Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 December 1881 — Page 5

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PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

City News,

CHRIS'MAH GIFT

AT.T. the people carry bandies

SAHTA

CLAUS is up to his ayes in busi­

ness, THE store window* are bright and cheery.

THE MAIL wishes *11 its reader* "A Merry Christmas!"

THE merchants are truly thankful for the two bright days dosing this week.

WE are candid when we say Christmas is the sweetest time of all the year. 01 N

IF old Santa Clans comes down the chimney will the presents soot the chil-

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D#N'T get too good natured and bay more Christmas presents than yon will ever pay for. 0

THE burglars are NOT all in the penitentiary yet, and it is still neooessary to "watch a little out."

THERE are indioationa that at least two newspapers will change hands directly after the holidays.

OUR amusement column shows a rare and excellent series of entertainments for the coming holiday week.

THE McKeen Cadets hare cards out for thefijvt deception to its honorary members next Wednesday evening at Armory Hall.

THE saloon keepers will not give away egg-nog on Christmas and New Years. None but tho bummer element will regrot the suHpenslon of thiscustom.

BENJAMIN HAYES, tho veteran school teacher, died at Normal, Ills., on Friday of last week. The body was brought here and interred in Wood lawn cemetery on Sunday.

REV. GEO. W. SWEENEY will occupy the pulpit at Christian church to-mor-row. Morning subject "Christmas." Evoning subject "Trial of Or. Thomas." Prof. Leibing's full choir ntfll be in attendance.

THE matter which just now seems to be agitating the public mind more than any other, and is creating no slight disturbance by its insidious workings through the body politic, leading to a foverish excitement of the public pulse, is called vaccine. That's what's the matter.

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THE High School Review is the titlp of a neatly printed monthly paper issued this week by Ellsworth Lawrenceodltor, and Will Folver manager. It starts well, find, if succeeding papers are as Interesting as tho initial number, will certainly bo successful.

THE brkk business block erected this season by Foulkes and Nicholson on Ohio street, between Fourth and Fifth is a model building. Its two store rooms have been taken by Byers Brothers and Wolfe A Alder. Of the twenty-two rooms above, all but four have been rented.

THE holiday opening of Hoberg, Root A Co's big dry goods house, on Tuesday evening was a notableevent. The full Ringgold band on tho second floor discoursed delicious music, while all the ^ovenlng vast and admiring throngs passed through tho spacious building.

Two more burglars wore captured Wednesday morning, about three o'clock. Thoy broke a show window in Dnumont's jewelry store, in the marble block, and entered. Chief Russell and Lieut. Vanderver, standiqain front of the Tarre Haute House, heard the noise and started west. They met four men. Two ran and escaped. The other wo wero taken in custody and in /•aline and on their person was found a 'lot of jewelry taken from the store.

They gave their names as Heury Bowling and Louis Mosetter, and had come thtsjoity only^the previous afternoon. In tho Criminal Court they plead gnilty and were sentenced to two years in the [penitentiary.

THKRS has been a very riot of trade in holiday good* this week—bright days if or the dealers, dark days for the unforUunate families without money, and distracting days for the unhappy souls, lostly of the male pursuasion, who wan|der about in a dased condition, knowing Ithey must buy, and morally certain that U^ey will end by buying the very articles nost ununited and most unwelcome to those thty wish to surprise and gratify.

It is pretty safe to say that nine-tenths the poople who make gifts buy costlier snte than they can afford in justice jto themselves. There is an almost inexpressible tendency to extravagance in These things but though it may be folly, it is a kind of human weakness that is JWighty forgivable, and even the sternlest and moat practical are forced to look with gentleness on that man who conluea to wear a seedy coat in order that fthe hearts that look to him for pleasure »y not be disappointed.

.vew years CARDS,

Moore & Lnngen, the job printer* in apron building, have an elegant |U|te of 2few Yeani cad% and will mptly (Hi, in artistic afcyfk all orders this Una. a? v-( it #t'iga'

Mas. V. J. GRAY, ai 28 North Fourth has a tine amortiae&t of HOLt )AY GOODS for all ages, that will aur--ilseyoufordhflKpMMa. She will make -rices to suit you. OdI and aeefor yourjilves before the beat Is mM.

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MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following marriage lioenaes have been issued since our last report:

Stephen J. Boswell and Sarah V. Kyle. Harvey Giiton and America A. Vice. Charles N. Kenton and Emma Shoemaker. Ebenezer Doane and Anna Rlgney. Addison H. Loman and Julia A. Wllkwahby.

