Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 December 1881 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

rxrHUICATIOH omcx,

Ho 1A 8ootli 6th hL, Printing House Square.

TERRS HAUTE, DEC. 3, 1881.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. the FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, has a large circulation In the surrounding towns, where It is sold by newsboys and agents. She SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes Into the hands Clearly every rrartlni person in the city, and the fat-men ef this Immediate vicinity. Brety Week's Isms is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which alf Advertisements appear for VHK PKIOE OF ONE ISSUE.

Two circuses in Washington next week—Gniteau and Congress.

IT is said that Wbitelaw Reid draws $6,000 a year as an editor, and |35,000 as a husband.

APPARENTLY in lack of amusement, Jay Goald has bought the Orand Opera House, in New York, tor $500,000.

TUB trial of Quiteau drags along and the terrible tragedy commenced in Washington last July is endiug in a disgusting farce.

FOREMOST among the daily and weekly papers of the West stands the St. Louis Globo-Democrat, the prospectus of which is fully get forth in another column.

THE gold product of the United States for the year ending June 30,1880, was •136,000,000, and the silver product for the same period was 939,200,000.

THE business men of New York are "moving lor the passage of a national .bankrupt law. If one is passed by Congress, it ought to be a very different affair from the last and former ones.

THE Cincinnati Gazette is moved to •say that "Chester A. Arthur, as aNew York politician, is one thing Chester A. Arthur, as President of the United States, is quite another." Coming from the Gazette, this testimonial is not bad.

IT is said that W. D. Howells has been seriously ill, his affection assuming rather a threatening character. It is to be hoped that he will ontirely recover from the attack, as American letters could ill afford to loso his pen ut his pre«ent ago.

THERE is no nobler charity than the Chlldron'u Aid Society of New York City, which, during the past year, has provided homes for 60,000 waifs of humanity sheltered, fed and taught in its lodging houses 200,000 boys and girls and taught over 100,000 little girls.

GUITEAU does not stand the crossexamination well. He grows very nervous, and sometimes very violent, and refuses to answer the questions at all wlnn he gets too closely cornered. The idea of insanity seems to grow less with those who look on, as the trial progresses.

MRS. GARFIELD receives about a mailbag foil of impatient and bogging letters •every day, and says she could soon give .away all she has if she should respond to tho demands made upon her. It may well be takon for granted that poople •who seek charity in that way belong'to •tho clans who are better off without the .mouey than beg for it.

THE President's niessago will not be published until next ^Wednesday. The onterprlsing correspondents are not likely to snocoed in stealing the document, this time, nor have they even •been able, it seems, to get a smell of its -contents. Mr. Arthur appears to have earned some things from the experiences of his predecessors.

HAVKRI.Y has the genius for the show business which Gould and Vanderbilt lias for railroads. He is the manager of six theatres and the proprietor of some six or eight traveling oompanlea. His headquarters are at the Fifth Avenue theatre in New York, and ho is in censtant telegraphic communication with bis various theatres and companies which he thus manages. His income is reported to be about 92,500 a day.

THE

JOHN TAYLOR, Brigham Young's successor as the head of the Mormen church, is fitting up his palace with 9500 carpets, 975 easy chairs and other home comforts to correspond, the whole to oost 965,000 to 9100,000. The explanation h^makes is that be is preparing to receive European princes and congressmen who may go to Utah. It is also said that the cellar of Amelia Palace is well stocked with good wine. It is not to be supposed that Taylor cares for these creature comforts himself, but like other dignitaries he .is obliged to keep up some style.

