Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 May 1881 — Page 4
THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PE&PLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
FTTBLICATTOX OrrtCK,
No 16 South 5th St., Printing House Square.
TERRE HAUTE, MAY 7,1881
THE question whether Conkling or the President is the bigger man is now in
a
fair way to bo decided.
kxnor'h prophecy of cool weather for the first of May was as lucky a hit as his famous April snow prophecies.
RIVAL electric light companies have locked boms in the courts in New York Oity. This is a decided step forward.
THE Illinois Land League have resolved to raise $200,000 before next January, for the relief of the tenants in Ireland.
TAMTAM announces over SCO conver sions as the result of the seven weeks* revival in his church. Let others stop -criticising and go and do likewise.
KVANHVILLB has orga^redacompany for the building of a belt railroad round that city, following the example of Indianapolis. Work is to be began at once
FivE-hundred
factory girls recently
•struck for a reduction of the hours of labor and obtained it. It is evident from this that women can "strike" as well as do some other things.
IT is announced that the prespeot of holding a world's fair in New York, in 1883, has been abandoned, and the subscriptions for the purpose will be returned to those making them.
PKOOTOR, the eminent English astronomer. wa.H married the othsr day to a lady of Ht. Louis. Thus does the American article crowd the English out of the tnarket even where competition is between forninine charms and accomplishments.)
THERE are over 1,000cases of smallpox In tho London hospitals, and 1,500 cases have been refused admission from lack of room. Tho epidemic has much increasnd in violence lately, 450 persons having died of the disease within a month. ___________
TJIB divlno Sarah left New York for her native country last Monday on the steamor Amerique. She did not say that she would never come again. Next season she will play in London and then make a tour of the continent, visiting all the principal cities.
OKN. LEW WALLACE, it is said, will go to Constantinople as Minister to Turkey. This is a decided improvement on the position heretofore offered him and he will hardly decline it. Constantinople would not be a bad place to find material for another romance, one would think.
THK
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Atlantic Monthly pronounces
Ben Hur" an artistic failure. This decision was to have been expected from the Atlantic critics who place delicacy of touch and execution in a higher rank than quality of substance. But it matters little in this day what the critics utter. A book is little dependent on them for its success or failure.
HKNRY WARD BKKOHKH has been sued tor breach of promise. The promise was 10 deliver an addross before the Western
Maryland Agricultural Society and ho failed to 1)0 on hand. A summons in tho case wax served on Mr. Ileecher whllo passing through Baltimore on a train. Tho groat preacher took the matter in the utmost good humor and stated that he would answer by couusel. Much amusement was created among the passengers on board the train when the nature of the business was known.
THKRK Is a restless disposition on the part of laborers throughout the country and strikes are frequent. In many cases the demands of the strikers are substantially conceded by employers without much contest. In tnany instances, no doubt, the increase in wages of laborers 1ms not kept pace with the general rise in prices of the article# produced, or the increased expense of living, hence the strikes. It would be well for em plovers to remember and put in practice the scriptural maxim that the laborer is worthy of his hire.
OHIO, the mother of prodigies, has produced one which is no occasion of pride tocher. It was John Frankenstein, who, after falling at sculpture, painting and authorship, died the other day in a lonely room, in the great city of New York, at the age of sixty-five. An unfinished clay model and tho plates of his unsuccessful poem, were found in bis room after a policeman had broken the door open and foit-ed an entrance. He is written down as the man wh«» foiled at everything he undertook probably because he undertook too ranch.
THK Harrison lis, continues without abatement of interest, and is winning wowb of commendation from all the churches. Last Sunday night. Rev. Myron W. Re*J, of the First Presbyterian church, preached a sermon on revivals in which he took occasion to heartily commend the revival method, showing the philosophy of it and approving of the results am»mplished. This, from a Presbyterian pulpit, huHcate* a growing change in the public mind on the question of the value of revivals as a factor In rettgkma pro*
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hf the Inter-State oratorical contest Jacksonville, 111., the first honors were awarded to Charles F. Coffin, the representative from this Stated The States Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin were represented. Mr. Coffin is, we believe, a stndentof the State University at Bloomington.
