Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 October 1881 — Page 4

Page PDF (9.61 MB)

Back to issue view

i«

?..

-4

¥*.isSsf-w

'.A

.-..1 ,•

•THE MAriL

A PAPER

roi

THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. FUBLICATIOX OFFICK,

0o ltfiouth 5th st, Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, OCT. 15, 1881.

THE€UNDA UE8TI0N. 'We not suppose that it is claimed, -on

UJOdo

part of those who inaugurated

•the movement, which has failed, to close the clothing houses of the city on Sunday, that they were moved particularly by religious convictions. They doubtless feel the need of a day of rest for themselves and for their employes. They

also desire to conform to the customs and usages of the community in which they have come to make their home, and from which they $xpect to derive their support. The movement, without being particularly a religious one, was qpe wbioh commends itself, and those active in it, to the hearty approval of all good citizens, irresjpective of religious con vie tions and associations, and there is very general regret at its failure. The fact is that it is most desirable, on the grounds of tho best physical and material prosperity, as well as upon moral and religious grounds, that there should be a carefully observed Sabbath. No man who attempts to do business seven days in the wq§k can do it as well as he can in six No business man can get jjif •ggfrTj or even as much, service out of mnjiliij nn in seven days' continuous labor as {be can in six days. This has been demonstrated by actual experimeat, and has forced its acknowledgment from most reluctant witnesses.

On one of the turnpikes, like our National Road, a contractor, in building it, attempted at first to work his men and teams seven days in the week. His laborers became sickly, and his teams grew, feeble. He changed to six days' labor in the week, and found, at one#, a «hange for the better more work was done, and'the condition of his men and animals improved. In another recorded case, and of which there is no doubt as to itsutithority, two thousand men were employed for years seven days in the week, receiving double pay for Sunday work. But the men not be kept -either healUat pr moral. A change was 90 ,, «aade.to sinjfptys' work, aad, as in the #»rmer imMfjji more work was done tfcan ever before. ^ie |JuporiritendL «nt ascribed the change to two causes—' the improved morals, and the* pljysical recuperation gained by the Sunday rest.

Sir David l)ilke,.and artist," himself s^kl that "those artists who wrought ox|

-o THE

wonldng men have tho deepest

interest in this Sunday question, and. this failure, through a single man, to. causq doe branch of business to cease on Sunday, emphasizes the danger in which which the working men are. Of course,all the men employed in these firms are required, or are liable to be required, to work seven daysin the week. When a: man takes a position, and while he holds a position lu this department of business, he must be ready to do seven days work where before he did six. Itis the same in railroading. Suppose that instead of one man in oue kind o€ business, there were a man or a few men in every kind of business who insisted upon continuing businoss on Sunday, and thus compelling his competitors to do the same. Then, not only the employees in the clothing houses, but the entjUoyos in the dry goods, grocery, and hardware stores would be {compelled to be on hand for service seven days. Every innovation which business makes upon Sunday is a step towards compelling laboring man to work seven days. The laboring men must boon hand when the business goes on, and if business is permitted on Sunday it moans for him Sunday work or loss of place. The working classes ought, in self defense, to be the very first to cry out against Sunday business. The man who favors any Sunday business which is not an absolute necessity, is an enemy to the best interests of the working classes, not necessarily an enemy consciously, but as really as if he intended to oppress them.

WKare

ple aiWjlpith keeping, even if they do cost something. We have Ae n^ost profound respect for the proprietor of awin which* has its shutter# up fend lis doors locked all day Sunday, beep use i® that proprietor's Sabbath, but whfen we find the store of the Jew with shutters up and doors locked on Sunday, we have in our hearts a much more grateful feeling, and a greatly incrAsed sense of respect toward the man who assumes such a sacrifice out of deference to the customs of his country and for the best interests of the community.

