Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 January 1877 — Page 1

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Town-Talk.

Three months ago, in this bewildered little city of Terre Haute, fire daily newspapers were in full blast— the Express, Gazette, Journal, Banner and Mail. Five able-bodied editors-in-chief, fully prepared to unflinchingly discuss the profoundost questions that can agitate the human mind, sat, with flashing scissors and corrugated brows, amoag their political exchauges, hurling defiance, derision and dirt at their enemies and each other, and laughing their scornful Ha, ha! as with eagle eye they surveyed the devastation and ruin wrough by their lightest articles. Five solemn and mysterious telegraph editors patiently untangled the diurnal batch of Associated Press dispatches and dreamed of the time when they should be told to come up higher and get nine dollars a week. Five fleet-footed city editors and as many argus-nosed reporters went their daily and nightly round* in pursuit of the untamed and evanescant "local" or the fluttering though flatulent "personal." Five depressed and desperate proofreaders maintained their daily struggle against approaching insanity by a more and more frrquer.t indulgence in copious profanity. Five rapacious business managers successfully cut each other's throats on "rates," while failing miserably in trying to induce the editors to cut down on reading matter. Five hungry solicitors of advertisements made life a burden to business men, and live brass-jawed collectors msdo them wish they could die before the first of the month. To these add ab'mt fifty printers, pressmen and other employees and you have about the daily newspaper force as it existed three months ago.

There has been a change. The overflow ha-s subsided. The newspaper-bus-iness has found its level, and instead of five dailies, as formerly, there are now two—all the town has any use- for or can support. Providentially, one is a morning paper and the other an evening paper. If one can stand their political idiosyncracies, they are very g«od papers, both of them, and will doubtless be better now that some of the pressure in the way of a badly divided-up advertising patronage is removed. It is within their jiower to fix living rates for advertisingsp.ioo and to maintain them. No man with a grain of business sense can complain of ihem for doing it. If thoy don't do it they will fail'in a point where they are oxpected to show sound judgment.

Speaking of advertising, the demise of the Journal has brought out

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Ask inf* not to spealc, Words are but ft mask Only r«ad my eyes, 1 hat is all I nsk.

I^»t uh not. look back, Ix»t vtn not exp aln The past IsMtlll the past,

All regiot Is vain.

We are sorry both Let us bury all, Antl upon the ruin

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enrious fact, which will doubtless surprise advertisers. Its circulation was generally believed by business men to be something near that of the other dailies. If there was any difference it was supposed to bo slight and might as easily be

way as tho other. The

I mattor was not considered of importance and it was the habit of advertisers to expeet just as low a rate from any of the other papers as they could obtain of Tho

Journal. For all T. T. knows, the pub3 lisher of Tho Mall may have boen asked to take advertisements at Journal prices ifor circulation apparently cuts a very small figure with some people. However, when Tho Journal suspended publication, The Gazette, as the sue iessor of the Democratic organ, with characterstioenterprise, immediately employed all

the Journal carries, and prepared to fur's nlsh The Gazette to all the old subscribers of The Journal, anticipating quite a large addition to their city circulation.

Imagine the chagrin of The Gazette proprietors at finding the whole number, dead-heads and all, foot up in round numbers only two hundred and ninety Now just think for a moment of a daily newspaper with a city circulation of two hundrod aud ninety, and no outside 4 circulation aj, all, employing two editors a business manager, a solicitor, bookkeeper, mailing clerk, proof render, foreman, engineer, pressman, half a dozen compos ftors and the Lord knows who else taking the Associated Press dispatches at an expense of seventy-five or a hundred dollars a month occupying a three story building on Main street skirmishing around day and nigbt all over everywhere for news, and getting out an«i{ ht column paper every morn-

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subscribers! Could anything more absurd be imagined? Anything more perfectly ridiculous?

