Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 February 1877 — Page 4

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FEB. 3. 1877

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large circnlatlon in the suirounding towns, where sold by nejsboys and agent*. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes Into the handB of nearly every reading pereon in the city, aDd the farm ers of this Immediate vicinity. fivery Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

in which all Advertisement* appear for ONE PHAROS

THE Black case is on again.

THE President signed tjbe Electoral bill at noon Monday. L.

COLORADO has finally been declared a State and her one representative admit ted to the House.

BOTH the News and t!»:e Sentinel, of Indianapolis, seem to favor the selection of Mr. Eppinghousen's plans for the contemplated new State House.

KANSAS has finally elected a Senator Col. Plumb, a printer by trade, a bank president by choice, and worth $500,000 by the practice of law and judicious speculations in real estate.

THERE is report, seems plausible, that

A HOPEFUL sign of the times is, the general belief that with fair crops the country will enter upon a career of greater prosperity than it has ever yet seen. This may be regarded as the long looked for "return of confidence."

THE Electoral Commission consists of Senators Edmunds, Morton, Frelinghuysen, Thurman and Bayard oRepre sentatives Payne, Hunton, Abbot t, Garfield and Hoar, and Judges Clifford Strong, Miller, Field and Bradley.

ANOTHER effort is to be made to re duce the President's salary to the old figures, §25,000. Some fool will want to be "advertising for proposals" next. There are men who would take the place at twenty-two or twenty-three thousand dollars, no doubt.

THE Academy of Music, in Indianapolis, was destroyed by fire last Saturday night. The property cost originally about $140,000, besides the improvements, and belonged to Col. Nick Ruckle, ex-Sheriff. The origin of the fire is supposed to have been a defective flue.

AMIDall the excitement of a disputed Presidency they still find time in Kansas to predict fearful ravages the coming season from the coming grasshopper. The experience of the past three years proves pretty conclusively that Kansas is an excellent State to emigrate from.

THE new Doomsday Book of Great Britain a^d Ireland gives the population of the United Kingdom at 28,000,000. The number of inhabited houses is put at 5,212.932, and there are 72,117,766 acres of assessable land in the kingdom. "Rather too crowded," an American would say.

IT is just possible that ministers will keep on giving sensational titles to their sermons till they run the somewhat questionable custom into the ground. At Madison, Wisconsin, Sunday night a minister of that place gave an exposure of what he slangily termed "the boss devil of America."

WHEN acting does pay it pays better than any other thing in the world. For example, it is reliably stated that Mr. Boucicault has received for playing Conn in his play of the "Shaughran" $157,000 for two hundred and sixteen performances in New York $29,000 for four weeks in Boston $27,060 for four weeks is San Francisco $12,000 for two weeks in Philadelphia. With the proceeds of his London engagement the total is over $300,000.

IN Philadelphia the street car companies are required by law not only to cart off the snow and clean the streets over which they run, but to pave and keep them In constaut repair from curb to curb and in addition to this, are taxed on their gross receipts, by the city, and compelled to pay a license of $50 a car. Notwithstanding all this they have steadily, for several ye&is, been able to declare fair dividends, and their stock is always in demand.

OCR country is rapidly emerging from the dark clouds that have so long surrounded it and will soon be bathing again in the glorious sunshine of prosperity. Surely every American citiren may rejoioe. Even those who have suffered most and in the general gloom been nearest to despair, may now take heart, for the day of their deliveranoe is at hand. Of this there is no longer any doubt. The good times are come 1

THE Chief of The Consulate Bureau of the State Department has jast returned from what was a secret mission to Europe. His investigations abroad have resulted in astounding discoveries of fraud by collusion of the consuls with the importers. A number of them are to be summarily dismissed and the importers prosecuted. Names are not given yet to the public, bat of coarse our own gorgeous Beauch amp will not be among the guilty ones."1'

SENATOR CHRIHTIANCY denies story, widely published sometime ago, that he had been robbed recently on two separate oocasions, once on the cars and afterwards in a Washington hotel, of money t« the aggregate amount of $1,(00 and worse than this, he also denies the story of his wife having anew baby.

his subjects, note.

which at least the Democrats

will abandon all contests as to Florida Oregon and South Carolina, and make their fight for the Presidency on Louisi ana alone. ___________

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY'* EVENING' MAIL.

