Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 April 1877 — Page 7

THE MAIL

A PAPER

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

THE A TRES AND ltQRALS. "I will not," says Rev. Dr. Bellows, "demand of amusement tbat it sboufd •directly instruct, elevate, warn, or improve. If it give genuine pleasure, and ifitdo not corrupt, deprave, or injure, I will bless it, and without a single misgiving invoke the blessing of Heaven on its head. Do not, then, read backward all that has been said of the fascinations of the theatre as if tbey were so much against and not so much in its favor. If it

shall

afterward appear that the stake

has essential immoralities and perils to society and the soul, wrought into its very nature and inseparable from it, then we will allow that its attractiveness is a misfortune, its various charms those of a siren wooing to destruction, and tbat genius, art, beauty, and splendor have conspired in the theatre to make viee seductive and folly captivating. But I submit that in the theory of the stage we have yet found nothing to condemn, nothing essentially wronr, or otherwise than right. There is nothing wrong in amusement except in excess, and in the theatre we have the finest of amusements. The dramatic faculty is divinely implanted. It gives life and reality even to portions of the Scriptures. The drama is a species *f literature which the world's greatest geniuses have chosen for their own, gaining immortal renown for their labors there and the stage is the drama made more real and broa^ht within the en «r and fuller enjoyment of the best and poorest judges." ORIGIN OF JOE SMITH'S POLYGA

MY REVELATION.

[From the Salt Lake Tribune, March 25 We will impart te our readers a bit o' church history. The Mountain Mead ows hero, John D. Lee. was one of forty everlasting priests selected by Joseph Smith to form a quorum to test the revelations vouchsafed to tbat holy prophet that they might pronounce whether they were the true word of God. All revelations which passed the scrutiny of that synod of devout men were presented to the congregation of the Saints in Conference as the declared will of the Jxml. But the revelation on polygamy was never presented to this quorum of forty. And for this reason. One day Joseph's wifo, the Lady Elect, was greatly shocked by dlscoveiing her prophet husband In an outhouse in very suspicious relations with a female neophyte. Tbo injured wife made complaint to the High Council, and the amorous Joe was cited to appear. He admitte I tbe charge and asked a continuance of two weeks to put In an answer. In the in nan time ho evolved from his true inwardness the revelation on polygamy. and as immediate use was re quired of this opportune document there was no time to submit it to the quorum.

This is *vbat the Illinois Legislators of the current session would call passing a law with an emergency clause.

DONT GO TO CALIFORNIA. 8an Francisco Mall. The unvarnished truth is that our labor market is stocked to overflowing, and every fresh arriving train but adds to the miserable multitude in our midst that awaits, suffers, starves, and finally lights itH despot ate way back again. Before the door of every employment of lice in this city, to-day, stands a holloweyed swarm that would sadden the heart of a satyr. Men of good brains and culture, good clerks, excellent acoountants, business men of undeniable energy, mechanics of ability, walk the Btreets in dumb despair, and finally take those that lead to the bay and the morgue. It is truly said that San Francis«o is CalifofBia, and here nil the misery and suffering of those who have journeyed from afar to grasp In monotonous repetition tho glittering mirage of fortune Is seon. The writer of this cannot remember an evening for many months that he has not been asked for ooin to buy a meal or bed by men who would have sooner died on the rack than have asked alms in the light of day. And some of them do die on the rack— the rack of continued disappointment and bitter misery. Every train that leaves Oakland is crowded with eastgoing emigrants, who several times repeat their unhappy story to the west-

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coming daily addition to the army of real martyrs they have left behind them here. Yet still the Alta and Its like calmly sing the same old siren song, and still this over-crowded, over-traded, and financially prostrated community is held up with fatal persistence as the proper Mecca of the American youth.

RULES EOR RAILROAD TRA VELEliS.

Never shut the door when you enter a car—that's the barkeman's business Always put your feet on the back of tho seat In iront of you, as It shows your bootblack's dexterity.

When the newsboy lays a paper on your knee, shake it off and kick It along the lloor—newsboys haven't any feel-

l°Always

squirt tobacco juice around

freely—-U rebukes the pride of tboae foolish ladies who will wear trailing dresses. If von hear a sick child cry, swear audibly at it—that will cheer tho heart of a worn-out mother.

Jocular!v ask the conductor "how much he's knocked down this trip"—he loves such pleasantries.

