds that the entire Democratic! party is steeped in crime or the blackest dye. Its adherents are traitors to the country and only eek tho power that they may tarn the government over to the rebels of the South, enslave the negro race again, and reinstate the Southern ConfWeracy, with all the North as a dependancy to it. Prom the Democratic papers It is plain that the Republican party Is the moat vicious and corrupt set of scoundrels that ever existed under the sun. It is actually enough to make one's hair stand on end to think of the villainies they have perpetrated during the past sixteen years. It would be Impossible to compute the amount of their stealings or to itnagino crime of which they have not been guilty. Doth parties are aa Sad as bad can be, and the mission of *J^h seems to be to make the other out ttx,e blackest.

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Husks and Nubbins.

No. 226.

THE CHURCH VS. HUXLEY. Tho arrival in America of Professor Huxley, one of tho highest, if not the very highest authority in modern* physical science, has afforded the pulpit throughout the country a new opportunity to launch the thunderbolts of denunciation against, what it is pleased to terms the atheistic tendency of modern science. During tho past few weeks many vigorous, jiot to say scathiug sermons have been hurled at the fearless hoads of Darwin, Tyndall, Huxley and the other eminent representatives of the so-called materialistic school of science —as if science, which has to do with nothing else than physical things, could be other than materialistic. The fact is most of tho preachers have not studied the worksof these great mon sufficiently to pronounco an intelligent judgment upon them orolso their strong prejudices prevent them from doing so. The result is that the views and teachings of modern scientists are either ignorantly or wilfully grossly misrepresented. So true is this that it almost makes one's blood curdle with indignation to liston to some of these deliberate and egregious misrepresentations. And the worst of it all is that few comparatively of those who hear these denunciations, Sunday after Sunday, are sufficiently informed upon the subject to know that the statements are false, or at beet only partially true.

In the heat of this savage attack by the church upon tho scientific men it is exhiloratlng to meet now and then with a minister of wide and philosophic thought who does not join in the general crusade, but who has the penetration to see, and the courage fo announce the true objects and the tendencies of the present scientific research. Such a man is David Swing, the eloquent divine of Chicago whose moral courage is only equaled by his splendid intellect. Prof. Swing recently preached a sermon on the relation of modern science to Christianity in which he said:

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The spirit of inquiry which has so marked the last few centuries, after touching at the temples of religion in the persons of Luther and his school and the sceptics and their schools, after touching at government and setting up republics where once were despotisms, after reconstructing agriculture and transportation and all industry, has corneal last to what is called natural science and is new strangely busy here." It is the same spirit of inquiry, be says, which animated Oalilleo and Newton, Herschel, Davy and Faraday. There has always been a feeling of di»Im** ^»d on the part r-t tfir urU* toiv\uU« fence. Religion bsu «\T tried to h- udenoe in *r by threatening* and denunciations. At length, however, science beoune so strong and courageous that it dared to

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press on in spite of the church and tho result has been the splendid conquests in the domain of the physical uni-. verse which the past century has witnessed.

Oue of tho tnost Impresslvo scenes of earth," says Prof. Swing, "is the spectacle of its children running to und fro on its great fields, gathering up the flowers of truth. Whether one of the children, a Newton, comes back with this flower, or a Charles of Sweden with that, or a Columbus with a discovery of a new world, or a Darwin with a strange, unclassified (lower, it is all the same pursuit as to the right and honor and happiness of the wondering children." What a beautiful illustration of the diverse paths and pursuits of the devotees of science! Who can refuse to endorse this eloquent sentiment?

Pro 1. Swing states a tact which, so far as tho writer is aware, comes for the first time from the pulpit and which is as true as anything ever uttered. It is this, that scientific men are not asking people to believe their doctrines or to throw away any cherished belief in order to accept them. On the contrary they admit that they have set sail on a wide sea and are not at a'l certain what port they will ever make or whether they will make any at all. So far as they are concerned they are perfectly Indifferent whether the majority of men accept their views or not. From the sermons usually preached on the subject one would be led to think the scientific men had banded together for the utter overthrow and demolition of the church and religion and the erection of the rankest atheism in their stead. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Going to the merits of the controversy, Prof. Swing does not think that even the doctrine of the spontaneous origin of life, which is the very outmost verge of scientific speculation, necessarily tends to Atheism. The theory has not been demonstrated and perhaps never will or can be. It is the old boundary line between the material and spiritual worlds which has been approached in all the past ages bat has never beeu proved and never can be. The modern scientests have only come up to it at a new point but are really no nearer crossing it than were the ancients. Yet even could the fact of spontaneous li.'e bo demonstrated how would it destroy the idea or necessity of a God? Such an origin of life implies certain conditions—sunlight, atmosphere, etc. Whenco would come tbise things They must still have an origin, a creator. God would only be driven back a little futber. He would retreat from the creature to the ultimate elements of whifch tho creature was composed. Such a doctrine would indeed givo us a new and grander conception of the present tiaracter of the Deity. The idea of a personal- God, fashioned after the imago of man, is a childish one and deserves to be forever banished. It has held sway over tho minds of men too long already. If the results of the present diseoveries in physical science shall tend to destroy this notion of a personal deity and erect in lieu thereof an all-pervading, omnipresent, spiritual essence pervading all space and oxisting everywhere and in all things. Prof. Swing thinks that HO for from having done religion any detriment, it will have conferred upon it a perpetual and Inestimable benefit.