THE wife of Gen. Sherman is distributing, as an agent of the Roman committee, circulars inviting an extraordinary collection of "Peter's pence," for the fiftieth anniversary of the Pope's episcopate. Deputations from all eountries will go to Rome for that occasion. As the Pope is absolutely rolling in wealth, while tens of thousands of his followers are in abject poverty, it is difficult to understand why poor people should be still fnrther impoverished in his behalf.

THE Emperor of Germany is a queer old party. It is said that in his private study there is a calender which he consults every morning, containing, under dates, brief notes on important events in his life that occurred on the same day of the year. There 3 also for each day a text from the Biblo and a motto selected from the works ©f his favorite poets. He is a constant reader of The Saturday Evening Mail and recommends it to all

Advertisers will make a

THE practice of advertising the Centennial Exhibition awards in garbled forms ha9 led to a lawsuit in Baltimore. One piano agent issued circulars claiming that his goods had been characterized as better than any other make, the truth being that no comparisons were made in any of the judges' reports. A rival agent sues for an injunction restraining the other from lying. If injunctions for a similar cause are obtained all over the country, the courts won't hive time to attend to other liars and malefactors.

THE New York Times thinks that perhaps the chief reason why astronomical calculations are so universally regarded as impregnably true is the fact that, in every single case in which the astronomers have decided upon tho distance of any star from the earth, they have avoided the use of round numbers bile in terrestrial measurements they have taken the precaution to add rows of decimals to every set of figures. The man who would express skepticism as to decimals is not iarjfrom atheism, and can have no particle of reverence in his nature.

HABBERTON, the author of "Helen's Babies," or, to be less equivocal, the man who wrote a book by that name, is one of the night editors of the New York Herald. It is stated that before the book was published he tramped all over New York trying to sell the manuscript for $100 and when he was about giving up in despair at ever seeing it in print, Loring somewhat doubtfully offered to bring it out on the shares. Nooody dreamed of its being such a success. With the public, however, it touched just the exact spot. Habberton went to bed unknown and woke up famous.

IT has been the talk for some time but is now stated positively that Mr. Holly, of the Holly Water Works, will at an early date attempt to heat the entire city of Lockport, N. Y., by sieam. The city is divided into districts, and each district is to have its separate boiler. Mains from each boiler are run to the different houses, and all the occupant has to do is to turn a faucet and obtain all the heat he wants. No one believed in gas when it was first introduced. This new idea does not seem anylefs feasible than the plan of illuminating cities which is now in general use.

IT is an old adage that one-half the world doesn't know how the other half lives. This little sorap of news from the Washington Nation may thrpw spme li£ht on the subject:

An avenue clerk who owns a Spitz dog valued at $25. has a wife and two pairs of twins, a double baby carriage, a French nurse, a clean shirt overy day takes three different kinds of the Bible by subscription pays his gas bills promptly occasionally employs a plumber don't wear the same clothes on Sunday that he does on week days has the best pew in church goes to the charity ball don't eat pie crust has got silver plate on his door gets a new necktie and $8 salary per week.

THE Iowa law for the suppression of three-card monte and other thieving games with cards makes a three-card monte player—or, for that matter, a professional gambler of any description—a veritable outlaw, and imposes a heavy penalty in the event of conviction. The punishment is a fixe of not less than $200 nor more than $500, with imprisonment for not less than two nor more than five years. It is stated that the law is work ing like a charm, and that monte thieves have been almost entirely run out of the State under its operation. A similar law will be introduced in the* Indiana Legislature in a few ivs.

THKRE is no hepo for a man who is not a wit when he begins to consider himself one. Illustrations of this fact are numerous. One of the most frequent and excruciatingly painful spectacles we are callcd upon to endA-e in this life is the funny young man at an evening party, surrounded by a bevy of callow young misses who feel under obligation to laugh consumedly at everything he says. The confirmed punsters and brainless "old smarties" that infest the walks of business are not more endurable but more easily escaped. One may show them the door, or even kick them out, without either violating the canons of propriety or incurring resentment. A fanny man of this class rather enjoys being kicked.

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THK life insurance business is re«eiving a little healthy ventlllation. The general officers of one New York com* pany have all been indicted by the grand jury for embezzlement, grand Wrceny and peijury.