Martin Durham and Jessie Stanley. Robert Orag and Jennie 8tnxgeon, John O. N«nn and Jeaste Stone. Jolhn W. White and Carrie Hoffi. Miles EUlngnrortli and Jalia A. PmettJames Foqua and Nancy L. Knight. Alexaader Cathern and Lecna Beed. Wm. Bank and Edith Veach. Frank P. Rltchey and Lizxie M. Floyd* George W. Justus and Jennie Ayere. George Q. Bell and Bebeoea Weaver. Isaac Kilby and Kmiline Hieklin. John C. Howard and Lena Bennicker. Hamtlton B. Johnson and Julia •.Wright. Atherton Buy and Bell Maxwell. John Campbell, Jr., and Lillle Sordam. Charles C. Haynes and Julia A. Stewart. Willis D. 81usser and Clara E. Drewsicke.

THE bondsmen of Newton Rogers, at a meeting Thursday afternoon, ordered that suit be brought immediately in the circuit court to settle their little trouble, and that Col. McLean inatitute suit to compel Mr. Shannon to honor "that check" for 92,000. The bondsmen will probably have to advance ten or twelve thousand dollars, with confident assurance that Mr. Rogers will return it to them in time.

A GOOD many of our people are ordering The Mail sent to distant relatives and friends for the coming year as a holiday present. We have received more subscriptions tho past week for these gifts than in any former year. The recipient far away from home highly prizes such a gift. And it is a weekly reminder of the donor. Besides the home news given saves the latter a heap of letter writing. Out subscriptions books will be open all next week for this purpose.

CHRISTMAS coming on Sunday will cause its celebration to be somewhat mixed. Some will begin the celebration this evening and continue until Monday evening. The banks will be closed on Monday, but the merchants will generally keep open house, and most of the mechanics will be at work.

The Postofflce will be closed Monday after twelve o'clock noon, carriers will make the usual morning trip.

In tho churches to-morrow morning there will be services appropriate to the day. The music at the Catholic, Episcopal and Congregational churches, and perhaps some of the others will be of a very high order.

At night most of the churches will hold no services to allow attendance at Dowllug Hall, where the Oratorio Societywill render selections from the Mes slab, which is peculiarly appropriate for both Suneay and Christmas. There will be no charge for admission, but a collection will be taken.

VISITORS coming to the city during the holidays should visit I)r. BePuy's Bath Institute. It is a model of beauty and complete in arrangements for giving all kinds of baths and electricity, fitted up In the second story, rooms large and well ventilated, with sky-light. Waiting rooms, and ladies' parlor below. It will be opened to the public about the middle of the week, and should be well patronized by the community, not only for its sanitary benefits, bnt to encourage so useful and attractive an enterIn our city.

We are informed by Mr. Griffith, that in moving his Boot and Shoe Store, from Ohio street to No. 32 Fourth street, ho has increased his sales nearly Onethird. He has an elegant and large stock, and desiree us to say that he will exert himself to fit and please those who may favor him with a call. East side of Fourth north of Ohio street, red star over the door.

SEVER COMES BAREFOOT Santa Claus may drive reindeers or ponies, or ride ou the wind, but he never comes barefoot. It would be unseasonable. And let The Mail remark to husband's, brother's and father's, that in gift-giving you ahould be sure the person you present is provided with necessaries before you invest in gewgaws. To many, a pair of boots or shoes or nice slippers from Stein A Hecklesburg's will bo the most welcome gift in the world.

FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENT® Get something useful as well aa ornamental, and something of this kind yen will find at F. Goetx' furniture house, No. 655 Main street, in the way of Elegant Easy Chairs, large Mirrors at astonishingly low prices, Music Stands, neat Ebony Standa, Parlor and Bed Room Sets, Camp Chair*, Rockers, Ac. His prices will be found satisfactory. $

NEW JEWELRY.^

Jacob Kern's business in the new McKeen block, is rapidly growing. He has recently put in additional ahow cases, in order to properly display a choice line of gold and silver watches, for ladies and gents, gold chains, bracelets, ologant silverware, and everything pertaining to his business. You will find there some handsome things suitable for Christmas

ROCKIXQ CHAIRS

The finest line of Rockers ever shown in this «My catk 'be seen «t R. Faster Soafe, north fourth street, at fiDonatrously low price*.

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A FIRS? CLASS STOCK FURNITURE of ajlktnd* at very lowest prices, at PROBST A FiaBSJCKU No. 23aad SS south Fourth street, I

—JL Foaier A Boo, north Fourth street, ahow a large stoek of Pastor and Chambear Suits, Fwarr Cfcmp Chairs. Blacking Bona, Mirrors, and everything in the way of furalturi at rery low prioes. done

THE PASSING# SHOW.

