Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 September 1878 — Page 4

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A. PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, jenrrOB AND PROPRIETOR. TBMm HAUTE, SEPTEMBER 28,1878

TWO EDITIONS

IHIUaFvxanpablldMd. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening has a laige circulation in the surrounding it la Mid by newsboys and

lhe SECOND KDITION, on Saturday Jag, COM Into the hands of nearly every martlng person In the city, and the of this Immediate vicinity.

Imj Week* Issue Is, In IsCt, TWO NEWSPAPERS, IB which all Advertisements appear for

CRUX GHABGK i. THB weatber has been very favorable for the September fairs.^ •*rt

DURING August, 1853, the deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans were 5,516.

THK New York Herald makes picturesque mention to Ben Butler as "the stormy petrel of American politics.

IT is said that more farm buildings have been erected in the Western 8tates the present year than during any season since the war. 'J

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INDIANAPOLIS has a reputation not to be proud of—having bad eleven murders in twelve months—and has now four murderers in jail.

ONLY one more week till the election. Won't everybody be glad when it is over—everybody but the defeated candidates, we mean 1 .......... jtyt tHgftg

BEN BCTLKR gives evidence that he has been a hard working man by the fact that he is the largest individual taxpayer in Lowell, Mass. 1 !, ..

BBCADSB his mother wouldn't put butter on his bread, a melancholy seven year old boy in Cincinnati committed suicide by drowning himself.

PRESIDENT HAYKS is reported as particularly gratified with the evidences of returning prosperity which be observed in his recent journey through the West.

TJETEBB is no apparent change in the situation at the south—the daily death roll looming up as ghastly as ever. A killing frost seems to be the only hope the distressed people have for relief.

A LETTER from Prof. Barnabas C. Hobbe, from St. Petersburg, will be found on the second page. It is interesting to read the writing of a live Hoosier in the far-away Russian capital.

THK publishers of the Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche have reduced the dimensions of that paper just one-half giving as a reason the prostration of business caused by the ravages of yellow fever.

THB Rev. DeWitt Talmage lias been making a tour of the dance bouses and low dens of Kew York in company with a police inspector, and proposes to tell of the sights he' saw, in a sermon to be delivered at an early day.

IT is not Improbable that there will be a good deal, of surprise manifested over the election in this State wbloh will take place on the 8th of October. Public sentiment is so unsettled that there Is little guesning what will be the result.

ROYAL HAMMER, an energetic newspaper carrier of Indianapolis, frequently earns $25.00 a week by selling papers. From the proceeds of his earnings he bought a bouse and presented it to his mother. There is no doubt as to the future of a boy like that.

THB Indianapolis Journal is authority for the statement that the wholesale trade in that city is now in a more satisfactory condition than it has been at any time since the war, and that business men want the finanoes of tho country let alone. _______

IT is a corlons fact that since the death of Brigham Young, Mormonlsra has iuoreased. There is a oonstant and slleat influx from foreign countries. About six hundred oame oyer recently, With Ifes Mormons and the saffron apostles of Joss under full headway, the atlllenium mny be considered ind|fi nitely postponed.

OVER twenty-five hundred poor dill dren have been furnished a vacation in the oeuntry, free of oost, this summer, from a fund raised for that purpose by the New York Evening Poet. At the Summer House, on Long Island, in charge of the Children's Aid Society, nearly two thousand girls have been received, each of them remaining week. Charities like these confer bless 4ags not easily estimated.

