Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 48, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 May 1882 — Page 1

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

PUBLICATION OFFICK,

No 16 South 6th St., Printing Heose Square.

Town Talk.

POLITICAL.

The political pot is boiling it is seething hot, but will probably simmer down somewhat after the names of the delegates elected to-night are made known, and their preference for Congressman ascertained. There never has been such a lively time over a Congressional nomination as there is this year in fact, the county candidates have been lost sight of completely for the time being. The all absorbing topic is "Shall Peirce be nominated During the past week his friends and enemies have been unusually active. Both havo worked with a vim, and lose who may, they can cast no reflections upon themselves on the score of idleness. To-night the battle will bo sharp and decisive. Both factions are «quall.v prepared for the fray. Each has its candidates for delegates. There will 1)0 no personal preferences, and there will le no doubt as to how the delegates will vote in convention. Everything has been done that can bo done, and it is

only

of

there Is talk of bringing out Men. M. I). Manson, Jof 'rawfordsvllle, who has a

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a question of who can turn out

the most men. In the meantime, the Democrats are resting easy. They are waiting

for

something to turn tip. They

know the majority against them in this dintriet is colossal in its proportions, yet there are nieu in the party who havo sufficient confidence in their running qualities to tackle it. John Lamb is the favorite here. Me has youth on his side, and a strong, constitution, which combination would probably sustain him in the event of dofeiit. John is

a

young man

undoubted ability, and

if

he could

manage to pull through, it would boa glorious victory for hint,and would help to go up higher.

On the

other hand,

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as a soldier,

be expected, to

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that element.

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cor NT POLITICS.

Assoonastlie Congressional muddle issettled the statemen will turn their at-1 tention to the nomination of a County ticket. The assortment of candidates in both partleH is large, which is an indicathat both parties consider the lighting •chances excellent. The number who' want to be Clerk on tho Democratic side is resectable, and it is said there area fow outside townships yet to hear from. Kach one claims to be the favorite in the pools, but when the selling commences they may be found to go neither rapidly nor at a high tlgwre. On the Republican side Mod Smith seems to have no opposition. He has made a good ofllcer, and the Impression seems to bo that his jmrty will allow him to try for four years more. It might have been different if he had had a postolllce or two to l*stow upon his constituents. There seems to le a disposition on tho part of both parties to re-nominate their men now in office. The tight for the other nominations will be lively. The number of men who want to be Couuty Commissioner is very large and constantly increasing. The compensation is not very large but it seei..s to be satisfactory. Prolmblv the proposed now Court House has something to do with it. A few years education in architecture would IK useful to the average farmer, even if it did cost the county a high figure. Of course tho newpapers enjoy the preliminary portions of a campaign, and are always ready to encourage candidates to come out the more the merrier, when an nou moments cost five dollars each and when each candidate get* a complimentary notice with his announcement he 1*11 afford to pay for it.

A POLITICAL THICK.

While on the subject of politics, which is very dear to ©very American citizen, especially if he is subject to attacks of political itch, T. T. is reminded of an incident which occurred here some years ago.

Tho two candidates for Sheriff were shrewd politicians and watched each others movements as closely as a cat watches mouse hole when in search of prey. Tho Republican made up his mitul to give a grand midnight lunch, free for all, but which he intended to guard carefully against his political enemies. The word was passed around among his friends, but in circulating from mouth to mouth it came to the ears of his opponent, who at once proceeded to muster his followers to get away with that lunch. When the hour arrived the I democrats were on hand and had pre­

pared

themselves for the occasion with empty stomachs. The lunch disappear ed as dew before the morning sun, and when the favorites put in an appearance tbcy found nothing but empty plates. There was much swearing, and the man who intended to make his friends solid only succeeded In creating dissatisfaction over the disappointment, while hisj opponent was In good spirits, and re-

ceived many congratulations over having feasted his friends at his rival's expense.