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LIFE IN THE UREAT FOREST, *5

A

thrilling story, by C.

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LEON MERE­

DITH, will be commenced in next week's Mai!, with appropriate illustrations each week.

requires six men, according to a San Francisco paper, to put up a car window. A young lady gets in, and having humped around In her seat for about five minutes, she turns and requests the gentleman juat behind her to perform that service. This is a near sighted individual who peers around the window frame some time for the catch, and then—of oourse the window sticksjerks bis finger nail half off, and sits down with a red faoe, amid the giggling of the school girls opposite. Next, tbe man In the front seat puts his lavender oolored knee on a paper of cherries beside him. clutches and yanks at the knob, and finally falls over into tbe young lady's lap. The cause of all this misery now remarks that "it doesn't matter," and then smiles sweetly at a pale young man with long hair. This martyr turns white, and buttons up his coat for the death struggle. On tbe eleventh pull be bursts a blood vessel somewhere, and goes into tbe toilet compartment to bleed. A simple minded mechanic now comes forward,with his tool bag, from which he takes a crowbar. Just when he is about to use this the conductor happens by, and slides tbe window airily up with a gentle twist of the wrist.

Twk csmtom at roi^r*? in a t'irni'Hijjti had it* onsin in the poll-evil, and has reference to poll-1 log vote*, llenee Its political i'gnifl-j eance. 1

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TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1876.

People and Things.«

Get out your old rusty stove pipes. Musquitoes are around again singing a a

They imprison a man in Louisville if he doosn't pay his dog tax. Quinine and whisky have superceded melons and cantaloupes.

God calls men out of the ministry OB well as into it," says Lord Bacon. Is there anything on earth more idiotic than the average campaign song."

What was bis record during the war?" hasn't lost its significance yet. When this cruel war Is over" what will the dailies have to tell about? "Pull down yoHr vest" has passed away, and "Blow your nose" is the las test.

Would you havo your day of judgment come before Its time?—run for office.

Sulitudo is well enough until you want to borrow something.—[Danbury News.

If a falsehood paralyzed the tongue, what a death-like silence would pervade

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society. A miraculous feature of the centennial is tho small number of accidents.— [Philadelphia Star.

Two things," said Mohammed, "I abhor the learned in his infidelities, the fool in his devotions."

Indiana is wild with partisan excitement. Nobody has slept there for a month.—[N. Y. Graphic.

From a Hartford preacher's sermon Most Christians hate a contribution box more than they do the devil."

Tilden must put his hand deeper into his pocket. There is no use trying ta savo money and be elected the same year. ...

An observing postoffice clerk has noticed that it takes a countryman just half an hour to find the wrong hole to drop a letter in.

A book on the "Age of Elizabeth" is just published by a New York firm. We did hope the Beecher scandal would be allowed to die out.

As an evidence of woman's confiding nature, it is mentioned that a young lady in Indianapolis was married the other day to a Mr. Forget.

The world may owe every mau a living, but the mistake he too ofton makes is in thinking that the obligation include? whiskey and cigars.

A few more torch-light procesions throughout the length and breadth of this great country, and kerosene will go up higher than campaign funds.

Kind words, it is said, will convert the humblest homo into a Parrdise, and that's tho reason why some men feel a* if they were continually hoeing in a desert.

Tilden's rooms and librajy are magnificent, and he drives fine horses, and entertains splendidly. But how the mischief does ho manago it on $7,118 a year.

Three of the Siamese Twins' children are in Missouri, demonstrating the fact that "three of a kind" can beat "one pair" earning a living as wood choppers in the West.

An Arkansas coroner charged the jury that they were to ascertain whether the "man came to his death by incidence, the bowie-knife having incidentally touched a vital part." ^,

Medical men say that when a man is full of Whisky be can't freeze, and appearances iudicate that a large number of our citizens are expecting a mighty cold snap, says the Fulton Times.