SUXL-

day were soon disqualified for wo at all.'1 There can be no quifftion tlM|Jb for physical well being there is a strong necessity for the Sunday, it would seeaj-aaif all good citizens would be willing to join in a movement wjhieh vould cause ail business to oease#or one day in' the week for thesakoof the rest, phyli and iaa toriaiin teres tspf theeotmnfrni jL fteiUf not for moral and religioj, lV

aware that the Sunday cus

toms of this country are not without hardship to the conscientious Jew, and toother classes who believe that Saturday is the day to be kept. But in order that a rest day may be secured to the community, it must be made general— as near universal as possible. And there is no possibility that the great mass of the people of this country can be made to accept the Sabbath of the Jew and the Seventh Day Baptists. So, if there is to be a general rest day, it most be on the day no# agreed upon by nine-tenths of tht community. And as such a general rest day is so much needed, and the mass of the community cannot conform to ih* conscientious scruples of tboee who wish to observe Saturday, does not a proper regard for the beat moral and material interests of all concerned require Ibis hardship tor conscience's *ake on the part of those who wish to observe other days? Conscience and principle often stand In (he way of some material advantage which comes to the one without l&cse, and yet conscience or princi

NKW YOBK

ARK

MR.

is evident that Theodore Thomas, the great impressarjo, hqp not finished his gdht career, and that his retirement from the Cincinnati College.of Music was only that be might enter upon a wider sphere of work. The three -great music festivals which" will be conducted under his management during the month of May next, will (e on a scale of magnificence never before equalled in this country, and indeed seldom eqwfiled in any country. The first will ho Mid in New York City during the first week of May, the second in Cincinnati dfcfing the third,-and the last in Chicago, during the fourth %eek of May. Tbe«borus for the New York festival will •contain About 1,500 voices, and the orchestra about 250 instruments. In the Cincinnati and Chicago festivals the choruses will be some 650 strong, and the orchestras from 150 to 200. The programmes, selected by Mr. Thomas from the great composers, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, and Wagner, comprise the masterpieces of those famous authors, and are of a beauty and importance hardly paralleled. Already the training of the ohorusses has begun, and will be continued throughout the winter. The people who shall be fortunate enough to attend these great concerts will haveox»sam long to remember the event.

Aa FORECASTED last week, the Dem crats promptly elected Senator Ba as president pro tem. of the Senate,1 the assembling of that body, Sena' Davif and Mahone voting with the publicans. This was accomplished not permitting the three new Sena' Lepham and Miller, of New York, and AMrieh, of Rhode Island, to be qualified until after tho Senate was organized. -This grab-game of the Democrats to put themselves in the line of succession to the Presidency In the evenLpf Arthur's death, has, called down upon tfaem storm of condemnation from.one end of tho land to the other, several of theDemocratirrpapers themselves speaking of

It*

with derision and contempt.

was certainly an unseemly^ and, as the eVerit jjfcoved, unwise exhibition of parjltfsan feeling, and their apparent success waa^i^tined to of short duration. Having their Senatonf sworn in,t.the Republicans, on Thursday gracefully lifted Mr. Bayard from his seat asore8i^$£jafflcer and deposited SenatoarDa\^of11linoia) in the chains Tt -&m all

ftlttabla, r^lizlDK, in their ill-con I chargnn, that they had added one more to their already long list of inexcusable blunders. ,t

LAST

Sunday was the tenth anniver

sary of the great Chicago fire, by which the better part of the city was laid in ashes. The entire business portion of the south side And the greater part of the north side were swept utterly bare of buildings. All was ruin, disaster and suffering. It seemed that the city, by no possible stretch of energy and enterprise, could recover from tho blow it had received. Marvellous, indeed, has been tho record. In ten years—and those ten including the great panic of 1873—the city has douhled her population, while the exteut of her trade, commerce and manufactures has much more than doubled. Never before, says the Chicago Journal, has the business of the city in all branches, been so prosperous as it is now, and at no time has the city made such rapid progress. The Journal predicts that iu the next decade Chicago will be the rival of New York, both in population and commerce. •writ

had a two million dollar

fire on Monday night. The fire originated* in Wm. H. Vanderbilt's fourth avenue car stables, which occupied an entire block. All efforts to save them were fruitless, and they were entirely consamed, together with a number of horses, estimated from 80 to 200. Morrell's large furniture storeage building, in which some of the finest furniture in the city was stored, was also completely destroyed. One picture, owned by Vanderbilt, was valued at |50,000. The loss on this building and its contents is put at over $1,000,000, and that of the street oar stables at |600,060-

we becoming a natiAn of gam

blers? It is asserted that we are, and the statement does not seem to be with out facts to support it. It can hardly be doubted that the ence for speculating in grain and stocks is continually spreading. A reporter of the Indianapolis News Interviewed the managers of a couple of "bucket-shops" in that city, one of whom stated that be had bought and sold over a million and a half bashels of grain within a week, and the other said their business ran from 150,000 to 175,000 bushels a day. And this sort oi' thing Is going on all over the country.

