Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 October 1881 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

|P. S. WESTFALL,

BHTOB AND PROPRIETOR.

mucAnox omot,

He II Sooth 5th BL, Printing H«QK Square.

TERRE HAUTE, OCT. 22, 1881

SECOND EDITION.

TWO KWTION8

Of this Paper are published. *he TTBOT EDITION, on Thomdajr Evening, hao a large circulation in th« •arroondlng towns, where It Is sold, by newsboy* and agents. She 8B00ND EDITIOX, on Saturday Evening, goes Into the hands oQiearljr every reading parson in the city, and the farmers of this Immt^MftVp vicinity. Brcry Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

XB which all Advertisements appear tor THE PRICE OF ONB ISSUE. QUEBEC bad a snpw fall of six inches Sunday night.

THE Inter-Ocean expect® Chicago to enter on the Twentieth century with one million inhabitants.

THERE are now living in this country two ox-Presidents, and the widows of two Presidents who were killed in office.

IF the late Dr. Holland was not brilliant he was successful. His estate is estimated to be worth from $400,000 to 1600,000. Not so bad for a "literary feller."

The estimated cost of the proposed Ga-itielcl monument, at Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, is not less than $200,000 Cleveland is expected to contribute $50,000 of the amount needed.

THE Springfield Republican says that Richard Watson Gilder will succeed the late Dr. Holland as editor of the Century magazine. Mr. Gilder has been the associate editor of the magazine.

Tun women are gradually making their way. Miss Robinson, of Brooklyn, has been appointedassistant deputy collector of internal revenue, receiving the pay of her predecessor, who was a man. She is the first woman ever appointed to this office.

EDISON is the most prolific and industrious of inventors.' The last weekly issue ef patents gave him 22 new ones, of which 20 relate to the electric light. In all, he has been granted over 200 patents and has more than 100 still waiting the dodsion of tho Commission.

SECRKTAUY WINHOM had a walk-over for tho Republican nomination lor Senator from Wisconsin, and will receive every vote of his party in the Legislature. This is eredi table to tho good sense of tho Wisconsin Republicans, who know enough to keep a good thing when they have" it.

Tare Republicans are disturbed lest Mnhone gets into a duel with Oeueral Early, and is killed. Early is a dead shot, and the Republicans don't like the *dea of risking their control of the Senate on the chancos of his missing Mahone, difficult a target as the spare Virginian must make.

THE fund for Mrs. Garfield and her children was oiosed Saturday. The total amount is a little upwards of $338,000. It is invosted in government bonds the infceroHt on which will be paid to Mrs. Garfield during her life and at her death the original sum will be divided among the children.

THE York tmvn celebration wns a pretty big tiling, but it wasn't as big as tho cooping up of Ix»rd Cornwallis there, a hundred years ago, and compelling him to surrender. That was a very nice bit of military strategy, and not surpassed by any or the brilliant coup d'etats of the war of the rebellion.

SKTH GBKICN says that his observation and experience in the culture of fish enables him to say that an acre of wator ran be made to produce *s much food as an acre of ground, ami he asserts that the inland waters of the State of Now York can be made to return as large a profit as tho land of tho State.

TIIK unclean condition of the streets in Chicago is causing a groat increase in zymotic disease*. Smallpox and typhoid fever are especially fatal. From the former disease there have been .12 deaths during the present year, while in 18T0 there were only 15 for the whole vreir. Those figures are not oncouragi"K- __

JrtxiK GUKSIIAM has decided that a contract whereby an employe, in consideration of his employment, agrees to release and discharge his employer from all damages on account of any accident or death of the employe, resulting from negligence of his employer or his coemployes, is void as against public policy.

TIIK farce of a duel was indulged in by Capt. RUldleberger and Hon J. D. Wise, near Richmond, Va,, last Saturday. After four rounds were tired without Injury to either party, "mutual explanations and an naiicable adjustment followed." of course these explanations could not have tieen made without the fares of some pistol firing!

