Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 May 1879 — Page 4

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

:EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

1ERRE HAUTE, MAY 24, 1879

IT looks very much might be John Sherman.

SUNDAY laws exist in every State in the Union, but are mostly a dead letter. One in South Carolina, at least, must be. It provides that all persons "having no reasonable excuse" shall attend some religious meeting every Sunday.

THE discovery of silver at Brown wood, Texas, has caused great excite ment in that region. People are rush ing to the place, and a daily paper has already been started, presumably to announce the new mines as they are discovered.

THE statement that the production of alcohol in this country has increased from 57,000 gallons in 1S75 to 12,000,000 for the first nine months of the present fiscal year, would be rather startling were it not coupled with the more comforting assertion that the bulk of the product is exported.

THE daring exploit of Sam Patch, fifty years ago, in leaping 142 feet into the boiling waters of Niagara, has been eclipsed by that of Mr. Peere, who jumped from the new suspension bridge into the river below, a distance of 192 feet. This ought to be conclusive proof that we are not degenerating.

JUDGE ADAMS, of the Marion Circuit Court, is gaining laurels by the rough and-ready way in which he deals with defaulting guardians and administrators. He gives them to understand that the money due must be forthcoming, or they will go to jail. His example might be followed with excellent results in many other circuits of the State.

LARGE sections of Indiana and Ohio are suffering from the Bevere drouth which is almost unprecedented for this season of the year. The oats and hay crops are suffariug badly, while in many places the corn that has been planted will not come up and necessitatingjthe replanting of it. The grass] is withering up and dying in the yards, a very unusual occurrence so early in the season.

ACCORDING to a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune who went south to study the emigration movement of the colored people, the effects of the exodus are already beginning to appear. Rents and the prices of provisions have been materially reduced and there has been a combination of planters pledged to suppress bulldozing. Evidently a little thinning out of the negroes will be benficlal to those that remain.

IT is stated that the business of the general land office at Washington has more than trebled during the past two years. During a single week recently, applications were made for 192,000 acres of public land for settlement, at one office in Dakotah, and during the same week the applications at another land office in Minnesota amounted to the enormous aggregate of 509,000 acres. At this rate how long will Uncle Sam's land last?

WOMEN may take courage. It has been decided by a high authority that they can do one thing better than men. During a recent trial in England, the judge, In charging the jury, said it was a well known fact that a woman told a lie better than a man did. It was a remarkable circumstance that when a woman was determined to say that which was untrue, she did it a great deal better than a man, and could tell a story much more logically and perse verlngly. He would not try to account for the fact, but admitted his incapacity to gua^e the veracity of a woman when she appeared in the box. It may be questionable whether this particular superiority is one on which women can plume themselves much, but in view of the grudging, disposition of the male mind to acknowledge their superiority in any respect, even such a concession as this is not to be despised.

THE removal of Dr. Maclntire from the position of superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Institute and the appointment of Williim Glenn to succeed htm, is one of those lamentable things which politics so often bring about. The institution is a very important one, being designed for the education of the deaf and dumb children of the State, of whom there area large number. These unfortunate children are, many of them, the offspring of respectable parents who are solicitous that they shall be properly cared for and instructed. Dr. Maclntire has presided over the institution for more than'a score of years and is considered one of the best qualified men in the country for this work. He is a man of high social standing and there is nothing to say against either his character or fitness for the position. The institution ranked high and prospered under his

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THERE have been several heavy failures in England during the week,

SECKKTABY SHEKMAN emphatically refuses to be a candidate for Governor of Ohio. This is wise. His duty let to remain just where he is now.

THE Briggs-Langsdale suit baa been settled and dismissed—the Green castle editors having kissed and made up. The agreement signed and published in the Banner and Press is quite honorable to both parties.

hands. Hia successor has beea a practicing dentist of Muncie and is aaid to have bad no experience in carrying on such an institution or in teaching the deaf and dumb. How such a man can be considered competent to preside over the destinies of a state institution for tor the education of the deaf and dumb would puzzle any one but a polltloion to say. It would seem to an ordinary mind that fltneas for such a work could only be acqulred by long experience and training. v"r

J. H. WOODARD, who went to St, Louis to Investigate the exodus of colored people, for the Cincinnati Enquirer, aays the report that two hundred of the negroes had gone back is false. A few did go baok, but they were paid to do so, for the purpose of making an un favorable report. He ascertained that about 7,000 emigrants had been forward ed by the relief committee in St. Louis to Kansas and that there are now from 4,000 to 5,000 at different points waiting transportation to St. Louis. He sayB the negroes leave the South on account of the oppression of the landholders and not for political reasons.