W. HICKS, ESQ., AGAIN.

It is hard to keep a good man down, which probably accounts for the manner in which William Hicks bobbed up serenely last Sunday evening. Of couise William's reputation caused it. When the young man missed his watch and chain it was quite natural that he should first think of Mr. Hicks as the offender, and when he hunted up that gentleman, and discovered, spread Across his abdomen, a chain similar to his, he considered it perfectly safe to charge him with the theft. Of course it soon transpired that William was the wrong man, which probably astonished Mr. Hicks as much as it did anyone else. But it is said the astonishment soon gave way to indignation, and that the old Virginia blood, which flows in William's veins, was soon at the boiling point. It is related that as soon as he breathed the air of freedom again, lie lost no time in hunting up a lawyer, before whom he stated his case with the strength of a gas bill, the points shining as brightly as a 20,000 candle power electric light at an altitude of two hundred and fifty feet. William thought the martyrdom had gone far enough with himself in the title role, and demanded a change of programme, which would give him a short vacation. If he had been yanked up on a week day he wouldn't have thought HO much of it, but it was drawing it a little strong when ho was compelled to take up his quarters in the cooler, at the hour he intondod being in church. Truly, William has had a hard time of it of late, and past experience may teach hiin £o build up a better reputation in the future.

EXCURSIONS.

An excursion to Indianapolis under tho auspices of a business association of this city is an enterprise of the near future which is of very doubtful utility. It lias always been tiro complaint of a certain class of Terre Haute merchants, that a sufficient number of citizens find their way over to the capital to purchase goods without receiving any encouragement so. Indianapolis is famous for encouraging people of other cities to. make trips to it, as4t finds all such excunsidfis profitable to its merchants, even if those going purchase no more than their meals. There is one businoss bouse over there that makes a feature of these trips from nearly all the surrounding cities of tiie State, and it doubtless finds it profitable to do so, or it would not indulge in them. Excursions are good things, and deserve encouragement in certain directions, but when they are calculated to drive trade to other points the}* should be left severely alone. It would be more in keeping for Terre Haute merchants to try and build up thoir trade by running excursions into the city from surrounding towns, than to help Indianapolis by running excursions over there. T. T. is informed that a number of .railroads make handsome profits out of thoir commissions on goods purchased in tho capital for citizens of this city, and that another class take advantage of their ability to procure passes to go over there and make purchases. As the same goods can be purchased at as reasonable prices at home, such parties should le discouraged as much as posble.

From His Window.

The party who invented the phrase "oft in the stilly night," didn't lodge above a nice pump. I have the choice of two evils—fresh water on one side and the Atlantic on the other. Nothing like being central. How very central we all are. The sky's blue cup shuts down over Terre Haute, equidistant everywhere. Its zenith is right overhead. Terre Haute is very much in the middle.

The musical talent of the whole State centers here. The political influence of the district has its focus here. Myer's beer is drunk from Patoka to far-off Kokomo. Mortou Post proclamates a proclamation to the out-lying townships and counties—off goes Pierce's head. But softly, friends! Is the O. A. R. a political machine? Is it a mutual benefit and patriotic walk-around to corral all the offices? I don't know, but I want to know, you kuow. It is possibly a very disinterested, no-party, amicable sort of a love-feast—a part of which afterskinninga Congressman, would follow a band to receive Voorhees. It would fell on bis neck and say "forgive us. We abused you in War-times, but now you area bully boy." It is good as a circus. But what is a circus without an elephant? Ah, ha! we have one. Yes, several, one or more for each party, for each clique of each party. Some are the sacred white and yet others the plebeian gray. Some will positively appear at the great Peirce meeting—possible your last and only chance to see them. Some will exhibit at the great Lamb show. Other are training in a ring with the dark horse, A nil-Peirce. The rest will be pyramided at the end of the show.