THE Indianapolis Democrats did not win on the Cincinnati plan, Prof. Smart being| beaten for Mayor by some 500 votes. Mr. Grubbs, his opponent, how ever fell far behind the rest of his ticket which was elected by majorities ranging from 150 to 2300. Indianapolis is pretty reliably Republican of late years.
THE New Southern Hotel, at St. Louis, will revive the anoient style of living, in one particular. The top of the building, surrounded by an iron railing, will be ornamented with plants in the summer and be brilliantly lighted at night, for the enjoyment of guests who can be served with refreshments there if they like. The idea must have been gained by the perusal of "Ben Hur."
Now that the Senate has adopted the sensible course of holding executive sessions to pass on the nominatioas before it, those over which there is no contest will be rapidly disposed of, and the President can go on making new ones. This change in the situation will afford much satisfaction to the limited number of gentlemen who are hoping to receive official recognition fer their arduous services in the late and other campaigns.
OLD John Brown's widow is likely to be handsomely cared for now that her necessities have been made known to the public. Relief funds in San Francisco and Boston are swelling to good proportions and the mortgage on the old lady's farm will easily be lifted with probably a good margin of surplus. It seems singular that the public and the omnipresent newspaper reports should have overlookod for so long this deserving subject of public .bounty but now that she has been discovered, it is to be hoped the muniticenee of tho bestowal will be equal to the delay which has attended Its its giving. _____________
NOTWITHSTANDING all the warnings the Mormons have received as to the vigorous measures in store for them, they appear to be as activo as ever in pushing the interest of their church. Their missionaries, well supplied with money, are even now in France, Sweden, Norway, England, Ireland, Scotland, and perhaps other foreign nat ions industriously engaged in making proselytes to 'the Mormon |faitli aijiong innocent people who do not know the situation of affairs in this country. It is evident that Mormonism has no notion of giving up the fight until the conflict gets a good deal hotter than it has yet. _______________
OEN. WEITZEL, of the United States Army, gives an interesting description of how the city of Paris is cleaned. The streets are swept daily and all the refuse matter removed, about 5,000 persons, 520 carts and 980 hones being employed In the work. There is a central depot where chemicals for disinfecting and cleansing purposes, such as chloride of lime, sulphate of 7inc and iron, carbolic and hydrochloric acids, etc., are kept in large quantities for use in cleansing gutters, sewers, sinks, etc., and by the applications of these materials the great •ity is kept in a model condition of wholesome wleanliness. The cleaning of Paris has perhaps attained as near to perfection as it can well be brought and is well worth the careful study of American cities. _____________
TH recent opening of ono of the pyramids at Sakkora has revealed amass of minute hieroglyphics of the utmost interest and importance to students of Egyptian history. This group of pyramids, about a dozen In all, are said to belong to the fifth dynasty—the second of the pyramid-building dynasties—and are therefore of the greatest antiquity. The hieroglyphics thus found give an account of the religious opinions of the age in which they were executed and are pronounced to be the most important Egyptian discovery since tho finding of the Rosetta atone in 1799, which was the starting point of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian history. The newly discovered hieroglyphics will be immediately translated and published in English, and thus lie rendered accessible to all who care to interest themselves in studiea of this character.
THE President, by withdrawing the nominations of frieads of Senator Conk ling in New York, has taken the senatorial bull by the horns, and will either conquer that unruly animal or will himself get severely gored. Manifestly he has made up his mind to give Mr. Conk ling a square fight and to take the chances of the outcome. He will know once for all wliether th* Senator from New York is more powerful than the President or not. Mr. Conkling can now go in on his muscle and see what he can make of it. What the result will he can hardly be doubted. Mr. Conkling will get floored. He will find that his senatorial friends, when driven to choose between himself anKhe Presl-, dent, will aide with the litter, because the latter ran be of farnfcnie service to tb&m than Mr. GOfckUJSjg, What the effeet will be on the Republican party in New York remains to be seen. It maysplit the party wide a«und#ramigivethe State to the Democrat*. It may cost the Republican* the liMKOf the next national election* If it does Mr. Conkling will be to blame for It aad will he held responsible for it» -jjf fspjs
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENTN"G MAIL.
A MISFORTUNE.
