Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 46, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 May 1881 — Page 4
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THE MAIL
A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
PT7BLICATIOX OITICE,
No 16 South 5th st, Printing House Square.
TERRE HAUTE, MAY 14,1881
CHJCAOO 'manufactures and sella more pop corn than any other city in the world.
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE, author of "Home, Sweet Home," is to have a monument.
DAYLIGHT dancing is to supplant that of the night, at the summer resorts, this season. Which is all very well to say.
TALMAOK presides over the largest Presbyterian church in this country The communicants number nearlv 2,600.
BOSTONI is talking about taking up the World's Fair project abandoned by New York. Let the Hub go in. It's her opportunity.
LASf Hunduy, 1,040 Chinese arrived at 8art Francisco on the steamer City of Tokio. Does this portend an exodus of Celestials to our shores?
Tiik New York Herald made $750,000 for Bennett, last year. This year it will probably do lettor. Mr. Bennett's men ought to strike for higher wages.
BA«NI M, the showman,' favors the holding of a World's Fair in Boston. Let them make P. T. the president of it, and the thing will not have to be dropped.
AI,RKADY some idiotic papers are demanding Postmaster General James for President In 1884. Better wait a little. A man doesn't earn his title to the White House in sixty days.
WASHINGTON swamps and Washington hospitalities have proven too much 'lor Mrs. (Jarfield, and she is prostratod by a malarial fever. It is not all fun, being a President's wife, after all.
ON last Monday ((,521 immigrants ar rived at Now York, the largest number for any ono diy this year. The immigration last year was over half a million, but bids fair to 1*) exceedod this year.
Mil. HOWKLI/S new story, entitled "A Fearful Responsibility," will appear in the numbors of Scribner's Monthly for June and July. Mr. Ho wells is reported to 1)0 ongaged on a longer serial for the same magazine.
AN elcctrophono litis been invented by tho aid of which it is claimed that peoplo can talk to each other by cablo across tho Atlantic ocean. In view of recent electrical inventions there is nothing incredible in ibis claim.
THE Chicago Times proposes to print in its papor tho full text of tho revised New Testament, as soon as an advance copy of the document can be obtained. Thus are the scriptures to bo read and known of all men in these latter days,
TIIK live Commissioners recently «Ipointed to aid the Supreme Court entorod on their duties Tuesday. The capacity of tho court will thus IK? exactly doubled for the next two years by which timo it is hoped the docket will le nearly or «juite brought up to current business.
A STATISTICAI. enemy of Ireland has figured it up and finds that the unhappy island spends more money each year for whisky than for rent of lands. But what has thai to do with the question? If rents wore cheaper there would ie so much the more money to spend for drinks.
T'HAIU.KX F. HI NT, a well known young attorney of Indianapolis and a graduate of Anbury University, died last Monday. He had made a promising start in his profession and being of atv apparently robust physique, his death was quite uuexjieeted to his friend*.
COMMKNTINO on the irreconcilable conflict between the criticisms of the New York journals on the recent musical festival In that city, the Cincinnati («axette suggest* that the only way for the New Yorker to obtain a correct idea of a musical performance la to read but one paper. If he reads more than one, his mind will be in a state of hopeless confusion. ______________
WITH all the talk about crett»tl«m, it is singular that no one 1ms proposed the application of the process to the garbage and tilth of cities. Yet it would seem quite practicable to burn up all or most of the ottal and garbage which produce such pestilent results in all our large towns and cities. Why not construct a great crematory furnace at some suitable place, and require all refuse stuff to 1* cast into it and burned In this way all objectionable matter could be completely destroyed, and the harmful effect* of its slow decomposition obviated.
THK dangers of living in large cities find another example in Chicago, of whoso half million people a leading physician say* one-fourth are more or lew* ill, while the mortality among children In unprecedentedlv great. Bad water, imperfect drainage and filthy streets are held responsible for the mischief—the same evils that are complained of to greater or lent extent in all hrge eitiaa. To manage these vast aggregation* of human Ufe in such a way as to preserve the conditions of health even to a reasonable ex ten t, seems to be beyond the present ability of science to solve.
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GEORGE HARDING.
