Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 April 1882 — Page 1

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TOWN TALK.

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS IN POLITICS.

A COMING CIRCUS WITH MENAGERIE ATTACHMENT..

A STREET NUISANCE.

A XKW DEPARTURE.

It is an old saying that ''politics make strange bedfellows," but T. T. never expected to see it verified to the extent it lias been since the April election. .Frank Armstrong proved the strongest man on the Democratic ticket. His popularity and acknowledged ability drew him ouough Republican votes to pull him through by a safe plurality. As soon as he entered upon the discharge of his duties he inaugurated a system which is not only novel and econemical, but which has sueoeeded in bringing down upon him the anathemas of the strong Democratic partisans. The offense committed by Mr. Armstrong was the appointment of the Republican City Assessor and his deputies as his deputies, and the appointment of the Democratic township assessor and his deputies as •oit}- doputies. It is true it will be a saving of fifty per cent, per annum to the •city and county, and some people might favor it 011 that ground, but it is different with Mr. Armstrong's recent admirers. They want all the pork, or none. They bolieve be should have given all his patronage to his friends, instead of going into the enemy's camp in search «f aid. Perhaps the grumblers are right and their representative wrong, and he HhouJd have chosen his assistants from his party, without regard to expense or experience, in preference to economy and proficiency. Better wait until the assessment has been concluded before making too loud threats. No one doubts that Mr. Armstrong is an efficient officer.

He says he will make the most thorough assessment this year which this county has ever had, and if ho has started out with this determination let him choose hia own meantf"®© accomplish the much to be deilredeiid. It %EHWneeeeds he doserves praise rather than wnsute^ and it

serves praise rather wan eensu®B,ftna is

when the failurl •ubjeet T. T»

'^•heoonnlylili' atlwnen^ll

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These men

lire to

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fi&WlNftlity-five

per cent, of all the taxes placed on the jduplicate, prior to the present year, after

the taxes have l)een collected. These

in another, the fact, together with' the j^amount, has been carefully noted down. UiO -work has beeujgoing on quietly gP'here for some time, and wlion the board p? of equalization meets, in June, there will probably bo a circus, with a menagerie attachment, in town for a time. It

Is claimed byithoseeugngod in the work that they will unearth an unornioussum that has never boen called upon to pay taxi'*. At present they are going ovor all the estates which are iu courso of Mettlemont, and then the guardians'reports will be overhauled, after which the mortgage records will le called upon to k)livor up their secrets. It is claimed that already S7(0,OOo have been found, and the work has just commenced. On the other hand, it is liiuted that the county or city has 110 right to go back of the present year to place taxable* on the duplicate. Should this prove to be true, there will be some fun when collection time arrives, and the men who have been to so much trouble and expense will have had it for nothing, while the city and county will have the benefit of their !s researches, as free as the gospel.

A soman VARIATION.

Two Republican constables who were olocted this nioath haveappointed iHjmocrntic^dcputies, and there is trouble in •camp. The Republicans of one ward have adopted resolutions denouncing the act and demanding of the delinquents if they oould not find men in their own party to fill the positions. As the resolutions have passed unheeded, and as the IVmoonit-s continue to be deputies, T. T. p-wuines that no men could be found the Republican ranks to fill the bill. The men who are abused for their cho»ee started in to make all they os 11 out of their office, and the selections have Iwn made with that special object i:i view. Men who know the ropes and who can -ollect iheir fees in full are always to be preferred as deputies to green haui whose aucceaa Is doubtful if not Impossible.

KTRKHTOAR TRACK.

One oT the greatest nuisances on the street* where it is to be found, is the .street nr :mck. It is never in good condition, and is always a source of danger

Then during wet weather the track between the mis presents the appearance of a minature canal of no mean proportions, upon which it would be possible to float,a light draft steamer. The road is evidently run on the cheap principle. It is certainly making money, and ought to be made to keep its track in repair, or if it has not enough money for that purpose, a special tax should be levied for its assistance.

SUSAN PERKINS. THE INDIGNANT OLD GIRL

OBJECTS TO THE HEAD PUT ON HER.

SHE DOESN'T "BLAST'!"