If it's warm keep your window closed, if cold, insist on the opening of every available window—this shows your independence. ,,

If chance should scat you by a timid old ladv, relieve her mind by stating the exact number of passenger* killed iu

Follow these rules carefully, all will admire—the gentleman whapnts you off the train. ____________

TlIElnFFKRliSCR. I Detroit Free Press.1

"Now, then, state your case," said a Detroit lawyer the other day, as he put the five dolar bill away in his vest pocket. "Well," began his client, "suppose, the man living next door wants to put a barn right up agsinst my line, coming within two feet of my house?" "He cau't do it, sir—can't do any such thing," replied the lawyer. "But I want to put my barn right up against his line," remarked the client, Oh—ah— ves, I see. Well, sir, go right ahead and put your barn there. All the law in the cass is on your ride."

newly married, but very joalonsyoung wite home fay morning, be-

mlnded man, sent his young wite home to her parents yesterday morning, because the night before, while taking in her sleep, be heard her say, Tommv dont, Tommy

Golden Words

Happiness can be wade quite as well of cheap materials as dear ones. Tbat man does not believe his creed who is afraid of hearing it attacked.

The road by precept fs tedious by example short and efflcaeious.—Seneca. Ennui is a disease of tbe soul, of which pleasure is more often tbe cause than tbe cure.

Our own heart and no other men's opinions, forms our trae honor.—Coleridge.

Whenever we pass judgment upon ourselves the prisoner is euro to be well defended.

No rock is so* hard b«t tbat a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.—Tennyscn.

Happiness is a perfume ttiat one cannot shed over another without a few drops falling on one's sell.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world—a kind of bedge-hog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Never think tbat God's delays are (Sod's denials. Hold on, hold fast, bold out. Patience Is genius.—Buffon.

Men think it no shame to give handsome obsequies to those dead, whom living tbey bad suffered to starve unnoticed.

We appreciate no pleasure unless we are occasionally debarred from them. Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

Eyes will not see when the heart wish es them to be blind. Desire conceals tbe truth as darkness does the earth.— Seneca.

He that means to build lasting must lay bis foundation low as in moory ground, they erect their houses upon piles driven deep in the earth.

In the moral as in tbe physical world, tbe violent is never the lasting—the tree forced into unnatural luxuriance of blossom bears them and dies.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferous result of public opinion, and the day after the character of nations.— Emerson.

If the spring puts forth no blossoms, in the summer there will be no beauty, and In autumn no fruit. So, if youth be trifled away without improvement, riper years will te contemptible, and old age miserable.

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple when we associate on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.

Do you mean to live without a trial 7 Then yoti would wish to die but half a man—at the very best, but half a man. Without trial, you cannot guess at your own strength. Men do not learn to swim on a table. They must go into deep water and buffet tbe surges.

Do good to all men. as you have an opportunity. Deal out kindness and favors with an unsparing hand. The cause you understand not, search out. If you cannot find happiness by direct search, try another plan. Make others bappy, and see if tbat does not make you truly blessed.

Though man can gather and scatter, move, mix and unmix, yet be can destroy nothing. The putrefaction of one thing is the preparation for the being and bloom of another. Thus a tree gathers nourishment from its own fallen leaves when tbey are decayed, and something gathers up the fragments that nothing is lost.

Tbe greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution who resists the sorest temptation from within and without who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns whose reliance on truth, on virtue and on God is most unfaltering.—Seneca.

If you have no sense of need, how can you pray? Would you knock at tbe door of charity, and then tell the good man of the house that you require nothing of him Is that man an arrant trifler who rings tbe surgery bell, but tells tbe surgeon that he has nothing the matter 1th him and does not need his care Prayers that are not based upon a sense of need arc mockeries.—Spurgeon.

It is a singular fact in nature tbat a few of her plants grow best in shade, and it is true of human hearts. We have known those who gave forth no sweetness until they were bruised by adversity rocks which were smitten and poured out living waters lips dumb until they cried in anguish, and their notes sounded sweet souls which were motionless and growtbless until adversity shadowed and shrouded them with Its robes, underneath the shadow of which they have unfolded into a rare and delicate life of beauty.