THE growth of the United States within a few years has been simply wonderful. The New York Tribune shows by statistics that during the past twenty years the development of the country has been greater than during any former period of forty years. In 1876 we exported 55,000,000 bushels of wheat and during the year ending June 30,1881, our wheat export was about 150,000,000 bushels. During the past six years more American wheat has been exported than during the preceding half oentury. The figures are about the same for corn,

THE practice of "hazing" has been a disgrace to the Eastern colleges for many years past and in spite of all the efforts of the college authorities to break it up, the practice has continued. Recently a freshman at Bowdoin College had an eye put out in one of these hazing scrapes and his father has brought heavy damage suits against each one of tho students concerned in the matter. This is anew departure in the treatment of the hazera and if it shall be taken up by the parents of other students who are maltreated by their seniors, the fun will soon become so costly that it will be abandoned.

MR. BKECHKR is reported to have pronounced against dead heading preachers and in favor of taxing churches. Ne self-respecting clergyman ought to dissont from this. There is no sort of question but that the whole system of dead heading ought to be discontinued. It is a breeder of corruption aud unjust discriminations, and taxes the many for the benefit of the few. Nothing is more evident than that somebody has to pay for every free ticket to the theatre or pass on the railroad. Why should not those pay for them who use them? Do away with the whole business and let all stand on an equal footing, and the odious tax which the paying class of the: «omm unity are now assessed with, for the benefit of the deadheads, will be abrogated.

IN requiring applicants for ad miss: to practice in the Supreme Court topasi legal examinations, horeafter, that Couri bos taken a step which will be heartil, commended by the people, as well as all respectable attorneys. The legal fession in this Stale has long been d^graced by shysters and incompetents, who lack every quality needful for success at the bar, and while the matter has been one of standing complaint, no serious efforts have ever been made to remedy the evil. Several years ago, Judge Greshatn, of the United States Court, at Indianapolis, made an order requiring all persons admitted to that Court to pass an examination, and the rule has, we believe, since been enforced. While nothing short of an amendment of the Constitution will cure the evil wholly, these efforts ef the courts will undoubtedly have a most beneficial influence in stimulating the incoming members of the profession to qualify themselves for admission to the higher courts.

IF

Indianapolis Times says that the

physicians are charging one dollar for each person vaccinated and fifty cents for a certificate that successful

vaccina­

tion has already been performed, and .adds that the order of the board of health requiring that all school children prodace such certificates mesas thousands of dollars in fees to the doetors of the city. The member* of the board are themselves physicians. Is there a suggestion of jobbery in the matter?

IT is hard to realise that we are now in the midst of Winter. December 3d, and the ground as yet scarcely hidden by snow, and the grass green and growing^ Lettuce and other green things are sold in the market, and the season has had more the appearance wf Spring than of Winter. L*»t year, by this time we had had a month of solid, fnoseu weather. The indications are that the present Win ter will be an open one, but the longeontlntied fine weather Is likely to get people into trouble. Doubtless it will wind pp suddenly, some of these days, with a genuine blast from oM Boreas, and it will be wise to be ready for the freeze ai any moment. It can hardly be expected that we will eecapo cold weather entirely.

A tJ •V Afcmi

American writers are in lack of encouragement, as they probably are not, they may find it in the patronizing courtesy extended to tbein by the fraternity in England. Some years ago their literary wares were pronounced but stale and feeble imitations of English originals and tho "original American novel" was vigorously clamored for. That period passed and was succeeded by ono wherein considerable facility and talent were discovered in our literary products. And now comes yet another period, when the Pall Mall Gazette takes it upon itself to "defend" American manners and literature. There is much encouragement in this. Whenever a country or a guild reaches the stage of requiring defense at the hands of its rivals it is pretty satisfactory evidence of good progress, not downward but upward. American literature, like American agriculture and American everything else, is quite able to take care of itself without any help from its selfconstituted English defenders, and can afford to be equally unconcerned with either their criticisms or commendations. However, if this kind of literary exercise affords amusement to our brothers over the water, let them enjoy the entertainment to their hearts' content.

