Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 September 1881 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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No South 8th sL, Printing H»ase gqoars.

TERRK HAUTE, SEPT. 17, 1881.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. fbo FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has A large circulation in DM surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys aad agents. *n»« SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Even log, goes Into the UantU oQieariy every mdiog person in the city, and the fairness of this immediate vicinity. •very Week's lane is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

Ip which ail AdYerOsementa appear for THE PRICE OF ONE IS8UE.

REPORTS of the President's condition were conflicting on Monday, some of tbem being of the most sensational nature and creating great anxiety throughoat the country. An abscess on his lungs had been discovered, it was said, his pulse was high and even the surgeons admitted that recovery was only possible. Tuesday came, however, with better indications and the public anxiety was much relieved. It may be said at this writing that the President is steadily gaining in strength and continues to have a good appetite and digestion. Evidently the sea breeze has been a grateful touic to him and he feels much more contented and hopeful than he did at the White House, Dr. Bliss believes the ball is thoroughly encystcd and says three and a half inches of the wound is healed and the rest doing well. On Tuesday, at his request, the President was taken from bed and placed in an invalid chair where he sat for half an hour without experiencing any ill effects from the change. Dr. Bliss still pronounces his patient convolesoent, denies that there is any serious trouble with the lungs and expects a steady improvement in bis condition from this time on.

Since the foregoing was printed in the first edition, the President's condition has changed for the worse, and the news this morning indicates that another crisis is at hand, another desperate struggle for life. God help him is the universal ejaculation of the American people to-day.

GUITB.AU

got a bad scare Tuesday

evening. When relieving guard at the Jail, Sergeant Mason, of Battery B, Second Artillery, shot at the assassin through the window of his cell and camc near killing him. Mason was promptly put under arrest. He is abwut thirtyfive years old and is a Virginian by birth. He says thnt ho was in Texas when the President was shot and that he then determined to kill tho assassin if he ever got an opportunity. His only regret is that ho did not hit hiui. Mason says be is entirely sane and there aro no indications to tho contrary. Doubtless there are many sane men in tho country who would kill Ouiteau if they had a chance and take what might follow. Not that this would be right, or that such a sentiment should be encouraged, for tho Jaw must be allowed to take its course, but the feeling exists nevertheless and Mason is only the representative of a class.

MAYon OnrBKS, of Indianapolis, has decided that it is not unlawful to sell cigars on Sunday by men regularly in the business, founding his ruling on the opinion of Judge Biddle In tho Carver case. The judgmont of competent lawyers Is that the Carver decision affords no ground at all for the Mayor's decision, which simply nullifies the Sunday law in totik There much feeling against GrubbS on account of the decision, and it is openly charged that is his purpose to make the Sunday law odious so that it will not be enforced against the liquor-seller*.

GrtTKAu's exclamation when the eoldiershot at him, "Do they mean to murder me?" will strike most people as rather singular coming from him. The miscreant who could deliberately prepare himself to murder the PraddAit and then shoot him down in rold blood, without any provocation in the world, ought hardly to be surprised when he is made the sul\}ect of target practice himself. Guiteau ought to realise that the mark of Cain is upon him) and to expect that every man's hand will be against him.

HAULOOK

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voyaging is as uncertain as

over. Prof. King was to take an overland trip from Minneapolis to the Atlantic sea coast, bat owing to unfavorable winds, the Professor and his party of journalistic companions were obliged to land, near St. Paul, and enjoy the hospitalities of a neighboring farm-house, while witnessing the rapid escape of their gas. It is to be presumed, bowmr, that they still have a sufficient quantity of "cheek" left to carry them through.

Supreme court of Minnesota has

decided the constitutional amendment repudiating thrdeh* of that State, to be null and void. It place* the respoaslbUity for the settlement entirely with the legislature, holding that that body ran appropriate money for the payment of the repudiated bonds at its pleasure, without submitting the question to a vote of the people.

Tnit superstition* people might get let* of comfort by mulling the fact that Gar(leid we* inaugurated on Friday.