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TYNKR, of thb State, First As

sistant Postmaster-General, has been asked to resign, Mr. James claiming that ho was an obstacle to the successful pitwsemtion *f the Star route swindlers. Indications are pretty clear that some of Indiana's representative*at Washington have not reflected a daultng degree of hupon their State.

TERRE

E. P. ROM, the novelist, is considerably worked up by the publication in Canada of a book, entitled ''Give Me Thine Heart," as ooraing from his pen. He says the book may be a better one than he could write, but if so, there is all the more reason for his disclaiming its authorship, which he takes occasion to do in a vigorous card. 4

PRBSIDEJTT ABXHUX has made a good beginning. In spite oljthe ceaseless gossip of the correspondents as to what he was going to do, and the continuous advice of able editors as to what he ought to do be has kept his own counsels with ad mirable success and has so far done nothing to provoke criticism in any quarter. Perhaps Mr. Arthur is more of a man than some people have supposed, after all.

THIS ^has been an unfortunate year for fain. After the long drouth, copious rains began to fall about the time of the fairs and one after another went down beneath the unfortunate weather. Among the failures on this account were the state fairs of Minnesota and Kansas, the Chicago fair, and many county and district fairs, while those of Missouri and Indiana narrowly escaped the same disaster.

PERHAPS the country cannot see that a President has much to do, but it is said that Arthur has not had four consecutive hours of sleep since he was sworn in that he has lost mnch of his usual vitality, has grown slow in his movements and that his face bears the im pression of sleepless nights and an overtaxed brain. The heaviest djities seem to be to select a cabinet and properly distribute the offices.

JUDGE HELLER, of the Marion criminal court, has deoided that a druggist can lawfully sell cigars on Sunday but that a regular cigar seller cannot do so, The decision is based upon the celebrated opinion of Judge Biddle in the Carver case. Mayor Grubbs, of Indianapolis, had previously decided that regular dealers could sell on Sunday without infracting the law. So the capital city enjoys the luxury.of two kiqdsof law on the same subject, and the befogged vender of the leaf can pay his money and take his choice—or, to vary the phrase slightly—can take his choice and pay his money—in the shape of fines.

IT is a significant fact that, notwith standing the abolition of slavery in the South, the cotton production has steadily and greatly increased. The crop of 1881 is the largest ever produced, reaching tho unprecedented figure of 0,589,329 bales, an increase of 832,000 bales over that of 1880, and of 1,S15,000 over the crop of 1879. The average weight of the bides, this year, is 485.88pounds, against 481.55 in 1880, and 473.08 in 1879. The crop of this year is about three times that of 186(5. With this increase of production, the consumption of cotton, both South and North, is steadily increasing, so that the cotton-growers have reason to feel well satisfied with their prospects.

MADISON, Indiana, has reaped a financial harvest from her peach crop this year. Most of the crop was shipped to Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis and sold at from |1.00 to fl.50 per box of one-third bushels. A St. Louis paper says that during the past three weeks that city received nearly 1,000 boxes daily. The same paper adds: "The most successful man has been J. O. Taylor, and though not a grower himself, secures the cream of the business. Some years ago he furnished a great many growers in his vicinity with peach trees, taking for his pay half the profits arising. In this way he is interested in about 800 acrcs of peaches, and his net profits this season exceed $100,000."

THR phosphate rock quarries of South Carolina arc said to be practically inexhaustible and are a source of large revenue to that State. It is used for fertilizing purposes, being ground fine and mixed with sulphuric acid. Over 100,000 tons of the rock were shipped to liuropo last year and 150,000 tons were onsumed in the State of Georgia alone. Us use is rapidly extending throughout the North and West. South Carolina exacts a royalty of one dollar per ton on all the rock quarried and the income from this source pays the expenses of the State government. So far as known the Palmetto State has a monopoly of phosphate stone and will realize from it a large and constantly increasing revenue.