"It would have been ten dollars in his pocket if he bad never been born," said Artemus Ward of somebody. It would have been more than that, a good plump hundred dollars, at least, in Thomas Carlyle's pocket if he had never written his "Reminiscences," or if James Anthony Froude had "burned instead of editing and publishing them. This book makes it impossible for anyone who reads it ever to think of Cariyle otherwise than as an in veterate aad confirmed old scold. It was well known before his death that he wielded a sharp pen, but it was not known, how very seldom it was that his jaundiced and dyspepsia blurred eyes saw anything to commend, and how constantly they were feasting on the disagreeable. He does manage to write very tenderly of his father and of his wife, but, perhaps with the single exception of Edward Dering, he finds in others of his times little else than glaring faults and grotesque weaknesses* And he took particular pains to write down all the disagreeable things that be saw, or thought he saw, and now they are published to the world, much to the plague of his own memory, and of the booksellers. We say oi the booksellers, for the publication of these Reminiscences has very sensibly checked the demand for his works which were selling very rapidly. "A certain vague random tunefullness" is all the merit he finds in Keats DeQuincy he despises, and as the highest compliment which he can bestow upon him and Proctor, says they both are "pretty little fellows." The greatest novelist of womankind, and equal to the best of mankind, George Eliot, he serves up in comparison with his own wife, as follows: "Not all the Sands and Ellotsand babbling cokne of celebrated scribbling women that have strutted over the world in my time, could, it seems to me, if boiled down and distilled to essence, make one such woman. And this wife of his, who was doubtless a good woman in her way, a most faithful and self-sacrificing wife— and a hard time of it she must have had —probably borrowed all her wonderful merit in his eyes from her usefulness to him. The friends of the heroic and witty Lamb could never forgive the severity and injustice of Carlyle's words about him, depicting and exaggerating all his mental and physical defects, and making him thus an "emblem of imbecility, bodily and spiritual." He says of of Wordsworth, "He had a fine limpid style of writing and delineating in bis small way." Darwin's wonderful book on "Species" was to him wonderful "as indicating the capricious stupidity of mankind," and this judgment upon it, as he admits, he passes when he "could never read a page of it, or waste the least thought upon It." It Is a comfort to us Americans that it is only such an inveterate and prejudiced fault-finder who wrote of the great struggle for the nation's me and the freedom of the slave, as "that beautiful nigger agony, or 'dyjlwar', .of theirs." w|.
We do most heartily wish this book had not been written, and that we had been left In ignorance, or at least only to suspect the colossal faults of one whom, In spite of what we knew of his spleeny scolding, we did heartily respect although we could not strongly love. After reading these productions of his peu, which reveal most fully his real and inner nature, it becomes almost as difficult to respect him as it was before to love him.
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HAVING said so much of the faults of Cariyle, as revealed in these Reminiscences, it is perhaps no more than fair that the beautiful tributes which he pays to his father and his wife, the redeeming features of the volume, should be more than barely mentioned. After saying that his father had never been fifty miles from home, and that all his knowledge was derived "from the Bible, and what the oral memories of old men could give him, and his own could gather," he says, very touchlngly: "I feel to my father—so great though so neglected, so generous also toward mc—a strange tenderness, and mingled pitv and reverence, peculiar to the case, Infinitely soft and and near my heart. Was he not a sacrifice to me? Had I stood In his place could he not have stood in mine and more? Than' good father! well may I forever honor thy memory. Surely that act was not without its reward. And was not nature great out of such material to make such a man
It is plain even here to see that his fathers greatness and goodness are largely borrowed from his relations to himself, and yet it must not be forgotten that sons do not often thus justly deal with their fathors in acknowledging their indebtedness.
Of the wife who for forty years bore patiently with all the faults of such a nature as his, and helped him in every way possible to her in his work, be says: "I doubt cordiallv if I ever saw a nobler human souf than this which {alas*! alas! never rightly valued till now!) accompanied all mv stops for forty v«»rs. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweeji down the paltrv little du*t cloud* and idle dissonances of the moment, and all lie at last so mournfully dean and beautiful, when It is too late/*
Possibly he may yet learn on the other shore* that there areothers who deserved better of him than he gave them. If he does, we believe that, with all his faults, he will as freely acknowledge his pest mistakes and Injustice as he has his lack of appreciation for his wife.