Dead! How suddenly he went out! Two weeks ago last Wednesday, he was walking along a street in Indianapolis, and stepped aside to allow some ladies to pass. He stepped on a cellar grating, just as a man underneath was raising it, His right foot went into the opening, and the flesh of his leg was cut to the bone. He died at six o'clock last Sunday morning, of congestion of the brain and blood poisoning, resulting from the acdident.
In the death of George C. Harding* Indiana journalism has lost one of its oldest, most familiar and rarely original characters. Of no other mem ber in this State, or perhaps in many States, could it be so forcibly said that his place will remain unfilled. We know of no one who can take up the pen which Harding has dropped, never to touch again. His style was as peculiar to himself as Charles Lamb's was to him, and it was altogether as inimitable. Singularly mellow and happy in his epistolary efforts, and forcible and elegant in his editorials, it was as a paragraphist that he chiefly excelled. It was in the "elbow shots" of the Herald, and the first page items of the Review, that his peculiar genius shone, or rather blazed out in its full lustre. It was these short, bright, inimitable sayings of his that made the name of Harding familiar, among newspaper men, from one end of tho land te the other, and created a ready market for every venture which he touched. There will be no more "elbowshots" now—no more of the old, familiar kind, and they will be missed by thousands who read and chuckled over them every Saturday as regularly as the day came round. Not the most valuable, perhaps, to the world, this kind of writing, but wonderfully pleasant and appetizing, and valuable enough, too, for it gave anew zest and spirit to the dull, monotonous round of daily existence valuable enough to be missed keenly and long.
Poor George! men have said and will continue to say. Like so many men of genius, there was the angel and the devil within him. Bravely he bore the dreadful, crushing blows which would have brought any ordinary man to the ground. His life was fall of a terrible tragedy—not the less terrible because much of it was of his own making. A strangely modest, quiet man in personal intercourse, when in his right mind, but^ ,i demon when passion surged and boiled through his blood. But what he was, for good or evil, he was largely by birth, no doubt, and who can tell with what earnestness of purpose he struggled against the passions in his breast? Never was there a man more deserving to be looked at through the eye of charity. His heart was warm, and his friends wero bound to him by clasps of steel.
Dying at the age of 51, his life was cut off in tho very.midst of tab powers, and had lie been spared we might yet have seen, porliaps, the brightest and mellowest fruits of his wonderfully keen and ronchant pen. But his chair, so suddouly made vacant by the hand of death, will remain vacant for all timo, for there is not another George C. Harding any ui«ro than thero is another Charles Dickons und others, with di tie rout powers and, may wo hopo, with a genius as rare uul original in its own way, will come to till his vacant place. But not soon will tho name, or the famo, of George Harding pass from the memory of men.
THK toils arc closing round Stephen W. Dorsey, he of Indiana famo and Deluionican regalement. An Oregon man has brought suit in Denver against the ex-Senator l'or an alleged, balance duo him for service rendered Dorsey in the star route business and the telegrams published in connection therewith seotn Ao leave no room for doubt that Stephen is not, liko his uamesako of old, a martyr. It is just as well, in viow of these developments, that postmaster general James did not write the exculpatory letter so vigorously demanded by tho maligned Dorsey. So far as the facts have yet been gathered it appears that Dorsey and his brother J. W., and his brother-in-law Peck, and his brother-in-law's partner, Miner and another friend of Dor«ey's, obtained star contracts through Brady, aggregating $99,154 a year on their bids and afterwards expedited" to the magnificent proportions of $G93,099! Mr. Dorsey will need to write another letter or two before the country will be able to see through it.
THK President, so it is said, in the intervals of relief from the Conkling imbroglio, is seriously considering the Mormon question, and trying to decide upon the best method of dealing with that sore on the body politic. He feels that some positive and determined action most be taken with reference to it, but just what that action shall be is not so easy to decide. Ex-Governor Fuller, of I tah, suggests the issuing of a presidential proclamation against it, and this plan is favored by others, but whether or not this course will he adopted as the wisest one, remains to be see*. Whatever plan may be decided on, it is to be hoped that it will be promptly and effectually carried out.
