Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 February 1881 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PUBLICATION OFFICE,

So 16 South oth St., Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 19, 1881

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where It i8 sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands oQiearly every reading peraon in the city, and the farmers of this immediate vicinity. Every Week's Issue U, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

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

MONTANA will lose one-fourth of its -cattle and sheep by the severity of the present winter and the scarcity of food.

Co NOR ESS has appropriated $350,000 for lighting the city of Washington with electricity. The Capital will be more "brilliant" now than ever.

OK the making of books there is BO end. Already three biographies of Thomas Carlyle are in process of preparation and the old Scotchman is hardly cold in his grave yet.

NOT the least extraordinary performance of this most extraordinary winter have been the floods of recent date which have destroyed vast amounts of property various sections of the country.

CABINET gossip has reached the positive assurance that Mr. Blaine "will have a place" in the new cabinet. It may be remembered that the gossips had got to this point some two months ago.

IION. WM. H. ENGLISH will soon erect a beautiful family monument in Crown Hill Cometery, Indianapolis. It will be forty feet high and was made in Italy of pure Carrara marblo. It. will rank among the'finest private monuments in the country.

THE retirement of W. D. Ho wells from the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly is announced. He will devote liimsolf to creatlvo work, and bo ap'pointod Minister to Switzerland, it is said. Mr. Ho wells appears to have considerable relish for life abroad.

THE Cincinnati Commercial throws a flood of light on the vexed and much mooted question of who carried Indiana, by suggesting that perhaps some credit belongs to Hon. Wm. H. English, and intimatoH that a Delmonican dinner to him might be in order. Thore would seom to bo some pertinency in these remarks.

THE Baroness Burdette Coutts and the enterprising young American, Mr. Bartlett, havu lx?on married at last and although her Ladyship is 64 and tho groom exactly half that ago, it is understood to bo a genuine love match. If so, as the Baroness has "piles of money," it Is not easy to see why the course of true love should not run smooth in this case.

IT is now considered settled that there will be an extra session of the Legislatures cause, not time enough to pass all tho laws propared by tho codification committee. Tho reason is perhaps a good one, but it is observablo that our legislators are not indisposed to linger in the Htato capital. They find the hotel accommodations there quitosatisfactory.

iStx men wero publicly whippet! in Newcastle, Del., tho other day, for stealing. The poor fellows received the ^eavv lushes on their baro backs without an outcry, although each stroke of the lash raised niuo red welts on their flesh.

In only one case was the blood drawn. This is a sample of what we will have in Indiana when tho wife-whipping bill becomes a law.

NKW YORK has some very tall houses. The Morse block Is 146 feet high the Equitable Insurance Company's building, 113 feet the New York Life, 129 the

Grand Central Hotel 123 and a nine atory French flat on Fifth Avenue, 120. Imagiae a complete domestic establishment located in the ninth story of a building! No wonder New Yorkers •congregate in the suburban towns for residence, until within a radius of fifty mil re of the great city there is a popula tion of more than a million.

PRHSIDKNT VHKIK:.O, we areaasural, is to go into the White House with a grand display. The presidential escort is to consist or 80,000 militia and l.OOO regular troops, and the pageant is to be an unusually brilliant one. It may well be questioned whether rivalry in the matter of display on these occasions is at all commeudable. We area republic let us stick to republican simplicity. No aping of monarch iAl gaud and pageantry for us. Such things are certainly very tar from Gen. Garfield's plain and, •olid taste, and must be the work of in judicious friends.

THKRK IS no peace for poor Dr. Crosby, who ventured to deliver an address* in Boston against the principle of total abstinence. Now, after being prayed at by the Methodist minister as a "Rip Van Winkle in the temperance cause,' and mercilessly flayed alive by that prince of flayer*, Wendell Philips, Boaton sends for one of our Western worn CO. Mr*. Foster, of Iowa, a woman of great eloquence, who, in the presence of acme three or four thousand who gath

ered to hear her, goes for the scalp of the rash intruder in a style that would do honor to an Indian warrior. It will probably be along time before another man, or the same man, will venture to express a dissent from the popular views on the temperance question, as held in Boston. It may do for a man to have opinions of his own and express them out of Boston, but the Hub does not tolerate any such "fooling" around it.

ABOUT the wildest city ever Bernhardt appears to have been Nashville. The sale of seats for the first preformanee realized over |3.000, the two private boxes selling at a premium off 112. One man took six seats at $25 each. The regular price of seats was $3 each but most of the house was taken at premiums ranging from $3 to $18 above the schedule price.