A FEMALE MONSTER. Elisabeth Breda was a perfect "Bluebeard." She was, notwithstanding, a great lady, and immensely rich. Her husband was a Hungarian noble, and she was wont to dress well in order to please him, and spent half the day over her toilet. On one oooasion, a lady's maid saw something wrong in her head dress and as a recompense for observing it, received such a severe box on the ears that the biOQd gushed from her nose and spirted on her mistress' face. When the blood drops were washed off her face, her skin appeared muoh more beautiful—whiter and much more trans parent on the spot where tho blood bad been. Elisabeth .formed the resolution to bathe her face and her whole body in human blood so as to enhance her beautv. Two old women and a certain ihtxko assisted her In her undertaking. This monster used to kill the luckless victims, and the old women caught the blood, in which Elisabeth was wont to bathe at the hour of four in the morning. After the bath she appeared more beautiful than before. See continued this habit after the death of her husband (1004) in the Lope of graining new su tors. The unhappy girls who were allured to the castle, under tbe plea that they were to bo taken into service, there, were locked up in a cellar. Here tbey were beaten till their bodies were swollen. Eiitibeth not unfrequently tortured the victims herself often she changed their clothes which dripped with blood, and then renewed her cruelties. The swollen bodies were then cut up, but the great majority were beaten $0 death. At

Fa-ther

am married

now, and must not be kirned by anybody but papa and my husband.'' Tommy was the name of the young husband's late rival, and tbe little wife must not even dream about him.

cruelty became so great, that

she would stick needles into those who sat with her in a carriage, especially if they were of her own sex. One of her servant girls she stripped naked, smeared her with honey, and drove her out of the boose. When she was ill, and could notlndulge in her cruelty, she bit a person who came near her sic bed as though she were a wild beast. She caused in all, the death of 650 girls, some in T*chsita, on the neutral ground, where she bad a cellar constructed for the purpose others in different locali

METHODS OF POPPING THE QUESTION. There are other methods of proposing, however, which betrays a keener sense 01 the subject, and which therefore afford more striking evidence of tbe difficulty with which it is often approached both by boys and girls. One of tbe most ingenious sped mens of what the. fair sex can do in tbe way of*"popping" was once afforded by a lady who wheedled ber admirer round to tbe spot in which she bad already buried four husbands. "There," said the subtle enchantress, "if you had only bad a little more pluck. Adolphus, you might have been one of them." It was encouraging from one point of view whether Adolphus saw it from this point is not recorded. This is the artfully insinuating style, and we have another example of this kind especially suitable for the imitation of gentlemen who are painfully bashful and diffident. It is a Texan lover this time, and he has been sitting for an hour or two watching the object of bis adoration "making quilts." Aiter a while he ventures to inquire whether her ma is "misin chickiniis," and, after another painful pause, whether sbe loves cabbage. He begins to feel now tbat be is getting on, and by degrees he screws up his courage higher and higher, and presently wriggles his chair a little nearer. "I'se* a great mind to bite you," be says after a great deal of throat clearing. "What are you a good mind to bite me fur," asks the fair one. "Kase you won't have me." "Well, now, kase you ain't asked me." "Well, then, I ask you now." "Well, then, I has you now." This is tbe style said to be prevalent in Texas, and tor Texas it may do very well. A more polished and equally original example of a similar kind was given by Daniel Webster when he proposed to Misa Fletcher. Webster had been engaged in assisting tbe young lady to disentangle a 'skein of thread, and with great presence of mind contrived to make it the peg for his proposal. "Grade," he «aid, "we have been untying knots. Let us see if we cannot tie one which will not untie in Ja lifetime." Here he presented to ber a piece of tape twisted into half a true lover's knot which the lady completed, and this, together with a "seal" appears to bave concluded the bargain.

CROSS HUSBANDS AND SCOLDINQ WIVES. "Domestic infelicity," which newspaper reporters nowadays credit with playing such an important part in life's drama, ia often the result of lingering or chronic disease. What husband or wife can be cheerful, smiling, and pleasant, when constantly suffering from the tortures of some dread disease? Perhaps the husband's liver becomes torpid, and he experiences bitter, disagreeable taste or nausea, has chilly sensations, alternating with great neat and dryness of the surface of his body, pain in bis sides, shoulders, or back, eyes and skin ore tinged with yellow, feels dull, indisposed and dizzy. Through his suffering he becomes gloomy, despondent, and exceedceedmgly irritable in temper. Instead of resorting to a reliable remedy as a few small doses of Dr. Pierce's Purgative Pellets, and following up their action with the use of Golden Medical Discovery, to work the biliary poison out ot the system and purify the blood, if he play toe part of a "penny wise and

The Swiss Ague Cure

NEVER FAIL*!

It is the Best 1,1 ver RtRnlalor and Blood Purifier.

It Speaks for Itself all over tbo Land. Head the following testimonials concern lng Its worth:

KVANSVILLK, nd., Dec. 5,1876.