THE Arrest of Mr. Parnell, the Irish agitator, has not produced a bloody revolution in the island and is not likely to do so. The Irish have injured their own cause by trying to push matters to extremes. The new land bill is worthy of a fair trial but preparations have been made to ignore it altogether. The policy of the agitators seems to be to use persuasion, and intimidation where there is promise of success, in iuducing the tenant farmers to refuse the payments of rent and to "boycott" those landowners who call upon tho authorities for assistance. They will hear of no compromise, which is the only peaceful solution of the trouble. The Catholic church, always potent with the Irish people, has arrayed itself on the aide of law and order and has counseled it* members to reject Paruellisni and take advantage of the land act. This is a significant indication that the extremists are not Ireland's best friends, for the Catholic church is in true sympathy with the Irish people. There may be some rioting and bloodshed, but in the end

Mr. Gladstone will be successful. He is is a liberal minded statesman and 1s disposed to do for Ireland all that can be lie expected.

THE INQBRSOLL-BLA CK DEBATE. One of the most interesting contributions to current periodical literature is the theological discussion now going on between Col. Ingersoll and Judge Jere S. Black, 4n the North American ^Review. Tho Colonel published his first paper in the August number, not knowing, as he says, who would reply to it. Judge Black entered the lists as a defender of the Christian religion, in an able article, whose well-knit argument has evidently worried the champion of infidelity, for his rejoinder to it, contained in the current (November) nuin ber of the Review, displays a temper considerably ruffled. A peculiarity of the debate, and one which renders it none the lees interesting to the popular mind, is that neither of the combatants belongs to the theological guild. Both are laymen, and hence the question is discussed without any of the bias towards religion which is commonly supposed to bo inherent in the theological mind. I it a notable thing, too, that some of the secular newspapers, not usually characterised by any special reverence for sacred things, have voluntarily taken it upon them to shew the shallowness and fallacy of many of Mr. Ingersoll's arguments sgainst the christian religion, and unite in pronouncing his attack upon it utterly incapable of doing serious harm. This fact is significant, as showing how deep the doctrines of Christianity have permeated the minds of men, so that even those who make no open profession of religion and belong to no church, are yet inspired with a profound reverence for tho doctrines of the new testament, and an abiding faith In their truth. We expect subtle and plausible argument in support of the scriptures from those who are its professional expounders, and masters of theological disputation, but it is certainly far more interesting and refreshing to seethe gospel defended by an able member of the bar—a profession which has not, hitherto, at least, been marked by any great leaning in that direction.

The last article of Col. Ingersoll, while characterized by his usual bold declaiBfition, bitter invective and sophistical reasoning, is of great brilliancy as a literary performance, and contains many choice specimens of his remarkable rbetoricand felicitous diction. Insured of a wide reading by these qualities, the article will be powerless to harm the cause of Christianity. Indeed, the discussion will doubtless be of material service to the latter, by diffusing a wider knowledge of the authentic evidences upon which it rests.

IN an exceedingly adroit and ingeni-ously-framed appeal to the public, Mr. Scoville, Guiteau's brothor-in-law ami counsel, calls upon all persons having any knowledge of Guiteau's insanity previous to the assassination, ~tJ -'fat* ward their information to Washington in the shape of affidavits, if they are unwilling to appear at the trial in person. His argument is that it will ever be a stigma on the fair fame of the Republic if it is adjudged that tho assassin of President Garfield was a sane man.

DR. HOLLAND made more out of his life of Lincoln than from any other of his books—120,000. He offered to write the work for $5,000, but his publisher^ were afraid to risk it, and agreed that he should have a royalty of twenty cents on each book sold. The sales reached 100,000 vol times.

YINGS AND DOINGS.

To find a lawyer who charges only a nominal fee certainly is phenomenal. Man born of woman is of a few days and full of schemes to get his name in print.