MEN ARE QUEER ANIMALS!

DEAR JOSEPHINE: Everything comes to him who stands and waits, they say, and I am standing and waiting—mentally—for a chance to come to me of repaying the Editor of the Saturday Evening Mail for bis gratuitous and unexpected insolence to me. What do you think this monster did last week? Announced me in his paper, at the head of a column on the first page, in big capitals, as a "giddy, gushing girl"!. Was ever anything so utterly and perfectly atrocious and horrible There is just a trifle too dreadfully much personality in these Terre Haute papers, I think. And then Uncle Ezra must of course see the thing and say, in his most disagreeably bland manner, before I had seen them at all: "You never met Mr. Westfall,didyou Susan "Yes, I have. Why?" "Evidently he does not remember your appearance, then." '»Why?"

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inquired, in all innocence.

"Well, lie speaks of you here as a girl. I wonder at what age one begins to bean old maid

Now did you, in all your life, ever hear or know of anything so heartless and relation-like as that 1

It does seem that the members of one's

family ^ke

i* certainly time enough to condemn cutting and disagreeable things they an & .« imoa thftv olftim It 18 to DfOVCnl on this

deh®J*luj^^he^can6

Sometimes they claim it is to prevent »V sometimes that they think you

dispatches I again*»mv what people are saying -L.—-— -^-^tafhat others think of you they say it is to "take you down a peg or two."

But, Josephine, one of the most truly remarkable things that have happened to me since I came to visit, and then to

stay,

in this Prairie City,

gentlemen have worked through the »v —-o records of the most Important counties in a feminine hand, though the writer il. .. IHM/) ntailii of the State, and wherever a man in one x»ounty -was found to have money loaned

me

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a note I re-

calved this week. The note was evidently

omitted her name at the close, and made

the stunning offer of ten dollars if I would "Blast young Mr. ." Did you ever?

I could not, of course, answer the note, not being in possession of the name or address of the sender neither was the note accompanied by the promised amount. But it was naive, nevertheless "l will give you ten dollars cash if you will give a good blast in your letters. I want him to know fiow people look upon his airs and graces, and how much worse than we are we all thiuk him, for all he thinks nobody in town quite so good or so smart as he is, and how sneaking we think I10 is when he tries to make people think badly of others because he don't like tLem or because they don't look upon him as a little wooden god with clock-work inside"

And so on, with many "anda" and "ors," and, apparently, no periods. The correspondent mistakes me. I don't "blast," and if I did, it would be something that I thought needed "blasting" for the public good. No good could come to the public from showing up the individual mentioned, even if I dared assail so high and mighty a person, because the public don't seem alarmingly interested in anything concerning him. And then, what is there to talk about Has not one a right to hold himself as much aloof as he likes— unless he runs for office? In which case, Uncle Ezra says, a man has no private rights at all that anyone is bound to respect.

But then, Uncle is feeling sore still over some criticisms that have been made lately upon some public men here, himself, I fancy, among the number so he is disposed to be a little sharper in his speech than usual.

His temper is not itself either. He came down stairs yesterday morning with wrath in hia eye and a badly smashed silk hat in his hand and, holding it •utsakh (But, that his speech may be understood, and that all our actions may be justified, I will remark that we are house-cleaning now. Women will understand and appreciate.) think Tom Murray is to be con-

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and ann»v*nce to persons who have to gratulated upon being a single man! _» tr Look at that hat! Ruined! What do

drive across it. The only way to get over it is to turn square around and you suppose I found reposing upon it in that manner. An attempt to «You don*t know!' No, of course you •cross at angles is almost certain disaster don't, I always will contend, in spite of 0 anything but a bos or strong wagon, your protestations to the contrary, that

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 22,1882.

a woman never does know where she puts anything when the house-cleaning fit seizes her. Well,

I

found it in my

cloeet, on the floor, and with my unabridged dictionary on top of it. How is a Tan to make money enough to keep himself looking decent when things are destroyed in that way."