THK Evansville Evening Tribune has fallen into tribulation. Petty V. Jones, one of the publishers, has brought suit igains* M* co-partners, alleging tlae insolvency of the concern, the folly of continuing the paper and asking for the appointment of a receiver to sell the property and dot* up the badness of the partnership. The other partners will resist the suit, claiming that the paper is getting established on a paying basis, and that the action of Jonea is an effort to crowd them out and gobble the entire concern. »f
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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MATT,
INGERSOLV8 JOB—GNAWING FILE. The witty and eloquent Hlinoisian has a very easy job on hand if his purpose is simply to tickle people with wit and blasphemy at fifty cents a head. There are plenty of people who take a good joke and are not at all particular who or what is hit by it. There area great many more people who enjoy hearing goodness, and all people who are living better lives than themselves, mercilessly ridiculed. It makes them feel comfortable to think that all who are not outwardly as bad as themselves are hypocrites, and so really worse than than themselves. These two classes, with those who are curious to see the man who has become so famous, and witness one of his performances, will furnish good paying audiences in al most every city or large town. If the job on hand is to make money easier and faster than by practicing law, or to add a good round sum aanually to his income from his profession, Ingersoll is on the right lead.
He has :in easy job also, if, as an earnest man, bent upon benefitting the people and relieving them from superstition or priestcraft, he is trying to demolish Christianity, providing that most of the current talk and writing about the condition of Christianity in these days and in this country is true. Listening to some people, and reading some magazines and papers, one would judge that Christianity was in the condition of the "Old One Horse Shay" in its later days, and might be expected to drop to pieces almost any day and so the work of Ingersoll and his kith is the easy one of making the old rickety thing jolt as much as possible and wear out all the faster.
Besides the "scientists," and the "agnostics," and all the other "ists" and "ics"who are looking for the speedy downfall of the Christian religion, there area good many Christian people who seem to be looking for, or at least fearing, the same thing. To hear them talk of the "good old days" of their own youth, or of their fathers, it would seem as though things were going to the bad about as fast as they could. So few people go to church, so few are converted in these days, there is so much neglect of religion, and there is so much skepticism, and so on, and so on to the end—so much that is discouraging that it really does look as if the collapse must come very soon, and that Ingersoll and his friends were1going to get God and religion out of the way very speedily.
Is it fact or fancy, this decline of religion An expert in statistics has been looking up the figures, and they do not seem to be altogether on the side of Ingersoll. In fact these figures seem very clearly to indicate that our witty friend has a bigger job on hand than he has bargained for, big enough to keep him busy the rest of his lfe, and, if he has any children as witty and eloquent and with as good knack at making faces at God and calling names, as he has, it seems highly probable that they will be able to make a good thing pecuniarily by following in the steps of their father. In truth, if these figures do not lie, and they certainly come from very. reliable sources, the children of the present generation of Ingersolls will have more to do than their fathers, for
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this country is growing stronger instead of weaker#' Eighty years ago, that is in 1800, there were enrolled upon the records of what are called the evangelical churches—the worst kind according to Ingersoll—in this country, 864,872 communicants. In 1850 tho number had increased to 3,529,988. In fifty years the three hundred thousand church members had become more than three million—in fact the increase was over three million. This does not include the Catholics, the Unitarian, the Universalists, the Christians, nor the Swedenborgiaus. But the population had increased vastly in fifty years. That is true, but these so-called "evangelical" churches had increased faster. In 1800 there were fourteen and a half people to every church member. In 1850 there were but little over six and a half (6.57) to every church member. Christianity did not grow weak very fast during the first fifty years of the century.
In 1850, as said above, there were a little over thre9 and a half millions of church members in the country, in 1870 there were over six and half millions (6,673,396). Here is an increase in twenty years of than three millions, (3,392, 587, a larger increase in twenty years than for the fifty years proceeding. And in spite of the rapidly increasing population of the county, church membership more than kept up with that increase, for while in 1850 there were a little over six and a half persons (6.57) to every church member in 1870 there were a little less than six persons (5.78) to every church member. Christianity did not grow weak very rapidly during that period.
