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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

1KRRE HAUTE, DEC. 22,1877

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TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large olreolatlon in the wuronndlng towns, where It Is sold by newsboy* and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goee Into the bands of nearly every leading person in the city, and the farm en of this immediate vicinity.

Cvery Week's Issue Is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for fcOHE OKAJRQJC.

THR PRESIDENT AND THE MACHINE Tbe President has locked horns with the uos^bine and, for tbe present, has bad tbe worst of the combat. Senator Conk ling's victory is complete. It remains for tbe future to tell, however, whether tbe Senator or tbe President has tbe people behind him. Perhaps it was too much to expect that the machine could be broken down at tbe first outset. It is a strong affair, hedged round with many protections it has tbe Senate and perhaps tbe Congress behind it, and can make a formidable resistance.

For years past Conkling has represented the machine in New York politics. He has held tbe political offices in that State in his band, and has parceled them oat as it pleased blm. From time immemorial, almost, tbe New York Custom House bas been a nest of official competition. President Hayes was pledged to reform it, and he means to carry out the pledge, if the people will stand by him.

It is not a personal qiik^el that tbe President is engaged in. He is aoove anything so paltry and contemptible as that. Those who are in a position to know affirm that the President, in tbe earlier days of tbe administration, was disposed to believe that Collector Arthur was a fair officer and ought to be retain* ed. Tbe trouble was thought to be mainly among the subordinates and a commission was appointed to investigate the matter. Collector Arthur was sent for, the situation discussed with blm, and be agreed to make tbe changes reootnmended by the commission. But it was soon evident that he was acting treaoherously. Tbe best men were discharged and political bummers retained. Arthur was sent for again and hedged and tried to shift the responsibility on to other shoulders. It was clear that no reform oould be oarrled out as long as Arthur remained* There was nothing left but to give up all idea of reforming the abuses in the Custom Hause or remove Arthur. The President was bound to take tbe latter born of the dilemma, and he did so itb his usual promptness and courage. Tbe result is that tbe born has tossed him in the first enoounter, but this does not necessarily foreshadow the final result of tbe oontest. If the President stands firm, ai he will, tbe better olass of cltisens of all parties will oome to his aid. They owe it to him and to the cause of reform to do do so. We hope the final victory will not remain with Conkling. If it does, it will mean that civil servioe reform bas been throttled and that the "spoils system" is to prevail yet for an uucertaln time in the politics of tbe nation. Tbe fight is a disgraceful one for the New York Sena tor. While he bas triumphed for the moment, the moral victory is with the President and it will be so recorded in

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BCFORK another issue of this paper the Christian world will have oelebrated, in one way and another, the birth of tbe Savior of mankind. It was eighteen hundred and seventy-eight years ago that a man and bis wife applied tor lodging at a village tavern. They were out of work, out of money, out of home, out of friends, and they were tramps. Of oourse tbe proprietor of tbe Uvern would not let such people stop at his hotel. So he said "get ye Into tbe barn yonder" and Joseph and Mary that night crawled in among tbe cattle, and In a manger where an ox waa feeding, the Savior was born. Jesus soon grew to be a stout lad, and until called to preach, be helped bis father at tbe trade of a carpenter, Jost tbe same as some of of tbe carpenter's sons here in Terre Haute help their tethers whenever tbe father is so fortunate as to need help. It seems from tbe best information we have been able to obtain, that the people liked Jesus well enough until he began to preach and say things that they did not like to bear. So long as He went on tramps with Joseph from place to place looking tor werk, the people let Him severely alone. Then as now, people did notnotioe a carpenter, much leas one looking tor a little "patching" today, or one so poor that he actually begs for breed to eat and shelter from the cold. But once this carpenter's eon began to preach, and all were In anna. Christ was not an old settler's son—be was not one of tbe first flunillee. He 1 preach!! A vagrant with the Impudence to set himself up as oar Instructor —out on Him! And they Jewed, ridiculed, booted, and finally nailed His body to the cross. All th» waa more than eighteen hundred yean ago. And on tbe oomiag Christmas eve, In this age of christaln fellowship, good will and love, should a poor man Uke Joseph or a poor woman Uke Mary, or a wandering, homeless preacher like Christ, knock at tbe door of any prominent

christian in Terre Haute, ten chances to one they would be spurned as wss tbe lowly preacher tbey. now pretend to imitate, eighteen handled years ago.