THERE area variety of ways to get married that should be mentioned to the fashion writer whom we quoted the other day as saying that we needed more novelty at weddings. For instance: A girl at Coulteraville, N. C., was locked in a room by a fkther, who chained a savage bull-dog under her window, but her lover poisoned the dog, pried open her window, and carried her off to a clergymen. Again, Mrs. Reeder, of Baltimore, be day of her late husband's funeral received a telegram from an old lover, who is living in Missouri, saying: "Have just heard of £Reed*s death. Will yon marry me now Draw on me for 9100 to pay the expenses of yourself and the children here." Mrs. Reeder telegraphed "Yea," and went to the bank,

TERRS HAUTE S.

pastor a note On his way to business. Thus he was unsuspectingly led to deliver an invitation to the cl^pgyman to call at once and perform the prohibited ceremony: and the latter, piesuming that parental consent had beeft obtained, readily obeyed the summons.4 A couple were viewing the rotunda of the Capitol of Ohio when it occurred to them that the place was a good one to be married in. A minister was employed and the Governor gave away the bridle

WAITING FOR LIGHT. In this time of IagerselUan ranting ana oiasphemy ef the Christian religion the thoughtful and guarded expressions of Rev. O. B. Frothingham made the other day, and of which we give some extracts on the second page, are well calculated to attract the attention of intelligent people. Mr. Frothingham, as Is well known, has for years been the great apostle of "free religion," as it was termed, and for sincerity, learning and ability, stood fairly at the head of the movement against the religion of the New Testament. Not that the doctrines of that book were depredated, except that their divine origin was denied, and the Christian religion was pqt on an equal footing with other religions of the world. Mr. Frothingham organized a free church in New York City, of which he was the pastor for some years. About two years ago he went to Europe and has only recently returned. Being interviewed as to his future course, he said frankly that his former opinions had been much disturbed and that he did not feel that he could take up his work again. Before, he had felt confident that he was in the right path and satisfied in his own mind that his view of the Christian religion was the correct one. Additional thought and observation upon the subject have completely shaken his old confidence and he is ao longer prepared to say that the Christian religion Rf)t a divino origin and a superjaturalpower. He is not prepared to affirm that it lug, and he is equally unprepared to sayTbat it has not. He an of one waiting foie Mfi is prepared to it|onsdn the subject, .gets that far he is and It may be extree of confidence 11 presently be ortbodox pulpit. ooi&uct from the

Dll filere is a man |cerely seeking for ^t allow passion or the way of his le of learning or |cy will not keep ind ackfbwl-

wben he a» ^een it. b%ho are characterised df ^spirit fcat are worth I lnjletd^s like this, ^jysayggg'

A tmii

pie want raisedfor han are in

.y ,nk" is of Irish origin,

land a fellow whose mina is a little balanco is called a "crank." A Hew York judge has recently decided tltet cigar smoke puffed jinto one man'sfiio0 bv another is assaslt and battery.

I

"This safe Is empty—call at the house," wM the card which burglars found on the Mdfe in a Green Bay office. They caUowN&e iiouse and robbed it of 9600. ser, saying that if the peoflavorless fruit, it must be remarks that the great "high-colored California pears and at high prices, notwithstanding they are as fine-flavored as basswoodsawdust.

The New York Herald make the following ungracious remark about a Chicago society! "In Chicago there is what is called a Philosophical Soeiety. The lady members have been discussing the American novel, and they havs agreed that there will be no success until the ideal American heroine has been created. When she Is created she will probably not be found on the platform of so-called philosophical societies."

THE BETTER WORLD.

CHURCHES, PASTOR AND PEOPLE

A clergyman in Canada was fined 91 and costs for kissing another man's wife. That is rather a low figure, but it is sapposed that clergymen in Canada get everything at half-rates.

It is said that there are 80,000 Methodists in Iowa, and they are building churches in that State at the rate of one every two weeks, and school houses are going up at about the same rate. This Is civilisation:

The Rev.

J.

