Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 April 1882 — Page 4
THE MAIL
A PAPER
FOR THE
PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERRE HAUTE, APRIL 29, 1882.
MOB LAW.
Aaother man hnng by a mob! What Is Indiana coming to Within a month two exhibitions of lynch law jails broken down by mobs, and prisoners executed by bands of disguised men.
Of oourse in the Greensbarg, as in the Kokomo case, there is something to be said in paliation of the act of the mob. There seemed to be little doubt of Garrett's guilt. The Judge was astonished at the verdict of the jury, and even the attorney for the prisoner expected a life sentence. But the fact remains that there was a trial by due form of law, and a verdict of acquittal by twelve citizens who heard the evidence. Whether the community bolieved Garrett guilty or not, this should have ended it. L^t it be understood, once for all, that mob law is not justifiable under any circumstances, no matter if the guilt of the victim is evident. It cannot be tolerated ia a civiliaed community.
But
it
is argued that "the forms of
law are used more to shield the guilty than to protect the innocent." If this is m, whose fault is it? The people make the laws, and can enforce them, if they will. Several murderers have been executed in Indianapolis within the last few years, and it was not found that there was any occasion for mobs, either. They were hanged by the Sheriff, in obedience to the judgment of the Court. Why cannot this be so everywhere? .Simply because the people don't make it HO.
It may be set down as certain that in any community where it is thought necessary to invoke the assistance of a mob, the right sentiment does not prevail among the people. If it
did,
the,
laws would be enforced. It is often said that the money of the murderer buys his clearances that it enables him to procure the services of lawyers whose skill and ability enables him to escape the penalty of the law, But it should not be forgotten that lawyers of equal ability are at the service of the State, if they are called upon. And this, perhaps, is one of the common mistakes that are made—in not securing the best class of legal talent to prosecute prisoners charged with heinous crimes. In the "Greensburg case it would seem that the prosecution was not skillfully managed, for it was admitted at the trial that the negro who killed Walton had said, in the presence of two witnesses, that Garrett know nothing of the crime and had nothing to do with its commission. This Admission was made simply to avoid a continuance, in order that those alleged witnesses might be procured. To any person of ordinary intelligence, it would occur that such an admission should not have been made. The point is, that in cases such as this the State ought to employ legal talent of the highest order to prosecute the criminal, aud then there would be little chance of hi» escape. It would have been far better for Decatur county to have spent $10,000, if necessary, in prosecuting Garrett to conviction, than to have had the disgrace of an execution by a mob inflicted on her.
It is puorile to say that criminals cannot be convicted and punished in accordance with law. Look at England Men are found guilty and hanged almost as certainly as murders are committed. If our (X)urts do not enforce the laws let tho |oople see that they do. but the way to accomplish it is not by mobs. They only tend to make the administration of justice more uncertain and inefficient.
TUH Democrats and Republicans hold opposite views as to the necessity of electing all the members of the Indiana Seuate this year. The former, headed by Seuator Voorhees, claim that the twen-ty-live members who are to take their seats in January, 1885, must be elected this year, owing to the change in the State election from October to November while the Republicans say that the only effect of the change is to cause a temporary vacancy of l*ss than a month in tho seats of one-half the Senate, and that these vacancies cannot be filled at the election this Fall. Should the position of the Democrats prove correct, Mr. Voorhees' prospect of being bis own aucoemor, in 1885, ia considerably improved, aa the off-year elections are usually more favorable to the Democracy than those of presidential years.
Pnor. TrKDAtx announces that Dr. Koch of Berlin, has discovered that consumption ia a parasitic disease, baa propagated the parasite artificially and killed animals with the parasites thus produced. Matter expectorated frem Che lung* of consumptive persons haa -been found to be swarming with parasitica, which are highly infectous. This -discovery is considered of great importance as it may lead to the more successful treatment of tbe disease. Indeed .Koch hopes to develop a harmless form •of the parasite which by inoculation «mav prevent consumption, as vaccination does the small-pox.
TH*
Greensburg people are disposed
•to saddle the lynching of Garrett on a gang of Kentuckiana, relativea and friends of the Walton*, who, it is conjectured, were moved by personal rather than public consideration in hanging Garrett, We fear this theory will handlv he tenable.