Let us discourse of Jumbo. Jumbo, Barnum's pretty pet. Once a squealing

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little baby elephant, he could be carried in his mother's arms—trunk, I mean. He grew to be twelve feet high. In the Zoo he carried on his back princes and peasants. He was so well fed be liked to do it. He bad to give up the job, for Barnum bought him. We have a Jumbo —(yes, a dozen)—in Vigo politics. For a time we cariied him gently, skittishly. But he grew. Finally he grew to be twelve feet high. He thinks himself to be four stories high with a mansard roof. He could carry his party on his back. Office, for Jumbo, meant victory. No office for Jumbo meant ruin. He liked to carry Vigo county on his baek, for he was petted and well-fed. So very well-fed that he had more than he could digest. So he stored away great piles of baled hay and bottles of ginger ale and things, such as we give the animals. But, alas! but— some folks thought Jumbo had enough —he ought to rest—so they jumped down to walk awhile. They are still walking, and Jumbo is sad and lonely, mad and hungry. He misses the cakes and ale. He will miss the petting. It is nice to ride on him, but not to have him ride on us—oh, no! Barnum's pet, losing his pleasant London quarters, got a little cross. Now he is fastened with chains, and is engineered with an iron hook. I feel sad for podt- old Jumbo. WTbat if our own Jumbo gets cross and smashes things? What then? Do we owe him anything? If he was a big thing in the show, didn't he get more cakes and ale than he could absorb? If he never got any didn't he take his chances? Let him go liedown or—be a good Jumbo. Dear young friends, dearest Warwick, think of the wrecks Of the few Jumv who have filled their trunks. Better be a saw-buck than a party elephant.

I must read this Gazette of Saturday. I am real glad it has this Boston letter in it. When I write to my Ma (who is so anxious about me), I'll tell her that on the Lord's day I read the religious columns of the Gazette. How I enjoy this. Listen to this: "One of the most painful things observable in the quality of this people is their lack of Democracy and Godliness/" How vpry sad, but how awfully true. I've tfoticed it right here Jfcthis towjb soppe have godliness, and again, mhers have democracy. Al*s! few can eland "the pressure ^f^iBCffat once. They would burst.

Hero is another chip from the jewel of truth—oh! terewth, terewth !—the Koh-i-noorin thediadem of Hanna's rejoicing. "Latter-day Republicanism and infidelity somehow or other keep on pretty good terms." And yet we wonder at the increase of crime. These sad reflections are from the pen of one ef our most remarkable men. Shall I breathe his name? That "old-fashioned Bible Democrat," who left his home in the setting sun to roam in wicked Bawsting, which his nameitis Hanna. lean see him writing this letter. (But just now I see him cornering two old boys over the way while ho tells it over.) I see the mighty dish of B. B. B. flavored with a Hoosier bacon rind—see the ink trickle from his rapid pen—see the furtive tear-drop—texts and cyclopedia facts meander forth. Says he: "Anyone who has seen an enraged rattlesnake, Ac., has some idea of a Massachusetts' Democrat." Oh, my! To give us away in that style, when we have just got rid of the name of Copperhead. It is so indiscreet. Then this Harvard Dining Hall, serving up terrapin and woodcock to chuckle-headed students! It i-f outrageous, at this season—but perhaps the woodcock were canned. How appropriate the closing quotation—so characteristic. "Verily, the Lord will smite those Harvard Absaloms, as He smote the Israelites at Klbroth Hattaavah when they ate quail for thirty days, and call His chosen children, the Democratic seed, to fill their places." If you read the letter you may not find this last, but it ought to be there.

I think I have named, in my thoughts above, our next Congressman. I think he would suit the boys better than Pierce. I imagine the three graces, the anticipatory P. M's, would prefer him to Pierce. It certainly looks as if our bounding, bouncing, boisterous, bumptious bosses, were working to elect Hanna or Lamb,—anything to beat Pierce.

SUIT was brought on Tuesday by Prosecutor Blue, in the Circuit Court to recover from Thos. W. Harper and Sant C. Davis, the forfeited recognizances of Simmons and Hunt, the Shannon Bank robbers. These bail bonds amount to $2,500, which, when recovered, will be turned into the school fund.

The clippings ef sole-leather, in New England shoe-factories, were formerly regarded as worthless, and the smell of their burning was a peculiarity of such towns as Lynn and Salem. These scraps are now stamped into buttons for clothes and fiancy tack-heads for upholstery, and the long familiar odor is missed.

CAN" BE EVADED. Madison Star.

The Republicans of Indiana have to meet the Issue of prohibition face to face. They have got to wade through it they can tunnel under it.

Our Breakfast Table.