Then I remembered Uncle's remark about the "girl" head-lines and I

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dened my heart. "Perhaps you don't know, Uncle, dear, that yonr room has not been cleaned yet, and perhaps you have forgotten that you carried your dictionary upstairs three days ago and left it on the floor in the middle of the room and perhaps you may not at the moment recall your having stumbled against it that night, and having placed it—somewhat emphatically—in the closet and perhaps

But Uncle had gone out. Men are the queerest animals upon tli9 face of the globe. I would rather live with a bear than with a man who had a right to visit his ill-humors on my head.

Tell Will I said that. Yours, S. P.

Our Breakfast Table.

DRY TOAST AND OTHER THINGS.

DESULTORY REMARKS ON VBTOE8, CIRCUSES A. T. STEWART, ETC.

Laura had come into the room to the tune of "Waltz With Me," and Jack was full of Sophie Worrell. "Oh, yes! We saw you, sir! Was it you or your friend that pounded your heels off to encore the song, and then chuckled, and laughed, and giggled like an idiot, so that neither you nor your neighbors heard a word of the 'repeat'. I wanted to shake yon!" "It was not I—it was my friend! When he gets onto a joke it intoxicates him and he loses his head." "Well, don't do it any more. When you go to a show, remember that other people have some rights. I am disgusted with your loud ha-ha-ers."

Major said: "It is remarkable how quickly the up-stairs catch little points, especially any that mark generosity, virtue and honor. Does it not speak well for these times, that even the roughest part of the audience is always pleased with these? And that the playwrlters are obliged to affect a virtue they may not feel. They dare not pander except in the most convert manner to suck tastes, as did Wycherly and Congreve, for instance, boldly. Did you notice that when Rudolph, the tramp, asked the General for alms, he got nothing. Then, turning to the merry Judge, theglatter stuck his hand in his pocket. In an instant the house applauded the kindly act." "And the Judge changed his mind," observed Derby. "Yes, but the house was right as to its intention to endorse charity—still, Rudolph would not be endorsed by our new Charity organization. He was a tramp of sixteen years' standing. He never worked, he drank, and, when he became rich and generous, it was with money he hadn't earned, and was invested at twen-ty-five per cent." "True, but our work is not with the idealized tramp of the stage. By the way, this Charity Organization is going over the country like a wave. Here is the Rev. S. H. Gurteen of Buffalo, a pioneer in the work,"who has published an interesting volume, 'A Hand-Book of Charity Organisation,' in order to reply to his numerous correspondents from all parts of the country. He is giving up all other work to prosecute this one for which he is specially adapted as an organizer and worker." "Would he go to a circus?" asked Jack. "No, he hasn't time—too busy—too much in earnest!" "Humph, here's Derby, went the other night because he wanted to see Dan Rice. Says Dan gave him a ticket thir-ty-five years ago to have his lace washed!" "Poor Dan knew of one use for water, but really Derby'swemory is phenomenal. Reminds me of the boy bragging of his recollection, and that be oould remember three months before he was born, when be was crying for fear he would be a girl." "Very good, Major—and how many do you think will turn out to see Guiteau's old clothes and the horrible effigies in wax that Coup promises "Why sir, aperfect mob. You couldn't keep away the crowd that will gloat over them, with clubs." "Nothing strange in that," said Miss Laura "I went with everybody to Madame Tussand's in London, and saw more old villains and wretches and murdered kings, et cetera. Was horrified by grinning old misers, and fooled by the policeman by the door?"

Jack wanted to know if "The man who whacks was wax "Of course he was?" "One policeman then, you can find when you want him, and also, that is always dry!"

I know where there was always a handsome one, or more, and that was in front of Stewart's store on Broadway. How often he has saved me from the maelstrom of vehicles at that busy corner," said the traveled Miss. "Too bad that the greatest store in the world should go by the board. It was a kind of national institution, that people went to see like the Central Park or Baroum's," said Derby. "Wonderful man, that Stewart," continued the Major. "I have often dropped into the big store to see a friend. It was called a hospital for broken down merchants, so many of them did he employ. It was a romance to follow the history of the Irish school teacher from his first little shop, twelve by thirty, with a few thousands in laces, to the great marble square and forty millions a year, in trade, and to think that quiet gentleman had ten thousand people working for him, and an office in a dozen or more great cities in Europe and America." "He was a monopolist and an oppressor," said McEwan. "He could ruin a rival in three days and did it. Like a mercantile Napoleon he taught his methods to his competitors, aud they have caught up with him. Some of his ideas were worthy of imitation. One w*s that a lie was unnecesary, aud another, two prices, folly. As a rule, to-day, merchants are as square as a die. Their measures and prices are accepted without question." "I always regretted Grant did not succeed in making him Secretary of the Treasury. He would have been a great sucess—but the fates vetoed it," said Derby.