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lr is painful Wilde's loct
DEATH OF EMERSON. Ralph Waldo Emerson died, at his home in Concord, Mass., on Thursday evening. He had been in failing health for some time, and his death was not unexpected. Had he lived till May 25» he would have been seventy-nine years old. His death takes another from the most remarkable group of contempora neons literary men this country has ever produced, and leaves only Whittier and Holmes. Bryant was the first to go, and Longfellow and Emerson departed al most together, the last public appear ance of the latter being at the poet's funeral, a few days ago. It is not likely that Whittier will remain much longer, as he has been in feeble health for some months pest. Holmes is apparently more robust, and may possibly live for several years to come.
Emerson will always be known as the founder, or at least the principal expo nent of the transcendental philosophy He came of along line of ministers, and himself entered the calling, but, after preaching for six years, his mind became unsettled on doctrinal questions, and he left the pulpit for the lecture platform and the business of authorship. For many years he was the most popular lecturer in the country, at a time when the rostrum was in the prime of its popularity and influence. Indeed he was, to a considerable extent, the founder of the system of popular lecture®, and its greatest representative. His writings are extensive, embracing a wide range of subjects pertaining to the philosophy of life. Some of the best known are "Representative Men," "English Traits," and "The Conduct of Life." His works are characterized by great beauty of thought and poetical imagination, which render them fascinating to many readers, but they are also pervaded by a certain mystical and transcendental quality that makes them to a great degree obscure and unintelligible to the masses. His circle of readers will always be limited, but his admirers will make up in enthusiasm what they lack in numbers. In life, Emerson was one of the purest of men—an earnest reformer, and devoted to every cause which looked to the betterment of the condition of mankind. His name will be a conspicuous one in the history of English literature for many centuries, a.. his books will not oease to be read for many years to come. In his death, America has lost one of her great and representative men yet not lost him, either, for the work of his life remains.
THERE has been much discussion, pro and con, as to the practical working of prohibition. One of the latest additions to debate is a letter from a State Senator of Kansas, who voted for the prohibitory amendment in that State. He frankly admits that prohibition is a failure in Kansas and says there are more saloons now in all the leading towns than existed under the local option law. Under the latter law saloons could not be opened except in large cities, as a rule, but the reaction in public sentiment now tolerates the sale of liquor in the smaller towns and villages and juries cannot be obtained who will convict saloon keepers. As may well be supposed this open and notorious defiance of law exerts a most pernicious and demoralizing influence on society, and the results are deplorable. And yet if prohibition will succeed anywhere it ought to in Kansas, for the population of the State contains a larger per centage of educated people than almost any other State in the Union, her people coming mostly from the New England and Northern States. If prohibition will :*ot succeed in Kansas what could be expected of it in Indiana? Speaking of the political results of prohibition, the writer says: "Prohibition will cost the Republican party in this State 20,000 votes, and I think if the Democracy were demoralized thoroughly, that they would carry the State this Fall. At the election last Fall there were more Democratic Sheriffs elected than at anv other election ever held in the State and, at the April municipal elections, anti-Prohibition tickets were elected in nearly ever)- city and town."
There is not much comfort in these views for Indiana Republicans, especially those who are destined to be candidates in the coming campaign.
In Boston, the other day, police judge discharged a young man from arrest who had indecently assaulted a woman on the common, at one o'clook in the morning, on the ground that a woman had no right to be out of doors at that hour of the night. The name of this Daniel Li J. Wilder May, and this act ought to embalm his name in everlasting infamy.
VKN-NOR sends out a wtather bulletin to the effect thai frost may be expected in each month daring the remainder of the year over large poftkm of the continent that May and June will witness severe relapses In those sections affected by the April froeta and that the Summer generally will be wet and cold. Vennor may be right but we will have to wait aud see. ________
THE Apache Indians have been on tbe warpath in Arizoo* for a weekjjast, and have done much devilmeat. It is reported that more than eighty people have been killed by them, ISO bead of cattle killed or captured, and $350,000 worth of property destroyed. It looks as if the Indian question was likely to come to the front again.
THE terrible tornado which swept over portions of Missouri on Tuesday,
1
countrv netted
left devastation and ruin in its pathway.
to Imrn that Oscar 1 Whole towns were nearly destroyed and hundreds of persons wore killed or in- 1 Hheet Music. OPKR4 jaml. 1 SI roiSF, Sain Street.
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TERRE HAUTE SATCm)A"Y MAIL.
8A YINOS AND DOINOS.
Gnitean is surely approaching the gallows at the rapid rate ot twenty-four hours a day.
A baby eleven weeks old walked three mil* in New York on Saturday last— that is, a baby elephant.
It is proposed to erect a statue of Longfellow in an open field over which he loved to gaze at the river and the hills, and to keep the field in the condition in which he knew it.