Men who cultivate muscle at the expense of the vital organs may be interested in the fact that Dr. Winship, tbe strongest man in America, died recently at the age of forty-two, of paralysis. He has lifted 2,700 pounds.

A variety company, styling themselves the "Olympic Novelty Combination," exhibited in Hartford during the race week, and advertised themselves by parading up and down the street in full stage costume during the day.

St.Joseph Herald: "How'sbusiness now?" Inquired one merchant of another. "Dull, fearfully dull," was the reply. "The fact Is, nobody buys anything now but provisions and whisky— the bare necessities of life, as it were.

As an experiment a prominet wholesale house In Chicago reoently sdvertiseed for a bookkeeper, requeuing applicants to state salary expected. They received over two thousand answers, at salaries from five dollars per week up to twenty-five.

A physician at Cleveland has a large card hung up in his ofllce, with these words printed thereon "Book

and peddlers charged 93 an hour conversation." Tbe other day a IK^U came and was just beginning a rigmarole ai^mt "the latent and best work on when the physician polntto the ar4. He read the but once when be banded tbe piiy*ivi«ai

a 95 bill, and was about to commence operations again, when tbe man of medicine said "Take a chair, please, and keep your monoy. Hand me your subscription book." He has now bought a brace of Derringers.,, 1./"

A Saratoga letter writer asks, ir. despairing tones: "Where are the men We don't know, dear, just where all of tbem are, but from our sanctum window we Just now saw six of them file around behind thescreen ofa sample room over the way.—[Hawkeye. /i -ij.". ,.*

A wonderful French magician has just arrived in New York. Among his card tricks is that of holding a pack of cards and making them gradually lessen in size as he shuffles them, until they are reduced .to a little ball of paper, which finally vanishes entirely.

Somebody gave a fruit lunchoon kt Newport, the other day. They had melons, pears, apples, plums, cherries, peaches, oranges, grapes and berrios. The night of the entertainment, every doctor was aroused from his bed before midnight to see fashionable patients.

There were a couple of queer arrivals at the great spiritualists' camp meeting at Montague, Mass., last Thursday—a man and woman. The woman wore blub pantaloons and a linen duster, cut on a pattern half way between a frock coat and a polonaise or overskirt. Her hair was cut short and brushed up at the sides, aud on her head was a man's hat. She called herself tho "mother of the world," and the man who accompanied her is a self-constituted apostle, claiming to be controlled by Jesus Christ. He asked for a 10x12 tent, but didn't want to pay for it in advance. The managers of the association, acting on a policy previously adopted, classed them in the category of "unbalanced minds," and did not extend to them the hospitalities of the camp.

Feminitems.

If a lady cau't weep for her lost husband, she can at least wear watered silk.

Be careful how you buy goods measured by a shop keeper whose dishonesty is unmeasured.

Figaro speaks politely to women as specimens of the sex to which wo owe our mothers.

The Paris Figaro advises its readers to distrust fair complexioned women with wide mouths."

Girls, don't be afraid to work. Ruth gleaned in the harvest field and got just as good Boaz any girl in the neighborhood.

The skirts of Worth's dresses are so tight that it is impossible for a lady to make a low courtesy in one of them, or kneel in church.^in *M?-

If you wish to be be recognized as the first lady in the land," try and get your husband appointed Chief Justice. The President's wife ranks noxt.

The Alabama lady that Tilden was engaged to has refused to marry him. She isn't going to tie up with anybody who has only 97-118 a year—not if she knows it.

A reading man has written an essay on bustles." And some project sufficiently to enable a man to write an essay on 'em very easily.—[Norristown Herald.

It should bo duly Impressed on our country sisters that any bat, so long as it is becoming, is fashionable, and tbe same is true in regard to tbe arrangement of tho hair.,

Buckskin undergarments are what the ladies wear in Paris in order to have their dresses ciin& to their figure as fashion decrees. By-and-by we suppose the buckskin will be omitted, toot

A Newport girl had a fall last week and injured herself so severely that she was carried home insensible. Upen recovering, her first words, addressed to her sister, were: Mary did I have on my striped stockings?'*

With the unexpected rise in silks and tbe possibility of still higher prices ladies are advised to lose no time in making their purchases, especially to chooee very dark sbades.and plain fkbrics that are not likgly to go out of fashion.