And yet this is tho way The Journal had been running for "months and months—nobody knows bow long. It isn't likely that it lost any of its circulation under Mr. Terry's administration, for he is an able newspaper man and would have built it up if such a thing had been within human powor. It may have been that It never had any circulation sinoe Mr. Edmunds left it. -He and Mr. Jordau did well with the papermade money—but they were prudent^ careful men in business matters and made an interesting paper besides. If any man in this city could make a third daily paper pay now, Edmunds is probably the person.

Which brings to mind the fact that such a project is talked about. There may be nothing in it, but a rumor is current that Mr. Edmunds will not be a candidate for Mayor at the coming city election, on account of newspaper designs of the character mentioned. It is even hinted that there will be a law suit to recover the Journal property—especially the share of stock in the Associated Press dispatches, and on that foundation a new Democratic morning paper started. Tbe grounds for a law suit, as stated, are that the salo was illegal so far as any more than a one half interest in the property is concerned that the other half still belongs to a party who has not been consulted with j-eference to the sale, and that this half is unincumbered by judgment or debt of any kind, except a mortgage for borrowed money which will not be due for two years. But it is T. T's opinion that Terre Haute has newspapers enough.

Speaking of the old management of the Journal recalls a picture of the sarcastic but really kind-hearted Edmunds standing at a case, hat and evercoat on and puffing at the strongest cigar that could be purchased with money, animatedly explaining the complicated situation of national politics to a group of excited though admiring bystanders and discussing crops and neighborhood news with every fresh entry of a subscriber from the raral regions, and all the while, with undistfirbed tranquility aud calm indifference, setting up from his head, without copy, the stick-full alter stick-full of pungent paragraphs which made the paper famous and a terror to its enemies. Of course the printers growled about the loss of'iat" resulting to them by the editor's setting his own locals and personals,but what could thoy do about it? They couldn't set them from Edmund's head themselves, and he wouldn't write them.

Husks and Nubbins.

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THE APOTHEOSIS OF BRAWN.

This is the ago of big men—not men large in mind but largo in body. A great, overgrow 1^ booby has his path smoothed before him while the small man of brains and ability finds a thousand imaginary obstacles in his way. The presumptions are all in favcr of the big man and against th« little one. Tho big, burly fellow, with a paunch like FalstafFs, has a letter of credit which entitles him to universal recognition tho "lean and hungry look" of the Cassius, on tho other hand, excites suspicion and distrust.

This tendency of tlio'timos is well il lustratedby ana ditional article in the current number of Scribner's Monthly, entitled "Tho Moral Value of Physical Health." The article savors almost to posltivo grossness of tho animai. The writer points his remarks particularly to the pulpit and virtually says that if the minister have a strong voice and a magnificent bust his flock can be depended on to overlook any small deficiencies that may exist in his upper story: Lest we be suspected of putting too strong a construction 011 tho language we will quote a few sentences verbatim. The writer says: "The voice that does not tire, but matches the thought it utters, however strong and high it may be the action which Is tne outcome of what seems to be an exhaustless force the magnetism of superabundant physical power—these win their way, even If the brain and Us culture be not superlative. Weak men and weaker women aro attracted and moved in a way they do not understand by splendid health. They delight in the manifestations of physical strength."

Why not, then, convert our churches into gymnasia at once? If it is to witness "manifestations of physical strength" that the pcoplo goto church in these latter days, they can be ino: "delighted" and better edified by attending a variety theater wheie athletes twist and writhe on dizzy bare and perform prodigies of physical strength 1 This is simplj barbarous—the idea that he who is to teach, the people the doctrine* of morality and religion cannot successfully perform the task unless be be a physical athletet "Muscular Christianity" this is indeed.