THECincinnati Gaaette puts It thus, mildly: "Seventy-one thousand dollars per annum was the price paid by the Post office Department, under Gen. Brady's management, to Insure the transfer of an empty mall pouch beck end forth ooee a week between St. Louis end St. P*ul by river.
THE latest from Washington: Conkling is 'gathering his forces for the contest over the Robertson nomination which he intends to precipitate at the present session. He has the promise of the support of a number of Democatic Senators and is confident of being able to defeat Robertson's confirmation. The President, on the other hand, is firm in his determination not to withdraw Robertson's name and entertains no doubt but the nomination will be confirmed whenever the Senate reaches a vote on the subject. Give us a rest.
THE Czar of Russia ia a great monarch, but the majority of people, including, no doubt, the Czar hlmaelf, would prefer to be a poor and common citizen rather than occupy the throne of Russia just now. But the poor Czar inherited his throne, and it is not so easy to get rid of it.
IS IT TRUE?
Acknowledgement has 'been made
time and again that Dry Goods and No"'1 T?1** *k .v tions can be retailed for 20 per cent. less
foj^Cash than wl^n sold on long time,
no matter how good the credit customer
may be, thereby compelling the mer
chant to ask for credit in purchasing his
stock. If this be so, there is a greater
significance in the statement than most
people imagine, for if the retailer can
afford to sell for 20 per cent less for
Cash because of the advantage he will
gain In buying, it naturally follows that
the wholesale merchant secures the ddfl-
ble advantage of this, with the jobbers' it extra discount" of 10 to IS per cent., be
cause of his superior advantages in buy-
ing inlarge quantities direct from first
hands. If Cash purchasers can buy at a
regular retail house for 20 per cent, less,
would it not be wise for those same cus
tomers to save 30 per cent, by making
their purchases' at thd BUCKEYB
CASH STORE, where goods are bought "t .«! for ready cash in large lots at jobbers'
prices, direct, from manufacturers and 3 "Vw.- jw—*«'c, $ I Jr« importers, and where all goods are re
tailed *for cash pnly, at the LOWEST A t)
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WHOLESALE PRICES, saving our
customers the regular retailer's profits,
and giving them the advantage of 10 to
16peroent saved in buying direct from
first hands, making in all fully 30 per
cent less than is usually asked fer the
same goods at retail. Our wholesale
and retail h6iises combined buy and
sell more than six times the amount of *ft Dry Goods sold by any other retail
houap in tbip city, and \ye carefully sub1 I stantiate ourselves in guaranteeing to
save our eultomety from 20 to 25 per
cent, on all fooda purcbased%f us.r .•
We have placed on our counter for
the next ten jbys a lot of Silk Sun Um-
brellas, carried over from last season,
which we will sell-at just one-half their
value to closi out, as far as possible, be
fore receiving our new stock, which we
have pdrchJsed late £hd it
sortment oil over 50 different styles at FTI. -J prices that dsfy competition.
Do not fa to see our stock of Hamj-*". "ssa JW burgh Embi lidenas that is attracting so
much attent )n by their superior quali
ties and ver low prices. Our Hosiery
stock is ack towledged the largest, best
and cbeapes in this city.
JAJIES & McCOY,
•01606 and Main St. Terrs Haute In4.
»HE AjTESIAN BATHS.*
The Terr* taate Artesian Baths cars rbeo(uaralcta, catarrh, chrooUs diseases of u3lveT, dyspepsia and cutaaeoa iMSses. Tney are of the most healing aad Doserfally kuermUve and tonte waters mown in 1 it world. On Watsr street between Waii aland PopU£-
A] r&UASi coMrA^T.
Wanted.
Wf ANTED—A GIRL TO COOK, WASH
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and Iron.. Knqnire Northeu»t corner Sixth and Poplar streets. (St)
Wofin
ANTED-1MMKDIATRLY-AN AGENT each township In Vigo county, outside Harrison township also in the adjoining townships in Clay, Paoke and Vermillion counties: to sell machinery on commission. C. A. POWER, 2t 104 and 106 Main St,
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Ten Haute, Ind.
For Sale.
SALE-CITY LOTS-TWENTYLOTS laying between Thirteenth and Fourteenoh streets, directly west of the blast furnace. are for sale at reasonable terms. Long time will be given if the lots sold are immediately improved. -j F. NIPPERT. 7-4 W.