The Courier-Journal remarks: "It will put Anna Dickinson's countenance to the test when her suspender button gives way for the first time." "The 'utterly utter' kind of talk has infected the street gamfns, one of whom, after picking up a more than usually fragrant cigar stump, exclaimed to his friend, "Jack, thi is quite too positively bully."

A Massachusetts judge has decided that the ringing of a church bell at five o'clock in the morning is a public nuisance, and it people must worship at that hour they should doss without disturbing their Beighborj^^^

A FLANDICAPPED ENTERPRISE. A'" San Francisco Post. The female barber shop, on Stockton street, is in danger of succumbing to outside pressure. The proprietor says it is impossible to do ousiness while the women of tho neighborhood keep looking in at the window, gritting their teeth and hiding rolling pins under their aprons untu their husbands come

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ALAS! TOO TRUE! Richmond Palladium.

The cost of housekeeping is largely in excess of that which prevailed last year. L~ 'J

ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT. Cincinnati Saturday Night. President Arthur was once a schoolmaster. Some of the office-holders are becoming anxious to know ^whether they are to be "kept in," tST*" T? SkAssST

OYSTERS. 5

Will White, at 535 Main street, is now supplying, at wholesale and retail, the finest brands of Oysters brought to this market, at the very bottom prices.

—MONEY TO LOAN to Farmers on the best of terms. RIDDUC. HAMILTON A Co..

START GOB

Policy.

Best line of Americau and English Brooch Loaders, also Breech Loading Shot Guns and Rifles combined, can be had *t A. O. Austin A Co.*s on very small Margins. "',t

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HAUTE SATujvjj'AY EVlKNiiNijr MATL.

TAKING THINGS,JWV.

Take The Mail. Take life as it comes. Take time to eat yonr meals. Take time to read good books.

Take warning from other people's folS jt,* lies.

Take off tnai straw bat. The season's over. Take a clear conscience to bed with you.

Take plenty of exercise and little medicine. Take cure of a cold if yon happen to get one.

Take the woman you love when you want a wife. Take care of dimes if you hope to have dollars.

Take time to get acquainted with your own family. Take all the advice you ean get, and use only what you want. 'i

Take extra care of the babies as cotd weather comes on. Take care of small things in your household or in your business.

Take notice of the advertisements in this week's Mail.

HOME COMFORTS CONSIDERED.

House-cleaning, ominous word, brings with it more discomforts than any other periodical evil. It is as certain as the unvarying seasons, and about as bad as mid-winter without stove-wood. When the sun is about entering the Northern Tropic of Cancer, look out for mops, brushes, whitewash, varnish, and a general muss of carpets, pictures, books and furniture. No lady who aspires to be considered a good housekeeper, would suffer a Spring or Fall to arrive without turning her home topsy-turvy, looking into every cranny and crevice to drive out vermin, and reinstate, as she thinks, cleanliness, health and comfort. New carpets, new blinds, and fashionable wall-paper must be had, and the rank smell of paint, paste, varnish, and old furniture ascends to the skies, and poisons and vitiates the surrounding blessed atmosphere. For the nonce, the dining table is removed to the kitchen, in close contiguity to the cooking stove, where the poor man is fried brown while he is swallowing cold soup, and at night, a short lounge is made to do the duty of a comfortable bed, where the cramped snoozer dreams of Procustes and wishes that Theseus was yet alive. (Procustes was the ancient roblrar who made all of bis victims the precise length of the bed he gave them, by stretching out the short ones, and cutting off the legs of the long ones, and Theseus was the fellow who slew him). Thank Theose! And then there is something like this collo-

^"^Dear, I think our bedroom wants new paper on the walls." "I think not. That paper has only been in use about ten years, and with a little brushing un, will be respectable at least five years longer, 'and save that much expense."

'Five years longer'! You shock me. If I have to be sick this season, do let me have a clean chamber, with fashionable per on the walls, when tho Doctor cans." "I did not know that you were to be be sick. I will be ailing first, if this universal upsetting of everything occurs so often. When I take my departure for a better country—" "You mean a warmer climate?" "No, I mean where there is no horrid house-cleaning.