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THE LITERARY VOCATION. The first impulse which many young men and women of culture and imagination have, is to become famous by writing a book- If they could only make their bright thoughts, their tender sentiments, their novel philosophies, and their graceful imaginings known to the world, they fancy they should wake np the very next morning and find themselves famous. And so they often waste golden days and weeks and months the production of a "book," only to find that, when it is finished, nobody will have it.

ANew York correspondent, writing of literature and publishers, says that formerly the publishers assumed all the risks of issuing a book, bnt finding this unsafe, they now require authors to make their own stereotype plates, which for an ordinary novel, cost about fflOO. It is useless, therefore, to write a boojf unless you have $600 to follow it up with in the hands of the publishers. 'As to the profits which may be expected if the book succeeds, he says it mtyt be a good book which brings the author 9500, and few novels yield more than $300, while, of course, many fail to repay even the cost of the plates. It is evident, there fore, that book-making (or at least book writing,) is not a lucrative business, and is becoming less so with the constant and rapid increase of newspaper reading. The newspaper? and periodicals are becoming better all the while, because the large profits which the successful ones produce enable their proprietors to employ the very best talent to be found. Even successful writers find journalism more profitable than books, and write for the leading papers at $10 per column, in preference to engaging in work of a more purely literary character. Young people of a literary turn of mind, who are fond of writing, and who would like the exercise of their talents in this direction to be of pecuniary advantage to tbem, should follow the example of older writers, and seek admittance to tbe columns of the newspapers. If they really have any brightness and ability, it will here meet with a quick and generous recognition, and in addition, will soon bring them a handsome compensation. But even here they must remember that they have old and experienced pens to compete with, and must not be teo easily discouraged if their first efforts do not receive the consideration which they fondly think they merit. Talent for writing must be joined with knowledge of the kind of matter desired, before success can be attained, and this knowledge can only come through experience and continued cfiort.

SELDOM has a more horrible story been told in a civilised community than Ada Mangram told to the people of "Vincennes, the other day. Poor Ada is a comely young girl of seventeen, and has been an orphan since she was ten years old. Without relatives, and alone iu the world, the young girl made her living by working in private families. While working at the house of the County Clerk, at Ijawrenceville, 111., she made the acquaintance of three young men. Induoed by them to take a walk into the woods, the party was joined by eleven other ruffians, who began to make indecent propositions to tho girl, and finally compelled her, by force, to snhmit to be the victim of their lust. For two long days these fourteen human fiends kept tho poor girl in the woods, turniug a deaf ear to her appeal, and coolly informing her that she could not go until they were satisfied. In her struggles to escape, her clothing was tors to shreds, and her limbs and body terribly bruised. Finally, after two days of agony, she was taken to tho train and thrust into a car going East, with .the warning hissed in her esrs not to give them away! At Vlncennes the bewildered girl got off the train, so weak she could hardly stand, and looking round iu a helpless, frightened way, attracted the attention of the police officers, to whom she told her pitiful story, and who procured lodging for her in the hotel. The girl knows all her brutal assailants, and says she is going to see them brought to justice. It is to be hoped that she will succeed, and that tho utmost penalty of the law will be inflicted on these hnmsn ghouls. That such a crime should bo perpetrated in a civilised community, and the guilty men escape the visitation of summary vengeance, is almost incredible. Yet it is sadly true that this nameless crime is becoming more frequent with every year, scarcely a day passiug without reports of it from one quarter or another. A statute inflicting public whipping as the penalty for this and other cowardly crimes against women would fast curtail ths number of offenses, and it is much to be regretted that the last Legislature did not enact sueh a law.