Scoviuue has made several unsuccessful attempts to get counsel to assist him in the defense of Ouiteau, but has not found it an easy matter. The Washington lawyers all seem to be too busy. Lew basiness must be better at the national capital than it Is in some other pla -*. 'j**.

TERR'jS HAXJTB ^Alvi jvxA-Y EVTSjNI^

mffATH OF Bit. HOZEAIfti. jte. J. O. Ht|iMtaditor of Serfbner's Mtfthly, diupdfg?iiT «nddenly' at his hoatte iil Neviwrk on Wednesday morning-- He was apparently in perfect health the d^ jgwfriou^'which he spent in preparin^^fii^p^ie Tiij|BS," fd/ the •'Decernt|p|niitti|er |Ltfce magazine. Hefl»w#bo$fc#o rise|| the morning, wbeh suddeMr hSK Jtogan breathing fcea-vfay, aiid i^fewSaltaents was dead. His death resifltedf Trom heart diseart, romwhi«$i{he b» $ng suffered.'

Dr. HpSliatld wffilorn iu Belcbertown, Mass., poor, who oblij schoo medii ence of two-1 apparently made a taista He then Jy,

and

HSii

public schoo^pjy his literary iucUbfr

suppressed, and, at thpfend-of a year, he returned to his natiW Sltete and accepted a position on the Springfield Daily Republican, of wMqhJIte soon became a part owner. d|| cottt|lb6tibns to thati^i—^, paper, contims|pkr period of fiftdbtt years,Vera the foundation of his literary1' reputation, and did njreh to give the paper tye great prestigfc wlfteh it has 90 long held. His celt grated "Tiomthy Titcomb" letters appegfefia the Republican. It

was^M0|^^|ifl$iuntil1870,

when he W{u^BpPv|pUpBiat the great work of liWreVM enteredoipon—the establishment of the m^gaadne which he editedduntil his death. In,a recent number of Scribner's, Dr. Holland himself tells how the schtfes for th$ periodical was agreed upoVby Mr. RoswellC. Smit'h, (formerly a lawyer ef Lafayette,. Ind.) and himself, on a bridge* Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Holland trap f\t the time traveling in Emrope.r Immediately on his return the, e^fcrprise was under-

Jthe^nitialj,J^pib«r*ppearing in has Wen magipe, which atrem^Mbto iuccesa from 1 tset. With tl^-poaeible exof HarfiHrf it has been 1 he mQstC.^pulax an^uccessful magazine venture eyWi^lBpTOrtaken in Americ^. ^nd, indeed hen measured by the number of years it has been established^ its career has been without parallel, here or elsewhere., fit is a coin •fcidence perhaps worthy of nite, that the very next number of the magazine was to bear the name of "fore jtfentury Magarine," the name having to be changed by reason of a recent ctange in the pub lishing firm. Dr. Holland's life went out before the new name a|%earteiMt)efore the public. a**

Iu the death of this man|4*iamil|a figure has been removed fronj Oar literary world. His proper *in)i lin ^tho world of letted will, as it h«MHit, be a subject upon which opiniorii'w^ differ. He has not the brilliancy a: touch of Howells, and his

tender to l»ve.«ui»M..d« oJsonM othefiJ ot hl,

MR. SCOVIIXE,

WORK

COJCMKHTUJO

on the usel

ex-president, Gen. Garfield, election, expressed hisintaapRon voting himself to the bnilmnaup dljl university worthy of thenaao^Tn Oklll on the expiration of his term of office.

CH$

began life as atemt&r, be said, and he should be willin^^Pbnd it aa such. He did m»t live towwk out his noble plan, bul his own life will forever stdnd as one o£r the most instructive and inspiring yolumes for the young.

