Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 December 1882 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

rUBLICATJOS omCE,

NOB, 18 and 20 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRK HAUTE, DEC*. 30, 1882

NEW YEARS MUSINGS.

We are near the end ol another trip. One more circuit around the sun. The same bell that rings the arrival is also the signal for the departure. No halt. No down brake* on this route.

To-night the business man will lay ankle the calendar which has done a year's service, and on Monday will put in its place anew one with 1883 inscribed at its head.

Thpre are two days in the year when each individual is brought to realize the progress of time. One is his birthday, and the other is Now Years. They are landmarks which remind him, as Emersosi says, that "everything is in flight."

When a friend dies we cannot refrain from Humming up what we know of his past, albeit with leniency, and somehow, when the old year dies, we find ourselves doing the same thing with it. Thero is always some remembrance in it to sadden, and dark indeed must be the life that can And nothing in it to rejoice

About this time, as tbe almanacs say, look out for good resolutions. There is an old sayiug :bat "tbe road to hell is paved with good intentions." Bo this true or not, certalu it is that the average fancy turns lightly to tbe notion of reformation at the opening of anew year. Somehow we never think ourselvos quite so bad ai in tbo closing days of December, and never determine to be quite so good as in the first days of January.

The opening of a Now Yoar is a golden hour for the wiping out of old scores, and for balancing accounts with all mankind. Old quarrels should be forgotten, old enmities burled in the past, and fresh resolutions entered into to live in harmony with our neighbors, Bad feelings, as woll as bad habits, should be put aside, and if New Year's doos nothing else, it will be a blessod day If it brings together thoso who havo been at enmity.

The past year has been full of bitter disappointments and exporiences to nutny of us. It has faded away leaving ant to recall.'

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an era of success, a season 61 nappiflwtft and enjoymont, tbo making of connections that last through life, and will lie

of the pages of the past which will ever be referred to with joyous emotions. Ami wlmtls the Now Year to bring forth To a great extent this is lor each reader to answer for himself.

Tlio book of the New Year lies before us. As we open it, it is like opening a new account book, all of whoso pages aro pure, whit© and undelilod. The old is in places blot tod,

defaced,

blurred and

dishonored. How ardently we should strive to prevent the now ono from attaining the samo condition. It is certain that entries, and heavy ones, to our cost must be made in it, but wo should strive to make them as few as possible. Tho charges of immorality and vice are to a great extent within our own control. They aro the largest blemishes In Time's chronicles, and they are put thereto our shame, unnecessarily and by our fault alone. Keeping these charges from off the book, we narrow its pages down to a small compass.

The New Yoar is full of promise. We have rea»«n to hope for a general improvement in the public welfare. There is a pro*poet of better times for all of us. easiness and contontment shines il^td, which we have not experienced 'oiNouie years past. With these hopeful proqtfcotUoatioii* for the future, we extend otMt«eedera,one and all, a fervent

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THI report of State board of health, note* thatagdMft fast disappear ng from Indiana, It riiajshoirt, what might seem rather slnguV^tbat the principal fatal diseases caut«V larger per rentage of deaths in the rufil district* than in the townaand cities. dently this fact does not prove that the country la less healthy than the towns, tor the reverse is certainly true. Perhaps it may be accounted for in part to the greater exposure of the dwellers in the country and lew care In guarding their health, and in part to leas efficient medical attention and minting.

THK Chicago Inter Ocean observes that millions of dollars have bean expended this year for Christmas prwenU In Chicago alone, the gifts never having bean so handsome and costly, nor tbe tfurcUaser* so numerous and extrava!*nk The experience ©t Chicago baa oot been exceptional In this respect. The Christmas trade is assuming more enormous proportion* with every year.

tjt order to "make it lively" for the Cincinnati New*, tbe new twtnaent ttemoeraUc morning paper. John R. Mci.^sn, of the Enquirer, will publish a one *«t edition that paper, to he relied the Ledger. which wilt he a con. ricoaation of the teg edition. This may make it Urn*? frtaiiforUwmtk New*.

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What is true ot Congress in this respect is trne, to a minor extent, of the various State Legislatures. They meet too often and legislate too much. The trouble with this, as with most other countries, is an excess of legislation. The model State of the future will be that in which the laws are not changed once in a dozen years. But that golden age of politics can hardly be looked for as long as aspiring statesmen continue to be as numerous as they are at present. If legislation is unprofitable to the people, still it is a pleasant pastime for the statesmen. ________________

THE shooting of Captain Natt by N. L. Dukes, at Uniontown, Pa., on Sunday morning last, has all the indications of a deliberately planned murder. Dukes is a prominent lawyer of the town and had seduced and ruined a beautiful daughter of Nutt's. He had written a long letter to Nutt, who was State •ashler at Harrisburg, in which he expressed a desire to adjust the matter honorably by marrying the girl, and invited the father to an interview to discuss the matter amicably. It was at tbe very openlugof this interview that Nutt was killed. It was at «first thought that Nutt assaulted Dukes, but it turns out that Nutt had only his cane, hnd did not draw his pistol. Dukes has kept himself perfectly cool and collected, giving out the impression that he acted in self defense, though the belief prevails that the meeting was craftily arranged by him for the very purpose which he accomplished,—that of killing the man whose daughter he had destroyed. The pity is that tbe outraged father had not shot the villain dead upon the first discovery of his crime. The wife of the murdered man is in a critical prostrated condition, and fears are also entertained for the daughter's life and reason.

