Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1881 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR A NT) PROPRIETOR.

PUBLICATION OFFICE,

No 16 South 6th St., Printing Heuse Square,

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 5, 1881

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold, by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even kig, goes into the hands o£nearly every reading person in the city, and the farmers of this immediate vicinity. Every Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

TUB present winter is likely to le remembered for some time. Its like has not been known for fifty years.

IT is proposed to make the iuaugural ball the most elaborate dccasion of the kind in the history of the country.

EVEN at seventy-five cents a dozen the hens can't be induced to lay eggs such weather as we have had for the past three months.

IT is suid that Lord Beaconsfield's novel, "Endymion," was commenced ten years ago and that the price paid the author is $50,000.

THE extreme cold weather has frozen all Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's oranges in Florida, and 100,000 of them lie in heaps on tho ground.

A new fuel has been discovered, composed of crude petroleum aud steam, which is said will furnish heat at oneBixth tho cost of coal.

INDIANAPOLIS is to have the great Bernhardt, on the evenings of February 25th and 26th. There will be a scratching for coins in the capital.

TORONTO reports the coldest January in 40 years and February opening with 35 degrees below zero. We have had it all around tho compass this time.

ALASKA may turn out to be worth something after all. The finding of rich gold mines is reported, and the people of Sitka aro wild with the mining fever.

NEW YORK CITY is alarmed over the sudden increaso of cases of smallpox there, thero being more than sixty cases at tho Rivcrsido Hospital, while last year they averaged only one a month.

THE Gazottosays the boom has struck real estate in Cincinnati, and that the amount of building this season promises to lo double that of any previous year in tho history of that city.

As there are nine justicos of the Supreme court and only throe of them at present aro Ohio men, the Cincinnati Gazette modestly asks whother that is not a small proportion for such a State,

ONLY a few working days remain of tho prosont session of Congress and the probability of an extra session grows stronger. It is said there is not tinfb enough to dispose of all the the important business before the two houses.

IT is a somowhat notablo fact that in Chicago, wliero the clergymen wholly refrained from assailing Bernhardt, her receipts wore the smallest that she has had in any American city. These pulpit nttacksseem to be good advertisements lor her.

EVANSVILLE is ambitious for the distinction of having "the Bernhardt" but thinks her terms, $2,500 for a single night, rather too much money for the glory. Tho metropolis of the Pocket •will therefore forego the distinction of a visit from "DivineSarah."

THE "visltiug statesmen" from Indiana spent a pleasant hour at Mentor, but tho President-elect said not a word about cabinet positionp, and the Statesmen came back as wise as they went. Garfield is evidently keeping up a devil of a thiukiug, but he doesn't say much.

FLORIDA has a big drainage scheme on hand, being nothing less than the draining of Lake Okeechobee, in the south part of the State. If successful, twelve million acrta of4 the best sugar land in the world will be reclaimed-—an area ©qual to two States like New Jersey.

LAST Monday a committee of "visiting statesmen" from Indiana called on General Garfield to press the claims of "an Indiana man" for a cabinet position. Mr. Garfield may find it necessary to enlarge his cabinet somewhat in order to accommodate all the gentlemen who are entitled to places in it.

IT may be worth while to some of our readers to know that a silver dollar of is worth $1,100, that sum, it is said, having been paid for one by a person desirous of completing his collection of coins. Anyono into whose hands a dollar of the date mentioned may come, Trill find it to their profit to let the coin collectors know of his good luck.

TUK owner of the house in which Lincoln died offers to sell it to the Government for $30,000 and the question is being discussed whether the Government ought to accept the offer and preserve the building a* a memorial of the great President. We are inclined to think there would be more sense in this than in some of the appropriations for pictures which are made by Con greys.

Coi.. BCFORD, who shot Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, dead in the streets of Frankfort, two years ago, for deciding a case again him, has been acquitted by a jury of his peers, on the ground of insanity. We do not hear that the impulsive Colonel is to be incarcerated in an insane asylum for the rest of his life, and so presume that he is to be left free to brain the next judge who shall be foolhardy enough to differ with him on the merits of a lawsuit.

HALF the legislative session is gone already, and so little has been done that there is talk of a special session being necessary. If the last half of the session should do no more than the first, the State could get along very well without any special session. Of the 500 or 600 bills which have been introduced it is safe to say that the fewer that ever become laws the better it will be for the people. The trouble is not that we get too little legislation, but too much.