His father was So many-others itinguished, was way through profession of ut an 5xperiin the practice that he had 6 -abandoned it. temporarident of the tg, Miss. But severe not to be

sxxQULAJK speculation has commenced in Confederate bonds. Certain parties in Ehgland have been buying them lately at aipp fractions of their face value and q«nr parties in Wall street are offering |2.U0 per f1,000 for them. In what way tbe purchasers ever expect to get their money b^ck is a mystery,

is thought «ibe Secretaryship of the Treasury will feardly tempt Judge Eolger, of New York. He has just entered on a fourteen years' term as Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, at a salary of 914,000 a year, with the certainty of retiring on fall pay at the dose of his -term.

THB

Sullivaa Democrat, last wiek,

smarted to its twenty-eighth year. The tor, Murray Br^ggs, issued mber, an&$M beeta itaeditor ce. He gives our neighbor county a g^od pdfter, and, as a result, has pros perad.

ACTIVE

work has been resumed in

Washington by the people who are in office and don't want (o go out, and the people who are out and want to get in. It is an unseemly scramble and is rendered more than ever unseemly by the manner of the late President's death.

THB

"still 2unt" campaign in Ohio

panned out well for the Republicans, Gov. Foster' pluraillity,reaching the unexpected figure of about 28,000. The State Senate will have 22 Republicans and 11 Democrats and the House 70 Republicans and 85 Democrats.

NEW YORK OITI

GUITBAU,

quisite Is at

pontemporcries.

But he was, perhaps, all he aspired to be—the instructor of the popnlar mind in the direction of beauty, purity, and all the higher moralities of public and private life. He wrote, not for the critics, nor the cultivated few, but for the great middle class of the pe+ple, from whose ranks he sprang. "He was a fireside philosopher," says {ne "always genial, and talking in language simple and sweet, comprehensible by tbp young and unlearned, yet arresting tlfi attention and provoking the thought of the oldest or most scholarly." He had an 'ambition to do good, and coul( never sympathize with or understand that theory of the literary art whichregards the inculcation of amoral lessonlas alien to, and inconsistent with the highest development oi imaginative lite rati re. In this he has been at odds with tht views of many current writers. But, true to his own convictions of the rifht, his work, in whatever department letters, (and he has wielded a prolific pe ,) is always characterized by a high ral and religious spirit, whose first purp se is to instruct and improve, while the idea of mere amusement, or entertainnent, is but a secondary consideratioi. In a word, it may be said that Dr. Tolland was a clear, cultivated, sincere,: ble and instructive writer, whose pen will be missed by perhaps a larger and 1 ore respectable auditory than any otb living American writer has to-day. ris

the brother-in- iw and

counsel of the assassin Guiteci, says that the only defense that will 3 made will be that of insanity. He rankly admits that if Guiteav is sane 11 ought to be hanged, but says that mar' members of his family on his fath's Bide have been insane, including a uncle and several cousins, and possriy bis father also. He asks for a re lonable time to-investigate the facts be in^ on this question before the trial is iceqded with. Mr. Scoville appears be an honorable man andhaaevidentlj mtered upon Guiteau's defense simplj frdtn a feeling of duty, growing out ib«rrelationship existing between hiirjelf and the assassin.

on the Panama intdoceanic

canal is in progress. There fe mora than 1,000 men at work now^nd the number is to be increased toj^OOO, in December. A quarter of a ml ion dollars have been expended so 1. It is said the work of excavation ifound to be enter than was expected.

THB

5.US

Cincinnati exposition one out

915,000 short, this year. Itisnly the second one of nine which h|been financial failure.

BAN raised about

1100,090 for the Michigan sufferers, and as large sums have been raised in many other cities, it would appear that the neeessities of the unfortunate people must be pretty well relieved—to the extent, at least, that money can relieve them.

the assassin was arraigned in

court, yesterday, and his trial set for the 7th of November. He is reported as looking broken in health and uncaredfor in person, with bowed' and cowering figure, and as manifesting a sickly indifference to the proceedings.