Dr. J. Houriet, Terre Haute, Dear Sir: Your medicine, the Swiss Ague Cure, sell better than any other patent medicine for fever and ague to ray knowledge, and to day 1 have to order a larger quan'lty to support the demand for it. l'leosu send lue one gross of the smaller (.10c) sise and two dozen of the larger (dollar flste. Send as 1 oon an you can. Respectfully, W M. W C.BER, Druggist.

MATTOOX, Ills., Dec. 7, 1876,

I have sold the 8wis» Ague Cute for two months. Have heard no complaint from customers It gives good tatWfaction. Please vend meonedozen of the dollar size.

CALVIN MOORE,Druggist. PARTS, III".. Dec. 2,1S76-

I have sold eight dofcen bottles of bwlss Ague Cure in 2o days, and it has given good satisfaction.

O. V. HUNTER,druggist. I'ABIS, 11K, Dec. 3. IK7&.

We nave sold eight d-sen bottles or awiw Ague Cure in 2U days and It has given good satisfaction to our customer*.

K. P. SUA W A SOX, Druggists. PARIS, 11* Dec. 3,1S78.

I have sold tliefw 1** A gne Cure for the last four month*, llgivus general naiisfacllon to our customer*. When taken according to directions It is a sure cure.

EDMUND FARIS, Druggist. MATTOOS, 111., Dec. 7, Ititt.

We have been selling Swiss a gueCure for some time, and have heard no complaint from any source, and our sales on the same are on the Increase. Send one case of dollar bottle size, and oblige

W. R. H. P. COPPAGE, Druggists. MATTOOX, Ills- Dec. 6,1*7*. We have sold Swiss Ague Cure the past season and it has given satisfaction. Send onedaxen of dollar size.

OBLINUERA WEAVER, Druggists.

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ties, for murder and bloodshed became with her a necessity. When at last the nte of tbe lost children could no longer be cajoled, the castls was seised, ana th« traces of the murders were discovered. Her accomplices were executed, and she was imprisoned for life^

Dr. Dev (ihon

Whooping Cough Spectnc cures this disease in one week's time. If used generally. It will save the lives of hundreds. Do not let yoorchlM die of whooping ooagh when on* bottle of this Specific will cure it. It moderates all the severer symptoms within th« first twentyiour hours. For sale by HUNTIN 1

AitkaTKONO, Terrs Haute, Ind.

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY^EVENING Mail. 1

Professional Cards. O M. BEECHER,

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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1

5 AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, ^TERRE BAUTE, IND. Office with N. (i. Buff, over Tuft's shoe store, Main street, between Fourth and Fifth streets,south side.

OHN T. SCOTT, Attorney at L&nr,

G. BUFF,

Business Cards. IAL THOMAS,

OFFICE—NO. Ill MAlfi erfRJSF1 s.

As U. S. Commisoii^ier is autkorx^. make proofb in Qanhruptey. Over Henderson^ Stove Store, bet. oui and Fifth streets. mar22 TERRE HAfJTK. Ui«

ATTOKATEY AT LAW,

TERRE HAUTE,IND.

Office over Tutt's Shoe Store, Main street between 4th and 5th streets, south side.

R. J. P. WORRELL,

Office, LINTON HANSION, Southwest corner 6th and Ohio Streets. Ofticv hours from a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 4 to dp. m. Practice now limited to diseases of the

EYE and EAR.

DR.

J. MILLS

would most respectfully announce to tne citizens of Terre Haute and vicinity, that he has opened, on the corner of 13th and Chestnut st r^ots, a Medical Office, where he will treat all classes of Chronic and aeute diseases, of both sexes, in the most scientific and successful manner, either wither without electricity.

Office and residence on corner of 13th and Chestnut streets, three streets east of Vandalia depot. Visits made to the country, if required. (febl7-ly)

OSEPH RICHARDSON, M.

Ofllee on Ohio St, Bet. 8rd A 4Ut. TERRE HAUTE, IND.

O. LINCOLN, OEIVTIST.

Office, 221 Main street, near Seventh.- Extracting and artificial teeth specialties. AH work warranted. (dkw-tl)

DR.

L. H. BARTHOLOMEW

Surgeon

and Mechanical

DENTIST,

Dental Room, 157 Main Street, near 6th, TIBKE HAUTE, IND. Nitrous Oxide Oas administered for pan ess Tooth Extraction.

W. BALLEW, DENTIST,

Office, 119 Main Street, over Sage* old confectionery stand. TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Can be found in office night and day.