THE Indianapolis Journal argues that sixty-one days is not long enough for the Legislative session. It was fixed at that length thirty years ago, when the population of the State was much smaller than it is now, and required much less legislation that if the term were lengthened and ample time given for deliberate action, there would be much less danger of hasty and improper legislation than there now is. It must be confessed that there is some philosophy in this view of the matter.

SENATOR DAWES'bill providing for a formal apology to the Ponca Indians for the ill treatment they have received re-instaling then in their reservations, compensating them for their losses and pledging the national faith for their protection in the future, is a bill that ought to pass. It would mark a new era in the treatment of the Indians by the government—an era of simple jastice from a greatand powerful nation to tho feeble and helpless tribes of savages which are wholly at its mercy.

THERE is talk of Robert Lincoln, son of the President, going into General Garfield's cabinet. He is a lawyer, practicing in Chicago, and is said to be an able man. Ho is comparatively young, but that is perhaps "greatly to his credit," for this is the age of young men. The old greybeards are not as omnipotent as they once were, and the young mien jostle them lively on all the roads which lead to wealth and fame. There never was a time when the young blood of the nation counts for more than it does to-day.

ON next Monday Centre township (in which Indianapolis is located) will vote on the question of appropriating §100,000 in aUl uf tlie Indianapolis, I'Jvansville & Mompliis railroad, which is designed to give Indianapolis a direct connection with Evansvillo and the South and with the coal minos of southern Indiana. No money is to bo paid until sixty miles of the road have been completed and a guarantee given that ceal will be delivered in Indianapolis at 33lA less freight than it is now costing. The papers of the capital are somewhat divided on the subject, but it is believed that the tax will be voted.

IT looks as if the present Legislature was disposed to take a step forward touching the jury system. The Judi ciary Committee have reported favorably the bill authorizing a majority of a jury to return a verdict, and tho bill ought to become a law. The present system of requiring unanimity in a verdict is a relic of barbarism. It puts it the power of one bull-pleaded or corrupt individual to override the judgment of tho other eleven, and offers a premium on bribery and corruption, by rendering it possible for the parties to secure one such man on tho jury for tho express and understood purpose of preventing a vordict.

MRS. LANGTRY, the famous London beauty, known as the "Jersey Lily," has conclndod to go on the stage, having had "some differences with her husband,/and the English theatrical world is all agog over the matter. It is not pretended by anybody that the "lily" can act at all but then lilies have other uses than acting. They can array themselves as gorgeously as those which outshone Solomon in all his glory, and exhibit themselves to the gaze of admiring multitudes. This, it is said, is what Mrs. Langtry proposes to do, anticipating very handsome returns from it. That she would "draw" is beyond question, and since there are so many others engaged in the same business it is not easy to see why the "Jersey Lily" should not indulge her whim in this matter if she chooses.

THE recent conduct of President Hayes in seeking vengeance upon Senator Conkling by making appointments in the State of New York that are specially odious to the latter gentleman, is unworthy the dignity of the great office which the President fills. So far as Mr. Conkling is individually concerned, his haughty, selfish, and dictatorial disposition renders him deserving of all that he has received, but it is not becoming the dignity of the Presidential office to stoop to the gratification of such personal spite as evidently marks the late conduct of the President. His last appointment, that of Mr. Jacobus to be V. S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York, is severely condemned, Jacobus being, it is said, nothing better than a low type of ward politician and wholly nnfit for the position.

MB, LANOTKT denies that the "Jersey Uly" Is going on the stage. Perhaps that is all Mr. Langtry knows about it.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAHl

THE last Indiana committee which visited Mentor gave as one of the chief reasons why the Republicans carried the State last fall the growing improvement in the public school system. Now, as much of the credit for this improvement is due to Mr. Smart, Superintendent of Public Instruction, the query arises, ought not the services of that gentleman to be recognized by the Republicans in the bestowal upon him of some good, fat office? If the theory is to reward the men who have helped in the fight, it would seem that Mr. Smart's services should be recognized. Perhaps there may not be room in the Cabinet, but there are some fairly comfortable positions outside of the Cabinet. 'X