WITHIN A day or two, the President will submit a special message to Congress recommending the resumption of specie payments January 1st, 1868, one year earlier than contemplated in the Sherman bill.

THE Louisiana investigation is showing up a stupendous amount of rascali ty, but just at present it i3 hardly possible to tell whoso story to believe. Many persons, however, tako the short cut and believe them all. TStti

A MAN may distinguish himself in some things as well as others. Now there is Col. W. F. Yardly, of Tennessee, who was defeated for Governor last November, "rvmnin wld de masheen" as second assistant marshal of the Knoxville

fire

department, and every newspaper in the country will have to say some thing about it. j-

PE'ACE at home—war abroad. This is the present cheerful prospect Americans are called upon to contemplate, and they will be able to contemplate it with a good deal of complacency, without a doubt. While we are assured of peace at home it is almost certain that the opening of spring will witness the be» ginning of a great Continental war to settle, if possible, the Eastern question. This will create a market for our breadstuffs and provisions and stimulate every branch of our manufacturing interests. War is a dreadful thing, but in this case Americans are perfectly content to let the trouble go on so long as no fighting is done on American soil.

IT is thought that should Mr. Tilden be declared President he cannot with any grace remove from office Republicans, friends of the Senators who perfected his title, but will be forced by the peculiarity of his position to remove only for cause, and not on account of political differences that he would be dishonored for all time should he continue the spoils system and remove competent officers to give place to needy Democrats. There may be some better foundation for this hope than we are aware of, but if we were a Republican office-holder we wouldn't built any four story houses on it. If Tilden evei un dertakes that kind of a game there will be war, sure enough. 71^4'""

THE changes in the personnel and character of the Senate, caused by the recent elections, are worthy of notice. It is a little curious that Blaine and his old antagonist, Hill, should both find themselves transferred from the scene of their recent contests to the upper chamber. There is Judge Davis, the old friend of Lincoln and the man who more than almost any other secured his nomination at Chicago in 1860, a member by the grace of the Democratic party. And there is the scholarly Hoar, of Massachusetts, and the polished Southern orator, Lamar. It is obvious, without mentioning other accessions, that the Senate has gained in strength and character by these changes. And it is also significant that all the recently elected Senators represent the moderate elements of the parties to which they belong. The extremists on both sides have been elected to stay at home.

THE revival work of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Boston is represented as progressing satisfactorily. The dedicatory services at the Tabernacle, which was built for the especial use of the famous evangelists at an expense of $30,000, took place on Thursday evening of last week. Mr. Moody was not present, and the plan of the meeting was peculiar. The doors were opened only to those holding tickets. The tickets were not taken at the door, but were taken up with donations from the holders. The tickets bore these words: "The person using this ticket is expected to make a

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offering to the Lord, of ni less

than one dollar, toward meeting the expenses of this sacred enterprise or more, as God may have given ability." The Tabernacle was well filled with these ticket holders (only abost 300 chairs being vacant,) and the audience is described as a remarkable one. The Boston Journal says:

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meeting

was in character and spirit an eneouragingone. An exalted solemnity brooded over it. The prayers and addresses were such as inspire men and women to holy consecration and brave deeds for the truth." At the Sunday meeting, thousan were turned away for wantof room.

COUNTING THE VOTE The joint convention of the two housos of Congress for counting the votes for President and Vice President convened Thursday. In compliance tflth the law the President of the Senate proceeded to open the certificates from the several States, beginning with Alabama and going through alphabetically till Florida was reached. There were

sets of certificates from thi^ State, which with all the papers accompanying them were transmitted to the Electoral College Commission for oonsideratlan and decision. The Senate then withdrew to their own chamber and the House resumed legislative business.

The Electoral Commission met at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and received the papers in the Florida matter, which they ordered printed. No other public business was transacted the room if as closed, the Commission remaining for seme time *in consultation but afterwards adjourning till 10:30 o'clock Friday morning.

At the commencement of the session

Friday morning, (he presiding justico stated tbst two objectors on e-sch side would be allowed to speak. On the opening of the case, those representing objection number one, which was represented by Field, would speak first and, under fourth rule, would be allowed two'hours to state the case and argue in support of objection. Field made his argument and was followed by Tucker. After a recess, Kasson, McCrary and Tucker each spoke and the Commission adjourned.