HABD Truss are oertainly not felt by everybody. Every day we have illustrations to prove this. Here, for instance isone: Week before last, one of the handsomest pieces of work in flowers ever done in New York City, if not the moet elaborate, wss completed to surprise a bride on her return from her wedding tour. In her house—a gift from her father—was placed in her chamber a bed of flowers. It was a high-poet bedstead, composed of deep maroon carnations to represent mahogany. At each poet-top was a calla lilly and a ring of yellow roeebuds, to imitate the braes rings once so fissbionable on furniture. Tbe counterpane of tbe bed was a patchwork quilt of elaborate pattern, composed of al 1 kinds of flowers exquisitely wrought into squares and diamonds, looking much as tbe bed spreads pieced by our grandmothers. The sheet turned over on the quilt was represented by white carnations, with blue Immortelles. The pillows were also of white carnations, with blue immortelle monograms. In the centre above the bed, bung from the ceiling a ring eighteen inches in diameter, composed of yellow roses, and through this wss the canopy, which was composed of smilax, the strings laced together. This canopy, was fastened over the head of the bed. This piece cost 91,000.

THE Indianapolis papers are exercised upon the subject of extortionate fees charged by public officers. Taking tbe Justices' courts for example, tbe Herald says it has examined numerous bills of costs and always found them from a third to a half too high. Constables are in tbe habit of charging from forty to fifty cents mileage where by law they are entitled to no more than five or ten cents. And so with the other items. If the victim "squeals" he is charged with trying "to beat the boys down on their fees," and if he asks his attorney to investigate the matter for him, the latter hesitates about, getting into a quarrel with the justioe, in whose court he will forever afterwards be annoyed and pestered in every possible way. The Herald thinks that a law requiring every fee bill to be itemized, ao that every citizen could see for himself if there were illegal charges made, would work a considerable reform. No doubt the same system of petty pilfering prevails to a greater or less extent here and elsewhere and something ought to be done to break it up. It is bad enough to have to pay the fees provided for by law but when it comes to paying a large per cent, additional for official stealage the burden becomes unendurable.

THB tramp is becoming an object of importance He is not a "thingof beauty and a joy forever on the oontrary, he is an unmitigated nuisance, whom all good people are vainly seeking to abolish. Like a lily of the valley, he toils not, neither does be spin. Labor, with its "hundred hands knocking at the golden gates of the morning," has no charms for him he prefers to dream the happy hours away. In order to cheok this general nuisance, several States have passed laws conferring upon magistrates tbe power to send persons to jail for applying for shelter at the station houses, or food at private houses. Our Mayor has recently iseued an order proposing to enforce the law in this city. The law has just been tested at Chics go before Judge MoAllister, who declares that tbe measure i« unconstitutional and attrocious to the last degree, in that it deniea to a pereon the right of trial by jury guaranteed to eve^y American eitisen. This decision In regard to the Illinois act will apply to all the States where similar laws have been adopted,

Tax prospects tor republican government in Franoe have very much brightened within the past few days. For weeks a cloud of uncertainty and apprehension hung over the country,ready to burst at any moment into violenoe, and perhaps bloodshed. President MaeMahon seemed to defy the will of the people and resist their verdict as indicated by the elections. He persisted stubbornly In attempting to form a Cabinet In opposition, to a majority of tbe representatives. But tbe Republican members remained firrq and resolute, unmoved by his threats, submitting to no oompronlse, but doggedly maintaining their rights, and at length the Marshal was compelled to yield and form a Cabinet from the Republican aide of the chamber. Not only so, but he sent In an official message to the effect that tbe recent elections affirmed the confidence of the people in republican institutions, and that he accepted their judgment and would be governed accordingly. The outcome of this fetal struggle cannot fell of strengthening the cause of free |ovenBmeBtJat^B»^^

IT looks ss If the Rosso-Turkish war was about ended. The air is filled with talk of peacemaking. Germany and Austria decline to mediate, and in all probability tbe other great powers will follovf their example. This oourse will leave theCsar free to dictate his own terms which will probably he liberaltor Russia

CiraarrxAS will soon be here set your boose In order—for much remains to be accomplished and the time Is short.

ALL this trouble on the RtoGiaade Is oooastonsd by a fight among cattle thieves over a salt Uck.

Ur in Chicago it is a standing inquiry —••Which bank Is it this morning.

A CIRCUS RIDER.