THB outcome of Butler ism in Mi ehma^ts will be waited with interest. When Butler's mob forcibly took possession of the Democratic convention at Worcester and proonead his nomination for Governor, the oonrention was pronounced adjourned, by the state central oommlttee, to meet in Fanueil Hall, Boston, on the «5th instant. Accordingly the contention met in that place on Wednesday last, jtod nominated tor Governor Joslah Q. Abbott, a former member or Congress and a member of the Electoral Commission. He Is a strong man and it is evident the better class of Democrats do not intend that Batler ah all have it ail his own way. It will be creditable to American politics if Bntler defeated,

D. N. Snvam* leading boslneas manof Boston, baa declined the nomination tor State Treasurer Ontho Batler ticket, and in his letter ot

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aays: "I advise all who think thai they can immediately legislate goodtimea, to consider that the real capital of thk or any other oountry Ilea 1B good honest labor, which with temperate, industrious nj pronominal habits, will right alltheir wrongs. We are in a batter condition than we wen a year ago. We have touched the bottom, I am confident. We have the elements of prosperity still with Us." These sentiments will bear thinking about.

THB United States ia not only a great agricultural nation, but is fast becoming distinguished for its manufactures. At the Paris Exposition American manufacturers received all the first and second, snd a majority of the third, prises for agricultural implements. In ma chinery, scales, instruments of precision, beer, parlor organs and dental instruments the United States ranks highest, as we do also in street cars, printing presses, sewing machines and canned goods. In books we get three of the five prizes. This is pretty good for a beginning, but we will do even better at the next world's fair.

SOME comments in last week's Mall based on a positive statement that first appeared in the Gazette, and was repeated in another paper, we have been satisfied did injustice to the physician tiamwH His name was not mentioned in this paper, and hence it is not necessary to give it in this paragraph. The oomments in The Mail were entirely proper, if the statements in the daily papers had been true, but unfortunately they were not, and it is but justice to the physician alluded to, to say that the first suggestion of outrage to the person of the unfortunate Mr?. Haggerty did not come from him. On the contrary, he satisfied the family that such was not |he case, and thereby set at rest a dreadful suspicion.

THB Indianapolis News pertinently remarks that "the very blusterers now about the necessity- of mob law will be among those signing petitions and offering prayers for the lives ot these murderers, ss was done in the esse of Greenley." It is this sniveling sentimentallsm which does much to embolden burglars and murderers, and make crime ram' pant through the land. Let the law be sternly and relentlessly executed, without variance or the shadow of turning, and we will soon see the good effects of it. Law and sentimentallsm don't go well together. A weak law, or one weakly enforced, is perhaps worse than no law at all. We go too muoh by jerks and spells. From the extreme of leniency we pass to the extreme of severity. Let the pendulum of the law swing with steady uniformity, mowing down Indiscriminately all evil-doers in its way, and society will be vastly improved,

THE CLIMAX OF CRIME. Mention wss made last week of the cold-blooded murder of Mary McGlew, dining room girl employed at the

Spencer House, in Indianapolis, by Henry Guetig, but this week a crime which infinitely surpasses that in horror is contributed by the same city.

Last Sunday afternoon while three boys were fishing in Eagle. Creok they discovered a human hand protruding from a pile of brush and driftwood on the shore. Further examination die olosed the rapidly decomposing body of a woman lying in a hole ia the bank of the stream, with the remains of anew born infant lying beside her. Both bodies were entirely nude, and a heavy log bad been hastily rolled upon them by the murderer. A out on the side of the woman's bead and a swollen neck, Indicating strangulation, were the only evidencee of violence that could be discovered. Tbe body of the woman was identified ss tbst of Julia Merrick, the wife of one William Merrick, owner of a livery stable In Indisnapolia, and the daughter of George Paul, a wealthy farmer living near Waverly, in Morgan oounty. The facts so far gathered show that the girl Julia Paul some years ago became estranged from her father and was making her own way in the world by music and school teaching. Sbe met and formed a strong attachment for Merrick who prevailed on her to give him all ber money, some $450,00, as she claimed, and finally seduoed her. At length the girl brought suit sgainst him for bastardy, which was settled by bis going through the ceremony of a marriage with her, under protest. During tbe few months they lived together as husband and wife, he abused her violently and frequently threatened her life. On Saturday evening, September 14th., about eight o'clock, Merrick was seen driving out of the city with his wife, in a buggy, and ahe was not seen afterwards until her body was found. She was then on the .verge of confinement.