DR. BOYHTOH,

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though not one of the

physicians employed to attend the President, does more talking about the case than all ths other physicians put together. He is never so happy as when being interviewed*' and furnishes, in unlimited quantities, the raw materials out of which the correspondents manufacture their sensational reports. The garrulous, good doctor should be "set upon."

habit of horseback tiding among

ladies, is growing in popularity in Chicago,, aad we may trust, elsewhere as well. It is a most cxhilirating and health-giving exercise, and should become as popular with the ladies of this country a* it is with their English cowsins. ".".'j.".,11"i1

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of tbe most cheerful view* about

the President, is from New Jwaey paper—that he intended, after the first of July, to f-v the cares of office and takes nation, *4itebthe paper thinks he turn

.* TERRE HAUTE SATvjjcvDAY EVJiixs ii3 O- MAIL

STOP GRUMBLING.

Tbers is no reasonable doubt, whatever may be the issue of the President's case, that be has had everjKadvantage which medical skill could possibly give him. With all the growling and grumbling which there has been about the doctors, and about what they have done and not done, there is no doubt that the very best medical skill of the country has bees employed. This is said with sll due respect to the doctors who have not had a hand in this case, bnt have had a tongue iu it. Not only every doctor, but every editor, and every "old woman," of either sex, have set np for experts in tbe treatment of gunshot wounds, within the last three months. No matter how far away, or how little they really know about the case—the less they know and the farther away the better, even—thou sands of people bsve set themselves up as superior to the surgeons in attend ance. Now the names of Drs. Agnew, Hamilton, Bliss and Barnes are not names nm in the medical profession, and fir«t brought into notice by their connection with thevFresident's case. They had all risen to the very first rank in their profession before this terrible crime was committed. Why not trust such men? Why not, upon general principles, believe that what men of such permanent and acknowledged skill here agreed is best (and we have heard of no differences of opinion) has really been the best We are sick snd tired of hearing every noodle sneering at "Old Bliss," and speaking contemptuously of "These Doctors." We are tired of reading newspaper criticisms upon tbe treatment. And we are made most heartily ashamed of human nature by tbe criticisms of some of the medical fraternity. "Fraternity," indeed! The course of Ex-Surgeon-General Hammond, for example, in his public declarations and criticisms, has been simply outrageous. Non-professional is no name for it. Indecent comes nearer describing it. A lawyer who would publicly criticise the course pursued by another lawyer in a case still pending, as Dr. Hammond has criticised the President's surgeons, would prove himself unworthy his position at the bar, and would be so fudged by his associates. Not only professional etiquette, but common decency demanded his silence. It is no excuse whatever that he was asked his opinion by a "representative of tho press." He gave it expecting, and, unless circumstances belie him, desiring that it should be made as public as possible. Hammond stands at the head of the disturbers, but behind him there is a long line of less conspicuous, but no less guilty, offenders. The President has had good Doctors—the very best the country affords, —and if they do not save him we do not believe that it is in the power of medical skill to do it. Stop growling and be demt, resting content thatihe best has been done. "jy.'

THAT LITTLE FIB.

"They decided te tell Guiteau that the shooting was accidental." This is the report that came from Washington in connection with the attempt of Sergeant Mason to make an end of tho wretch who attempted to kill the President. Now what was the use, or rather what was the justification, of deliberately lying to him about the mattor? Aside from the general principle of truthfulness, there seems to be no reason why a lie should be told, but some very good reasons why the truth would serve a better purpose. The wretch ought to know that his abominable erime is so detested that it is difficult to find men to guard him who would not be glad to shoot him. The arrant coward should know that every honest man is impatient to see the very severest penalty for his crime visited upon his worthless head, and is only kept from turning execucutioner by his regard for law and order and the expectation that there will be no escape for him. It is a wonderful piece of delicacy indeed that ho must be comforted with a lie. Let the truth torment him. He ought to be afraid of every man he meets, soldier, jailor and private citizen.

"GENERAL GARFIELD is not expected, we presume, to pardon Guiteau, and then •graccfully' confer on him the coveted consulship, or whatever the official position may be for which Guiteau bad appealed in vain." This is tbe somewhat sarcastic comment which the London Spectator makes upon the suggestion made in seme quartern, a while since, that the President should appoint Mr. Conkling to some high official position as a graceful act to heal the breech occasioned by the contest between then and compensate for Mr. Conk ling's failure to secure the Senstorstikp again.