HOW A WOMAN LEARNED TBE BARE BACK TRICKS. Twenty Years on Horseback—Two Broken

Ankles—Four Broken Arm*—A Severe Kick from Triek Horse—Twenty Thousand, Dollars a Year—Jumping Through 200,000 Balloons— Where they Practice. Many of our readers will remember Madame Doclcrill, who came here laat year with the London Circus, and did some remarkable horseback riding, Including a four horse act. A reporter of the New York Sun interviewed ber last week, and thus notes it down:

Last evening, after Mme. Dockrill had finished her four horse bsreback act, as she was acknowledging tbe applause of tbe audience in tbe ampitbeater, tbe ringmaster gave an extra flourish of his whip, which started the last horse leaving tbe enclosure. He turned quickly, fell on bis side, and striking out, kicked tbe fair equestrienne severely on tbe shin. She fell, but was up in a second, as wss the hone.

I chanced to be one of tbe spectator*, and it at once occurred to me that t-n* woman who nets twenty thon ii»i lars a year by tbe skillfn' s,t?of her limbs and feet on ber i.-Wv backs, should happen to break m.e of her legs, the public would be interested to know it.

Fortunately, although the blow was hard and tbe pain acute, no bone was broken, and Madame was able to walk slowly home. She is a native of France, about thirty years old, tall, slender, pleasant-looking, domestic in ber tastes, and very quiet in ber manner. I met her after the performance with her husband, wbo has charge of the ring during her acts, and availed myself ot the op porto nity to ask ber a few questions.

She says she is extremely fond of her business, and could never be happy if she wero to leave it. 'How long,' said I, 'have you been in tbe circus 'Ever since I wss a child. My father and all our family were circus people, and I was about our hones from my earliest days.' 'When did you begin to ride?' 'I rode when I was five years old, but I began public bareback riding when I was thirteen.' 'Was it difficult at first?' 'Very, and I had to practice so much but afterward it became second nature. 1 train my own horses. They know me, and I them. Tbey wonld allow no one else to ride them. Mr. Stickney tried these four, but be could do nothing witli them.' 'Are they very valuable?' 'Ob, yes. I wouldn't sell the one on which I do my principal act for any money. I was offered f2,000 for him in Cincinnati, but such an offer is absurd. I have seven, all told. They work like a charm together.' •'Why is it that these bareback horses AT6 always gray 'That's because the rosin shows less on a gray horse.' 'What is the rosin for?' 'It is necessary, especially if otir shoes are new or stiff.' 'You formerly played In Europe?' 'I have played all over the world, and before all tbe crowned heads. I like to ride iu the Spanish and French rings, but tbe Americans are very encouraging also. In California tbey are very enthusiastic. Here in New york the people have seen all the great artists, and one has to be extra good to please them, bujf en the road they have not seen so many, although they seem to be very discriminating there as well.' 'I notice that In your principal act you use or do not use tbe reins at pleasure, but in the four horse act you use them all tbe time. Why is tbat?r 'The single horse is trained. He does just so with or without the reins, but I need tbem with the four horses to give tbem their cues. I regulate their going ahead, coming back, and forming in procession by the rein entirely.' 'Do you ever feel afraid or nervous when riding?' •Never. 1 don't think of myself at all. I simply say to myself, this is your work, you have it to do, and do it. I always try to do my best, rain or shinehere where we have a beautiful ring, or on the road with tbe mud in the ring six inohes deep." •Weren'tyou nervous when before the crowned heads of whom fan spoke? •Not a bit. Why? Some riders are always nervous. It's temperament. As for me. I never once think of myself.' 'Can't you play belter to a full house?' 'No, sir. It is pleasant to see a full house for the sake of the manager, but it makes no difference.' 'Do you become excited by tbe noise and hi hi's?' •Not in tbe least. I make a noise and hi-hi, too, but all tbe time I am attending to my business.' •You bad a pretty hard kick to-night?' •Yes, I wss taken by surprise. I was making my compliments to the audi* enoe when I felt the blow. I couldn't think what it was till I saw the horse on the ground. He hurt my shin badl v. I shall rub it with liniment, and do It up in Pond's extract.' 'Have you had many blows and fells?' •Ob, yes. I broke my ankle twice and my arm four times. Last season I lay in the ring unconscious along time, but those things are to be expected.' 'How long have you been married?* •Twelve years.' 'Fortunately your husband is in tbe business too, or you wouldn't have much domestic life.' •Oh, I have a lovely home in Bordeaux, France, Mod three little children.' •Boys?' •Girls all three girls the eldest is nine years old. One of my babies was born in tne height of our season. I bad been riding that very day. I wish I oould see tbem, but it doeent. do to travel with children In this business.' •Then you dont propose to put them In the ring?' •Oh, yes. They are all wild about horses already. These laws about child oerformers keep us from putting tbem In the ring at once. We teach them the business all tbe same, ana sane day will brine them out.' 'What do you and tbe boraesdo at-tbe dose of tbe season?* $, •Rest and practice.' •Where?* •Well, there are two places, one in New Jersey and one on Long Island. I need to go oat every day to practice. I train my own horses, and sometimes it's very difficult to find a place where a ling can be made. I let the horses rest a month and then train them.' 'Rest from wbatT 'From hard work! These acts do not modi time, hut tbey are the bones