Tbe drcometanoea leave no shadow of doubt but that ber husband was her murderer and that he took her out on that fatal night deliberately intending that she should never return. The chain of evidence seems complete.

On Friday, the day before the murder, Merrick bought some strychnine at a drug store. On Saturday evening he stopped st a saloon on Indiana avenue and obtained a drink of whisky and a glass of blaokberry wine, stating that the latter was for his wifa, in tbe boggy outside. He was seen to empty a powder Into tbe glass snd hand it to the woman in tbe boggy. Some hours later he stopped at the same saloon and got a drink, snd he was then stone. On the fatal night, .between 9 and 10 o'clock, a farmer whet* the bodies

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were found heard tbe sewt— of a woman, and finally got out of bed and went down to the woods whenoe the sounds came. He saw a buggy and a man standing near it. woman was lying on the granad under the buggy, sobbing and crying. Tbe man said ahe was drunk, sod wss yelling "beoause abe could." He helped to lift her into tbe buggy and returned to hia house. Shortly afterward be heard the sounds again, which presently died away. He xeeogniaed Merrick as the man he eaw that night. The clothing of his wife arid tbe suit he bad on when he left the atable with her were found at his atablo, oovered with blood. The cushion of the buggy wss soaked with blood and the seat of his pants, showed tbst he bad sat inapoolof it.

Merrick was arrested, bnt atontly maintains his innocence of the crime, though his story is badly confused, and be betrayed aigiu| of guilt from the outset. A msn named Fielding has been arrested for suspected complicity in tbe murder.

This is certainly one of the most fiendish and heart-sickening murders that was ever committed ins civilized community, snd seems too horrible almost for belief. Publio sentiment in Indianapolis, an might well be imagined, is wrought to an intense pitch by the carnival of crime that has been going on there for some months, and there is a gratifying prospect that Merrick and Guetig will both swing. In fact, nothing but the strictest enforcement of the law against murder -will be tolerated in these cases.

Shows and Show Folks.

This afternoon and to-night the Iili putian Opera Company appears at the Opera House, snd, if we msy credit the universal testimony of the press, a most enjoyable performance may be expected. Tbe operetti is that of "Jack, the Giant Killer," and it is performed, by persons whose stature are in harmony with the fabled atory. Co}. Orr, the giant, is fully eight feet high,—a real giant sure enough—and a jolly old fellow. Miss Jennie Quigley, the heroine, is the smallest woman in t^e world, and a sweet singer, and Admiral Dot, as tbe giant killer, is said .to be immense. Then there «re other little people, none more than thirty-eight inches high. And it is not simply an exhibition of little people, but wei are assured thstthe performance is

delightfully entertaining.

Children are especially pleased with it, but grown up people are scarcely less so, and all go away with the comfortable feeling of having been entertained their full money's worth. Everything is in simple good taste. There isno shooting, no slang, no cheap clap-trap to catch the groundlings—just a charming little performance that la worthy of the largest patronage. ,.|

Next Saturday erasing we ire to have the Pat Rooney combination, anew and excellent organisation. It IS playing this week at the Indlanapolia Grand Opera House. Of the opening performance, the Indianapolis Journal ssys:

The entertainment was of the variety order and good throughout. Rooney in his specialties was excellent. As sn Irish comedian he has no equal on the stsge. His singing was good and his dancing neat and artistic. Frank Bennett and George Kane, in their operatio sketch, "The Kitchen Domestice," were very bright and entertaining. Reynolds and Walling, in their sketch, "The Old Arm-chair," were fair, while Queen and West gave I moat amusing act called "Corporal Jim and I." Miss Boehnell and Miss Granger are pleasing actresses, and made a good impression. In fact, all tbe company are artists, and the performance they give well worth attending.

The ahows seem to make a point of striking Terrd Haute' on Saturday night—which, by the way, is a good show night. 7

The scale of prices to see and heir the Liliputlans Is such as will cram tbe Opera House at both performances— twenty-five cents for all to the matinee, and 50,85 and 25 cents in the evening, with no extra charge for reeerved seats.