FofSALEon
OR TRADE-TWENTY ACRES land, the corner of Tw©my-second and College streets. On the premises area frame house, with nine rooms a frame barn 44 by 54 feet carriage house and sheds, 34 by 39 feet a good brick smoke house and fruit house good well and cistern and summer kitchen and sheds raspberry, currants, gooseberry and blackberry, about 1% acres in good condition 1.200 Concord grape vines, on posts and wires, in geod order, and 110 pear trees, bearing 170 apple trees, bearing 30 eherry trees, beareng 15 wild goose plum, bearing one acre in strawberries of the best kinds. For further particulars, call on, or address, W. G. DAV IS, 1730 Poplar street, City.
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SALE—50 LOTS BAST OF 14TH ST.. between Poplar and Walnut, on 10 years' time, per oent interest^ Ajjpi^soon to
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J. H. BLAKE, street.
SALE-JERSEY CATTLE-COWS, heifers and male calves for sale. I. V. PRESTON.
SALE-PLYMOUTH ROCK AND Golden Hamburg Chickens. Ems at 112* perdosen. T.HULMAN, (9-St) near Hospital.
For Rent.
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RENT—ONE FURNISHED ROOM. Apply to Drug Store, Cor. 8th and Main. TOOR RENT-BRICK BUSINESS ROOM ON alley back of Postoffloe and Prairie City Bank. The best plaoe for a barber shop in the city.
Strayed or Stolen.
CJTRAYED OR STOLEN—A COW BE|j longing to E. W. CORY. No. 100 sooth 14th street. The cow is about six years old, nearly white all over, except head and nock, which are red. White spot in face, short horns, one of them slightly drc information regarding said cow ally rewarded.
drooping. Any ow will be llber-
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MOORE & LANGEN,
16 fiiM.giafte Strafe
.Daily Express Building.) $erre #autC, 3llb. Sllle Hrbeitett, foroofjl in ber beutfdjen wie cnjjlijdieti @prad)e, werben gef^macfood, f$neQ. und Dtdig fluflcfcrtigt.
Moore Se SottgeN.
Mantels.
DO NT FAIL TO
—OUR—
STOCK
(,
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"PRICES!
BEFORE BUYING.
MOORE'S?
857 Main street. Ul
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£.Mi
Wit
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prices. Wetontinueto lead the Corset I tr«3e~in Ihlscaty, with our splendid as
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SPBCIAI
NO WORRY.
No Goods or Trimmings ?f to Match.
•READY TO PUT ON.
ELEGANT SUITS. SILK COSTUMES
-OF-
SUMMERSILK
Beautifully made, handsomely trimmed, and well made! $ 15, $18, |20, $2".
BLACK SILK.
$25 to $37.50. Trimmed in pleatings, beaded fringes and gimps.
WORSTED SUITS
—OF—
SPRING STYLES
Of Cashmere, Nun's Cloth, Momie Cloth and Brocade, Trimmed in Plain and Brocaded Silks and Satins, to $5.
A Great Drive
IteHutiful assortment of
LACE BUNTINGS
At 12% and 15 cents.
PARASOLS.
The most superb and novel assortment of new and stylish Parasols ever shown in Terro Haute.
Hoberg, Root & Co.
H.F.SCHMIDT&CO
403 Main Street,
ARE NOW SHOWING
A MAGNIFICENT STOCK
-OF-
Diamonds, Watches and Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Spectaclies, Gold Headed Canes.
CARPETS.
BONANZA FOR HOUSEKEEPERS AND GRAND OPENING SALE
BRGKAW
Have Just opened «nd put on sale their mammoth stork ofi'AHPKTM, PAPEK HANGINGS, CI KTAIX MATERIAL, and other HOI SK Fl'KNIHHINW GOOD®, in the newest and most fashionable pattern*, for tlie spring trade, and propose inaugurating their spring opening by such reduction in prices a* will give the season a good send-off. A real bargain is when yon can buy an article of merit at a low price. To those who intendto furnish this spring all we have to say is
Come and See this Stock Before Buying. You Cap Get Every Article You Require at Prices Lower than Elsewhere, pw Mayo All Your Purchases at One Establishment.
SAVE TIME AND MONEY.
Brokaw Bros.
413 Main Street, Terre Haute, Ind.
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