THE Senator, he of the hyperion curl, comes out ahead again. It is stated that the President will withdraw the name of Foster, his anti-Conkling nomination in New York, with the understanding that Mr. Conkling will then permit the confirmation of Stantley Matthews as a judge of the Supreme Court. Lord Roscoe can spread his tail wider than ever after this.

Miss WILLAIID, in making a temperance speech lately, spoke of the "great General who always places his wine glass right side up for,'* said she, "the wine glass when turned down is right side up." There are some young men, and older ones too, not a thousand miles from The Mail office, who would do well to learn when a wine glass", and a beer mug is right side up. It would be better for their health, for their business, and for their characters, if they would imitate General Grant in this respect.

GEN. GARFIELD has always been considered a pretty rugged sort of man and able to stand a good deal but serious fears are entertained by h» friends that he may not be able to endure the terrible strain which the office seekers are now subjecting him to. Such a strain killed President Harrison a month after his inauguration and there is no disguising the fact that it is telling serfouBly on Garfield. The average- office seeker does not cease his efforts, however, for any such trifling considerations as these. He will have his office if he' can get it, no matter what the consequences to others may be. The patronage off a great government is a big thing to shoulder.

A BILL to incorporate the "Mexican Southern Railroad Company" is before the New York LegislaturQ. Among the incorporators are Gen. Grant and a number of the most wealthy citizens of the great metropolis. The- road is t» run from New York to Mexico, and is one of tho most gigantic

railway

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prises of modern tiraes. If successfully carried through it will probably mark the beginning of an unprecedented development of a country great in extent and wonderfully rich in resources.. With the introduction of railroads Mexico will bo revolutionized and placed abreast of other nations of modern times..

THE attitude of the Administration on the Monroe doctrine is beingwatolied with considerable interest.. DoLesseps'" advance guard of canal-diggers have arrived on the Isthmus and propose- to begin active operations at once.. As this proceeding is directly in tlio-faco of the President's proclamation that- no foroign country could be permitted to own and control such a canal, the question arises, what will the administration do about it? Will they send down an army and a navy to beat the impudent, Frenchman off", or will they stand waiting, and.see what the fellows can do? Tho country is torn with anxiety to know how. this Monroe doctrine is going to como out.

NOTHING meaner in journalism* has occur ml for along tinio than tho recent stealiug from the North Ainorioan. Review of an article on the Nicaraguan Canal, written by Genaral Grant for that publication. The Roview has. paid, the ex-President a large sum for tho article and had been to much.pains in securing it and while it was yet in* proof for the Review some enterjmising thief purloinedIt and hawked it about among the newspapers for sate. To the credit of thoprofesaion, most of tho papers approached rejected the offer with scorn, refusing to profit by such s» contemptible trick, but at length a purchaser was found and the Ueviow's jroperty was spread before tho world loag beforo the periodical for wllch It was prepared has been published- Mr. Rice, the proprietor of the Review, proposes to the newspapers involved la the aflfcir for damages and ft is to bm hoped that he will recover a round sum.

GBNKRAI. GRANT has been aaade director of a new baak in New York What with the banking business, Mexi can railroads and ftnama canals, "the man on horseback*'* seems to have still some capacities for usefulness, and to be disposed to have a hand in what is going on. How much better this than sitting down in Galena to suck bis thumbs dur ing the rest of his life, as he was criticised for not doing, by an influential journal, recently. It is one of the beau ties of a republican government that a man does not have to sit down with folded hands during the rest of his life because be has held a public office, no matter how exalted the position inav be. The conduct of General Grant in thus Identifying himself with the business intern** of the country will only serve to increase the respect of the people for him. Let us have done with the notion that an ox-President must be excluded from participation in public or private affairs.

THE NEW TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. As is "well known, the temperance women are now working in the different States to secure amendments to the

constitutions prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Such an amendment has been adopted in Kansas, which is never afraid of new experiments. The women claim that this is a matter of sufficient importance, both on account of the pecuniary interests included* and the social interests, to find a place in the constitution. They claim that the mere prohibition of the sale and manufacture of liquor does not belong simply to statutory law, but may be made a part of the constitution, and then laws may be passed to carry out this portion of the constitution. It will rest with statutory law to decide what penalties, if any, shall be inflicted for the manufacture and sale. They claim that there is need of something more permanent than statutory laws on this subjoct. A good law is passed, they say, and then it is subject to all sorts of obstructions and it takes several years to get a decision that it is constitutional and to remove the other legal objections that may be raised, and by that time the Legislature repeals it and passes another law, which, in turn, is repealed as soon as it begins to be effective. If it is once put in the constitution, they claim, it will not be so easily changed. They also claim that when onoe it is put into the constitution, being put there by the people, the Legislature will be more likely to pass laws to enforce the principle, than they will when left, as now, to guess at what the people want. They also claim that this will take the subject of temperance out of politics, for people will vote on an amendment to the constitution irrespective of party ties. It must be confessed that these women make a strong argument, and they are in dead earnest about this matter. And we are inclined to think that their arguments, and their earnestness, and their powers of persuasion will win for them a candid hearing in many legislative bodies, and in the end' secure that for which they ask, at least in- some of the States.