The Major improved a pause by: "Curious, John, how soon we forget. Here are some more screeds on Arthur's veto, and a lot of ridiculous stuff conceived in passion and published in spite."

McEwan said something like, "The act of a petty despot—vestige of old British monarchical privileges adopted by this country—veto should be vetoed" "tfot so fast, Mac! The veto is no British invention, but comes to us from the Roman Republic. It was the power given to the people's tribunes to check the aristocratic Senate. Then, as now, it was the call to halt, and refer questions back to the people." "It is a check now on the will of the people, which Grant, Hayes and Arthur liked to use," said the belligerent Mac. "I said just now that we forget soon," replied the Major. "Fiftjr years is not long in any Nation's life, but our own but what do you think of the vetoes of your patron saint, Jackson, just fifty years ago? The stir over the Chinese question is nothing to that about the great Bank. Such men as Clay and Webster are not opposed to Arthur. Such a furore has not gone through the whole land as in 1832. Think Arthur will lose his chances by his veto What were Jacks«n's worth at one time? And yet, in spite of hard times, banks, Congressional majorities, panics, vetoes, he carried every State but seven and in that day Daniel Webster, the great, talked to the galleries just as to-day Daniel Webster, our own Daniel, does, only a little better. I admit that the belief of the people in Jackson's integrity and and their sober second thought carried the day, just as they will in '84. Mack you don't want to say anything about vetoes. The precedent is a bad one and proves too much." "I confess I am not posted on suclr ancient affairs." "You are no worse off than a majority of the native born. Derby and myself are the champions. "Inquire within, or 10,000 Useful lacts," said the modest Major. Then there rang from the parlor, whither Jack and Laura had retreated, "King the Merry Bells," a foretaste of the restoration of the ancient legitimate, otherwise H. M. S. Pinafore.

COUP'S FREE BALLOON RACE The double Balloon Ascension which Coup advertises, wiil occur here next Thursday in connection with his show, unless a severe storm renders the ascension impossible, is the most costly outside attraction ever presented to the public. In the first place, the material and the construction of the balloons themselves are very expensive, then there is the outlay for inflation daily— which costs a great deal of money in chemicals and apparatus—and lastly, there are the salaries of the intrepid seronauts, Madame St. Clair and Signor Montefiori, which, in consideration of their ability and the risk they brave, is necessarily large. Mr. Coup says of this novel attraction. "For several vears past, certain unbare been in the scrupulous showmen crowds to the habit of enticing Urge towns where circus exhibitions are to be given, by advertising "Baloon Ascensions," which never took ptace rtating however, upon the announce bills, that such ascensions bad "no connection with the show." The public were thus deceived: First, in not seeing the

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unified ascension, and secondly, by made to believe that the show was not rosponisible for the deception. Nothing but a storm of such severity as would render the ascension impossible, will prevent me from giving a Baloon race every day."

THE PASSING SHOW.

PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

THE DRAMA AND JTHE CIRCUS.

HOME ENTERTAINMENTS.

John Robinson's show exhibited, on Wednesday afternoon and evening, to the smallest patronage that has ever been given a tent-show here. A cold, rainy, disagreeable day was the cause. While there are some good features about the show, the performance fell far short of the extravagant promises of the bills and advertisements. Still, due allowance should be made for the difficulties the managers had to contend with.