The Washingtonian says that much of the beer is now salted so as to make customers more thirsty. Salted meats with mustard dressing, for lunch, has usually been found sufficient.
The President of the Pensylvania Pharmaceutical Society is stated by tbe Lancet to have said that "two-thirds of all the medicine sold in the United Siates was in the form of patent medicines."
Three bank presidents died in one week in Baltimore. The position of bank president is one evidently attended with great danger, but there can always be found men willing to assume the risk.
It is stated that in the Sprague divorce suit, Sprague took the boys, and Mrs. Sprague took the girls. It seems to people who have been reading the papers as if Conkling has not been treated fairly in the division.
Longfellow was once asked whether Paul Fleming in "Hyperion" was a character drawn from life. He paused a full minute, and then answered: "He was what I thought I might have been but I never He shaded his face with one hand, and did not complete the sentence.
The widow of Jessie James went to St. Joseph Monday, and secured from Marshal Craig revolvers and guns valued at |500 or more that were found at the residence of her late husband. It is quite probable that some of those guns will he heard from again.
Dill objected to Hinkle as a suitor for his daughter Henrietta, at West Milton, Ohio. A letter from Hinkle, askiug the girl to meet him in the orchard, fell into Dill's hands, and he substituted himself for her, going to the trysting-place in her clothes. When the ardent lover clasped the figure, in the dark, he received the contents of a pistol in his shoulder.
At a recent wedding the bride-cake was built in four tiers. Around the lowest of these, six satin bows were arranged, each hung on a pearl button, which formed the handle to a diminutive drawer. Just before the cutting of the cake, each of the half-dozen bridesmaids laid her hand upon a bow, and drew out the drawer beneath, which, needless to say, contained a pretty gift.
The Louisville Sunday Argus remarks that the New York broker who was married by a spirit clergyman to a spirit bride is in a bad fix. If ^Be should find out that his spirit wife was gallivanting around the other world with some etherial gentleman who boasted not of sufficient flesh on his bones to impede his progress through the circumambient, what could he do? He could neither shoot the fellow nor get a divorce from his wife, and if he should kill himself so as to get at the spiritual rascal, he might be sent to a different sphere. Altogether a bride with plenty of corporeal substance would seem to be preferable to several spirit brides.
PARLOR FURNITURE. R. Foster A Son, north Fourth street, have one of their three rooms set apart especially for the display of their large and elegant stock of Parlor Sets.
A COSY PLACE.
A cosy
and convenient place to enjoy
a dish of ice cream, is W. H. Gilbert's newly-fitted parlor, opposite the postoffice. His restaurant has been closed, and until the close of the Summer season he will serve his patrons with pure ice cream, in a variety of flavors. Ice Cream at wholesale, and sent out to residences in any quantity. His Soda Fountain is tbe delight of all who pass that way.
MATTRESSES.
Persons wanting mattresses will find it to their advantage to get them where they are made. This is at John Hanley's, 26 north Fourth street. He is making a specialty of the African Palm Fibre Mattrees, for $5, the cheapest and best for the money. He has purchased anew Hair Renovating Machine, and will attend promptly to renovating hair and wool mattresses..
A-Cent Sheet Muleslltheraie, si OPKRA MUMC 8T9RE, SIS Mala Street
ICS CREAM.
Will White is now prepared to furnish the parent and best ice cream in any quantity, wholesale or retail, at lowest price. Go to him for ice cream, sparkling soda, choice fruits and confections.
TO-DAY,
Wright A Kaufman'a mammoth grocery Jim! provision house, will fill your orders for dressed poultry, new hams, new breakfast bacon, fresh ceuntry hotter and eggs, new pens, new cabbage, encumbers. asparagus, lettuce, radishes, pie-plant, onions, spinach, kale, and canned fruits, meats, and vegetables of all kinds.
FRESH ARRIVAL
Of Oocoanuts, Bananas, Lemena, Oranges, etc., at W. H. Sage's, 425 Main street. ft-Cent msic
We are tbe leaders el
POWDER
Absolutely Pure*
Tliir powder never varies. A marvel of pujity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold In competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Hold onlv In cans. KOYAZ. BAKING POWBKRCo.,106Wallst N.
Are Strongly Suggestive of Spring and the Annual House-Cleanino- is at
Hand.