FROM the evidence that is being adduced by the committee now investigating tho Women's Reformatory, it would seem that the officers ef that institution stand in need of about as much reforming as the inmates. The principal methods of punishment appear to be "ducking" in cold water, whipping with a leather strap and bumping the heads of offenders against the wall. Some allowance must be made, of course, for the stories which come from the inmates of a prison, but the fact that these methods of punishment are pursued appears to be pretty well established, and they are not the kinds of punishment that will be approved by an intelligent public. ___________

THERE is perhaps no better indication of the -wide spread depression in the legal profession than the unprecedented pressure for office which exists at the present time. From the highest national appointments down there seems to be a regular stampede of lawyers to obtain public offices of every kind. Even appointments in the Territories are eagerly sought for and all persons in position to exert any influence in behalf of persons desiring places, are absolutely overcome by the pressure which is brought to bear upon them. It may well be questioned whether many of these seekers would not be better off in the end without than with the coveted office, but present necessity urges them in the direction from whence the largest immediate pecuniary results may be obtained.

UNITED STATES Senators have all been chosen now with the exception of the vacancy in Pennsylvania where a bitter contest has been going on for days past between the Cameron and anti-Cameron wings of the Republican party. The result of the recent elections is to leave the Senate Democratic by a small majority, the division being: Democrats 39 Republicans, 36 with the vacancy in Pennsylvania within the control of the Republicans, which will give them 37. IN this division Davis, of Illinois, and Mahone, of Virginia, are counted with the Democrats. The deaths of two or three Senators might result in changing the control of the Senate, but as it is, the Democrats controling the Senate and the Republicans having the House and the President, it will make at\ interesting administration.

QUEER ANJ) NEW INDUSTRIES. The Boston Sunday times notes that among new industries is that of making paper patterns, which occupies ten estab lishments, and uses many tons of paper, There is a factory devoted to making motto paper another makes "dummies" for the display of wearing apparel another makes theatrical armour on large scale. One considerable firm produces tailors' chalk. There is a Jew's harp factory, and a place where dried blood is produced on a large scale. Tl^e fact is developed that some tomato catsup is made from the peel and refuse of the great tomato canning factories Think of that, ye gourmets, with what appetite ye may. It is shown that from a barrel of flour the number of loaves made varies from three hundred to six hundred—the better the bread the less flour used, and the less nutriment. Honeycombs are made with wax, filled with glucose, and sold as the natural product of the hives. The special agent vouches for the fact that old shoes are cut up, boiled in spirits, allowed to stand a few days, and the result is a fine quality of Jamaica rum.

SARA'SSA YINQS.

The following is from a report of a conversation with Sara Bernhardt, in which she goed-naturedly criticised some features of American life:

She said that always everybody was telling the old people of Europe that they should become practical like tfie Americans and said she: 'I come here and find the streets of all the cities hot cleaned even. I cannot go here, cannot walk there, the streets are too bad. The trains we have traveled on have always been behind time, and they stop for tms and that, and even for a cow that gets on the track.' Then she laughingly spoke of the cooking, concerning her opinion of which no one can blame her, as she has had an experience of hotel cooking only. She said: 'With all your wheat, you have not even good bread.' She

showing

Americans were really the least practical people in the world." The Indianapolis Jouraal says: There is a basis of truth in this criticism. European cities are better policed, better lighted and cleaned, and, as a rale, better governed than American cities. As for the matter of cooking, the more Sara investigates it the more she will find to criticise. What would she think of fried beefateak heavy, half-baked bread, eaten hot potatoes, boiled with the skin off, or fried and soaked in lard, and many other kindred abominations which abound in American families? The cooking she has encountered is superb compared with what might be found in many American households*1t

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JOURNALISM.

In commenting upon the failure of a newspaper manager, the St. Louis Globe tells a plain truth in the following words: The business of journalism will continue to be an inviting field for experiments to those- who have a large amount of money and a large amount of I egotism. A man who, having edited a newspaper until he was forty, should suddenly announce himself a lawyer, would be regarded as a fool by the legal profession and yet we often hear of lawyers of forty making sudden pretentions to journalism. There is an idea that the business of editing requires no apprenticeship that editors come forth from law offices and colleges fully armed for the profession, like Pallas from the brow of Jove. It is a mistake there is not in America to-day, a single journalist of natural reputation, who has not devoted more time and more hard work to his profession than, with equal fitness and application, would have made him a good lawyer or a good doctor. And yet ninety out of every hundred men you meet on the street will hesitate about carrying the hod er making a pair of shoes, whereas, there will probably not be one in the hundred who can't according,|to his own judgment, edit any newspaper in the country better than it is edited, no matter in what manner or by whom.