SOME of General Grant's friends are reported to be very uneasy over his ex pected return home by next September Their plan was that he should not arrive on the Pacifio coast until winter, where thoy hoped to detain him until spring and then set him forth on a triumphal tour eastward in time to influence the conventions. It is said they will now endeavor to delay the party in Japan, or send it to the Sandwich Islands, so as to prevent the ill-timed advent. If General Grant knew anything of the proceedings his native good Bense would most certainly lead him to pray for deliver ance from the hands of such friends, for they are too zealo JS by half.

EXCESSIVE GENTILITY. In a strong editorial in Scribner for June, Dr. Holland shows that as a nation Americans are getting ruinously genteel. Instead of following the calling of his father, shoving the plane, striking the anvil, or following the plow, the young man of the present generation feels that he is called upon to raise himself to a higher position. He leaves the farm and the workshop and drifts into the- town owelty stands behind a counter or hangs out his sign as a doctor, dentist or lawyer. The yonng ladies of the family are if anything still more genteel. They abhor housework and disdain to learn any common, useful employment. Many become teachers and saleswomen and crowd all the avenues of semi-professional work until there area hundred hungry applicants for every vacant position, What is the result of this excessive gentility People struggling to live in a manner that is beyond their means, and resorting to all kinds of shifts and expedients to keep up appearances that are hollow and deceitful. The foreigner comes in and takes the vacant places where manual labor is required. They fill the mills, the factories, the workshops. By industry and economy they soon succeed in putting themselves in comfortable circumstances, and when they die their children usually take up the work where their parents left it, and carry it forward in the same way. Thus, while Americans become genteel and poor, the foreigners accumulate constantly increasing fortunes. This subject has been discussed a great deal of late, and and if American youth do not soon conceive a disgust for this sort of shabby gentility and become satisfied with humble but honest pursuits, it will not be for the lack of good teaching.

THE PROBLEM OF THE CENTURY. An international congress now sitting in Paris, in which all the principal powers of Europe are represented, is considering one of the greatest feats of civil engineering ever yet attempted. It is the long-talked-of ship canal across the isthmus which connects North and South America. The estimated cost of the work is from one hundred to one hundred and fifty millions of dollars—a large sum, but not too large, It is believed, to return a handsome interest by the immense saving of distance in ocean voyages whioh would result from it. This saving has been computed as follows: From New York to San Francisco the distance would be shortened 14,000 miles to Shanghai, 11,600 miles to Canton, 10,900 miles and to Calcutta, 9,600 miles. The saving to English commerce would be equally great. Based on this shortening of distances, it has been estimated that the annual saving in money to the trade of the United States, by means of the canal, would be about 936,000,000 to the trade of England, about $10,000,000, and to the trade of France, over $2,000,000 a total of $48,000,000. According to these figures the canal would pay for itself in two or three years. It is impossible, of course, ts figure accurately upon such a problem, but the Suez Canal, which cost nearly $100,000,000, has. proven a financial success, the shares advancing in ten years from 200 and 300 francs to 700 and 800. It is fair to presume that the American canal would be at least equally profitable.

There are two principal projects before the congress for accomplishing the desired end, the union of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by a water passage through the isthmus. One favors a canal carried over the surface by means of locks the other tbo tunnelling of the Cordillera [mountains, so that ships can sail through. The advocates of the first plan say that by utilizing Lake Nicaragua much labor can be spared, as the lake can be connected with the Pacific by comparatively short canal, and

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with the Atlantio by improving its outlet, the San Juan river. The lake already extends about half way acros the isth mus and would aeem to offer the more feasible and less expensive plan. The lake scheme is advocated by M. Blan chet, a pupil of M. De Lesseps, the au thor of the Suea Canal, though it is said the latter is inclined to favor a tun nel. This would not need to be more than from seven to ten miles in length and could be approached by a canal on each side. The danger of the overland scheme is on account of the great locks which would have to be employed. It is doubted whether locks of the magnl tude required could be built strong enough to withstand the water pressure even if the gates could be made to open and close with the facility necessary When it is remembered that not less than twenty-four of these great locks would be required, it is no wonder that the overland scheme meets with oppo sition, De Lesseps is afraid of the locks, On the other hand, the danger of a tan nel is that it would have a current run ning through it and that it would be difficult to keep the vessels from strik ing against its rooky sidee.