It is the best time in the year for painting and papering. A slight expenditure in this direction will m&K9 your home a thousand fold more attractive. no. W. Roberts, paper hanger, painter and ornamental grainer and sign writer has as complete an establishment on the corner of Sixth and Ohio streets, as can be found in Terre Haute. Place your orders with him and have your work nicelv done.
THE FINEST GARDENS.
In the section Surrounding TerreHaute contribute to the Supplies at
Zimmerman's
Well kept South Fourth Street Grocery.
He has lettuce, onions, rhubarb, new potatoes, new cabage, shrimps, mushrooms, etc. Try him.
Choice Bananas, Florida oranges, apple*, dates, figs, &c, at EISER'S. Corn Planters For Sale.
We will for three weeks sell the best two horse Corn Planter for$35. Call and see them before buying. 8HRYER BROS.
Yapor and Oil Stores, the best in the world at R. L. Ball's, 303 Main street.
FARMERS
Please call and examine "Pride of the West" Seed Corn, before you purchase, at Chas. II. Goldsmith's 29 north Fourth street.
For the nicest Millinery Goods at the lowest prices and the largest stock to select from call
-1?•«-rj
Y.
THESE BRIGHT DAYS.
EMIL BAUER.
on
South Fourth Street. Sign of the Big Bonnet. Oreiner's Shoe Store has now a fiill and complete line of Ladies fine Shoes and Slippers at prices lower than form* erly, with quality and style improved,517 Main Street.
Mantels and Grates, perfect beauties, large stock and at lower prices than ever, at R. L. Ball's, 303 Main street.
DR
ANGELINE L. WILSON
Oflfera her services
To the Ladies and Children of Terre Haute. Residues 234
Street.
Office and
4
lam now prepared to Bleach, Color and L*dJe*r Hats and Bonnets of all kind* In the Latest Styles on short notice. Also Gents' Straw and Manilla Hats cleansed .•dB—ped. MILTO??
CA
WANTED—TOand
Fbuilding
STYLISH CHEAP GOODS.
ONE CENT A YARD SAVED, COUNTS IN COTTON GOODS.
The Beautiful Styles,
6, and 7cts.
In
CALICOES,
Equal in taste and permanency of colors, the finest imported goods.
1,000 PIECES
AMEBICAN PRINTS.
In Polka Dots, Checks, Borders, Rotes, Indigo Blues and other choice colorings.
500 PIECES
PERCALES andSATlNES,
Extra Width and Fast Colors, (gi 6! f,S, 10, and 12)4.
Hoberg-, Root &• Co,
New Firm New Goods! Low Prices! SARGENT'S MACHINE COMPANY,
601 Ohio street, Terre Haute, Indiana.
SEE OUR PRICES.
We sell the BEST SINGER NEEDLES, (a\ 15 cents per dozen. We sell the BEST HOWE NEEDLES, ftc cents per doceu. We sell the BEST WHITE NEEDLES, cents per dozen.
Aud all other kind of needles at corresponding low prices.
BETTER YET
We sell the BEST MACHINE OIL, 1 07. bottle for 4 cents. We sell the BEST MACHINE OIL, 2 oz bottle for 7 cents. We sell the BEST MACHINE OIL, 3 oz bottle for lO cents.
ALL OOODS WARRANTED
We sell the FAMOUS WILSON SEWING MACHINE, cheap for cash, or upon easy time payments to suit the convience of all. Come and see us and save money.
SUPPLY 5,000 FAMILIES
In the city country with the best grades of hard and soft coal, 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. 18-41. JAS. F. McCANDLESS.
ANTED-MONEY TO IX)AN. THOSE who wish to borrow or loun money on best terms for short or long time, to call on RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO. Southeast corner of 8th and Main streets up-stairs.
For Sale.
Fwith
)R SALE-A FRESH ALDKRNEY COW calf, also young full blooded and T. HULMAN, 8r. grade cows. near the Hospital.
•TORSALE—A FEW PAIR of PLYMOUTH ROCK FOWLS at a bargain to close out. T. HULMAN Sr. near the Hospital
SALE or TRADE-A SPLENDID lot on s. 0th, s. e. corner of 6th
and Moflbtt, opposite J. A. Robinson's. A cheaper property will be taken in part payment. JL AKINS, 622 Main KL tf.
OTS FOR SALE.
Aue following vacant lots will be sold on reasonable terms, or iow for cash: LOT 1 in Preston subdivision of lot o. o, fronting Oak street.
LOT 60
feet, front on Oak street, in Welohs subdivision. LOT 40 feet front, south 16th street in Gookeriys subdivision. LOT 112 in Barnam's addition, fronting Liberty Avenne. LOT in Adkins subdivision, fronting Scott street and Sixth street.