The Major was out late Wednesday night, Derby had not got in early, and there was not that gentleness permeating the atmosphere we are used to. •'What did you think of the Voorhees reception last night, Derby?" asked the Major, with a would-like-to-see-vou-say-something-if-you-dare air. "The cutest thing I've seen in along time. Cleverly engineered! Beautiful, no^arty, electioneering dodge! Clever —oh, very clever!" said Derby promptly.

McEwau responded: "You certainly are thejmost wool-dyed radical I know, Derby. Now you are twisting a creditable, public-spirited demonstration, by a number of geHtlemen of all parties, into a partisan affair." "Humph! Gentlemen of all parties, did yon say? Yes, I think some of the gentlemen have been in all parties, and blessed if I know where to look for them now!" "Oh, well," chimed in the Professor, in a harmonious spirit, "we had a nice lot of speeches. Everybody can agree with what was said "Can you, indeed? I cannot. Fact is," said Derby, "I have to laugh at public speeches by public men. See how cautiously they skirt any question that would offend a class, and then see them bang away at some far-awaj' question that ^lon't touch your pocket or mine. See Voorhees, last night, fighting the battles of the revolution, a hundred years ago, but lie didn't saj' anything about the last war. He talked of the s9ldier's present troubles, but he didn't say anythiugabout their fields of glory." "He came nearer home. He talked of the poor Irish and the oppressed Suspects that is what we have got to settle^' observed the Professor. "My friend, that has been the topic for a century. The most beautiful subject in the world, for a mixed audience, is some country three thousand miles away. Would you like to hear the gist of Messrs. Hudson's and Voorhees' speeches, just as it was written twoscore years ago. I have spoken it at school, on declamation day, and know it by heart.," "Oh,- yes, oy all means," aafafc. Jack, who haf cornered all the favorite dishes of the disputants and wanted a little time. "Well, then, thds it goes: 'Gentlemen, I address you in the name of the Watertoast Association, etc. It is founded in the great republic of America! and now holds It breath, and swells the blue veins in its forehead nigh to bursting, as it watches with feverish intensity and sympathetic ardor your noble efforts in the cause of freedom "Very good, Derby, go on,"said Jack, taking the last spoonful of strawberries. 'In Freedom's name I address you— in Freedom's name I advert with indignation and disgust to that accursed animal, with gore-stained whiskers, whose rampant cruelty and flery lust have ever been a scourge, a torment, to the world The naked visitors, to Crusoe's Island, the flying wives of Peter Wilkins the fruit-smeared children of the tangled bush nay, even the men of large stature, anciently bred in the mining districts of Cornwall, alike bear witness to its savage nature Where, sir, are the Cormorans, the Blunderbores, the great Feefofums, named in history? All, all exterminated by its destroying band. I allude, sir, to the British Lion. Devoted, mind and body, heart and soul, to Freedom—blessed solace to the snail upon the cellar-door, the oyster in his pearly lair, the mite in his native cheese, etc. Here, sir, her fires burn bright and clear. Once lighted up in you, the lion shall be roasted whole.' Any strawberries left, Jack?" "Not a one not very good—sour. Major, too bad, isn't it, the way tne Indiana papers are pitching into you about your meeting, the other night Say you shouldn't have said anything about Pierce—say your Post is a subject of discipline. Is it so?" "No, sir," said the Major, indignantly. "Our rules actually required us to condemn Pierce. He was false and recreant to his comrades." "Oh, they do! Well, your boys turned out pretty strong. 'Old Soldier' said, in the Gazette, you had two hundred out at that meeting. Was that so "Well, not exactly. We had two hundred at the Citizens' meeting—not quite so many at the other." "How many, then?" "Oh, say a hundred."

Said the persistent youth: "If eighteen voted for the resolution against Pierce, and nine against it, that would be twenty-seven, wouldn't it? I am just asking for information. 'Old Soldier, who don't want an- office (did he ever want one?) rather intimated that there were two hundred. I suppose he was a little mixed." "Jack," said the Major, "you never were a soldier." "No," he said, meekly, "I did not enlist In ^l, although I was in theinfantry too about that time." "Then you should be careful how you