•Sometimes I sm literally exhausted. FOr instance, in my principal act *Why do you call it principal aeCT 'Because there arsdifficult things to do In lw It's the technical name tor the first fad show act. In that act I go

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through forty or fifty balloons, jumping from my feet and falling on my knees. The physical strength used up in that is tremendous,' 'In twenty years you have demolished a great many balloons, haven't you? Counting matinees, you have averaged aixty balloons a day for six months in every year. That would be— 60 per day for SO days 1|S0# 1,800 per month for® mouths —JO 000 ft months a year in 20 years.....—.....—316,000 or a grand total of 216,000 balloons.' •Yes,' laughingly replied Madame Dockrill, 'that would make a large pile of paper, wouldn't it?'

As she ssld this, a terrible scream was heard in tbe direction of tbe monkeys' cage. Mr. Parks and the rest ran over and found a venerable monkey had inadvertantly pushed bis paws through tbe bars of the next cage, after which he fell asleep. A mlschevious monkey watched the paw, saw Its owner enter tbe land t»f Nod, and, seising It in his teeth, bit It through and through. Mr. Parks ftruok tbe biter several severe blows with a heavy stick before be "released the paw, at which tbe sufferer fell back in bis cage and fainted dead away.

Resuming the conversation with Madame Dockrill, I asked her if she needed help at auy time in the ring, as it was noticed that her husband, In a dress coat and lavender tight*, was always present. •Ob, no,' said she. 'I depend on my own nerve. I never think of anybody or anything. I shout and hurrah, and all that, but I keep my own bead on my business, watch my horse, and do what I have done a thousand times before.' •Then tbe attention of individuals, tbe flattery of acquaintances, has no effect, no stimulating boost, as it were?' 'Not at all. Mr. Dockrill is always with me. He has his menage act on a horse which formerly belonged to Na-

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oleon III. It was taken from his staMr. Dockrill bought it, and trained it, and rode it in six weeks' time. It's a great thing to get a good horse.' 'Yes, indeed,' said big Bliss. 'Charley Fish, the greatest male bareback rider In tbe world, has been offering big prices for a horse this six years, and couldn't get one. I found him one last week in a baker's cart. You ought to see him he's as tickled as Punch.'

So far as my observation goes, Mme. Dockrill is tbe one rider who is contented with ber profession.

All tbe resv are ambitious to act. Charles W. Fish, whose riding in the London Circus is a thing of beauty, grace and skill, Is crazy on the subject. One can't be in bis company ten minutes before bo pulls out a play in which he intends appearing, ana in which be believes be will make a bit.

Miss Watson, another bareback rider, is affected with tbe same complaint. They all belong to tbe "profession," and expect sooner or latei to shine upon the mimic stage.

It is notorious that all the clowns believe themselves actors already. Like the minstrels, tbey abhor original jokes, and stick to tbe same old Joe Millers that their predecessors used. "This is my finger and this is my thumb," says the clown, as be punches two boles in a balloon. And as no audience was ever known to decline to laugh at it, the inference is that it is funny. Tbe clowns in the London Circus say It with conscientious regularity.

Mme. Dockrill is beyond tbe help of anybody's praise. For years she bas drawn a weekly salary of f360. She now has 1350, and next season will receive f400. In addition to this large sum she has tbe care and feed 6f seven horses and two grooms. It is estimated that ber horses, costumes and general furnishing for her business are worth $50,000 to 175,000. I am unable to understand why the first act should be called the "principal." In the seoond she drives four horses, manipulating and directing them in surprising manoauvres and part of tbe time straddles all four of tbem, one foot resting on the outer flank of tbe borse at the extreme light, the other on tbe flank of tbe one at the extreme left.

I asked ber if she fonnd it difficult to do that. 'No,' said she, 'practice has made it all easy but I must practice.' •Does Mr. Doclcrill get your horses under control for yon before you train them?' •Mr. Dockrill attends to bis horses snd I to mine.'