A CORNER on peanuts has raised the price of that article frpm three to four cents per pound. Lucky it didn't come until the agricultural fairs were over.. »,

INDIANAPOLIS

had changed the name

of her Southern park to Garfield park.

8A YING8 AND DOINOS.

"ffae New York Herald suggests a na tiox^Lmagsoleum for dead Presidents. dfnRes Lamb onee said that the greatest pleasure he knew was to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

A woman woke her husband during a storm the other night, and said: do wish you would stop snoring, for I want to hear it thunder."

Guiteau was unhappy while deprived of the privilege of reading the newspapers and now that he has the privilege he is far from happy.

The New York Herald is responsible for the statement that "In Chicago the father of the bride kisses the groom and then takes him into partnership." ^t

A Louisville restaurant proprietor advertises "one fried oyster or one egg with each drink except a schooner." The line has to b® drawn in gluttony somewhere.

If the New York Post is correct, most of the suicides, murders and felonies committed during the past ten years in this country were by atheists and free thinkers. Some of the criminals boasted that "they were Bob Ingersoll men."

One editor was found at New Brunswick, N. J., dirty enough to ceme out with an editorial blackguarding the dead President. Several hundred men march ed to the office of the paper, smeared it from top to bottom with ink and burned the editor in effigy in the most prominent street in the city. ,*

Even on the most solemn and sorrowful occasion there is almost always something to excite a smile, some absurdity or suggestive anomaly, that may be wholly unintentional, but nevertheless ludicrous, as for instance Genera] Garfield's life was insured for $25,000 in a popular company. On the day after his death the managers of that company in New York, in decorating their building, hung out a handsomely embroidered streamer, upon which was inscribed. "We mourn our loss."

A Kansas hunter has discovered a new remedy for indigestion. He bad gorged himself by eating eighteen eggs, and began to feel the ill effects of Ms (mormons rileal. Happening to pick op a wild goose he had killed, he noticed that its craw was as full of corn as it could be, and that, mixed with the corn, were a number of fine pebbles. Impressed with theTOea tbat pebbles assisted digestion, he went to a creek, scooped up a oouple of handfulsof gravelly water, and swallowed it. He says that in a few minutes be was relieved of his pain, and felt as if he bad not strained a point to swallow the eighteenth egg.

Annie Mailer committed suicide, in Detroit, because her sweetheart gave bis tfotwers to another girl to mead.

sJHRAfONS.

effort made fcfr the happiaess of lifts us aboveoureelves. p. The easiest thing jtftthe world is tesee a fault in anothe#iflCn and a virtueJb yourself. "W .5-

Half the^Hs we fibard? rtT5ur heart are ills beeause we hoard them. That kind of imyae flattery which, to the popular slang, is known as soft soap, made of very powerful Uk

There never were iniifite world two opinions alike,'jlo more than two hairs ortWo grains. Tbe most universal qualityis diverrity.

Some people's religion is good for ordinary occasions, bat it fails in a long drought and a hlavy x^n. ^t is like the faith of the old lady who^ when riding down a steep hill, trusted In until the breeching broke thought it was about time for care of herself.

WHY HB. WAS MAD

Boston.Post.

The other ^nijfcht a youth was ^nging his sweet (heart's favorite air tinder her window when a boot-jack hit him, breaking his noee and knocking out two teeth. And he felt terribly about it. Not tbat he minded the pain, but he couldn't bear the thought that he had been taken fo|r a cat.

THEIR LACK OF CHARITY. London Truth. No man attacks the reputation of a youth as women attack that of a girl. The man who *ould come into his club and whisper about damning stories of his friend's young son. who would accuse him of dishonorable doings, such as would ruin the lad's charactor as thoroughly as the charge of immodesty, flirting with, married men and the like ruin that of a girl, would soon have the room to himself^ But women over the tea-table gather up tw crumbs of a scandal with relish and appreciar tion, and even the mothtta of the girls are not ashamed to beliere and repeat stories against their dear friends'daughters which may have no foundation in fact, and which, even if true, they have no means of proving and testing.

oYsrjuts.

wm White, at 52S Main streak, I? now supplying, at whqksale and retail, the finest brands of Casters brought to this o&arket, at the very bottom prices.