The undertaking is a stupendous one considered in any light, and may be fairly said to be the great engineering problem of the century. Yet the centu ry will hardly close without seeing the work begun, and perhaps finished for it is stated that If the Paris congress de termlne on the route, an international company, similar to that which constructed the Suez Canal, will be formed with a capital Jof fl00,000,000, and De Lesseps at its head. The result that may be reached by the body of eminent engineers now in session will therefore be awaited with no small degree of in terest.

Every lady seems to want a chance in the Parlor Organ at Hughes' Bargain Store, judging by the immense number of Hats, Corsets, Hosiery and Laces they are selling, at 403 Main street, op posite the Opera House.

WE have heard of persons having spent almost a small fortune by going to Springs for their health, and have found no permanent cure until they tried the Swiss Liver Compound with success.

Rubber Live Bouncing Balls For 15 cents, at A. G. AUSTIN & CO'S.

THE STAR MEAT MARKET. Charley Dorsch is constantly adding new customers, and he never loses any old ones, because he takes especial pains to serve them with the best meats to be had in this market.

OMEST1C PA TTERNS.

Mrs. E. B. Cole has now at No. 515 Main street a full stock of Patterns from the popular Domestic Fashion Company

Have a Lunch?

When you are hungry and want the full worth of your money, call at Ed E. Lawrence's Lunch Counter, southeast corner of Fourth and Cherry streets. He keeps a full line of Fruits. His Bakery and Confectionery is well stocked and his Soda Fountain is now in full blast, quenching the thirst of hundreds who pass that way with the delicious beverage.

We are having a good Trade. Everything you want in Fancy Goods.

Visit CENT STORE. Plumbing!

Moore fc Haggarty are now ready to do all kinds of Plumbing. They have all the materials for completely fitting out dwellings or business houses, and with competent workmen will insure good work. They also guarantee satisfaction in prices. For quality of work they refer to numbers of citizens for whom plumbing has been done.

Magic Rubber Window Gleaner. They all take them from A. G. AUSTIN & CO'S.

MONEY TO LOAN.

I have money to loan on mo security on long time, on favorable terms. C. E. HOSFORD.

Office corner Fourth and Main street^ Terre Haute, Ind. Boys will be Boys And buy Single and Double Barreled Paper-cap Revolvers, 5 and 10 cents each, at A. G. AUSTIN A CO'S.

IF you want ice at reasonable prices, patronize the Prairie City Ice Company.

AT THE FAVORITE

WALL PAPER STORE

on Sixth street opposite the Post Office we have received this week anew line of WINDOW SHADES already made, which we will sell at prices that will astonish you.

Oar stock of Wall Paper is full and well selected and our prices can't be beat anywhere.

Remember we employ only THE BEST WORKMEN in the Paper Hanging line, and guarantee satisfaction every time. By leaving your order with us it will receive prompt attention.

Charles L. Feltus, Manager.

N. B. A six feet window shade, fringed and with fixtures complete, ready hang up for $1,00.

$15 per quarter, Or $5 per month

Will purchase a five octave, nine stops, new Mason A Hamlin Organ, warranted for five years. No^interest on deferred payments. W. H. PAIGE & CO 607 Main street.

And learn that Cody's System Renovator, is a valuable Indian compound, purely vegetable, and contains no mineral substances. It is a valuable remedy for the malarial affections so prevalent in this climate, and for all diseases arising from impurities of the blood, such as scrofulous humor, salt rheum, pimples and humor on the face, rheumatism, piles,headache, kidney complaint, female weakness and gen eral debility, fever and ague, catarrh and dropsy. Manufactured and for sale by

s*r* JAMES CODY,

Elizabeth Romine: It cured the liver, chills and fever on me.

Nancy C. Romine: I complained of the liver and lungs. It has cured me. I be lieve it is good for other diseases.

Addie Morey: His medicine has help ed me more than two years,treatment un der the old treatment.

James H. Thorpe: I have tried the medicine and fouad it good for all that it is recommended.

This ia to certify that I have tried Jas, Cody's medicine, and find it all that he recommends. G. S. COYJJE.

This is to certify that I was sufferin with fever and ague for four years, an could get nothing to relieve me until met Dr. James Cody.

I took his medicine about four weeks and by so doing I improved in health so that I could go to work again.