Bronson Howard has written some of our very best plays, but not one of them surpasses that of "Baron Rudolph," played here Thursday evening by Mr. and Mrs. George S. Knight, aided by a company of more than usual excellence. No drama presented here this season has drawn out such enthusiastic mention from the Express and Gazette. We endorse every word they say and only regret that our overcrowded space prevents similar mention in these columns. The Knights are a worthy and deserving pair, and we are glad they havo captured so good a play to take the place of the excellent but well worn "Otto."

Under the banner "The Survival of the Fittest," comes on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of next week, at the Opera House, Jay Rial's Uncle Tom's Cabin Company, now going the rounds of its sixth season, with grand scenic effects, trick donkey, trained bloodhounds and jubilee singers—and only 25 and 35 cents to see it all.

C. S. Sullivan, of Sullivan's Hibernian Blondes, one of the dizziest of dizzy leg shows was here on Thursday to make an engagement at the Opera House*. But our virtuous manager Smith refused.

Mrs. Minurita Adyelotte, our talented and favorite home elocutionist, an nounces an Elocutionary Contest by her pupils, with homo musical talent, at Dowling Hall next Monday evening That the entertainment will be one of much interest may be judged from the following programme:

PART FTBHT.

Piano Solo—Til lie Taenzer '•The Beggar"- In costume—Ida Stewart. "Master Johnny's Next Door Neighbor"-

ICellie Aydelotte.

"Daisy's Faith"—in costume—Lulu tilbeck. COM 1'KTITOR KX J5RC.ISK. •'The Vagabonds"—in costume—Trowbridge. "The Naughty Little Girl"—iu costume-

Anon.

"Good Night Fapa"-Anon. "Fishing''—In costume—D. L. Prouflt. "Tom"—C. L. Woolaon.

I'ABT SECOND.

Piaao Solo—Tillle Taenzer. Banjo Solo—W. P. Tiffher—with Plan* accompaniment. "Flying Jim's Last Leap."—E. D. Banks. "The Newsboys"—In costume—Oorbette. "Charlie Machree"—iu costume—Hoppin "The Bad Boy"-Jolin Paul. Echo Song-Mrs. Hattle Reiman-wlth /luteaccompaniment by August Hoberg Recitation—"Grand Ma Always Does"—

Little Beulah Brown Violin Solo—Master Ewald Reimau. AWARI) OK MKDAJ,S. The contestants did not wish to have their names published hence they are omlted.

The brilliant opera of "Pinafore" which has been in rehearsal for several weeks will be presented on the Opera House stage on Friday evening of next week, under the auspices of the McKeen Cadets by a chorus of forty voices and the following strong cast in the solo characters: JoseRhinc MJwi Helen .Tetfcrs Hebef. Miss Kate Kinher Little Butteieup Miss May McEwan Aunt Miss Allie Fisher Tom Tucker, mid'inite, Miss Frankie Joffers Fat Marine -Willie Aydelotte Sir Joseph I'orter -Joe l^yis Oil dwwpu a Capt Corcoran ilph Rackstraw'..

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Rackstraw. Wallle Austin Deadeye ...—.Howard McCord Bill Bobrtay. boatswain ..Gabe Davis Bob Becket, boats'n's mate Lyman Ross 1 Willie Morgan Marines,

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first Lord's Sisters, his Couains, Ills Aunts, Sailors Marines, etc. by the Company The instrumentation will lie by the full Ringgold orchestra and piano. During the progress of the play there will be a squad drill by sixteen picked Cadets. The usual prices, with no extra charge for reserved seats. Sale at Button's Monday morning.

Old Dan Rice falls early in the campaign. He started out from Cincinnati with the Robinson show as "master of ceremonies," last Monday, and before reaching here on Wednesday was so "indisposed" that he failed to show himself in the ring.

One of the very best tent shows that has visited this city in past season* has been that under the management of W. C. Coup. He comes again next Thursday, and will give two exhibitions on the grounds south of the Vandalia road, north Sixth street. The varied attractions are set forth in the two-oolumn advertisement in this issue, and the statements therein made will be found much nearer the truth than circus announcemertsiunally can lay claim.

Charles pTTrlunkett, the comedian, died in Detroit last Tuesday morning, at the age of fifty-nine years. He was an old and well-known actor. He played Launcelot Gobbo hereon the occasion

Twelfth Year

of Lawrence Barrett's recent appearance as Shylock, and on another occasion played Touchstone to Fknnv Davenport's Rosalind in "As You Like It."