WHAT LETTERS RESEMBLE. A is the outline, of an ox's head, the two legs being the two horns. It is called in Hebrew aleph (an ox). Among Egyptians it is the hieroglyphic which represents the ibis. Among the Greeks it was a symbol of a bad augury in the sacrifices. is the outline of the hollow of the hand, and is called in Hebrew caph (the hollow of the hand). is the outline oi a rude archway or door. It is called in Hebrew daleth (a door).

E represents a window in Hebrew it is called he (a window). is the outline of a camel's head and neck. It is called in Hebrew ginel (a camel). represents a stile or hedge. It is called in Hebrew heth orcheth(a hedge).

I represents a finger, and is callea in Hebrew yod or jod (a hand). represents an ox goad, and is called in Hebrew lansed (an ox goad). represents the wavy appearance of water, and is called in Hebrew men (water).

N represents a wriggling eel, and is called in Hebrew nun (a fisn). O represents an eye, and is called in Hebrew ain (an eye). is a rude outline of a man's mouth, the upright being the neck. In Hebrew it is called pe (the mouth). means the "tail letter" (French queue, a tail). This letter which is O with a tail, was borrowed from the French. is the symbol of Jupiter, under whose special protection all medicines were placed. It is called the dog letter, because a dog in snarling utters the letter r-r-, r-r, r-r-r-r, etc.—sometimes pre ceded by g. ~V represents a hook, and is called in Hebrew vay (a hook).

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

rADE from Grape Cream Tartar. ,110

"other preparation makes such light, flaky hot breads, or luxurious pastry. Can be eateu by dyspeptics without lear of the ills resulting fromneavy, Indigestible food, Sold only in cans, by all grocers.

ROTAL BAKING POWDER Co, New York.

054 Main street, MoKeen* Block.

Has a Large Variety

-OF-

WHICH HE SELLS VERY CHEAP.

Tke Arundel Tinted Spectacles

For the relief and core of

Dim, Weak and Failing Sight,

Enabling the wearer to read and work either by day or night, with perfect ewe and comfort. Protected by lettersof patent granted by the government of the united states. Eagland and the United Kingdom. For sale by

S. B. FREEMAN, Agent.

COMBS & ROGERS

Are prepared to All orders with promptnem and dispatch for all grades of

Hard and 8oft Coal and Coke,

In any quantity, large or smaSL Send us yoor orders by postal caid, ln person, by telephone, or on horaeback,snd they withreceive prompt attention, late and early. No port* pinement on aceoont of the bad weather. Offlee, 132 leath Third Street

At St Charles Hotel, Terre Haute, Ind

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FROM Now MENTINE'S DAY

WE WILL CLOSE OUT EXTENSINE LINES OF

Thirty (30) acres off the north end of the west half of tho southwest quarter of Section ten (10), Town twelve (12), llangc nine (9), in said county also, the cast half of said quarter also, that part of tho southeast quarter of said section which lies between the Durkco Ferry and Lafayette roads, containing about forty (40) acres also, forty-five (45) acres in the northeast corner of said last-named quarter, lying east of the Lafayette road and north of the tract owned by Lydia S. Barbour. Said tracts will be sold in Sub-divisions. ~Also,on Saturday, the 2d day of April, 1881. in the Town of Tecumseli, in said county, at the site of the old pork house, in said town, the following real estate of decedent, to-wit: Lots No's Five (5), Six (6). Fifteen (15), Thirty-nine (89). Forty (40), and Forty-six (40), and the undivided half of Lots No's Four (4), Seven

SstThirty

(30), and One hundred and eight off the south end of Lot No. Thirty-one (31). All said Lota as known on the recorded plat of said town.

Also, the undivided half of One acre of land adjoining the southeast corner of said town and the Wabash river, to-wit: Commencing at the southeast corner of said town, thence west Nineteen (10) rods, Six and one-half (6V£) feet, thence south Nine (9) rods. Thirteen ana one-half (13%) feet, thence east to said river, thence north along said river to the place of beginning. The Tecumseh property open to private sale from and after tho 5th of March next.

TERMS OP SALE.