D. L. VICKERY.

Mr. Cody's System Renovator has no equal for a blood purifier. FRANK WEY,

E. BURNS, MRS. E. BURNS.

H. Ernhardt: I have tried Jas. Cody's medicine and found it good for all he recommended.

This is to certify that I have tried Cody's medicine and find it all that he recommend*. ALICE MCCOY.

I would also refer to the following citi zenp of Terre Haute who have tried the medicine. L. GOODMAN^ JR.,

JERRY PREACHER PRAINT, GEO. STUEMPFFE, H. W. HATHAWAY, J. A. STOUGH, JESSIE ROBERTSON, WILLIAM SMITH.

A GRAN ^EXCURSION

And a Pleasant Time. Knights ot Father Matthew will Give a Grand Excursion to Paris, Illinois, on Sunday

Hay, 25th. On their arrival at Paris they will be met by the Father Matthew Total Abstinence society, whence they will proceed in a body to Conley's beautiful grove, where a pleasant time will be had. Good speakers have been engaged for the occasion.

Mayor Powell, Hon. A. J. Hunter, Col. Sellers and others will make short speeches.

TOUTE'S BAND

will accompany the excursion. Train leaves I. & St. L. depot at 9 a. m., return, leaving Paris at 7 p. m. Tickets for tbf Round Trip 30c

Satin Parasols for two dollars. Great Bargains. CENT STORE.

NOTICE.

Artesian Well,

Holders of tickets issued ly Miller & Conant, are requested to present the same within the next ten days, and they will be redeemed by issuing new tickets for balance due, by new firm.

ARTESIAN BATH COMPANY.

J. P. Tutt has about 500 pair .of ladles' good cloth side lace Shoes for $1.00 a pair.

TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Rooting, Guttering, and Spouting, Mantles and Grates cheaper at BALLS than anywhere in town

Cor. 3rd and Main sts. PECIAL ELECTION.

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No. 1,031 South Second street, next door to Frank Wey's Boss Grocery. This med icine has been on sale here for the past two

James Crowe: I ean certify and prove that this medicine has cured me of all complaints, liver and lungs, fever and ague. I had been sick for 7 or 8 years.

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To tfcevotettof the Sixth Ward Torre Haate: You are hereby noil fled that a special election will be held In the Sixth Ward of this city, Tuesday, the 27th day of May. 1879, for the purpose of electing a councilman to On the vacancy and unexpired term occasioned by the resignation of Councilman P.O. Mohan.

Voting place—Northeast corner Eleventh anj

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Judge*—J. N. Shepherd, LH.C. Rone By order of the Common Council, JOHN B. TOLBERT, City Clerk. MayJMSTfc (All city papem copy.]

Saturday Matinee at 2 P. M. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.

General admission, 25 cents Reserved Seats, 35 cents, on sale at Central Bookstore. Matinee Prices—Adults, to all parts of the house, 25cents Children under 10years of age, 10 cents over 10 and under 14,15 cents.

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GAGG,

DEALER IN

ARTISTS' SUPPLIES,

PICTURES, FRAMES, MOULDINGS. Picture Frames Made to Order.

Central Bookstore, 524 Main street, North side, bet. Fifth and Sixth.

NITED STATES SCALES.

My improved Wagon and Railroad track scales are taking the lead in all localities where they have had an introduction. Mechanics and others who have examined them pronounce them constructed on better principles than any others in use, insuringa greater degree of sensitiveness and durability. If you want scales, den't be humbugged into paying a big price for a name. Investigate and save your money, and at the same time get a better scale. The march is onward, and scales are belcg improved, like everything else. Circulars, references, price lists, et c., free on application. Address S. J. AUSTIN, Patentee,

Terre Haute, Ind.

Office, corner Fourth and Farrington.

Boots Shoes

Many new purchases of last week, and entire stock

Marked to Suit the Times!

An inspection only can give a correct idea of the

LOW PRICES

Desirable goods in this line are offered for. Men's Laces and Buckle Plow Shoes at 91, $2.25, ?1 50, and 1 75.

Ladies' Slippers at 20c, 50c, 75c and 85c. Boys' Shoes at 50c, $1 and $1 25.

Unparalleled Bargains! -INLOW Prices We Offer.

Men's lasting Congress and Tie at $1, $1 25 and fl 50. Ladies' Kid and Pebble Newports at 75c, $1 and {1 25.

DANIEL REIBOLD

Cor. 3d and Main Sts., No 300,

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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

Saturday Evening, May 31,

BLACK DIAMONDS.