Mr Dockrill is, I believe a partner In the London Circus. He was once a bareback rider, too, but now manages the ring, and looks out for Madame. He is a Frenchman, perhape thirty-five or forty year* of age. very polite, and apparently candid. His admiration for Madame is something pleasant to see. He never leaves ber done with others, bbe is a valuable property and be takes the best of care of her. I should judge, in spite of tlu denunciations of Brother Talmsge, that Mr. and Mrs. Dockrill are more qpiet in. their manner and more devoted in their regard than tbe majority of public men and women. Ana yet their life is one of boisterousness, hi hi's, and oonstant excitement.

To all appearances, when on her fleet footed steeds, standing on tip toe with one leg pointing toward the setting stars, Madame Dockrill was on the verge of delirium.

In lese than ten minutea thereafter she bad doffed her plamea and spangles, and as she rubbed her aching leg, coolly canvassed the respective merits of Hogg's liniment and Pond's extract.

The fact is, we dont always judge correctly. .iv'": CoxFBBSioKS of a Baltimore tramp: "At Perryville I went to a house with a brick in my band, and asked tbe lady if abe would please be so kind as to pot some butter on it. The request excited her curiosity, and she asked: 'Why do you want to put batter on a brick I told her I was going to eat It. 'Surely,' she said 'you are not so hungry ss to eat a buttered brick Come Into the house and I will give yon food.' I bagged a square meal, for which I bad set so slick a trap. In tbe western section of tbe State I asked for edtnethlng to eat at a house and was refused. I then begged tors looking glass, whieh aroused cariosity to know what I would do with the mirror. I replied, 'I want to see myself starving to death.' They then gave me what I wanted.'

Monsieur de ," said a itleman to a French friend the other "sorry to bear you've lost your "Out, sere," replied tbe Frenchman. "ah, se misfortune boneeMe my poor vifo." "I attended the funeral at the church," continued the gentleman "you seemed to be taking on terribly about it, I noticed." "Ze church P» exclaimed the Frenchman, excitedly. "Ze church! Ah,my frieod^atwasnoestng. Yon should have seen me at ss gram Zere I raise h—1."

A LITTLE five year old came up fb his mother and said: "Mother, I aaw something run across the kitchen floor this morning, and it badnt any legs either what do yon suppose It wasT' Tbe mother said she supposed It was a worm, or something of that sort. Final!? ahe gave It up, and the youngster calmly said, "It waa some water."

Feminitems.

The handsome principal of a'Wisconsin school is only eighteen. Yet the girls say, "Principals, not men."

Norristown Herald: The latest furbelows, says a fashion item, are fur anklets. Fashion can't get lur-below that.

A Mrs. Brown, who wan the matron of the New York baby show, was, at the close of tbe exhibition, presented by tbe mothers with an elegant floral tribute. Tbe judges were not remembered.

A St. Louis widow Ssa had three husbands. She has on band a lawsuit to crack the will of tbe first, another to reooverthe insurance money on the life of the seoond, and a third to obtain alimony from the last.

Paris rejoices in a yung, pretty and well dressed woman, who for the past two years has not missed A daily visit to the hack stands from tbe Bastile to tbe Madelaine. Shekels every horse on the stand, and treats it to sugar or cake, and the horses know her and brighten up at her approach.

The lady with "experience as fc writer, and devoted to journalism," wanted a place on a first class dally journal. She "would be content with her expenses for salary till she showed her value," and the editor thought it would be encouraging cheap labor to engage her, till she sent down to the office her bill at an uptown hotel, with her laundry account charged twenty-one dollars a month for fluted skirts,—New York Mail.

THK best newspapers to advertise In are those papers which go into the household and are read by the whole family. Tbe Saturday Evening Mail is emphatically a paper for tbe family circle and hence as an advertising medium is worth more to the merchant or general dealer than a paper hastily read in the business bouses—solely for the news of the day— and then cast aside.

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Buscrsss MBN should know that an advertisement inserted in Thursday's and Saturday's Mail will fell into the hands of 20,000 persons. The Mail is sold on Saturday by more than 150 newsboys. The Thursday paper goes to almost every postoffioe within fifty miles ot this city. It is sold by newsboys on the streets of all the surrounding towns All advertisements go into both papers for one price. The Mail is the people's paper—everybody takes it. Ten cents a line is all that is charge for local or personal advertisements—five cents a line for each paper. Cheapest and best advertising afforded by any paper In the city.

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