But how about the last ten years? These have been the years of Ingereoll*s greatest activity, the years during which, until recently, one of our papers has done its level best to wipe out the Christian religion, and to persuade its readers that the job was well underway. The last ten years is the period during which it has been most generally assumed that religion was losing its grip. Still against a little more than six and a half millions (6,673,396,) of member* of "orthodox" churches in 1870, 1880 present* a roll of over ten millions, (10,665^63). Here we have again, In ten years, an increase greater than during the first fifty years, and greater than during the proceeding twenty years, an increase approaching three and a half millions (3,3«£«r7). The number of people in the country to every church member had fallen from a little
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over five and three-fourths(5.78) in 1870, to a'trifle less than five (4.98) in 1880. In the whole eighty years of the present century, church membership in this country has increased from 964,872 to over ten million, an actual increase of nearly ten millions (9,701,091). At the beginning of the eighty years there were fourteen and a half persons to every church member, and at the end of the eighty years, not quite five persons to every church member. Mrs. Partington sweeping back the waves of the Atlantic with her old broom, seems to have had on hand a job not much harder than Mr. Ingersoll in attempting to wipe out the Christian religion.
If, with the tremendous increase of population by immigration, the immigrants being largely Catholics, who are not reckoned in this calculation, and free thinkers, saying nothing of the "Heathen Chinee," the "evangelical" church membership has increased twenty-seven fold while the population has increased only nine and one-third fold, the churches seem to be holding their own pretty well. At the rate at which they are going on they will not "step down and out" very soon.
IT is evident the President means to stick on the Robertson nomination, whatever Mr. Conkling and his friends see fit to do about it. The latter is in anything but an enviable position. His course is losing him friends daily and is bringing out some very damaging facts against him. It is said amass meeting of Republicans will shortly be held in New York to protest against«the conduct of Conkling and Piatt. It is an ugly fight and can hardly result otherwise than in disrupting the party in New York and losing the Empire State to the Republicans in the next national coiitest but whether it does or not it isclear that the party is thoronghly tired of the domination of Conkling and will not submit to it any longer, come what may. The party may go down for the tiiije being, but if it does, Conkling will go down with it, unless, which many persons are able to believe him capable of doing, he walks into the camp of the enemy and allies himself with the Democracy. But the fight is on and will, it seems, have to be fought to the end, whoever gets the worst of it.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BALDWIN has given an opinion that women may be notaries public in this State, but cannot hold the office of county superintendent and other school offices, as they were given the right to do by an aet of the last Legislature. The reason of the last decision is that the constitution provides that "only male citizens" shall hold county offices, and the law is therefore unconstitutional. Confound constitutions, anyhow. They are always standing in the way of needed reforms!
It amt long siose wee moved inter our new store, wher wee thot wee WUB fixed fur good, but thee enterprize of Mr. Ripeto
Miler never lag*, an bfr this time next weak we expect too hav the new iaogeled electic lite in our store then wee wil be fixed, until sum Yanke gits up sumthin elw but cum in to-da, ez we hav beets, cucumbers, peas,
new cabbage, Bermuda onions, green onions, radishes, lettuce, asparagus, pie lant, spinach, kale, oranges, lemons, ananas, pea nut*, mixed candy, caramels, chocolates, Ac. cigars and tobacco, a choice line of toilet soaps, canned fruits of all kinds, the best brands of canned meats, fish of all kind«, maple syrup, rock candy, drips and sorghum toolasees, French and German prunes, dried blackberries, Alden dried apples, dried currants, raisins and prunelles, D. F. Bremner's biscuits and wafers, Ireeh bread, and Western Reserve butter. Stop and take a look at the nice flowers from H. Graham's Gardens
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Engagement of the Tragedian,
LAWRENCE BARRETT!
Supported by a Strong Dramatic Company, in Shakeapoar'a grand historical tragedy, in five arts, entitled
Julius Caesar.1
Mr. Barrett as Cassias.'
if' MALE or Plicn. I destral AdafsafM. .79c, SOe astf 30c Reserved 8MM fl OO gale of seats will commence Saturday morning at Button'*.
STECK,
HAZLETON BROS:" and BEHRING PIANOS. TAYLOR & FARLEY, BURDJBTT
and
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Palsee of Mosic, sooth side PofcUcSqnaxe.
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and Iron. Enquire Northeast corner Siith and Poplar streets. (St)
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ANTED-lM MED IATELY-AN AGENT in each township in Vigo county, outside of Harrison township: also in the adjoining townships in Clay, Pnofee and Vermillion counties: to sell machinery on commission. C. A. POWER, 2t 101 and 106 Mam St., Terre Haute, lud.
For Sale.
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S ALE-CEBY LOTS-TWENTY LOTS 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. P. NIPPERT.