By the by that reminds us that there was a man, a Senator, by the name of Conkling, who was once quite prominent before tbe country. How soon a suicide is forgotten. Tbe public has lost all interest in tbe political corpse, and even the reporters do not interview him. "Requiescst in pure." Late may be his lesuriectioB.

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steamer Wyoming landed

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Mormons from Europe at New York, on Wednesday, being tbe third ship-load this season. Another Is expeHed in October. They push on at once to Salt take. What has become of Mr. Evarta circular letter to foreign powers on tbe Mormon question?

MA»O5

Is to be court-mar

tiaied for shooting at Guiteau, it is said. That is to preserve the discipline of the army. About the t.r,* It is done will be a favorable moment to starts subscription in behalf of tbe punished soldier. In point of popularity such a fnnd far excel the famous Cook cent -riptlon.

city of New York is doing agood

work in the opening of trade schools. The objeot is to make thorough, practical mechanics, and the manual work will be conducted in the same manner as in a first-dass shop. Tbe charges for instruction will be put at a figure, which will merely cover the actual cost of the instruction and the materials used. These schools will open on November 21. As much difficulty is often experienced finding a good shop where boys can learn a trade, owing to the limited faculties for teaching in practical workshops, these schools will have a fine field for usefulness before them, and will doubtless be largely attended when their object has become generally understood Similar schools should be opened in other largo cities.

THE

work of raising money for the

sufferers by the Michigan fires has begun in all parts of the land, and judging from the generous donations which have already been made the unfortu tanate people of the burnt district will be handsomely provided for.

GHN'KRAL AMBROSE E. BCRNSIDK died suddenly of heart disease on Tuesday, at his home in Bristol, Rhode Island. He was in his fifty-eighth year. He was elected United States Senator in 1875 and was recently re-elected for second term.

ITis a matter for congratulation that the editor who pronounced Guiteau as good a man as Garfield, does not hail from the South. It was reserved for Illinois to produce this unique moral specimen.

VXXNOR

tells us that after tho 20th

inst the mosquito will not find the weather at all to its liking.

Now they are making coffins out of paper. ____________

THE White House is closed for repairs.

ABOUT WOMEN,

Southern ladies are said jio eat sugar on cucumbers. The wives of Cabinet members rather enjoy the fun of going to Long Branch.

Mme. Demo rest says there is no truth in tho reported revival of hoop skirts.

Putting hop-toads and cjhestnut burrs in boarders' beds is one pf the amusements of Catskill young ladies.

The Dayton (O.) Journal thinks that Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Mays have done mere to dignify womanhood than all the woman's rights women in the country. I

From Michigan the story comes that a man of Keene, Iowa \couuty, offered his daughter ten dollars if she would climb to the top of the jchurch steeple and hurrah for jBob ingersoll. The Saranac Local says that she won the ten dollars.

Miss Schaffer, the youjng lady residing in Elmira, who took^ the $200 prize at Rockport recently Jor being the handsomest women in thfc state, has become insane. The doctor^ say her condition is due to too much notoriety and to the use of poisonous hair dye.

Mrs. Gill is a boot and sboe maker in New York. She thhiks she is the only female cobbler in the eify. She was born in Northampton. England, and learned her father's trade. She married a cobbler also, and thirteen years ago came to this country. Since her husband's death, she has supported her six children by her craft. She has a white ennvas sign with a red border, in the window at No. 178 Mulberry street, and has proved that shoemaking is a good trado for women.

A wood engraver being asked why he did not employ girls, replied: "I have employed women very often, and I wish I could foel more encouraged. But the truth is that when a yoqng man comes to me and begins his work he feels thst it is life's business. He is to cut his fortune out of tbe little blocks before him. He cannot marry until he knows his trade. It is exactly the other way with the girl. She may be as poor as the boy, and as wholly dependent upon herself for a living, but she feels that she will probably marry by-and-by, and then she must give up wood engraviag. So she goes on listlessly she has no ambition to excel she does not feel that all her happiness depends on it. She will marry, and then her husband's wsges will support her. She may not say so but she thinks so, and it spoils her work." •y.A QCOD SLICE.