Not more thiah eight hours will bo allowed in the case of any State for argument, and a decision is looked for in the Florida matter at the next session of the Commission. That out of tiie way, the counting will go on till Oregen is reached, whtin there will be another hitch. The Commission is going about the work in a businets-like way that Inspires con fideuce.

PEACE.

That tho "people generally, without reference to party needs or predilections, demand an amicable and speedy settlement of the Presidential complication is so plain as to require 110 special argumentor emphasis in stating the fact, yet now and then we come across an editorial, as one this week in the Chica go Saturday Evening Herald, in which the situation is so graphically expressed as to. challenge attention. Tuke this picture from the editorial referred to, and who can read it without being moved by its truth and pathos:

Throughout the length and breadth of the couatry nobody, practically speaking, ia making any money. Everywhere thousands upon thousands of hard-working men of business, after long days of wearing and fruitless toil, tenfold more wearing because it has been fruitless, go home utterly discour aged and sick at heart, when they should be cheered at the bright faces of their children—sick at heart Decause, to too many of them, iu the near future seems to stand the grim spectre of want for those loved ones at home. Who can estimate the myriads of bitter thoughts and aching hearts that each morning greet the dull gray of the returning winter day that summons them to another period of dreary, dogged, hopeleBS struggle with embairassment and resultless labor. Every man who is fortu nate enough to possess a little money hugs it closely out of sight—buries it away in the darkness of some bank vault—and it might about as well be buried away in some hole iu the ground —and will neither use it himself nor allow anyone else to use it. Stagnation is the order of things everywhere in busi ness, and a wide spread and deep uneasiness pervades all classes of the community. Indeed, it is almost, if not quite, a fear, an actual, shrinking fear, that oppresses the whole land^ Yerilyjhe people do demand peace. iwirbrf vj

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c:Notes of Revival.*.

Rev. E. P. Hammond opened his re vival work In this city with a "children's meeting" at the Opera House, Sunday alternoon. The building was literally packed from orchestra to dome and the services of the most pleasing and interesting character. The Sunday evening meeting was held in the same place aud was equally well attended The subsequent meetings until Tuesday night, were held in the Congregational church, Dowling Hall—where they have since been held—being otherwise occupied. All the meetings have been large ly attended, and at Chose in the evening it has only been possible to secure even standing room by going early.

The Reverends Sterrett, Martyn, Darwood, Abbey, Henderson, and iu fact all the Protestant ministers we uelieve with the exception ef Reverends Dun ham and Pealo, are

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in the revival work, and are greatly encouraged by the evident success th*t is attending their united labors. The earnest enthusiasm and zeal of these gentlemen and the happy manner in which they co-operate with Mr. Hammond or submit to bis direction does much to add to the latter gentleman's influence and make the movement a success.

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Yesterday Mr. Hammond, accompanied by a half dozen gentlemen and as many ladies, went down to the public square and held an open air meeting. The services consisted of singing, prayer and short addresses by Mr. Hammond, Mr. Abboy, and others, and was listened to with attention and interest l»y a crowd of tvro or three hundred persons—the sort of persons usually to be iound in that particular neighborhood. ,,

Rev. Mr. Parker, a blind, colored preacher, who was formerly a slave and never attended school a day in his life, has been doing effective revival work at the Allen M. E. churcb. He is a speaker of extraordinary talent and impresses his hearers as a man of considerable culture.

Mr. Hammond insists that anybody who is skeptical regarding the revival work should attend nine of the meetings—that is, three morning, three afternoon and three evening meetings— before judging. That would certainly be giving the question a fair trial.

The music of the Hammond meetings is not the least of the attractions. It usually consists of about one hundred voices and an orchestra of two violins, viol, flute, alto horn, cornet, piano and organ.

Mr. Hammond was formerly more eccentric than now. It is said of him that he used to mount a white horse and ride ap and down the streets, blowing a born to warn the wicked to flee from the wrath to come.

The account the Gazette gives of him Is this: Mr. W. W. Babbage, the gentleman with Mr. Hammond, is from Rochester. He has traveled with Mr. Ham mond in all for six years. For two years he was in the secret detective service of the United States with headquar­

ters east. He resigned that good posit!on on account of the Sunday work, and occasional questionable practices absolutely necessary to catch counterfalters and again united himself witli Mr. Hammond in the evangelical work.