A Connecticut woman claims.to be the most economical housekeeper living. She has been at it for forty years, and has just commenced on her secobd paper of pins. She has also used one needle almoat daily for the past twenty-two years. 'i

Eating green peas with a knife has been characterised oy certain modern writers an apiece of awkwardness not to be excelled. But then they have never seen a lady with along bustle on trying to dispose of herself in a cane bottomed

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The Free- Dres* He form club in Fhlladelpli'-. nr. n.'^ned an amur-'* reluctsrw OK•' word trou*«»rH, merely d-* t's tV re alxmld a proper frarmrntare-7 for wotmn, and thl« garmentura n'd be of lnalform for th'- If Tti* Nf.f Y'.rVi"m«{ tiifetw IC 4 4»

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their legs as something which can neith* er be palliated nor denied," and thinks that, in view of this circumstance, tbe skittish avoidanoe of the word trousers must be due to something more than prudery.

He led her up to a oon feet loner's window a* id softly said: "Julia will you have me Yes George," she replied. Then he bought her a pound of caramels and their betrothal was accomplished. Few girls could havo resisted under the circumstances. 'V-- W

The other day a would-be fashionable lady called at a neighbor's at what she thought would be supper time. Come in," said tbe neighbor, we are having a tableau." "I am so glad," said the visitor, I thought I smelt 'em, and If like them better than anything for supper."

A Biddeford woman whoso great trial is that her husband is a Democrat, remarked, on tbe day of the recent Republican demonstration: I will illuminate my house, and if my husband puts out the lights, I will light them again if he puts tbem out the second time, I will take one on my head and one in each band and stand at tbe gate while the procession passes, for I'm bound to show my colors."

There is something extremely touching in the fidelity which some women fulfil their domestic duties even amid the gathering shades of insanity. This was shown a few days ago in the case of Mrs. Mary Rider, a German woman living on Meadow street, who left her home on Thursday and has not been seen since. She ha* a husband and four children. She is probably insane, as she has been sometime before. She prepared dinner before going, provided a large quantity of food, left the money convenient to pay the rent, and then disappeared.—[Woman's Journal.

EXl'ERIEJXCK WITH A SPOOK TESTER. It seems tbat a spook tester has been Invented (or rather adjusted to circumstances) that is more effective than a shot guu. Sweet Katie King might have been killed, you know, if there had been a nautfbty person with tiro-arms wicked Enough to interrupt the proceedings with a gunpowder test. But there is a test that saves life and yet has a very happy influence in making apparent the material element in the mediumistics See this little brightness in the records, taken from the editorial page of tbe Now York Times: "There is nothing more revolting to a sensitive ghost than the sharp, (flat headed tacks known to artists as 'drawing tacks.' When one of these tacks is tossed on the stage where materialised ghosts are disporting themselves, it invariably remains with its point upward. It may readily be concieved tbat the unsuspecting barefooted ghost who treads heavily on such a treacherous and ponetrating tack would have aright to manifest a hearty and vialent indignation. Indeed almost any amouut of languigo would bo pardoned by all humane men. But what did the ghost of Daniel Webster de when he reoently tried to walk over a stage strewn with drawing tacks, during, a 'materializing seaHco' in a Wiseonsin town? When tho first tack entered that ostensible ghost's right foot he calmly lifted up his injured limb and undertook to withdraw tho intrusive bit of steel. It was not until, in his efforts to balance himself on one leg, ho ran another tack in his loft foot, that he broke the silence by softly remarking 'ouch,'and it is doubtml if he would have repeated that statement or ventured upon any oiher had he not incautiously sat down, and thus inserted two more tacks into his person. In these circumstances be might have totally lest his temper, and ao mau oould have had a word of blame for him but instead of lotting bis ghostly passions rise he merely expressed bis views of the matter by the simple and touching remark 'Well! by gosh 1'and be hurriedly withdrew into the mystio cabinet."

A DESCRIPTION of Mormons at church, by a correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal: "Not one prettyfwoman not one fine looking man all Ignorant, dull, honeat people—hardworking, low born. No intellect, no style, no refinement, no life and animation in the whole throng. No amiles or bows of Veoognltion, no settling of drapery and rattling of fans no delicate perfumed handkerchiefh. Nothing like what we are used to seeing in a modern church. The women came in, dressed in calioo, many wearing sun bonnets, all without gloves there was a dogged look on every face. I began to realize how the elders practiced polygamy as a religious duty. For nothing but the strictest die tatesof duty eould urge a man to provide for a half dozen ef these dull, prosy women."

THE

last surviving native of Tasmania

is dead. It was the queen, Lidgiwidgi Tancaninni, called Lalla Rookh by tbe white population. Tasmania, or the Island of Van biemon, which became in 1803 an Engliah oolony, and in 1815 a native population of 5,000. In 1B47 there were only 45 left, and niw tbe last of tho race is dead. Italia Ro6kh had been married five tinws, and each time to as king. She lived at Hobart Town, in the bouse of the Government Inspector, and received a small pension. $

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