SHALL INTELLIGENCE RULE? This is one of the questions of the hour in politics. It is oentainity a very plausible plea that is madesin. defense of the various methods adopted1 at the South in order to get rid: o£the*votes of the colored people, that intelligence- cannot submit to be governed-by ignorance simply because ignoranee has- aaore votes than intelligence. This plea has satisfied many honest anff! patriotic citizens there as a defense for what has* been* stigmatized at the North., as "bulldozing," fraud, and the liket. The1 means Adopted to frighten the-negroes' ftom the polls, the breaking up of politieal meetings, the tissue ballots,.and. the'various counting out processes have-scot been the work of mere desperadoes) teat intelligent men have adopted: these means to protect themselves against ignorance, and on the plea that it is- the right of intelligence to rul^v This-right lias-been boldly declared on the floor of Congress. Is it a valid plea Ought it to b© universally adopted

IT intelligence has aright to rule,- fchea universal suffrage must' be given, up. This has been the result at the Sooth. Nobody pretends, except it be ini tie midst of a heated political campaign, that there is universal suffrage atr the South, that is, that every mam who chooses can freely and without intimidation cast his vote and be sure that it will be counted as ho casts it. It is claimed, and we do not say without much show of reason, that it is not safe to leave the government to a mass of voters just out of slavery. NoWj.il the rule works against t^i» ignorant black man. thon it must be put in operation agpinst the ignorant white man^ and universal suffrage must be counteracted by some means, fair or foul, ia» ISew York City. Thero is no plea thatcaa be made in favor of friglltenlng the negroes from the polls, or refusing to couat their votes, fraudulently netting into-the box enough votes to outnumber them, that cannot be made in* favor of doing exactly the same thingp In New York City to prevent Ignoraace and vie® from ruling over intelligence and morality. And when at the South andl in New York City univarsal suffrage is destroyed on the principle that intelligence has a righfc to rule, then in any place or in any iastanoe whare the vote of ignorant meny or an ignorant man, would decide a political issue, intelligence has aright to prevont it by means fair or foul. If. intelligence has aright to rule, then ignorance has no such right anywhese, and caa only be allowed to cast its votes when they will have no effect upon the isaue.

The princiiple that intelligence has a right to rule\ whether comet or false, is contrary to the doctriae of universal suffrage upon which our government is at present founded. This is a hard thing to aav, but is the truth.

IT is an amusing illustration of the consistency of political parties that the very same party which excuses what has been dsne at the South, on the plea that intelligence must rule, comes to the defense of the ignorant voters in Massachusetts and demands the abolition of the reading and writing test on the very plea that it is inconsistent with the prin dple of universal suffrage. And on the other hand, the party that most stoutly defends this limitation of suffrage in Massachusetts is the one that most strenuously insists upon universal suffrage at the South. But then there is this to be said for Massachusetts, that what is done to guard against ignorance at the ballot box is done according to law. "We

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believe that a law requiring some degree of intelligence in order to vote would be1, a good thing for the whole country, and then let every man who comes up to the standard, be he white or black, native born or foreign, be entirely unimpeded in the exercise of the right, and every one who does not come up to the standard, be he white or black, native born or foreign, be mercilessly turned away from the ballot box. In other words, so far as the principle of intelligence has a right to rule is made the basis of action, let it be in accordance with impartial law, and not lawless.

It is well, we think, for citizens to be meditating upon these questions when not excited by a pending election. It is a good time now to settle some points according to the dictates of cool and sound judgment.

"THEY."