One-third cash, the balance In two equal payments of Twelve (12) and Eighteen (18) months, with six per cent interest from date. Notes secured by mortgage on the premises.

A.

DRY GOODS!

LOOK OUT FOR OUfe

ANNUAL INVENTORY

•5 WITH ITS EXTENSIVE MARK-DOWNS.

WE ARE NOW OPENING NEW STOCK -OF--

PRINTS, TABLE CLOTHS, NAPKINS

TOWELS.

AND

NEW SATINS, SURAHS, BROCADED VELVETS. THERE WILL SOON BE AN ADVANCE IN COTTON HOSIERY.

HOBERG, ROOT &

NEW-GOODS

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Striped Shirtings, Chainbra and Domestic Ginghams, Pillow Slips and Sheetinir Muslins in large quantities at the

LOWEST WHOLESALE PRICES.

Our stock of Ladies', Gents and Children's Hosiery, Ladies' Corsets and Hamburg Embroideries, continue the great attraction of our Store, at unusually low prices for which we are offering them.

Removal.

W. W. OLIVER & CO.

Will, OD or about the

15 th of February

Move their stock of GROCERIES to

631 MAIN STREET,

Which is being fitted up for the reception of the finest stock 01 Groceries ever shown ia this city.

UNTIL THEN

Call for Table Supplies

AT THE OLD STAND

Northwest cor. 4th and Cherry streets.

XECUTOR'S SALE.

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Notice is hereby given that I will sell at public auction

011

Saturday, the 5th day of

March, 1881, at two (2) o'clock p. m. of said day, at the Court House in Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indiana, the real estate of Corey Barbour, deceased, late of said county, to-wit:

C. W. BARBOUR, Executor,

W x. E. MCLEAN, Attorney. February 6th, 1881.-it.

H. BOEGKMAN,

KAWTFACTtTBXB AXD DKAZ.BK IV

Home-made Boots and Shoes!

And also keeps a

General Stock of Boot* and Sfeeei

No. 118

80.

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Founh street, opposite Market Hous».

OTICE.

THE

Eldredge Sewing Machine Offlee

Has been changed to

Fisk's Stone Pump Building,

No. 117 Sooth Third street, between Ohio and

WHMtt,w«Ude.

It is Warranted.

It is the most complete, desirable machine ever offend to the public. Being the latest, it has the advantage of having very desirable and new improvements.

Dont buy tmtll yon see M. JT* Harry Metzeker, late solicitor for the White, will be glad to see his old costomen.

Office, 117 South Third street, second door north of Fonts, Hunter Co' Livery Stable.

.W. H. FISK, Agent.

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isisilate

Co.

JAMES & MCCOY,

Buckeye Cash Store, 601, 603 and 605 Main St., Torre Haute, Ind.

and

and

Trial Will Insure its Popn« larity Everywhere.

"WHITE Shuttle Seeing Machine

When once used will retain lts£place for* ever.

It is celebrated for its advantages, in that it is one of the largest sewing machines izanuGactured—adapted alike to the use of the family or the workshop. It has the largest shuttle, with a bobbin that holds aimot-t a spool of thread.

Theshuttle tension is adjustable without removing the shuttle from the machine. Tne great popularity of the White is the most convincing tribute to its excellence and superiority over other machines, and in submitting ft to the trade we nut it upon its merlts.aod in no instance has it ever

yet /alledto satisfy any recommendation in its favor. The demand for the White has Inoreased to such an extent that we are now oom pell eel to torn out

Complete Btwiaf Machine Every Three Mlaitei In Abe Day t* Sappljr the Demand. EVery machine is warranted for 6 years, and sold for cash at liberal discounts, or upon easy payments, to suit the convenience of buyers.

J. If. Hickman, Gen. Agt.

804 Main street, Terre Haute, Ind.

Willard Hotel Lottery

Postponed April 7JIH8I,

For a Full Drawing#

THEthe

DRAWING will take place at Louisville, Ky., under authority of a special act of Kentucky Legislature, and will be under the absolute control of disinterested commissioners appointed by the act.

LI8T OFJPRIZEB.

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Whole Tickets, 88 Halves, 84 Quarters, 92. Remittances may be made by Bank Check. Express, Postal Money Order, or Registered

Responsible ageats wanted at all points. For circulars giving full information and for tickets, address W. C. D. WHIFH,

Willard Hotel, Louisville, Ky.

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