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SIXTEEN FIRST-CLASS ARTISTS The management takes pleasure in announcing that he will present, for the first time in this city (new version) the new drama of

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, Recently revised and p'ayed with unparalleled success at Booth's Theater, New ork Academy of Music, Philadelphia: Opera House, Baltimore: Ford's Theater, Washington McVlcker's Theater, Chicago, and many other large cities alco the highly interesting, amusing and original drama In four acts, entitled

BLACK DIAMONDS, Or the Heroine of "Hazelton," introducing a variety of laughable scenes and incidents which occurred during the great miners' strike in Pennsylvania, beaded by that secret order, the Molly Magulres.

Our Carpet Hall is HEADQUARTERS for Honse Furnishing doods.

WE STAND

At the head of the trade—far in advanoe of all competition, and that WE, and WE ALONE, are entitled to the credit of having broken the back of high prices and placed Clothing and Furnishing Goods of the best quality within the reach of all. No Man, Boy or Child in want of Clothing should spend one cent of their money until they have visited our store, Look over our stock. Seeing is believing.

We don't claim to perform any miracles in the way of offering prices at less than they can be manufacturen for, but what we DO propose is this, that no man with the cash in hand need pay the price heretofore asked before we pitched our tent in your midst. A certain store (no name need be mentioned) who had things pretty well his own way, seemed to take advantage of his situation, and led people to suppose that they had to pay $25.00 for a ready made suit, and #40, f42, and even as high as 45 for an ordinary suit made to his measure, and his late actions remind one of a "canine whose tail has been trodden on."

Our prices are so low that sometimes our customers doubt whether the quality can be the same as they have seen elsewhere marked higher. Wo are willing to sell at the smallest margin possible. Hence, we ofler our customers, the best value for their money.

In Our Custom Department

We use him up badly making "nobby" suits to order at $19, 20, 21,22 and up to *22.50, a saving of from §7,50 to $15 per suit an item worth your consideration.

READY MADE MEN'S SUITS

At $5,6,7, 8, 10, to $15 workingmen's pants at 73c, §1,1-™* to 2.00. The/ best goods in the city at the price. A genuine Middlesex Blue Yacht Cloth Suif (warranted fast color) for f&50.<p></p>"JOB,

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NOVELTIES IN

Ladies' Ready Made Suits

The most elegant line ever shown in Terre Haute. SILK SUITS,

BUNTING SUITS, CASHMERE SUITS, BEIGE SUITS

COLORED STUFF SUITS, BLACK STUFF SUITS, BLACK SILK SUITS,/ LINEN SUITS,

LAWN SUITS, PERCALE SUITS, CALICO SUITS.

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IN FASHIONABLE

Spring and Summer

DRESS GOODS

SUMMER SILKS, BLACK SILKS, COLORED SILKS, BLACK & COLORED SATINS BROCADE SILKS, BROCADE GRENADINES, PLAIN GRENADINES, FIGURED LAWNS, CHINTZ *LA WN S, PLAIN LAWNS, A

beautiful assortment of the latest style Lawns from 8 to 25a

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We send samples by mail, free, to any address.

H0BERG, ROOT & CO., OPERA HOUSE. Wanted. W

ANTED—RYE STRAW AT FROEB BROS., No. 15 S. Fifth St.

For Sale.

IJIORBALE-ONE TW© STORY DOUBLE I* dwelling house on Chestnut street near Seventh, will be sold cheap—half cash, balance on tlms. L. A. BURNETT, Agent.

F_OR SALE—I WILL SELL AT A LOW price, and on the easiest terms, a farm of 103 acres, located three and one-halfi miles southeast of Lockport. Good house,! orchard, &c. For particulars, address H. TOBEY, Box 1,001, Jacksonville, Ills.

FARMERS

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John Deere Moline Plows^ and Cultivators.

They have taken the hightest premiums ever given in the United States or Europe, for material, and work in the field in actual tests.

O. A. POWER, Agent,

LOOKING GLASSES.

Fine Pier French-plate Mirrors, Fine Mantel French-plate Mirrors, New Styles Frames—Reduced Priccs

Large and Attractive Stock Just Opened.

GLASSES FROM 50a to |150.

New Patterns Cornices and Curtain Poles.

Carpets, Wall Papers, Window Shades, Lice Curtains, Ac., in great variety and at LOWEST PRICES.

RYCE & WALMSLEY,

Nos. 104 and 106 West Main street.

422 Main street. 4 doors west of Fifth, North side,

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