The evening meetings will hereafter be held at the Opera House, the capacity of Dowling Hall not being sufficient tohold the vast throngs. The morning' and afternoon meetings will continue at Dowling Hall. ---..»•«'i .... ..............

Rev. Mr. Hammond has receivod a very urgent call to return to Washington

city,

signed by pastors, prominent

citizens, converted infidels and a great many others, but he will not his field of labor In this city.

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Tho amount of work done by Mr. Hammond is simply wonderful. During the past week he has been in the harness each day about nine hours. ..\nd this is. his work week in and week out frorn year to year.

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The daily papers are showing commendable enterprise in giving tho full and accurate reports .they do of the meetings. Their readers who are inter«sted in the revival work will surely appreciate it.

A prominent business man compares. Hammond to life insurance agents, who bother a man so much and so often, that he takes a policy to get rid of him, pays the first premium and never renows it.

To-morrow evening Mr. Hammond wants all the sportiDg men and the inmates (ft houses of ill-fame to come to the Opera House, as he injtends to speak especially to and for them.

It is announced that Dr. Munhall will stop here two days, on his way to Kansas week after next, and assist in the revival work. Ho is expected here on the 13th and 14th insts.

It is predicted that a week hence tho present style ©f revival meetings will appear tame and insignificant as compared with the warmth and feeling thatshall then characterize them.

Mr. Hammond's "suit of solemn black" aud immaculate shirt bosom and necktie seem to have impressed the correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal more than anything else.

Hammond, the revivalist, is brushing up the rusty religion of the Terre Hautentots, says the Indianapolis Herald.

Many who are taken to the revival meetings by curiosity find themselves held there by a stronger feeling.

Mr. Hammond Is working In theCounty Sunday School Convention, lit Asbury Chapel, to-day.

A large number of ministers from surrounding towns and citics are here watching the revival.

A party of female evangelists were skirmishing around the streets yesterday for lost sheep. ,,

It is reported that Mr." Hammond has* made an important capture among the spiritualists.

Mr. Hammond seems to know tho bible and(,gH the^ hymn book "by heart." "V*

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Mr. Hammond is never at a loss for an illustration aud he tells a st»ry inimitably.

The expenses of the meetings, as stated by Mr. Sterrett, are about $18 per day.

It is said that Mr. Hammond contem plates paying Wall street a visit. Mr. Hammond should try his haud on the Pence Hall committee.

Mr. Hammond's resemblance to Dr. Reed is not very striking. Mr. Hammond never strucli abetter field for labor than this city.

The street meetings are to bo continued. Hare you heard Hammond

COURT SQUARE.

Some steps should be taken onco towards putting Court Square into some kind of decent repair. It could with very little expense be made a beautiful little park and be of service to tho poople and an ornament to the city, neither of which it is now. At present it is a disgraceful, disreputable, dirty little lot. Somebody has recently set out about a hundred and fifty more—well, for courtesy's sake we will call them trees, though they look like demoralized hoop-poles, and these in addition to what trees were there before—about as many more—make the little three hu dred foot lot* look like a bean patch or a freshly-staked vineyard. It is a perfect tblckct of hoop-poles. That old hole where the court-house stood has never beed filled up nor the rubbish cleaned away, and even the remains of the Democratic "wigwam" still disfigures tho place. Tho fence, sidewalk, and tho streets around it have been improved, but the square itself remains a blot on all that part of the city. Now tbe Countv Commissioners would earn the gratitude of every taxpayer if they would only have the hoop-poles pulled up, tho place cleaned and a few benches placed around. It would be a very light ex­

to transform it into an attractlvo park. ', ON Sunday night last, or rather, at 3 o'clock Monday morning, a te.)in driven by Mr. James Shaw, Auditor of Clay county, ran away near Clay City throwing Mr. Shaw out of the wagon and injuring him so severely that he died within a few hours.

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nied at the time by Mr. Jacob Herr, of Brazil, who wo believe escaped without serious irjury. The published accounts of the accident which connect the death of Mr. Shaw with tho removal of the county seat and raise the inference that It was the result of foul play on the part of the opposition to that act, do the people of Clay co.inty gross injustice.