Optician and Watchmaker For the trade, Main street, near Sixth, slgr of big man with watch.

W. RIPPETOE

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foolish" man he will attempt to economize by saving tbe small cost of these medicines. Continuing to suffer, bis nervous system becomes impaired, and he is fretful and peevish—a nt subject to become embroiled in "domestic infelicity." Or the good wifo may, from her too laborious duties or family cares, bave become subject to such chronic affections as are peculiarly incident to ber sex, and being reduced in blood and strength, suffering from backache, nervousness, headache, internal fever, and enduring pains too* numerous to mention, she may become peevish and fretful—a ay thing but a genial helpmate. In this deplorable condition of ill health, should sbe act. wisely and employ Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrpition, it will in due time, by its cordial, tonic and nervine properties restore her health and transform her from tbe peevish, scolding, irritable'tempered invalid to a bappy, cheerful wife. Leaving aside levity and speaking seriously, husbands and wiveB, you will find the Family Medicines above mentioned reliable and potent remedies. For full particulars of tbelr properties and uses, see Plercu's Memorandum Book, which is given away by all druggists.

Gene Hi Dealer in

GROCERIES, -.v VISIONS AND PRODUCE, National Block, 155 Main sgpe

KISSNER,

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Pianos, Melodeons, Organs, Musical Instruments, &c.,

Palace of Music, +8 Ohio

DREUSICKE,

LOCKSMITH, BELL HANGER AND STENCIL CUTTER, No. 28 N. 4th St., TERRE HAUTE, IND.

United States Revenue Stamps, Steel Stamps, Seal Presses and all kinds of Stencil Paint and Brushes.

REPAIRING ADD ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTEKPKD TO.

STOVE DEALERS. HEELER & SELLERS,

Main Street, between Eighth and Ninth, TERRE HAUTE, IND., Keep.on hand at their place of business a large and well selected stock of 8TOVKS, TIN AND ARDWARE, And ask the public to call and price their

goodsthereby.

before buying elsewhere and be bene tted

Produce and Commission TOS. H. BRIGGS,

PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MER CHANT, and Denier in

HIDES, PELTS, RAGS, BUTTER, EGGS, AC., Corner of Fourth and herry streets,

TERRE HAUTE. IND.

RESTAURANTS. H. ROUSER'S

GRAND

Restaurant and Dining Booms, No. 610 MAIN STREET,

North *ide, TERRE HATTTE, IND. OPEN DAY AI*D XIOHT.

HOTELS.

ENDERSON HOUSE.

F. P. NICHOLS, Prop'r.

Sggjji Fourth St, Bet Walnut and Poplar. TERRE HAUTE, IND. First Class Boarding by the week, Day or Meal. Bect-vraaon vsrd in th«» city.

HOGS.

EXRY BROWN,

HOCSHIPPER, TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Buys hogs every day in the year,"cash up and no grumbling." Office on south Keurth street, one half square south of the market house, one door south of

nderscn bouse.

All I ask is to try me. Trade with me once and you will trade with me again.

BARBERS.

3 DREW RODERUS.

THIS POPULAR EAST END BARBER SHOP Has removed to the neat little room formerly occupied by Dr. Byere and attached to vV'oodrufTs grocery store, on the corner ot 12th and Main, where his many customer* can find him as usual—sociable and ready to do the best of work in his line at all times. He also makes a specialty #f a hair restorative which he warrants in all case*.

d'frcrOG'^'Y A Week to Agents. $10 outfit S00.-O I I FREE. P. O. TICKERY, Anguata, Maine aep2-wly)

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PIANOS.

THE ABOVE IS THE PLACE where at all times m?iv be found the largest assortment of

ORGANS,

"SmiiS'Musical Instruments and MUSICAL MERCHANDISE, of every description, ever kept in Terre-Haute.

Pvrchasing everything from first hands, the proprietor also having acquired the trade of a Piano Maker, at the same time havine an established reputation as a Tuuer and Musician, superior advantages are claimed which are simply

PAST COMPETITION.

PIANOS ANI ORGANS rented and sold on easy monthly payments. Notice.—GUIDE TO STRANGERS inquiring for

KI*Sj\ER'S PALACE OF HS11

Take street cars to corner of Main and Third streets, south

Ohio street, between Third and Second streets.

FOR

BABY f'Alts

VELOCIPEDES

GO TO SCUBDFIl

Kit

A. G. A INTIN & CO.

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All Competition in Hani ware ail I Buill?M\s S ow's this—Pino Doors for #!.&> 11

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