Let us not undervalue good, soand health. Undoubtedly it is the best gill of Heaven to men. But neither let us

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bow down and worship mere bulk and brawn. To do this Is to go back towards barbarism. Some savage tribe it was who imagined Alexander tho Great must be a momtrous giant because he gained such grand victories, and were deeply disappointed when brought into his presence. It is a mistake to suppose that big men have principally brought the world to Its presont condition of enlightened progress. Quite the opposite is truo. If we search the pages of histo ry we shall find that from iEsop, tho wise fable teller, down to the present, many, if not most, of tho most illustriouA men were those of small stature. The great Canute was a singularly small man. Napoleon was short and, In early life, exceedingly thin and frail. Nelson, the great English admiral, was small and Hildebrand, the mighty Gregory the Seventh, grandest of all the popes, was quite a diminutive person. In the realm «f poesy the small men have had it kll their own way. Milton, the sublime, was a man of small stature Pope was, not only small but deformed Byron, Dryden and Watts, who originated the idea that "the mind's the measure of the man," were all small men. Montaigne, the king of essayists, was a little person. The witty Searron, alluding to his poor health and small size, called himself "an abridgement of human miseries." Kant, Germany's greatest metaphysician, was small. Mozart, the incarnation of melody, the wonderful prodigy of iwusical genius, was small and delicate as a woman. Nor is the field of oratory an exception to the general rule. Burke and Pitt, Burr and Hamilton, were all men below the average size. Thesri are some of the names that readily occur the list might be greatly lengthened.

In the face of these facts let the big men hide their heads in shame. When and where have they done anything that, entitles them to special admiration? Point ont, if you can, any illustrious, deed in science, art, letters, war, or anywhere else, tnat was achieved by a great, overgrown Jack Falstaff of a fellow! The world has yet to hear of it.

Civilization is the product of intellect notvof bruto force. Thought wins the battle against nature. Take the science of war for example. In tho old times victories were gained by a preponder ance of physical force. Now they are won by superior skill, strategy and intelligence. It is not more so in warfare than in anything else. Wo have been working thousands of years to put brain above brawn and have partially succeeded it has remained for the present generation to discover that.we have all this time been going in the wrong direction and to endeavor to turn tho world back again to the barbarism of the past.

CHURCH NOTES.

The preachers have generally chosen lively and interesting topics for to-inor-row:

At Centenary, Rev. W. M. K. Darod, Pastor. Morning Bubject, "Get Acquainted." Evening subject, "The Groat White Throne."

Baptist church—Rev. C. R. Henderson, Pastor—services every nigbt next weok. Subject to-morrow morning, "Enthusiasm at 7 p. m. "Faro and Keno and Vkat thoy lead to."

Christian Chapil—G. P. Peale, Pastor. Morning subject, "Self-Control an active Possibility." Evening subject, '•Tho Eoor."

HA MMOND COMING.

The people of Terro Haute are promised a lirsi class sensation. E. P. Hammond, tho famous revivalist, is to be hero the latter part of next week and is expected to remain a month Jn the pursuit of his peculiar line of business aud mark it, there'll bo lively times. In the matter of turning a town completely upside d«wn with emotional excitement, Hammond can easily beat Moody and Sankoy both and give them four in the game. He is as sweet a singer ns ever trod a stage, as well as au actor and an orator of extraordinarv ability. He can so get hold of an audience, in just three minutes, that there won't a soul of them know whether they're standing on their beads' or their bands, and we defy the most obdurate old sinner in Vigo county to sit for that length of time under tbe sound of his clear sympathetie voice and in sight of bis graceful and energetic movement*, without experiencing an insupportable 'desire to hug somebody. What building the religious people here will be able to get that will bold tbe audiences that Hatqmond will draw, is a question that puzzles us. The Opera House isn't half big enough. For the next four weeks shows may as we.l give Terre Haute tbe go-by. Hammond will be the drawing card.

Thbnew Directors of the Vigo Agricultural Society are in session this afternoon at the office of Hon. II. D. Scott, consulting about fairs and things. The board for tbe ensuing year consists of tbe following named gentlemen: L. Heinl, U. R, Jeflers, J. C. Myers, II. D. Scott, V, G. Dickhout, A. B. Pegg Mr. Littleton, P. H. Newbart, Joseph Gilbert, Cruzan, Robibson, and Purdue.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1877. Price Five Cents

People and Things.

f1 ————. '1 The best piano tuners IrTBoston are nuna.

Mr. Beecher shook hands 4,000 times 011 nei' year's. Tissue paper parties are tho latest in Boston. Too thin!