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TIOR SALE OR TRADE—TWENTY ACRES Jj of land, on the corner of Twemy-second and College streets. On the premises area frame house, with nine rooms a frame barn 44 by 51 feet carriage house and sheds, 24 by 99 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, 011 posts and wires, in good order, and 110 pear trees, bearing 170 apple trees, bearing SO cherry trees, beareng: 15 wild goose plum, bearing one acre in strawberries of the best kinds. For further particulars, call on, or address, W. G. DAVIS, ^0 1750 Poplar street, City.
T7K)R SALE—50 LOTS EAST OF 14TH ST.. JP between Poplar and Walnut, on 10 years' time, at 6 per cent interest. Apply soon to
FOR
J. H. BLAKE, 225 Ohio street.
IOR SALE-JERSEY CATTLE-COWS, heifers and male calves for sale. I. V. PRESTON.
SALE-JERSEY OR ALDERNEY Bull Calves from two weeks to one year old. Prices from $10 to $50.
FOR
I. V. PRESTON.
SALE-A SMALL HOUSE AND LOT near mine, part down and balance on time. For particulars, innuireof J. C. BURNB, at Keyc^ & Sykes Wheel Factory, Terre Hau te.
For Rent.^
OR RENT-BRICK BUSINES8 ROOM ON alley back of Poetofflce and Prairie City nk. The best place for a barber shop In the city.
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RENT-A GOOD BUSINESS PLACE —a store room with counter, shelving and binB, cellar, with two rooms in the rear adjoining, at 405 north Third street, llent reasonable to respectable parties. Enquire of C. G. WALSER, Prop'r.
Strayed or Stolen.
TRAYED OR STOLEN—MAY 1ST, ONE DARK BROWN MARE, 10 years old blazed face right hind foot wlitte shoes behind, no shoes in front. The finder will be rewarded for Information horse.
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R. N. McMANIMIE.
527 south 15th street, Terre Haute.
STRAYED—LEFTtwo
Riley P. Ov, Vigo county, Ind.
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longing to W. CORY, No. 109 14th street. cow is about years old, nearly white all over, except head and neck, which are red. White spot I11 face, short horns, one of them slightly drooping. Any information regarding said cow will be liberally rewarded.
Mantels.
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TO EXAMINE. TO PRICE, TO BUY.
A Tony Parasol.
Hundreds of them.
Hundreds of them, *1
A Loyeiy Fan.
Thousands of them.
A New Thing
Iu Neckwear.
'Pou honor, we have sold, a thousand yards of silk finish, fast-color
SCOTCH GINGHAMS
(ZEPHYR CLOTHS,) This season, and wo want to sell 2,000 more at 20, 25 and cents.
OUR STORE
Is jam full, higli-heaped,
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MY PREMISES ABOUT
tho 1st of April, 2-year old mare colts —one a dark bay with a little white on two feet and split in one ear—the other alight sorrel and white spot in forehead. A liberal reward will be paid for Information or return Of the colts to WILLIAM A. DILDINE,
counter-crowded, with new desirable, wonderI fully cheap and beautiful goods.
Hobergy Root & Go.
H.F.SCHMIDT&CO
403 Main Street,
ARE NOW SHOWING
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A MAGNIFICENT STOCK
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Diamonds, Watches and Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Spectacles, Gold Headed Canes.
OUR TABLE LINENS
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PRIDE OF THE HOUSEHOLD
A supply of handsome TABLE LINENS is a "joy forever" to the housekeeper,
To meet this long felt want
brokaw
Turkey Red and other Fancy Colored Tabling. 4
Together with an endless variety of tow price, it Towels. Bath Towels, Washing Towels,
etc.,
flfiwirware Toweling, and everything needed to make a foil and complete
FIRTS-CLA8S
Bros-yr
to their extensive stock of Carpets, Lace Curtains, Cretonnes, Paper Hangings, etc.
A LINEN DEPARTMENT
Irish Table Cloths, Napkins, Doylies etc., ^uS Ln^ 1 To which they have added a great variety of FANCY ARTILLIVS, sucn as nanasome Table doths, extra size Table Cloth#, inset®, 11 k* iha^ter' Also Table linen,in sets, with Napkins and many other noveltiepof like character. Also
German and R"*^*J
TOWEL DEPARTMENT.
at very ATTRACTINE PRICES,
BROKAW BROS.,
No. 413 Main street, Terre Haute, Ind.
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