talk. You may mean well, but you may not be always understood. Some of the boys are sensitive under criticism. They think they have been slighted, and resent as insults what are not intended for such. They do not admit always that while you disagree on some points, you may admire and esteem them." "Well," said Jack, "then you advise me never to say anything for fear of offending and if I wanted a clerkship, for instance, to stand back." "Not altogether so. If you were better qualified than all other applicants, I think the majority of the G. A. R. would approve of your appointment—but if you were on a par with au old soldier, in ability, of course his claim would be superior. As to talking, talk all you want to. They can do that as well as you." "I should think sd but still they don't talk as you do." "Certainly they do! Remember one thing: we don't claim the offices nor we don't beg for them. We do not consider the Government as an Hospital des Involutes, but do insist on possessing one superior claim, and insist on having it recognized and thrown in the balance to go for what it is worth." "Yes, I see, but and he stopped, puzzled how to have the last word. "Gentlemen, is not this subject exhausted?" asked the landlady. "I am sure I am," said Jack. "My dear Madam, it is forever closed," replied the Major. "It will be settled for us in a day or two, and I have no more to say," said Derby.

Laura had retired to the window, long ago, and was looking into the garden, which was gloomy and damp. "Oh, the poor flowers! The rosoleaves are beaten to the ground. The poor little buds are afraid to bloom— they've put me on a committee, and I promised a peck of flowers for Decoration Day!" "Mighty mean girl that won't give a promise," said Jack. "Yes, I know, but I wanted to give the flowers, too. Oh, I've thought of a beautiful scheme!" "Pour it into this ear," exclaimed Jack. "Just think! wouldn't it be fine to .combine every musicloti and singer in Terre Haute ster combination? Why, I believe we could have two hundred in a chorus!" "Of course we could! What then? "Well, then, supposing our good leaders—and they are good—were to divide the work, and to train this great, big chorus for a great musical festival.

Wouldn't it be splendid?" "Yes but what for?" "That's the point. What we want is an object to interest everybody. If it should be for the benefit of an individual or society, you couldn't interest more than a third of the talent and four or five hundred of the ticket-buyers. But supposing you had a cause that interests everybody that Mr. Voorhees and Mr. Dick Thompson could make a speech about that would draw out the veterans and soldier-boys. Now this is my bill: Thanksgiving Night—and repeat—Chorus of Two Hundred—Operar—Oratorio —and Draota. Proceeds to build a Sol dier's Monument. I will wager Gyp against a gown that we could make a thousand dollars!" "Oh, pshaw!" "Oh, pshaw, indeed! Well, I am done that is always the way."

And the'little lady retreated behind the window curtain, while the Major and Darby, with Jack's assistance, fought, inch by inch, theentire Peruvian question, from the discovery of guano up to that of Belmoat.

Miss Laura, whe still contlnuod her gloomy gaze without, exclaimed: "Oh, how sad! 'Happy is the dead the rain rains on somebody's darling is gone. Whese, I wonder but no need to know the air is full of lamentation Rachel's weeping for their children."

The Professor, drawing near, said: "Some one has bought sympathy and tenderness with a bitter price."J "Yes! We don't alwayw know the kindness and pity behind our friends' calm faces until the terrible trials come. Life is so easy with me that I do not know the comfort the mourner finds on the kindly breast."

"Nor

yet how to sympathize with those

in distress." "No, not as I would like. I am sure that no stricken parents like these can fail to be token into th? hearts of the entire community. I know each mother to-day who clasps her little ones, will think tenderly—oh, so tenderly—and sorrowfully of another poor, poor mother, and pray for her."

Said the Professor: "I cannot but think that El win Arnold, in his beautiful "Light of Asia," shows life as it Is,— sad, albng, long straggle and renunciation." "I do not like It beautiful as it is, it reads like a wail and ends with a sob." "Doyou remambar in it the mother— 'dove-eyed, young, with tearful face'— who went to Buddha with her dead babe, and he told her there was that that might heal, if she could find black mustard

seed in a house where never father, mother, child, or slave had died She went, and each who had the seed gave, 'for all the poor are piteous to the poor but when she asked if any had died, they said: "O Sister! What Is this you ask the dead

Are very many, and the living few!" "Ah, sir! I could not find a single house Where there was mustard-seed and none had died. Therefore I left my child—who would not suok

Nor smile—beneath the wild vines by tho stream, To seek thy face and kiss thv feet, and pray—

My sister thou hast found," the Master said, "Searching for what none finds—that hitter balm

I had to give thee. To-day Though knowest tho whole wide world weeps with thy woe:

The grief which all hearts share grows loss for oue." "That is only human sympathy but what else can we offer," said Laura* "We must first mourn with thoso who mourn before wo can speak of other comfort. We can only say with them, sadly, 'The dewdrop slips iuto tho shining sea.'"