Commodore Vanderbilt never voted but twice In his life. rles Lamb calls a sweet child the sweetest thing in nature.

A man in Michigan practices "tiorso doctoring and singing school." It is not polite to tip a soup dish so as to scoop it out dry.—[Etiquette work.

No man can be governor or legislator in New Hamspbire unless he is a protestant.3 -v 1 "-t

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Colonel Robert Ingersoll has been a subject of prayer in a Christian conference at Peoria, 111.

New York has sixty-eight corset manufactories, which shows how our industries are running to waist.

A newspaper folded and worn under the veat is said to be warmer than a fur coat. Now is the time to subscribe. £j

Mr. Hill Keith of Lake Forest, N. U., having lost his wife last year, was married to ber mother on Christmas day.

A child sat down on a hot stove hearth in Pittsburgh, and was permanently branded with tbe words "Base Burner."

A. T. Stewart was popularly supposed to be tbe keenest man in the business, but under other management his store has nearly doubled its sales.

The Newark papers tell of a nan who was "dangerously stabbed in the twelfth ward." That blow must have struck him "right where he lived."

A little boy was much exercised for fear be would not know his father when he got to Heaven, but his mother eased bis mind by saying, "All you will have. tov do is to look for an angel with a red nose," v,

Beecher and Tilton, while on a lecturing.tour, met last week at an humble lunch counter in Utica. What a fortune for a photographer to have caught the scene and worked it up into parlor cliromos. *.

A bashful young man of Burlington, while out driving with the dearest girl in the world, the other day, had to get out and buckle the crupper, and hesitatingly explained that "the animal's bustle had come loose."

We can't understand why it is that a married man can't go into a store to buy a new rolling pin without blushing to the tips of his ears, if anybody happens to giggle when he prefers his request.— in to a

Mr. Beecher, in a speech the other night, couldn't remember Clara Morris' Miss Multon, and when somebody kindly remarked that it was Mrs. Moulton. The GVaphic says the good man blushed to the tops of his ears.

The Fort Wayne News gives a new character to "new years calls" by this report: "There was a noticeable falling off in the number of calls this year, consequent upon hard times and the influence of the late revivals in our city."

They tell of a Burlington elder, a very explicit and conscientious man, always given to explain himself very clearly, who began his prayer last Thursday night, 'Paradoxical as it may appear to Thee, O Lord!'—[Burlington Hawkeye.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as ho likes. So long as a mau is struggling with obstacles, he has an excuse for failure or shortcoming but when fortune removes them all, and gives him the power of doing as bethinks be it, then comos the timo of trial.

On April 3, 1870, Tweed was presented with a gold-headed cane, and he made a speech in which he remarked, with great tears rolling down his cheeks, "Show me what's to be done and I go and doit, with the help of Divine Providence, and I know that Divine Providence and I are working together,

The changes of life are sudden. A few brief weeks ago we were Bweltering under the breezy canvass, engrossed in tbe antics of the clown with sawdust calves to-night we may be ealled upon to huddle around the coal stove aud sympathize with the minister who is having a donation.—[Fulton Times.

It would startle some people to discover in bow many royal palaces In Europe spiritualism Is firmly seated, and with what vigor it is diffusing itself through all ranks and professions of men, who do not care to make much noise abwut it—men and women of literarj, religious and scisntific fame."— [William Howitt.

And then I felt we were going down, down, down oh, I'll never forget that sensation of an eternity of falling. The only distinct recollection I have is that I felt a certainty of death before me. I did not know where we were going, nor what was happening, but I knew' death was ah«ad, and when I knew this my heart seemed to turn into a piece of cold limestone, and I had no sympathy left for

anybody. After tbat expyierioe I am satisfied that no man when in the presence of death feels any fear. I had only si nsation of resignation to the inevitable, and my heart turned to a piece of cold clay.—[A passenger who escaped at Ashtabula.