Take what pleasure yon can get.

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Take an honest man at his word, Take plenty of frnitat your meals. Take your fall overcoat off the peg. Take hold of your work with a will. Take drink at nobody's expense. Take interest in your children's studios.

When I start on that

journey, it is of little difference to me whether I start from a straw pallet, or a bed of eiderdown, from the bosom of the Iceland duck." "Well, we differ somewhat. I must have a nice bed-room and I have engaged the paper hanger who charges a moro trifle." "Engaged him, have you? When he has hanged the paper, give him my compliments and tefl him to hang himself, and save presenting his bill."

So we go. When I was single, I thought of nothingbut a bright blue eyed girl, upon whom to lavish the abundance of my illimitable affection, but now, "for forty years or more," I find I have something'more than oue poor man can do.

There's M-r-y and N-p-t, J-n-s and J-k-s, and B-l and B-r-y happy fellows, who have been too astute to put their necks in the noose, thay know nothing about the discomforts of house-cleaning. They can stay out late o' nights and go to bed with their boots on, and hear no scolding in the morning. They retire to their virtuous couches, cover up head and ears peacefully and alone, and float away in elysian dreams. Blissful cusses. They have only one drawback. They haven obseq uious wife to pull off their boots, and tuck them away snugly in bed, when they come home at midnight in a precarious condition.

Everything is tipped up in honse-clean-ing times. The porcelain bust of Franklin is taken from its accustomed mantel and put in a new place—Grant in epaulets finds anew peg in another room, and the rocking chair, (a present from a dear friend) that has barked my chins a hundred times, is put in another corner, to wound me again and again, uhtil I get used to its location.

If this constant house-cleaning is to continue. I shall ask the Secretary of War to forward a lot of cotton tents for the use of suffering Benedict* in Indiana.

Young man, before you marry, ask your dock of a woman what are ber views about semi-annual bonse-deaning. sfe DON JOHN.

—Special Sale of Fine Carpets, Monday, at Foster Brothers. Go see their elegant Velvets, Moquetts, Tapestry Velvets, and Body Brussels with wide rich borders to match. $

—Men's Working Shoes for $1 at the Bankrupt Store, 83fi Main street.

The best $2,00 Pebble Goat Button Shoes in the city at

Greiner's Shoe Store.

LMk Ovt for Bargains! Ladies should not fail to call and examine Mrs. T. D. Olin A Go's line of new Fall and Winter

Styles of Millinery.

Everything that is new and nobby, and marked down low. Look out for bargains on opening week, Friday and Saturday, Oct 28th .and 29th. No 662 Main street. A.

GQOD THINGS TO EAT.. J. W.

Stoat, on south Fourth street,

opposite the market house, is sending out to-day, to his many patrons, lots of good oaUblcs, such as Fresh Oysters, Mince Meat, Celery, Cabbage, Cranberries, Green Beans, Pumpkins, Tomatoes, Michigan Apples, Grapes the choicest groceries and Canned Goods, and table supplies of every description.

—Ladies' Cloth Top Button for 92 thai others get |2.50 for, at the Bankrupt Store, 326 Main sfredt.

Bev«latlM in Dow'Loelu. Builders, especially owners of property, should demand that the old shell excuses called Locks, in past ages, shall curse no more doors for them, when they can buy for a small price a simple, strong and secure Lock, needing no repair, at A. G. Austin & Co's. See these Locks before your doors are butchered so they cannot support the "Coming Lock." —Ladies' Glove Kid Top Button for |2.25, worth |2.75, at the Bankrupt Store, S26 Main street.

MONITOR RANGES.

James T. Moore takes pride in showing a lot of improved patent double-cased Monitor Ranges, which he has just got in, at 657 Main street. They are the production of many years of practical experiments. It seems to be the best, most economical, most durable and easily operated range in the market, and is said to work to a charm. —Ladies' Cloth Top Button for 1.50 at the Bankrupt Store, S26 Main street.