L. Benedict advertises that

be is "an evangelist, successful in revival meetings and gospel tent work," and is "open for engagements on terms within the reach of any church anxious for the salvation of souls:"

For along time plates have been used in many English churches for the taking up of collections, instead of the old fashion begat the end of along handle, which was in use generations ago. The rage for a return to the customs of former ages has latterly induced the adoption of the long-handled bag and the laying aside of the {date. After a fair trial it has now been found that a great deal of money is lost to charity by the use of the bag. People who will place silver colas and even gold ones upon a plate, where the offering is seen, are willing to drop a capper penny Into the dark recesses of the bag, where nobody can tell

showed the telegram and got the money. Another good one comes from Nashville,1 whether the contribution was a penny or sovereign. The bag smothers the sound of the falling ooin, whereas the rattle on the metal plate tells to the ex

where a girl, being forbidden to marry her lover, promised obedience, bat one day requested her father to hand their

•m

OKDAY EVEmjNiG- MATT,

perienced ear just what is given. So generally is this found to be the case that most of the churches which had adopted the bags are now introducing the plates

OLD SONGS.

Here is something from an exchange, that will be interesting to alll overs of old songs:

The most popular of all our songs is ''Home, Sweet Home," of which 100,000 copies are sold in a single year, and which yielded the publishers a profit of 910,000 in the first two years of sale. Next to this is that quaint plantation melodv, "Old Folks at Hone," which brougfit its author a small fortune, and which more than one prima donna has sung to the politest audiences of Europe. Then comes "Old Dog Tray," of which 125,000 copies were sold in eighteen months then "Ben Bolt," written impromptu, to "fill up" a newspaper corner then the later negro songs, and so on, down to the memorable period that gave us "Old Shady," "Tenting Tonight," "Tramp," Tramp, Tramp," and "John Brown's Body Lies Mouldering in the Ground," not to mention a score of others that haunt the memory and still retain their power to thrill and conquer us.

It Is not necessary to despair of the republic because some tender little ballad takes possession no*y and then of the great popular heart and Is sold by the hundred thousand. That cannot a bad or an inferior people whose sense of feeling is so active and undepraved. If it be the highest use of music, as many great writers contend, to stir the best impulses of our nature, then these artless and tender ballads will bear comparisons with compositions far more intricate and magnificient. The springs of emotion that they reach and sway are of the purest and sweetest in our being. No person was ever made worse, ana many have been made better by listening to them. Their simplicity is their strength they are popular because they are natural. Prav let us not be led to treat them shabbily on account of their humble origin and their unpretentious methods. Let us frankly own that we like them in preference to things more skillful and hard to be understood, and so go on singing thpm in our own sincere and effective way. There is greater music, of course, if you measure music as an abstract science, but there is none more innocent and appreciable and none that is so sarely national.

TALUAGE ON TOBACKX). In the eourse of a recent sermon, the Rev. Dr. Talmage said: You all know what botanists describe as nicotiana. You know it as the inspirlug, elevating, emparadising, nerve-shattering, dyspep-sia-breedinc, (health-destroying tobaeco. I shall not be offensively personal on this subject, for you nearly all use it. You say that God made it, and it is good. Yes, it is good to kill moths, to kill ticks on sheep, to strangle all kinds of vermin, to fumigate pestiferous places. You say God created it for some particular use. Yes, so he did henbane and nux vomica and copperas and belladona, and all those poisons. You say men live to be old who use it. Yes, in the sense that the man lasted well who was pickled. Smokers are turned into smokea livers. You should advise your children to abstain from it, because the whole medical fraternity of the United States and Great Britain pronounce it the cause of* widespread ill health. Drs. Agnew, Hamilton, Woodward—the whole medical fraternity, allopathic, homcepathic, hydropathic and eclectic denounce it. It croatesjinnatuzai The way leads down ^a d^onKsnTs grave and a drunkardlheil is strewn thick with tobacco leaves. That man is not thoroughly converted

Whe

A VALUABLE SECRET. It Is related of Franklin that, from the window of his office in Philadelphia, he noticed a mechanic, among a number of others, at work on a house which waa being erected close by, who always appeared to be In a merry humor, ana who had a kind and cheerful smile for every one he met. Let the day be ever so cold,