When a man has reached the age of fifty-five," said Mr. Beecher la^t Sunday, "he doesn't want to run after a haop." A long pause, after which a sigh aud words—"At least none of your ordinary hoops."—[Rochester Chronicle.

Yoa can always tell whether a buzz saw is going on or not by simply feeling of it, but it generally takes about as long to find the end of your finger as it would to have gone and asked the foreman of the shop if the thing was in mo tion,—[Fulton Timos.

The latest agony in men's caps is a ghastly looking head-piece with spectacle glasses in tbe visor, which pulls down over the whole face. A man rigged up in one of them looks like a full-page illustration in the report of the Ku-Klux Investigating Committee.

Rolling pins were not used in New England till 1801, and flat irons were not in vogue till 1810, and the question how a woman expostulated with her husband before that time has become a matter of great speculation and historical research.—[Norwich Bulletin.

The Independent knows of a Methodist prayer meeting in which a brother thanked God that no member St bis family were among the killed in the Brooklyn calamity, for h^ bad no doubt that all whe bad perished were in hell. Another brother arose and said tbat if be had to die, he would rather go from a theatre than from a prayer meeting in which such sentiments were uttered

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Mrs. Van Cott says "she used to love to dance." '1 a Boston ladies now wear the little "Von Hillern side-curl," and are happy.

A Paris wr ter says ladies will have bonnets of seventy-two shapes to choose from next spring.

Mr. P. P. Bliss obtained his first scientific knowledge of music from his wife after their marriage

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Pull down the blinds" is very popular, but a young lady up town, with an eye to economy, prefers that other ballad, "Turn dowa tbe lamp."

Moody has found a girl in Chicago, 16 years old, ordinarily intelligent, who had never heard the name of Christ except in profanity, and who had no idea of who ho was.

The woman who puts her child in short stockings this weather ought to be compelled to wear a ballet dr§ss to market three mornings per week.— [Easton Freo Press. S-nrr,

A beautiful but blind young lady recovered her sight after marriage. On hearing this an old bachelor wickedly observed that it was no uncommon thing for people's eyes to be opened by matrimony. Kn'

A woman dressed herself as a boy in Richmond, V., for the purpose of begging without being recognized, and she made such a pretty fellow tbat ber pecuniary success with women was astonishing.

Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines wishes woman could vote, she Bays: "A woman's instincts are much better than a man's logic. She may make a fuss about lit tie things, but in any great emergency she always comes up on the right side."

A woman has made a heroine of herself in Marion, Ills. She is the wife of a bank cashier, and one night robbers entered her residence, tied her to her bed, and threatened to kill her if she did not tell them where tbe keys of (be bank were kept. She screamed boldly, and the robbers Red, after cruelly beating her to make ber keep silent.

A young lady writing from Europe finds there some very odd but agreeable things. For instance, she says: As4 general rule, waiters and chamber maids are men. In one hotel where I stopped for three w^eks the only domestic I ever saw was a man. He did everything swept and brushed and cleaned my salon, made my bed, cared for my dressing room, served my breakfast, and always at nigbt, about eight o'clock, be would enter with clcan towels, opoh my bed as a mother does for her children, lay out my night-dress and bow himself out wKh a 'good night, mademoiselle,' One becomes accustomed to odd things, and now I much prefer a man to a woman servant. The young lady should be credited with frankness and unquestionable sincerity.

False modesty frequently deters women from doing their share of lovemaking. From fear of being considered over bold, they are apt to be oversby, and thus discourage attentions which they secretly desire. Women are as well entitled as men to express their love, only' each sex hal ite 'own vrayman with words,and woman with mauners. The one is quite as expressive aa

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delicately expressed the better. A woman who does not express her attachment by her manner cannot expect to be loved. It is altogether a foolish', because it is a hypocritical pratice, that of her pretending to be indifferent to those whom she really and legitimately loves. Of course she ought to conceal excess, because it is a weakness wo want to euro but preference is a legitimate feeling which may be always modestly manifested by any woman. m1®

Many ladies are practicing economy this winter and making their dresses at home. Inexperience does not venture on anything too elaborate, for fear of failure, but the trimmings now in vogue are easily copied, and such minute instructions accompany paper patterns that even a child could follow them. Youthful and pretty dresses can he made of white tarleton. *With the underskirt puffed, and long overdress caught up with red province roses, a bouquet for the corsage, not forgetting the trail or spray for the hair, produces a beautiful costume, and one tbat can be gotten up at homo at very little expense. —[Brooklyn Argus.