-HATS AND CAPS All styles Hats and Caps in great varieties at SYKES' HAT STORE. 1

Patent Bottom Coal Hods, Patent coal. Hd^te lire shovels at same price as common goods at A. G. AUSTIN & CO'S.

LADIES

If you wish to .seethe latent styles of Frenct and German BoiMits and Round Hatsf Affd the choicest noveltirs in Fine Millinery Goods, call at

EMIL BAUER'S,

Sign of the Big Bonnet. For Peaches, any kind of Grapes, Fancy Apples, Pears, Bananas, etc., go to EISER'S.

We don't propose to do much blowing and advertising, but say this much, tbat anybody purchasing goods from us gets full value tor his money and the largest stock in town to select from. **/,/ L. GOODMAN, Jr., & (f0.

WAITED.

PERSONShave

afflicted with PILES to address

me. I a never failing euro, application made by patients without pain or lnoonvenience. Personal examination or visit not required. Positively no charge for treatment until permantly oared.

For full particulars address with stamp. DB.L. VOLKER8, 636 Main st. Terre Haute, Ind., or Dennison, Ills.

t&gjU

FASHIONABLE

fry JL

Irimmm

The best index to great extent 0% 01 Dress Goods and Cloakings is the ^fo derful extent and variety of Ouj mings.

Our Trimming

Stick

Can be compared only to t^&e of Louis and Chicagw Z'if- r—

Every Dress Maker Should^call and carefully examin# th stock. It will be of great assistant $\\\

Cloak Fringes!

iACK FRINGES,, 25c. to |1.00, ?1. ,|2.2S to $3.75,18.00 and fl3.00 elegant adapted for

Silk, Phwb rtld Velvet, and

played in 100^0|en in Beaded, Chen Plush, Marabout Mourning and ....... Silk styles.

Colored Frln^sT

All desirable colors, GO oents. 7 5

J" @fi.oo.

New efftcfts at 1.65. Iridesosnt and Steel Fringes.

SUO HTYLEI or VEW BUTTON

Pasianentrles.

Beaded Oim^s at 10,15,25 to 50 oen Satin Cords at 60, 65, 75 and 85 Satin Confii, Bf^ded Gimps of oequlia elegance at |1.00, |1.^ $1.50 |1J5 92. 12.50,13.0^ (M.00, |5.00 anf9«.00 per ya

Iridescent Passnmentrles at 91.25,92.50,93,5094.00 and (M0.

•Feather Fringes, Cords, Tringes in shaded efltects.

)Si^

DONT FAIL to take out an Accident Policy with Riddle, Hamilton A Co.

Girdles

BLACK GIRDLES,in CBenllle.PlusI Silk Twist and Mourning at 45c. to Very Rich Tassels aftd Girdles Cloaks, etc.

Colored Girdles and Ta*|k to mat all fringes and dress goods.. Beaded Balls, Ornament^ ForrJgieres Frogs, in jet'cashmere anfr-'cut stee beads.

Fur Trimmings

SPANISH LACE, real and imitatio 15c to 94.00. GUIMPURE LACES, real and fi chine made 15c to 98.00

H0BERG, RDOy&C

518 and 520^Main street.

^We to *not keep th best gpods in the world because we do not bu all it produces.' But ju try our Boquet 10c ciga our Fragrant 10c cigar and Oh! Yum! Yum! fo 5c. Sample room in th rear, where the best 11 quors are sold to sui rich and poor alike,

FASIG & CO., 503 Main Street.

R. L. BALL,303 Mai street is now prepare to supply the deman for

BASE BURNERS and all kinds of beatin and cooking stoves. Hi agencies cover some the finest stoves mad* in America stoves tha' have a national reputa tion earned in actu service.

SUNDAY CRIMINALS

Open their stores on Sabbath. We can do all the business we care to do in

"..SIX^DAYS,

MONDAY,'" TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDA

rf»

We will save you one profit on

:. CLOTHING.

Hats and Gents' Furnisnmgs.

Pt.f:

Owen, Pixley &.: Co!

If J- i'(- v''

508 and 510 Main st. Terre Haute.

14 S'