ABOUT WOMEN.

Butcher's, and not plumbers' wives, will wear the sealskin cloaks of tho future.

It is now the fashion among the French aristocracy to woar black silk undorclothirg.

Tho manager of tho Boston Ideal Opera Company is a church member and a woman—Miss E. II. Ober.

Blaisdell A Foster is tho firm name of a nfw Boston advertising agency. The members of the firm are Miss L. A. Blaisdell and Miss E.'F. Eostor.

Bustles are now generally worn and like a hole in a stocking aro enlarging everyday. It is noticeable that pudgyr dumpy little womon always effect the biggest bustles.

The Detroit Nows soenis to bo getting tirod of tho "broom drill" and "fan drill" craze, and wants somo neble band of women to start a boom for "washtub and cook-a^beef-steak drills."

A young lady having "set her cap" for for a rather large specimen of tho oppoeitesex,and having failed to win him, was telling her sorrow to a couple of her confidants, when oue of them comforted her with these words {-"Never mind,

In tike aw a»

everwascaught." "MQllieknows that,'* replied her little brother, "but she wants a whale."

A Philadelphia woman has had her husband arrested on charge of bigamy* When I10 was preparing to marry another woman she brushed up his best suit, fastened his newest necktie and helped to makehitnas boautiful as possible, upon tho supposition that he was going to visit his aunt. She doesn't care much for him as a husband, and Is willing that theother woman shall have him, but she doesn't like to be deceived this way—hence her revenge.

FOLLY RUN MAD.

Tivo Lafayette Girls Flee From Home on the Eve of Marriage and Enter Upon a Life of Shame.

Lnfnyctto Courier.

For some time past rumor has had it that two well-known Lafayette sisters were about to bo married to.two young gentlemen, one of this city, and theother a prominent business man of Chicago. At the earnest solicitation of the young ladies, the engagement and proposed double wedding was kept a profound secret, or rather, as much so as was possible. Two weeks ago yesterday was set for the wedding, and although it wait thought to be a strange whim, the importunate demand of the ladles most concerned, that none but their immodiate family and the gentloman themselves should know anything about It, was respected. At daybreak on the eventful day, the family wore up and about, but it was thought best not to disturb the young ladies until later, although the wedding hour was set at eight o'clock. At seven o'clock the expectant grooms made their appearance: and it was thea deemed best to awake the girls. A. younger sister was sont to their room to call them. Presently she returned with the information that they were not there. A look of inquiry and dread amazement went from face to face, and thea all hurried to the room. Sure enough, the birds had flown, and the undisturbed bed revealed that they had not even retired. One moment's brief and appalling silence, in which the heart-tnrobs could almost be heard, and then a hurried search took place that revealed the worst —the trunks containing all their wearing apparel and jewelry were aalsslng, ana on the dreifing-case under a little iron photograph-holder was a brief note, merely stating that they had gone, they did not want to marry, and never would come back. Diligent search and inquiry revealed nothing, and it was only by accident that tfa-«ir whereabouts, in a fashionable sporting-house in St. Louis, were discovered. A Lafayette man, who was over there this week, stumbled upon them in this place. Ho d*»cribe* one of the girls as being in a pitiable condition, having been badly baa ten anl kicked down stairs by a drunken bully, whom she had Importuned for the mney due her. The other was much depressed, and both seem*! to bitterly realize what they had done. The hgart-orokgn father ana mother left for St. Louis immediately, and, for the tinn being at least, the Courier is pledge! to secrecy. No cause for their rash step Is given—none can be until they them wives mike tha revelation. They were the loved and patted daughters of fond parents—th3 affi mceJ bride* of honorable and industrious mm, who are no less grief-stricken thaa. the poor parents.