For further particular! call at L-KUSBNERW Music Store, 213 Ohio Street.
IRTHDAY
south Seventh
Office boon from ltoS p.
MILTON CATT
HAT AND BONNET.
Bleaekerj and Felt Works. 206 South Third Street.
tT Prop'r.
Milliners work respectfully solicited. If more than ten Hats are sent at one tllne I will pay Express charges one way
DOJfT FAIL to take out aa Accident Policy with Kiddie, Hamilton A Co.
WEDDING PRESENTS
cexnusriTo:
Jewel Boxes, Game Boxes, Card Boxes. Work Boxes, Music Boxes, Glove and Handfcerehlefs Boxes, Ladies' and Gents'Dressing Gases, Odor Caseo, Smoke**' gets, Card Cases, Shaving Sets,
Comb Brush and Mirror Sets, Toilet Stands, Opera Glasses. Elegant
Fs«^ Fainted
Tbe quantity we buy*oAhese gooda piaces ns beyond competition on prices. Oar assortment i* larger and oar prices lower than can be had anywhere in this State.
BUNTIN & ARMSTRONG
DRUGGIST.-*,
600Cor. Main and 6th sts. Terre^Haote^Ind. Branch-Depot Drugstore, near Union Depot,
Corseta and Shoulder Braces.
MRS.color,or
DOUGHERTY Invites the ladles desiring an elegant fltUo«roweL made In any any waj* to suit. Call and leaveyour measure, 108 4th street.
k-m.
25,000 YARDS.
SCOTCH, FRENCH and AMERICAN
GINGHAMS
6J, 8,10,12$, 15, 20, 25, 30cts.
Lawns.
JACONETS and ORGANDY, COTTON and IJNKN, SOLID, FIGURED and MOURNING.
CRETONNES
and Fringes to match.
500
Marseilles Quilts,
50c, 75c, $1.00.
S. H. SARGENT, MANAGER.
House Cleaning' Time
HAS COME, AND
TRAQUAIR & WILKES.
656 Main Street, (McKeen Block.) Is the place to find the best Selected Stock of
WALL PAPER and WINDOW SHADES
In the.city, all the latest Designs in Colorings. We have a force of Practical workmen and are prepared to do, Decorating, Paper Hanging, Painting, Graining, Sign Paintings, Ac., in all the the latest styles.
DON'T FORGET THE PLACE, NORTH SIDE ... MAIN STREET, NEAR SEVENTH.
County Election.
FOR AUDITOR.
ERWIN 8. ERNEY will be a candidate before the Republican nominating convention to be hela on tho lOtli day of June, 18N2, for the nomination for the office of Auditor of Vigo County.
COUNTY COMMISSION KU.
We are authorized to announce the name of JOHN JACKSON, for the office of Comity Commissioner for the Second district, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention.
Wanted.
Amusements.
PERA HOUSE.
ONE NIOHT ON LT.
Saturday, April 29th.
Tne Famous Comedian,
HARRY WEBBER
Supported by the George A. Fair Comedy Company, in the comedy of all comedies,
NIP & TUCK
DETECTIVES.
Replete with uproarious fun, startling situations, new tcenery, etn. Admission 75, 50 and 25c
No extra charge for reierved aeata.
0
PERA. HOUSE.
OWE HIOHT OJfLT.
Tuesday, May 2, 1882.
THE SU00E88 OP THE SEASON.
Eric Bayley Comedy Company
lm F. C. Burn&ad'a (ed liant ratirlcal comedy, craze,
editor Loudon Punch) brilfonnded on
'the Mthetlc
"The Colonel!"
The piece will be produced with the
ORIGINAL ENGLISH CAST.
ENTIRELY HEW A^THETIC SCENERY, CHA.RACTEP.I8TIC C03TUME8 AND UNIQUE APPOINTMENTS. From design* by Dn Maurier, of London, which has made the remarkable run of
G00 NIGHTS IN LONDON 0*0 100 NIGHTS IN NEW YORK 1» WHY, OIRTNLT.
PRICES A£ USUAL.
CHAS.H. GOLDSMITH
BUYS and S&LLS
VEGETABLES
OF ALL KINDS
NEW YORK BURBANK, SMALL ROSE,
Seed Potatoes
Scotch and Irish White Champion
Potatoes for Eating
Bottom Cash Prices.
CALL ON ME AT
29 North Fourth Street.