Tbe Sullivanitee haven't got the hang of their new Opera House, and some of the people are alow to adapt themselves to the luxury, for the Sullivan Democrat aays, the "men or boys who occupy the gallery at the Opera House thrusttheir feet over the railing, knocking off mud and filth on ladies below, should be taught a lesson in godH breeding. So also those who coolly light cigars in the audienoe."

D. S. Tbomaa, whose memory to held green with sll newspaper men, ss the plessant press agent for several years with the Bornuro show, is the manager of the Uliputlan Opera Company exhibiting here thli afternoon and evening.

Barnum's "living skeleton" is a living skeleton no more, he having died of pneumonia on the 10th inat. This is making grave of alight sutyect.

Southern baa been playing Dundreary for seventeen years. *1 Clara Louise Kellogg eonunues to be a very deoeiving person. Tbe Sun says sbe returns plump and radiant, while the Trib»u§ says she looks tired and thin.

Mme. Elnebsrt, lion tamer, oame near being killed while ahe was performing is a-: esge of wild animate "at Marlboro, Mass., an inferiated jMnther biting ber on tbe arm nod hip. Her coolness saved her, and sbe cowed tie beast with a whip.

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The /Menehester papera reeord the great success of Jarrett A Palmer's "Uncle Tom** Cabin" organisation. The Courier aays? "For the first time in the history of the British theater African blood has been introdoeed for stage effect, and the experiment, judged by

rat result, most be pronounced sue* The Guardian j»ys: "The house was crowded, and ao great wss tbe crush that some hundrede must have been unable to gain admission. Many of those who succeeded In gaining an entrance most have had only a limited view of tbe prooeedinga." The aeeond Bight the sucoess of the piece wss even greater, and hundreds were unable to buy tlcketsi Morton as Uncle Tom, little Mlss Slavln, who played Eva at our Opera House last spring, and J. H. Row* as Legree made immense hits. Morton was formerly a member of the Hess |g"gH»h Opera Company. All the American acton were cordially received.

In appearing as Julia, in the play of the "Hunchback," Mary Anderson wears first a simple white muslin dress, flounced nearly to the waiat. The second dress is a, pale pink satin, tbe front of which is a solid mass of silver embroidery. The tbird drewi ia a robe de ohambre of pink cashmere. The fourth djress is violet velvet, trimmed with amethyst silk and the filth a bridal robe of white satin, profusely ornamented with Brussels lace and orange blossoms.

At Moscow a party of acrobats were introduced at a fete for the amuaeatent of General Grant. One of them placed four bottlea on top of each other, balanced a chair on the topmost one (sidewaya), and stood upon his head on the edge of the chair. He then added another and another chair to the atructure until he had increased the number to five, when the General got up and walked away, saying he would rather read of the man's desth in the papers than witness it.

A very simple psss-out check-ticket has been devised st Paris. It bears in the middle a stamp showing the day or performance for which it 1s good, and on either side of this is a blank space. On going out tbe holder writes his name, all in the presence of the doorkeeper, at one end of tbe ticket on Coming in again he Writes it on the other end, and thesignaturee have to agree. This device might work all right in Paris, but it would never do in Terre* Haute. The French have no idea what a rush there is between acts to get at the cloves that are always kept in large quantitiea within handy distance of our places of amusement. Besides the cloves have a very curious effect on the indulger he might write a nice steady signature when he went out, bnt after taking a clove too much his hsnd might be so unsteady tbst he wonld find it impoesi ble to match the signature on his return.

As the Indisns with the Buffalo Bill Combination are Pawnees, off their reservation without permission, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, whea his attention was drawn to the matter, ordered that they ahould return immediately to their reservation. Mr. Cody repreeented to the Commissioner that if thia order waa oarried into effect it would cause considerable pecuniary loss to him, ss the combination was advertised for appearance fifteen or twenty days ahead, and aseured the Commissioners that the Indiana were well treated. Arrangementa were finally made by which Mr. Cody entered into |5,000 bonds to return the Indians after a specified time, within which it is agreed that tbe Indians shall be kept sober and returned to their agenqy at hie own expense.