There is a big circus war in Philadelphia. The largest tent shows in the country, Barn urn's and Forepaugh's, come together in that city next week Ink flows prodigiously in the advertising columns of the newspapers and ou the bill boards.

air is full of new newspaper en­

terprises. Two new dailies are talked of —but whether morning or evening, we are not advised. The projectors of these take no heed of the sad mortality attending Terre Haute newspapers the past year. Twelve months ago there were an even dozen published here. Of these the Evening News, Eaterprise, Labor Question, Statesman, The Education, (a monthly) and the Saturday Night have ceased to exist. Perhaps, though, the new enterprises may get a footing. Our advertising men have been charitable to struggling newspapers in the past, and there is no telling what a long-suffering public may endure.

SUBSCRIBERS TO THE SATUliDAY NIGHT. We send this issue of The Mail to those outside the city who have heretofore taken the Saturday Night. Wo find many of these in arrears on subscription. The subscription to the Mail is 9*2.00 a year—50 cents for three months—invariably in advance. If The Mail is wanted a remittance should be made. Otherwise this will be the only copy of The Mail sent.

Unless specially ordered no copies of The Mail will be senbin the city to those who have taken the Saturday Night. It is not probable that there are a half dozen persons who have been reading the Saturday Night that are not taking The Mail. For "everybody takes it!"

THIS ISSUE OF THE MA 11, Will fall into tho hands of many who have not been regular readers. It is not a fair sample, for the reason that just now advertisers encroach upon out reading space. But we hope by judicious selections and prunings, with occasional supplement to give in the course of the year full two dollars worth of reading. If you like tho paper send fifty cents for a trial subscription, or get it at five cents a week of the newsboys and agents of this city and some sixty surrounding towns. A list of the latter will be found on the seventh page:

COUNCIL CANDIDATES. We gave last week the proceeding of tho Democratic ward conventions at which councilmen were nominated as follows:

First Ward—Lewis B. Martin. Second Ward—Dr. B. F. Swafford. Third Ward—Dr. George W. Crapo. Fourth Ward—James G. Evans. Fifth Ward—James Grace. Sixth Ward—Jacob Kolsem. The Republicans held conventions Saturday evening and nominated

First Ward—Leonard S. Briggs Second Ward—Charles H. Rottman. Third Ward—Edwin Ellis. Fourth Ward—Joseph H. Briggs. Fifth Ward—Harry T. Creager. Sr. Sixth Ward—John H. Reynolds. The election occurs one week from next Tuesday.

THE BETTER WORLD.

CHURCHES, PASTOR AND PEOPLE

CIILRCH RTJ^W KOR i.A 1)1 KM.

Dress hard all morning, such is fate, Then enter church some minutos late All eyes will then be turned on yon. And will observe your bonnet new, Let humble modesty wreathe your face, And take your seat with humble grace I jet all your thoughts be fixed on high, And re-arrang« you* cardinal tie.

Jumbo, the new elephant, is a great comfort to the clergymen who must go to see him as a great curiosity in natural history, and at the same time get a good deal of circus mixed in, as it were, "unbeknownst" to them.

Bishop Merrill said to a Methodist conference in Providence, as to pastors ongaging in secular business: "The idea prevails among some people that the church pays ministers to preach on Sundays. I do not so regard it. I understand that the church undertakes to support him for what he does during the week. If you labor as you ought, you will have no time for the store or anything else of a worldly character."

A Michigan revivalist opens the season of light summer religion with the announcement that he has a complete camp-meeting outfit, including a handsome painted pavilion, portable stand and reed organ. He will prooably bead the street parades in person, and give horn solos in imitation of Gabriel.

The pastor of the Foundry Church in Washington received an unexpected proof of his powers as a preacher. He was called upon early Monday morning a chance passer-by to open the church, as some one in there evidently wanted out." On opening it he met a woman who bad gone to sleep dnring the services of tlyj previous evening and had been locked in. She did not stay to apologize to her pastor.