It is a little singular that it is always "they" who are responsible when affairs are badly managed. It is singular, too, how few it takes ta make a majority. A hundred people who want a certain course pursued will sit down quietly and Sold their hands, and then, when five or six, more or less, manage affairs as thejr pleased, the hundred will wonder why "they" will manage in that way. "They" would have no power whatever if one-half, or one third of the hundred) would exercise their power and rights. The only way to prevent the bad management and put things right is to sut talk, out vote, and out manage the few who adopt many methods and principles. An earnest man who wants his own way—whether it be a good way or a bad way—and is ready to plan and work to get it, will always count more than ten men, or fifty, who want their own way and yet will not say so, or do what is necessary to get it. Decided opinions must be backed by decided actions before- they gain any power, Good sense must be put into exercise before it can replace bad sense. Many organizations and good institutions have gone down, not because there were not those who saw the danger,, not because there were not those who clearly saw what was necessary to sava* them, and not because those-who-saw the danger and the proper means of safety did not desire to save them, but simply because they did not put their knowledge, judgment and desires4iito actioni A few can manage only when the many allow them to do so. And thamany wfi»aBow the few to have theicown way because too indolent or too oowardly to- attempt to prevent it, are responsible for what the few do. Now yougrumblers in politics, in philanthropic movements and organizations, in societies,. lodgpa, and churches, put that in youis pipe and smoke it, till instead of wondering why "they" run things- so badly, you put your own hand on the machine-and at least try to have it run in abetter way.

WE is anothor of the words that is used a little queerly. But there is a rule to govern its use, and thee rule is this: When speaking.of a success,, it is proper to say "We didit," but when speaking of a failure "They" should*be used instead of "We." This is not.anj arbitrary rule of grammar, but a natural role. It is very awkward to say

"WE

made a

blunder," but let perfectly, easy and natural to say, "They made a blunder." On the contrary it is perfectly natural, when the bear is dead, to say "land Betsey (an emphatic we) killed thosbear^ whereas, it would bo exceedingly awkward to say Betsey killed tho beacrwthile I sat on the beam safely looking OMV This is such a natural rule that it is voiy difficult to find here at the North auindinridual who is not proud that "we" liawe- wiped out slavery, andfthat "we'' havo put down tho rebellion. Men who, would have been glad to* have a goocL stout grip on the rope areund tho ceok of an abolitionist in years gone by,.ami who would have been glad to fight ftr the South, if it had not been so dangerous, now ta® the loudest of what L. and Betsey did, just as if bhey had not been all the time wishing tUat the bear wonkl get the better of the-old womaa. It is just a little bit queetvhow many things "we" have done which we never-did.

DEATH YSUFFOCA TION. Two servant girls,.in New York, wen» suffocated in bed, last Saturday night. Both \jero dead when found, and thai* 1i condition is thus toldc

Thoeldest lay nearest the wall, her face 9«calm ana composed that she oxtly seemed to have dropped asleep, wew it not lor the deat&Ly pallor that had. setthin, red stream that

tied, on it, and *1*1*1. ooaod from her nostrils The younger girl was more, fearful to look upon Death had not stolen upon her quietly an«£ stilled her- in her slumbersw Sht had awakened while suffocating, and struggled agaiiM»t it, but had succumbed la an agony that had left very eloquent (traces.

The expression of the fsee was

dreadful. It most resembled that which the victims oX strangulation bear. The skin was livid, the eyes bulging out as though bursting from their sockets, and the protruding tongue was covered with a scaly coating.

"WHISJCT in Maine," says Neal Dow, "is carried in small bottles in the pockets of the liquor-sellers and dealt out upon the sly it is put into tea-pots, placed upon the kitchen shelf, It is built into the walla of houses, In tin cans, with a small rubber pipe by which to draw it off it is concealed in bottles in the bed it Is concealed in bottles under the floor, put there through a trap that can be only reached by removing the bed it is concealed in small flat bottles in the ash

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under of cooking stoves it in wells attached to strings fastened some inches below the surface of the water it is buried in manure heaps it is concealed under the floor of the plgstv it is hidden away upon the flat roof of the house, access to ft being bad onlv by a ladder through a scuttle it is hidden in attics, under the floor, and in cellars buried in the earth,"

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THE Legislature has a large piece etf work before It in the matter of the revision of the'ci^il code. The bill prepared by the committee of revision covers nearly a thousands pages of manuscript and makes many and important changes in the 'law as it now stands. Much time will necessarily be required for fts proper consideration and it will be impossible to do the work within the remainder of the regular session.

THE run of hungry office seekers upon Mentor still continues, and a correspondent says that Gen. Garfield looks ill and careworn and is obliged to use tonics to brace up hi» physical system. In order to avoid observation, many visitors stop at Painesvflle,and hire a livery team to carry them over, observing which a Chicago paper placed one of its reporters in the livery stable there as a driver, and while drirring the viators to Mentor he interviews-them and telegraphs the result to his paper. A neat bit of journalistic enterprise.