ON WITH TBE DANOE.^ Burlington Hawkeye. A correspondent is very severe and sarcsstic upon tbe balls for the benefit of yellow fever sufferers, and censures the charity of people who dance and laugh and have never a cam or thought of sorrow, while they profess to be raising money for the helpless and suffering. Well, it does look kind of odd, but we sjppose it's all right, so long as tbe money gete to where it is so sorely needed. There were balla given, you will remember, for the Custer monument shorily after the terrible Custer massacre, and the ladiea all attended those ballsdreseed in moorniftg, and tbe gentlemen wore crape on tbeifarms, sod then they laughed and danced till daylight, as though there wss never such a thing as death in the world. Let tbem dance. Let them danoe their precious legs off clear up to their necks, ao long as they spend their bottom dollar to relieve the helplessnese and suffering in the South. Anything to raise the money, and if you can't get a dollar out of a man except bydanclng, why dance tbe immortal soul out of him and don't talk about churching money is all gone.

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WHO ABE 1HE BLESSED Blessed is the msn who minds his own business.

Itlnssnrt is tbe womsn who never says to ber husband, "I told you so." Blessed is thp man who can sew on his buttons when the baby Is crying.

Blessed Is tbe w.iman who wont marry a widower—providing he's your lather.

Blessed ie the motber-in-law who never reminds you that you married above your station.

Blessed is the rich relation who never looks down on yon—when you are in tbe gutter.

Blessed is the poor relation who never looka up to you—for money. Blessed is the old maid that don't hate old people and children.

Plosion ia the old bachelor that dont hate eate and pin cushions. Biassed are the married people who don't wish they were single.

Blessed is the husband who never saya hia mother's pice wen better than his wife'sare.

Dlasss I is the wife (formerly widow) who never calls up the vtrtoee of the "dear departed" for No. 2 to emulate.

Jlosaod Is the man whOgivee his sift ton cents without aaklng what she is going to dp with it.

Bleesed is the wosssn that dont seold when fhe stove pipe fells down on the dinner table end-blessed is the man that osn fix It up without swearing.

Bleassd is the friend who never requires the loan of your umbrella. Blessed is tbe neighbor who is so busy about Ids own sfbtra that be has no time to pry into yours.

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HEW OPENING

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Afternoon and Evening. The Star Notion and Fancy Goods House has removed to the old T. H. Riddle Store, and has opened anew to-day, where they hope to see a good number of the people of Terre Haute.

Hold On, Ladies!

Mrs. T. H. Riddle is still in New York, and writeethat ahe is selecting an immense stock of lsdlee* goods, includ ing all tbe novelties to be found. 8he desires the lsdles to wait until her return, before purchaatng any goods in her line, because ahe will ahow the most beautiful line of goods abe baa ever exhibited to admiring patrona in this city. She will return next week, and tiie goods will follow closely after.

Will Ton Have a Lunch? If so, just step in at Lawrence & White'a bakery and confectionery, southeast corner of Fourth and Cherry atreeta, where yoc will find everything neat and clean, and pricea tbe most reasonable.

W Cider Vinegar. The finest quality of Cider Vinegar, conatantly on hand, at

J. R. CHAMBERS',

81xth street, opposite Postofflce.

Ret Ssrprlsed.

When we Consider the little attention paid to the laws of health, we are not surprised at the indifference manifested in relation to purity of daily food. If all artiolee were like Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, this indiffbrenoe might answer their perfect wholescmenees wonld insure us sgainst sll evil oonse quenoes.

A CARD

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DR. WIBSCIZISIII.