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Link sleeve buttons are revived. ^1" Very long polonaises grow in favor, Gaiters and legging are much worn. Enameled jewelry is v£ry fashionable. Hair oil and pomades are out of fashion.

Street suits cling more closely than ever. Fur-lined cleaks are worn only in car-? riages.

Blondes continue to frizz their light tresses. No bustles are w,orn in the street at this moment,

French heels are not worn in the street this winter. Turquoise jewelry still continue to be much in demand.

Brunettes wear their hair plain or in larger smooth waves. The most fashionable evening toilets are worn without bustles.

Fur trimmings are very fashionable for the midwinter monti s.* Narrow go Id bracelets are more in favor than the heavy broad ones.

Crape is the fashionable transparent stuff for ball dresses in Paris. Bronze green is the fashionable dark color for street.suit in Paris.

Dark blue waterproof skating suits are worn over cardinal red petticoats. Outer garments of all kin is for chil!n are cut very long and with no fullness.

It is the fashion this winter to wear warm and comfortable shoes and stockings.

Myrtle green, seal brown, and ink blue are stul the favorite colors fur uiOse fabrics.

Coral and gold necklaces, of fine and delicate workmanship are the styles for ladies.

Seal brown stockings, cloaked in ribs and checks, with'red or blue silk, are sought for.

Pull dress coiffures require a great deal of false hair, curls, puffs, frizettes, and false braids.

A cynical old bachelor says that the mother who puts jewolry on her btby has begun its education for a li or lolly and vice.

Woolen stockings come in the long English shapes, in drab colors, and are far handsomer finish this winter thaji ever before.

Some of the new robes de chamhre are made of cardinal red opera flannel, trimmed with insertion, cascades, and ruchet of white Smyrna lace.

Turkish drawers of scarlet or blue flannel are worn by ladies who suffer with tbe cold. They are trimmed with white embroidered or Smyrna lace ruffles.

The newest sealskin wraps reach below the knees. They are tri atfmed with broad bands ofsilver lynx, or with silver tipped black beaver, or plain bUck marten.

Warm woolen hosiery and heavy walking boots of pebble goat, with soles half an Inch thick and low heels, are worn by the most fashionable women this winter.

Side cut kid gloves are the latest novelties. The slit is left in the outside seam in a manner that throws the buttons on the outside of the wrist, and obviates the slit in the palm.

THE SAD ENDING OF A LIFE. [Bloomfleld (Ind.) Democrat.! Charles D. Cavlns, son of Colonel Aden G. Cavins one of the oldest and most re*spectable families of Greene county^ committed suicide by hanging himself in the barn on his father's farm, near Bloomfleld, on Inst Sunday evening. He attempted self-destruction two weeks ago, and ft was thought the mania had passed away. He graduated six yearn ago at Asbnry university with high honors was appointed by congressman Voorhees t» West Point, where be pass* ed the examination, but was rejected on account of a defective eye. Much dejected by this, he taught school in Iowa lor a while, and then studied law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was admitted to tbe bar as a member of an established firm. He applied bimfcelf with diligence and to the entire satisfaction of bis associates in business but not to himself. He seenied unsatisfied with every effort of life, claiming, in his con vers ttiona with bis father, a few days before his death, that ho lacked thai ready powe* in the court room so essential to success. And his sensitive nature yielding te melancholy, he abandoned the practice and came home with a broken spirit. This was intensified by bad health, bavin Buffered lately with dyspepsia He wte" exemplary in his habits, a student by patnrer, comprehensive in mind, he nimsaid to have been -the finest mathematician that ever graduated* from Aat'* vi