Sanced

loomy or sunless, the happy smile like a sunbeam on his cheerful countenance. Meeting him one day. Franklin requested to know the secret of his constant happy flow of spirits, "It's no secret, doctor." the man replied. "I've got one of the best of wives, and when I go to work she always gives me a kind word of encouragement and a blearing, with a parting kiss and when I go home she is sure to meet me with a smile and a Idas of welcome and then tea Is sure to be ready and, as we chat in the evening, I find she has been doing so many little things during the day to

Eeart

lease line, that I cannot find it In my to speak an unkind word or give an unkind look to anybody."

And Franklin adds: "What an influence, then, hath woman over the heart of man, to soften it. anH make it the fountain of cheerful emotions. Speak gently, then a happy smile and a kind word of greeting after the tolls of the day are over cost nothing, and go far toward making home happy and peaceful.

A

mEWsrAPXB man once planned a stery In which a lady, unhappily married, was to sue for adivorce and to make sme of being correct, wrote to a lawyer friend, stating the case as he meant to describe it. Bade came a postal card: "Yon could not get a divorse on the mound you mention In New York you miirht in Connecticut or Maine." This cart handed in by the carrier to Mrs. Newspaperman one forenoon, when her husband ras breeze in the household, which was not allayed for some days.

How sum of the men whose bodies Is now a laying up in the grave yard, must feel—that is, if they know whats a goin' on here below—to see how their widders is a carryin' on. and like Rip Yan Winkle, in the play exklaim: How soon we are forgot!" A widder, now-a-days, is a woman who may possibly never find the equal of the dear departed, but who is determined to

come as near it as circumstances may allow. But who can blame for seeking an early opportunity of getting married again, and resoom buying at Rippetoe A Miller's "White Frunt" grocery—

Rabbits, Quails Turkeys, Chickens and Ducks, Cranberries, Mince Meat, Saur Kraut,

Bulk Chow Chow,

Peach, Butter, Apple Butter, Jellies of all kieds A choice lot of by the pound,

'Canned Fruit*, the beet brand. Eastern Buckwheat Flour,

California dried fruit*, Michigan apples and cider, Tarnips, Onions,

Michigan and California Hooey, Maple Syrup,

Csbbsge,

Swest potatoes. Canned fish and

Fresh bread and

Meat of all kinds. Creamsry Batter, Leave your orders at Rippetoe & Miller's for a good Sanday dinner.

OYSTERS.

Will White, at 525 Main street, is now supplying, at wholesale and retail, the finest brandB of Oysters brought to this market, at the very bottom prices.

Wanted.

WANTED-ATTHE

PERN ROCK POUL­

TRY YARD, Lafayette road, one (1) mile north of Terre Haute, Ind., One thouand turkeys and five thousand chickens.

H. OREENAWALT, Proprietor.

WANTED—MONEY TO LOAN. THOSE TT wlio wish to borrow or loan monov on best terms for short or long time, to call on RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO. Southeast corner of 6th and Main streets up-staire.

WANTED-TOand

SUPPLY 5,000 FAMILIES

in the city country with the best grades of hard and soft ooal, the coming fall and winter. Prices as low as the lowest. Prompt delivery orders by telephone carefully attended to. 1,2 and 3 south Third street^ between Main and Ohio. 18-U R. ERS 4 CO.

Amusements. PERA HOUSE.

ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.

Saturday Afternoon and Evening.

THE

ELECTRIC SUCCESS.