During a period of four months' steady practice in this city I have shown what can be-done for those who need such medicinal help ao I feel justified in stating I am able to render. 1 have, with the UTMOST SATISFACTION to the patients, treated hnn

dreds in this city and vicinity for DEAFNESS, NOISES IN THE HEAD, CATARRH, and various diseases of the THROAT, LUNGS, IMPAIRED VISION NERVOUS and GENERAL DEBILITY,

and other OHRONIO MALADIES, a large proportion of whom bad relinquished all hope of ever being cured, and came to me as a LAST RB&ORT.

The NAMES and TESTIMONIALS of one hundred and twenty cured patients have long beenibefore the public, and they were from the most reliable and best citlsens (as I never publish a TESTIMONIALS unli the giver Is a RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN).

My slay In Terre Hacte has been prolong ed at their request, and their ASSURANCE that many wished yet to be treated by me. To all persons who desire to be treated by me I wish to say now that they SHOULD

NO LONGER DELAY, BUT CALL AT ONCE.

F. A. TON 10SCHZI8KEB, S.».

TERRE HAUTE HOUSE.

Chicago Exposition!

NOW OPEN.

Closes October 19th, 1878.

GBEATKB ATTRACTIONS THAN USUAL.

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Good going on all trains of October 4,5 and ft, and returning, cm all trains leaving CMC-O Q. T. A.

JVSXPB OULIXT, Sapl.

NOVELTIES

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Fall of 1878

Beautirul goods now open, to whioh we invite an examination.

French Dress Goods^

Damassee, Bourette Cloths, Camels Hair, Cashmeres, Silk snd Wool mixtures, French and English Caahmeres, Mohairs, Brilliantinee, etc, comprising many desirable goods st exoeedingly low prioea.

SUES. SILKS!

Black Silks, Colored Silks, Dress* Silks, Trimming Silks, 25 pieces splendid quality colored Dress Silks st fl per yard, worth 9L25, in all desirable shsdes. Our Black Silka at 7fic, 85c, fl.00,91.15* and fl.25 are 25 per oent under present prioes.

VELVETS

CLOAKING VELVETS, JET TRIMMING VELVETS BLACK VELVETS, •'•J* '1""-'

COLORED VELVETS,

LaVgtat assortment ever shown in the* city. Pricea lower than ever.

HOBERG. ROOT & CO.:

OPERA HOUSE,

October Election.

We are authorised to announce hon. JOHN T.GUNN, ot Sullivan, Indiana, as a. candidate for Judge of the 14th Judicial' Circuit In the State of Indiana, at the ensuing October election. Mr. Gunn hew only consented to the use of his namQin con-r­

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For Sale.

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Saturday, September 28

AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

LUiputian Opera.' Co.,j

In the Amusing Operetta in 4 Act#,

JUI TIE GjilT tilllll

Miss, Jennie Quigley, Admiral Dot, hcijuit, 80 inches. height, 28 incbea. Miss Sarah Belton, Prince Loois, height, 83 nchea, height, 3d inches. Miss Ella Kirtlaad, Msjor Houghton, height, inches, height, 88 inches, OoL Nosh Orr, the largest man in the world, height, 8 feet.

Evening at 8 o'clock. Admission, 80,» and25ecnts no extra charge tor reserved •eat*.

Afternoon at 2. Admlssslon, 25 cents to all puts of tbe house. Reserved sents at Central Bookstore.

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Saturday, October 5th.

PAT ROONET'S

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PAT ROONEY, the Grsat .Exponent of Eccentric Irish Character, is, without doubt, the most papular Artist in America. Hia songs ar* played and rang throughout the land, AND HIS NAME A HOUSEHOLD WORD. in conjunction with this gnat star are •oa* of the beat and most popular artiste on tbe novelty stage. A full string and lim franil the able direction of W« i. Bouron.

Reserved seats at Central Bpokstore without extra charge. '/t

EGBERT

CUBTIS,

Terre Haute, Ind^

Breeder of Pttfe oro* and White Leghorns, Btown and White China Geese, and Muscovy Ducks.

Mtock and Egs for sate. Agent for Animal Mea! for Fowls and Swine, and German Roup Pills.