Mn. CHABLKS M. CLAY'S new novel, entitled "The Modern Hagar," Is pronounced the greatest American novel since "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The.story has much to do lncidcntallly with the late war, and its tone is sympathetic, toward Southern social life and tho of American elements in the book, embracing army, border, and frontier life Southern social life scenes from the national convention which nominated Buchanan scenes in Congress and in the war tbo domestic relations of slavory homo life In the free states, etc. Tbo character from which the book takes Its name is a boautlful slave woman, almost white, who is made the victim of her owner, and by him robbed of her daughter. The story is exceedingly dramatic in Us construction and has many surprises, declaring for woman suffrage and opposing capital punishment. __________

THERE has been such an outbreak of lawlessness In Chicago of late that the mayor has advised citizens te carry revolvers and do what they can to protect themselves, to which the Inter Ocean rospouds that lynch law may be necessary before citizens who carry pocketbooks and watches can safely go out after sundown. Abetter way than this would be to enforce the laws In their utmost vigor upon all offenders who are caught, and educate public sentiment up to the point of convicting prisoners instead of letting the greater portion of them escape after the law has one® got its bands upon them. The Inexcusable laxity in the enforcement of our criminal laws has undountedly done much to develop a lawless spirit and to bring abont such a state of aflfolrs as now prevails in Chicago. The remedy will be found when the laws are so effectively administered "no guilty man shall escape."

As to Republican candidates for the next Presidential campaign the gossip at Washington is that Blaine is not to be counted at all. He is absorbed in his business affeirs, in tbe arrangement of new home, and in his collection of VSM engravings. The talk about General iifetnnD is not considered altogether idle. W reason of his war record, his his well kaown honesty and the fact of his not befog jgni zed up in any of the factional broils, is thought by many that be might mate* a strong candidate. There is also a strong drift toward secretary Lincoln. Thei% is more talk, however, of Senator Ben. Harrison, who has come to he regarded a* a man of ability and independent character, and would not be unacceptable, to titfeer wing of the party. He Is wise enongb not to allow himself to be talked to upon tbe subject.

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COHMBXTIHO on the preeent stagnation in business, the Cincinnati Gazette says it could not have been more so if the crops of 1882 had failed, and attributes it to the action, or rather the nonaction of Congress, on the tobacco tax, the whisky tax, and tbe revision of the tariff. Business men do not know what to depend upon and this uncertainty prostrates trade. Says the Gazette "In the face of this impending danger tbe House of Representatives, acting like a lot of schoolboys, have adjourned for the holidays without doing anything, except to excite the fears of the business men of the country* Had Congrass not met at all it would have been a blessing, and could the country be re•iieved from its presence for several -years It would be a still greater blessing/'

Ojc Christmas morning, at Green castle, Mr*. Myra J. Osboro, a woman in good circumstances, and her OlUe, aged I? years, were found dead in their sJerr'ng apartment. It is general lysuppo tbe mother poisoned ber son and then committed suicide. She had been despondent for soma time, and f^be used over expressed a to die. From appear-{ had IsfeJ thtrv about two Tunmx grmt weeks. M«SS,«TSA

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The first railroad—the Chicago and Galena—was opened in 1850, and from that time on the growth of the city was very rapid. With her vast system of railroads, reaching out into all the sur-

PKNDL.KTON'8 civil service reform bill went through the Senate like a flash and will doubtless pass tbe House also. The basis of the bill is competitive examinations to test the fitness for applicants for the various positions sought by them tho distribution of all the department offices equallv anions: the st&los as a qualification for appointment the denial of tbe right to levy political assessments on officeholders and the continuance in office during good behavior. While the bill may n. be perfection, and may require substantial modifications to make it accomplish all that is dosired, its passage, by an almost unanimous voto of tbe Senate, shows such a prevailing public sentiment. In favor of civil service reform that we may now expect to see some honest aud serious efforts in that direction—effort* which, sooner or later will result in sudess.

"LOTTA," whose full name is Lotta Crabtree, according to tbe liw York Journal is an old maid, of sboft thirtyseven or thirty-eight, and is wtfth from $400,000 to $500,000. She matys on an average $50,000 a year. Herhtber is living, but neither Lotta nor hp mother will associate with him and joy allow him an income of fifteen dolljs a week on condition that he remainj in England and does not bother tbeti He is a worthless, vagabondish felW, has an old hack-horse and a gig, andjpends bis

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TBRRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVEISTHSTG MAIL

THE NEW CHICAGO.