STOCK

SILKS.

Spring and Summer StripeeChecks, Cbenes, Tints! MervotUeux Satins, Fancy Silks aM2%, 50, (35, 75 cents* SI .00, SL10, 81.25.

INAUGURAL

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SPRING TRADE

INCREASE AND REDUCTION.

Also, WHITE CRHAM and ECRU L±CE WINDOW CITRTAINW in nil latest styles and novelties. We continue to LEAD THK CORSET TICAJ)E the latest improved styles, the best qualities, tho largest assortment, and-the 1 prices offered anywhere in the city. Do not fail to see our

NEW STOCK OF HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES continue to bo tho-groat traction at the unpreoedentedly low prices for which wo are offering them, bethe assortment is fullytthree times as large as shown anywhere else in tiio city

We have Ladies', Gentlemen's, Misses and Children'* Hosiery in evorys. quality and variety, at prices that cannot bo beaten anywhere. Remember that all goods are sold at STRICTLY WHOLESALE PRICKS the Buckeye Cash Stow. 601,603 a»d 605 Maimstoeet.

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On and After February 2»

Fara Seeds of Best Quality.

Red OsTer, Bine Nsmmath Clover,Orchard Grata Alsllte-and Alfhlfia, Red Top, Hungarian, German Millet,

Russian White Oats.«

A new variety of extseme productiveness. Sugar Cane. Barty Amber, Early Orange and Kansas Orange, The last two of which are the very and bent suited of all kinds to this latitude.

Improved Evergreen Broom Cora.

MELONS.

90 varieties of Watermelon** and Maskmelons, including the BEST SX TUB WOSLD.

FIELD CORK.

CHESTER COUNTY MAMMOTH, a largo yellow corn, lfii bushels of this grown on one acre by the editor of tho Rural Kew Yorker.

BL0UVT8 PROLIFIC. 154 bushete grown a boy under 18, who took flist prise offiarea by the Indiana Farmsr.

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OP ten CAPES dtedefed by the Su* Court, on last Tuescfey and Wedhos only one was reversed. This arjw lack of judgment, either on the litigants, their attorneys, or tho

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THH exports frooo the port of N York for six weeks, ending February were 943,000,000, as against $36,000,000 the same period in ISSOt. The impo for the same time were $10,000,00^1 than during 1880. This Indicates healthy condition of things.

THK alarming increase of parah during late years is believed to be mainly to the presence of poison in and drink. It is stated that a clienii analysis of artificial mineral waters, the French Academy of Science, sliov the presence of poison in all of theincluding the popular appoll| water. After all, it seems that da ture is about the ohly compoi pure prescriptions.

PRICES.

EMBROID'RIES.

Elegantr assortment of Matched EQgos and Insertings, 40 cents to 82.50.

Extensivaf lino fro mi 2c to 37%c, open tbl3-woek..

HOBERG, ROOT &

VEEBY HANDSOME, ELEGANT STYL1

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NEW PLAID DRESS GOODS,. EMBROIDERED ROBE DE BOUIDOR CASHMERES, BROCADED SATINS,

SPRING

GINGHAMS, In MADK and SCOTCH. SATTINE8, PEKCAI CHINTZES, CRE-JONN and FOULARDS.

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AND NEW SUMMER SI LI -AT-

60

cent Corset.

JAMES & MCCOY,

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No. 521 Main Street (Rippetoe's Old Stan

WISH A FULL, LINE OF

Men's, Boys' and Children's

Clothing and Furnishing Goo1

ALL GOODS NEW AND FIRST-CLASS.

SEED STORE.

POTATOES.

20 varieties, indadlng the bert and nc~ klnds, among tbem,

Beanfj ol Hebron, Early O Mammoth Pearl, HeCormick, Magnnm Bonu

Bnrbank, etc.

SWEET POTATOES.

Ml kinds, tncladlng a new early. variety.

OXION SETA.

Although sets are scarce, shall be abl supply the retail demand.

VEGETABLE SEEDS. 200 varieties, of the very best qualities, sale br the packet, ounce, pound, quart

FLOWER SEEDS and BULB The finest of Flower Seeds of ray Importation from the most celebrated growers In Europe.

Mr SIXTEENTH Xifl&At CATALOGUE, with descriptions and prices of above I* rsadyfand furnished free on application, in person or bytmall.

J. A. FOOTE, Seedsman,

306 Main street, TERRE HAUTE, INb.