PLAYS AND PLAYERS

The delightful reading by Miss Nella F. Brown on Monday evening' the artistic concert by the Kellogg party on Tuesday evening the pleasing performance of the Baker and Farron company on Wednesday evening, and the excellent minstrelsy of the Haverlys on Thursday evening, have given our peoplea round of entertainments, of unusual excellence, and have attracted audiences remarkable in numbers, considering the bad weather and the fact of four shows on successive nights.

This afternoon H. B. Mahn's Comic Opera Company plays the Mascotte, and to-night will present Yon Suppe's latest composition entitled "Boccaccio," concerning which the Providence Evening Telegram says:

We have no hesitation in saying, and feel that we are keeping within bounds when we say that this is the beet and strongest company that has ever appeared in this city, not even excepting the

Ideal Company and in addition to this, the opera itself is simply charming, replete as it is with comic situations, bright, sparkling music, and calling for a very large cast. Dillering from Suppe's other creation, Fatinitza. which nas more of the fulness and richness, as it were, of old port, but Boccacda is like the sparkling cnampagne. The choruses are original in the extreme, and carried out auperbly. The company Is well trained, and both in a vocal and dramatic point of view are excellent.

On Monday afternoon and evening, the Harriaons appear in "Photos," claimed to be the (most humorous play of the era. "Laughter holding beth its sides," is the way one of the Boston papers of it. The New York Tribune says:

Judging by its effect upon audiences, "Photos'" takes its place as a first class favorite. There have been few entertainments in the city this season which have awakened more laughter, or which elicited more spontaneous applause. Miss Alice Harrison, the stai of the troupe, like Lotta, comes with a reputation acquired in San Francisco. Like Lotta, too, she is a charming actress, and makes her point without an effort, but is unlike her in being a star singer. She is a tiny creature, but beautiful as a peach, and her small stature enables her to give the enfant terrible with excellent realism. In Photos she has four characters to sustain as Lottie Gwynne, seeking the emotional, she made clever burlesques of Clara Morris and Emma Abbott. Miss Carrie Daniels, as Clara Hurleigh, seeking sunny smiles and a rich husband, contrasts richly with Miss Harrison. She sings well, with a rich cultivated voice, and her performance on the guitar is inimitable. Mr. Louis Harrison is oue of the most natural aotors that has ever appeared on the stage. It is to be said or mm that he almost creates emotion by his irresistibly funny tricks. As he tears across the boards with his eye in frenzy rolling, one experiences a mixture of fear and sparkling hilaritv. In fine, no member of the troupe failed to give entire satisfaction to the full house,

On Tuesday evening John T. mond will appear in his new charaJSBr of "Fresh, the American." Fresh,%n exuberant American, whose patriot! and native humor are constantly assei ing themselves, marries in Paris the daughter of the chief officer of the exKhedive of Egypt. She is torn from his arms and taken to Egypt, where she becomes the latest addition to the oon jugal possessions of an Egyptian army officer. Fresh invades.tbe harem and regains his bride. Those who are fitmiliar with the happy exuberance of the actor in the .part of the indomitable Sellers will easily understand that to see it animating an American citizen in the Levant and leading him to the successful invasion of a no less inviolable spot than the harem of a Turkish grandee will prove highly entertaining. Says the New York Herald: "Like Col. Sellers, the part of FeMi nand Nervy Fresh is Mr. Raymond himself made over into fiction, and he plays it with the same touch-and-go spirit. The piece itself is a clever comicality rising to the dignity of corned too refined in its humor to come strictly within the definition of farce. It bubbles over with fun from the begining to the end, the dash and self-con fidence of the Yankee being contrasted in an amusing manner with the sobriety and alow-going methods of the Mohammedans. In spite of the constant reminders of Sellers in his acting, Mr. Raymond acquits himself admirably, keeping the audience in an almost continual roar of laughter while he fills the stigo.

Frank Mayo, who made his reputation in making sublime the ridiculous character of Davy Crockett, is playing high tragedy this season, supported by a very strong company. He will appear at Dowling Hall next ^Thursday evening, as "Richard HI." The Louisville Courier Journal says:

The King Richard of Mayo, last night, was not only the beat rendition of the diameter that has been made here this season, but the most powerful piece of acting altogether that we have seen in the part. It needs the finish with which Charles Kean has endowed his Richard, hut it has a tremendous energy which the Richard of Charles Kean did not possess. The partis peculiar in the extreme difficulty of drawing the line between rfcnt and passion. Mr. Mayo exhibits more passion with less rant than we have ever seen in the character. It ia a fearful exhibition of passion From the moment of the death of the tMrincesand his un trammeled investure with the imperial robes until his death upon Boaworth field, that passion ia abstained. "The World," a play which presents the moat wonderful and startling dramatic situations, the finest scenery and moat marvelous mechanical efltecta of aaqr now on the boards, will be given at ttw Opera Boose on Thursday and Friday evenings. On its return to Indisa(ifMtfis recently, the Journal said:

The beginning of the return engage* awnt of "The World" at the Grand

ran of a week in city, and meets with such a reception as to demand a retarn engagement, bat "The World" has and it is probable that .the

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present engagement will be as remunerative as was the former one. The play has been critically reviewed in these columns, and at present it is only neoes-aaiy'-to say that it ia a melodrama of great interest, with a tendency to be sentimental in piaoee. The stage effects art strikingly realistic, and form one of tte chief attractions of the entertainment. The explosion of the steamer, the escape from prison, the moving elevator, and the rut acme are effects not equaled in any other play before the public. The raft scene is a moat wonderful piece of mechanism, and is alone worth^oing to see. "The World" ia

the original*New* York cast!^and their uitii ion of it is so much superior to that of the former company thai gave it

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the former company

here as to preclude compamo Rsther than get out of her little bed at six o'clock in the morning, Clara Louise Kellogg paid 950 extra for a special train from this city to Crawfordsville, to leave at ten o'clock, after the agent had purchased tickets for the party on the regular morning train. The engine broke down at Otter Creek, and the party were delayed until another engine was sent up from town.

Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson have ottered a^caah prise of |20,000 for a beautiful lady from the private walks of life," and of undoubted respectability, and another of $10,000 for the handsomest man in the country," both persons to constitute the pre-eminent attractions of the greatest show on earth, etc., the one to be dubbed the Queen of Beauty, and the other the Emperor of Comeliness.

During the performance of Hermann, the magician, at New Yerk, Saturday night, a drunken crank attempted to shoot him by using his own pistol in stead of a "magic" one which Hermann asked j^m to fire.

Mabel Morley was compelled to attempt her usual daily feat of walking a tight rope to the pole of a circus tent at Athens, Texas, though she declared she wis dizzy from illness. She fell and was killed.

It is said that Barnum has secured for next season anew acrobat of such sur prising agility, that he is already known as the Talmage of the ring.

Clara Louise Kellogg would have had a larger audience on Tuesday evening, and there would have been more money in the treasury, had the tickets been 1.00 instead of 1.50. She is charging high priced for her concert tickets this year, because it is "positively her farewell season." Well, perhsps it is but the public have been deceived so often by this farewell business that they are justified in being a little suspicious. There is said to be no doubt whatever that the fair Clara is to be married to Mr. Whitney in the Spiffed Rat Miss Clara is notoriously fincle,Huid there are those who still shake tlAr heads when they hear her nd^tials talkgd of. The public, it seems to us, is enatled to some guarantee in this matter^l "Married or money re funded," should be their demand. Let »he concert tickets have coupons attachD^ enpiing the holders to a certain rebatttlFMiss Kellogg shall still be single on the first of May.

WATCHES and CHAINS In great variety at H. F. SCHMIDT A CO'S. W, H. Gilbert, opposite the postofflce will confine his holiday trade especially to fine candies—the choicest confections —of which he makes a tempting display. He has boxes packed expressly for the season, just the proper thing for Christmas gifts, and sold at from 20 cents to |1.00. His restaurant continues to command the patronage of all who know where to get good eating. Oysters are served in every style.

CHROMO'S with a Frames, only 00 cents—a very large assortment, at PROBST A FISBECK'S, formerly J. Fred Probst, 23 and 25 south Fourth st.

N. BOLAND, 509 Main street has one of the best assortments of fine slippers ever brought in to Terre Haute. Also all kinds of fine foot wear suitable for holiday presents. This store is stocked with the beat goods carefully selected by an Intelligent buyer and the Increasing patronage it receives shows how popular it is becoming among our dtlaens. Pleasant salesmen are ready to show you anything in the store and name you the lowest prices on all goods.

HOLIDAY PRESENTS. The place to go for them is H. F. SCHMIDT A CO'S.

Gome Early

And Avoid the Rush for

GROCERIES.

H. A. SMITH'S entire stock of groceries and store-fixture* will be closed out before January 1st.

Object in sellingown two stores and cant attend to both. Sale to Commence SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 17TH.,

At S. W. Oor. 4th and Walnut Sta.

TURKEYS, CHICKENS, OY8TERS, CELERY AND CRANBERRIES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION AT

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MERRY 1881

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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A Happy New Year

TO EVERYBODY.

If you have forgoten to purchase any presents don't forget that the

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Will do yon justice,.

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