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Chicago Inter-Ocean.

As an evidence of the appetite of tbe President for solid food, one of tbe able correspondents telegraphs "he took a good slice of reed bird." When an entire bird is only a mouthful, a "good slice" is in danger of getting lost between tbe teeth. _____

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themselves," but is hardly, in their case, at least, "tho road to bring them daily nearer God." This is specially true with regard to the women, and those men who cannot read. Unable to comprehend the ever living interest of watching public affairs, prevented, by ignorance from following even in outliuo, tho actions of the natioas, they are throwing baok on the affairs of their neighbor, sua oentre all their interest in the sayings and doings of quarrelsome Mr. Jones or much-abused Mrs. Smith. It is difficult for those of us to whom the world seems almost too full of interest to realise tho deadening dullness of some of these lives. Let us imagine, for an Instant, all knowledge of history, geograghy, art. science, and language, bolted out all iuteresses in politics, social movements, discoveries, obliterated no societ pleasures to anticipate no trials of skil nor tests of proficiency in work or play too look forward to no money te enable us to plan some pleasure for friend or dependant no books always at hand no opportunities of getting change of sconce and idea no memories laden with pleasures of travel no objects of real beauty to look at. What would our lives become? And yet this is a true picture of the minds of thousands of tne poorer classes, whose time is passed in hard, monotonous work, or occupied in the petty cares of many children, and in satisfying tbe sordid wants of the body. In some cases precarious labor adns the element of uncertainty to the other troubles, an element which, by tho fnot of its bringing some interest, is enjoyed the men, -but which adds tenfold to the many cares of the housewife.

LO VEL WOMAN AHMAD. [From a Nantuckcf Letter.] Yesterdsy three of the Bix pulpits in the town were filled by women. Rev. Miss Louise S. Bsker was at the Congregational Church, Rev. Mrs. Phcpbe A. Hanaferd at the Unitarian, and Rev. Mrs. F. Ellis (colored) of New Bedford at the Colored Baptist Church. This is the normal condition of nfTairs in a community of women like this, where the females out-number the males in the proportion of sixteen to one. The fisgman at the railroad trossing is a woman. The restaurant at Surfside is kept by a woman—and it is needless to say it is well kept—and women bold many positions usually held by men.

FOR good work and reasonable prices take your spoons and forks to be plated to J. W. Mellisb, No. 29 South Sixth street.

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A DICTATE OF COMMON SENSE.—If chronic disease of tbe liver, stomach, and other vital organs can be cured by external treatment by absorption, is ft not the better way This is just what Dr. Holman's Pad infallibly does, if you get tho genuine. Ask druggists.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL to a good medium of oonomunication between Terre Haute business men and the people who buy their goods— Because, It has the largest circulation of any paper published in this city. But not on this aooount alone, but— Beeauae, It goes into the family drote on

Saturday evening, and during Saturday night and Sunday and is read thoroughly, advertisements and all, by every member of tbe family who can read, after which it is loaned to tbe neighbors. Because, After having been read by the bonowenaadbuyen in the city, it is enveloped, stamped and sent tosomefriend or relative in some other town or eity. Because, It Is a paper which reaobes all elMse*, high and low, rich and poor. Dui uanr. Of Its very huge circulation among termen. Because, It is an especial favorite with the ladles, who do a large part of the buying of household goods, in addition to the Jewelry and dress goods they wear, and are critical readers of advertisements,

Mme, TWO editions are published, Thursday and Saturday evenings, and all advertisement* go in both edition* for pries of one fame. 'm Iceaosa, Its rates are cheaper, all ttdnfl* considered, than those of any other paper in Che dty. _____

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DULL LIVES OF THE POOR. Few people, I imagine, realise the extreme dullness of the lives of the poor. Cut off from thd many interests which education or the possession of money gives, they have little left butthe "trivial round, the common task," which indeed furnishes them with "room to deny

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