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JOHN A. STEVENS' 12 Jolly Bachelors 12

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has not only got

his heart clear bat tdA mouth clean. Ben Franklin said never saw a well man in the exercise of common sense who would say that tobacco did him any good. Thomas Jefferson argued against the culture ef tobaeco. Horace Greeley said: "It is a burning stench." Daniel Webster said: "Let those men who smoke go to the bene shed." I can name three eminent clergymen who died of cancer in the mouth, an evil caused by their tobaooo. There has been many a clergyman itihose tombstone was all covered up with eulogy who ought to have had an inscription, "Killed by too much cavendish." Some smoke until the room is blue, their spirits are blue, the world is blue. I am glad the Methodists of the United States have in nearly all of their conferences passed resolutions against this habit. It is time we had an anti-tobacco reform in the Presbyterian, the Baptist, and the Congregational churches. My own experience was that it took ten cigars to make a sermon, A generous tobacconist of Philadelphia once offered to keep me in cigars if I would settle in Philadelphia. But I said to myself, 'If I smoke more than I ought to now, how much more would I smoke if I had an unlimited supply That was twenty years ago. I quit then once and forever. If you smoke cheap tobacco I want to tell you why it is cheap. It is a mixture of burdook, lamp-black, saw-dust, colt's foot, plantain leaves, fuller's earth, lime, salt, and a little tobacco.

KUVBERIKO ""/v

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A I S S HEADED BY

Miss J. Winston, Mr. A. H. Bell, Mias Amy Gordon, Mr. J. F. Raymond Miss L. Bradley, Mr. W. A. Morgan Miss Alice Seidler,

And our Great Chorus ot

40*^*5 VOICES 40 fee The Greatest Cast Opera Known.

The JBest Play Ever Wiittcn

Evening prices, 76,80 and 25 cents. Admission to matinee, adults, cents children, 26 cents.

Reserved seats, 75 cents. ,. Sale of seats will commence three days in advance, at Button's.

QPERA HOUSE.

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Friday, December 9th.

THE CH1VEBSAL FAVORITES, The Celebrated

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THE FINEST AND MOST DISTINGUISHED ORGANIZATION IN AMERICA. Comprising the most accomplished artistsand leading celebraties of the English and American Stage.

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And all Necessary Auxiliaries. POPULAR PRICES.

Don't Rea

THIS LIKE AN EVERYDAY A VERTISEMENT!

You all have work to do! Only th to Christmas Eve!

A FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS STOR^ Is the Orand Resort for the Great*

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HANDKERCHIEF,

For Ladies and Gents, iu Silk aa Linen Hemstitched, Embroidered an' Fanoy.

EMBROIDERED GOOD. 50 cent qualities for 35 cents. 75 cent qualities for 40 cents. 85 cent qualities for 50 cents.

LACE GOODS,

Surperb Line of Fichus, Collaretts Chemlsetts, Irish Crochet Sets eto. DUCHESSE LACE Scarfis, Barbes, Fichus, Gilets, Plaatronr

Jabots and Collars.

BEAUTIFUL COMBINATIONS of Duchesse and Points. POINT APPLIQUE LACES, |1.00 to^fS.OO per yard. /. ,_v DucheBse 92.50 and up.

Points $1.00 and up.

The new Mouresque and Orient ', Laces in the piece or in sets. 4 HANDSOME LINE of "Commenced Work" in Table Scarfs

Chair Stripes, Tidies, etc.

Tidies, Stand Covers and Doyliof a Stamped fot "Etching."

WE

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HOLIDAY GOODS. H0BEM ROOT & CO.

TERRE HAUTE CARPET HALL

ESTABLISHED IN 1844

Headquarters and

519 and 520 Main Street.

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Leading

FOR

CARPETS, PAPER HANGINGS, WINDOW SHADES, OIL CLOTHS,

—AND GENERAL

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

309 Wabash Street.

F1

1:

•House

E. M. WALMSLEY.

My C*utry Hen and My Women Ironithe Country—A« yen come down on the street 'ewe from the depot, tell the conductor I#

RIPPETOE & MlLXER'S "White Front" 647 and 649 Main St!

Where yon will always find the best

COFFFBES, TEAS, TABLE StJPPMKi

And All Staple and Fancy Groceries

At the lowes Prices.

THE HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOB PROD 15CR