DO YOU KNOW IT

At least two car loads of French and American Glass in stock at A. G. Austin A Co's. They might save you a dollar. See them.

—The best Pebble Goat Side Laoe in theoity for |2.00, Home Made 326 Main street

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simple and unadulterated

"truth is stranger than fiction" of mysterious compounds, so are some of Nature's simple remedies more wonderful in action than any patented mystery. How few, comparatively, know the efficacy of our familiar Rod Clover yet the cures it has accomplished are being rapidly put on record, and the preparation ana salo of tho "Clover Blossom" has become a large business in tho hands of Messrs. D. Needham fe Sons, Chicago, who were the first to put it into the general market, and to advertise its virtues. Many cases of cancers-can be shown, and striking cases be given, of quick relief in various troubles arising from impure blood, and including dyspepsia. We know Messrs. Needham to be worthy of confidence, and have been pleased, both for their sake and that of the public, to see the wonderful growth of their business in this simple remedy, which ought to be everywhere known.—Chicago Advance, Congregationalist, Aug. 25th, 1881.

Send for descriptive circulars, 91 Dearborn street, Chicago.

Fresh Oysters'in can or bulk, choice celery, new canned goods fresh crackers, etc., at EISER'S-

HATOANFCAPS All styles Hats and Caps in great varieties at SYKES' HAT STORE.

The best $2,00 Pebble Goat Button Shoes in the city at

Greiner's Shoe Store. CHAS. H. GOLDSMITH, Wholesale Produce, Fruit and Vegetable Dealer, offers to the trade by Car Load or less quantity, Northern and Eastern Potatoes, Cabbage, Onions and Fruit in season, at Lowest Prices. Call or send in your orders Information cheerfully given. Car Lots a specialty

No. 29 north Fourth street. Tr&h new flgs, California. Malaga Catawba and Concord grapes, pears of all kinds, choice apples, bananas dates, oranges, etc., at EISER'S NINTH AND MAIN 8TKEETS. the nicest Millinery Goods at the lowest prices, call on EMIL BAUER. Sign of the Big Bonnet. 4th Street. & r» "Patent Bottom Coal Hods, Patent coal Hd'le lire shovels at same price as common goods at A. G. AUSTIN & CO'S.

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GENTLEMEN

TOLL FIND AT

H0BERG, ROOT & CO

In large quantities and at less than usual Prircs,

MERINO, WOOL and SCARLET

JOB LOT

50 Dozen Gloves

Worth 35 to 75 cents a pair. For 15c and 20c the choice.

H0BERG, ROOT & CO.

518 and 520 Main street.

Weare'continually extending our acquaintance and saving new customers the profit. of the middleman. Buy

CLOTHING, HATS,

AND—

GENTS' FURNISHINGS At Wholesale Prices of the-

Manufacturers,

OWEN, PIXLEY & CO., 508Jand4510 Main Street.

We do not keep the best goods in the world, because we do not buy all it produces. But just try our Boquet 10c cigar, our Fragrant 10c cigar9 and Oh! Yum! Yum! for 5c. Sample room in the rear, where the best liquors are sold to suit rich and poor alike.

Underwear

Woolen, Cotton an Merino

HALF HOSE.

Dog Skin, Kid, Cloth, Lisle, Buck and Gastor,

GLOVES.

Satin and Silk

Handkerchiefs.

[Winter Supplies.

CALIFORNIA BLAMKETS, BED COMFORTS at less than vou can make them.

Woolen Hosiery

For Ladies and Children, in choice new styles, in Merino, Woolen, Fleeoed,. Knit, Imported and Domestic, at less, than last years prices.

FA8IG & CO., 503 Main street.

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BALLH303

Main

street is now prepared to supply the demand BASE BURNERS and all kinds of beating and cooking stoves. His agencies cover some of the finest stoves made in America stoves that have a national reputation earned in actual service.