Tbe wonderful growth of Chicago, as illustrated by the fact that during the pest year the new beddings erected cost about 120,000,000, and would make a continuous frontage of fourteen miles, recalls the unparalleled enterprise of the people in building this great city of modern times. The rite was a meat discouraging one. The prairie on that ride of the lake is as flat as tbe lake itself, and in 1833 a sheet of water, extending as far as tbe eye could reach, covered what is now the fashionable quarter of the City. Parton says that for fifteen years after it began its rapid increase Chicago was perhaps of all prairie towns the most repulsive. The place was in bad odor even among tbe Indians, who gave,it tbe name of Chicago, which means either*skunk or wild onion. But in spite of all its drawbacks the great natural advantages of its location impelled it forward, tbe population swelling from 4,800 in 1840 to 12,000 in 1845, to 30,000 in 1830, 110,000 in 1860, to 178,000in 1870, and now to half a million.

8A TINGS AND DOINGS.

There is one beauty about sour kraut tho more it spoils the more it is appreciated.

An Alabama Judge decided that a man who puts his satchel on a seat on the cars reserves that seat—unless the man who moves it is bigger than he is.

In a case in Cincinnati one of the lawyers challenged a juror on the ground that he was a reader of gasmeters, and the man had to step down and out.

A Chicago paper says that at least onethird of the unmarried dry goods clerks in that city paint their cheek, and scores of them wear corsets and cultivate a sorrowful look.

Said Mr. Beecher in his Friday evening lecture: "My friends, you and I are no better than many men who are now wearing striped jackets and breaking stone at Sing Sing." It is all right for Mr. Beecher to make this confession about himself, but he must have a fine old congregation at his prayer meeting.

The inhabitants of Miles City, M. T., have adopted the custom of buying goods at one store, and then having them weighed in another, in order to be

sure that they have not been cheated,

rounding States, and making them trib-1 Tbey regard this as a remarkably shrewd utary to ber, and her immense lake trick, but when "the merchants discover navigation, it ^is impossible to predict what the final out come of Chicago will be. t-.

As intimated, the greatest obstacle in the way of building tbe city was its low level. The mud and water were the despair of tbe people. Drainage was impossible because tbe ground was as low as tbe lake. It became evident at length that tho entire town would have to be raised and a higher grade was established to which all new buildings were required to conform. The grade was raised a second and then a third time before the present level, about twelve feet above the level of the prairie, was reached. The enterprise of the people was equal to the problem before them. Whole blocks of building were raised bodily up to the required level. The huge TremontJIIouse was lifted from its foundations and raised to tbe proper height. Of course all this cost enormously. Then came the great firq of 1871 which swept away the best part of tbe city, and it was rebuilt better than before. And so tbe great metropolis of the West goes forward in its career of irogress, and what will be the end of It cannot even be conjectured.

it they will secure scales with figures which tell the same lies. Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor, of New York, in a lecture on "Books," said "In reading novels I would advise one to read it as Hebrew is read, backward. Unravel |he plot, and then you can read the book with an appreciation of its beauties, and not hurry it over with your ears listening all the time for the marriage bells of the end."

A beautiful young woman, whose veil caught fire in a Troy, N. Y., church, last week, was rescued by the youthful officiating clergyman, who wrapped hei in bis robe's supply—several elements of romance—but the usual consequence is rendered impossible'by tbe fact that this girl was the Vbride of the church" and her rescuer a priest.

In answer to the curious question of a correspondent, a scientific journal says: "It is impossible for a man to kill himself by simply holding his breath, for the automatic efforts to inspire prove too strong for the will to resist but tbe head might be held under water till unconsciousness supervened, and the automatic efforts to inspire would then be ineffectual, and death weuld rosult."

The monument to Jesse James is to be of red granite, twelve |feet high. On its sides is to oe engraved a complete list of his exploits. It is to be dedicated next spring,-and it is said that "the occasion will be signalized by imposing ceremonies calculated to make it partake of Missouri." What straihg® people 'tlfd Missourians of 1950 will think thei great grandfathers must have been They will wonder if they were the aborigines of tbe continent.

The child of a fashionable mother in New York recently died from exposure it suffered through the carelessness of French nurse who was intrusted with tbe entire charge of it. Tbe mother was compelled to deny herself tho pleasures of the world through a short season mourning, but appears to have succeed ed in seizing tho advantages of the op portunity, for all tbe pictures in her parlor have been covered with the most expensive drape, and the curtains have been looped back with massive folds of the same material. If she is compelled to mourn she intends to put on as much style as possible about it.

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THB death roll of eminl literary men during the past year is| unusually long one, embracing asitves, Longfellow, Emerson, TroilopeKuerbach, Rosetti, Richard H. DanaPeorge P. Marsh, Prof. Draper, aj his son, almost equally famous, D#in, Pusey, and Louis Blanc, and Arc^shop TaJt. Among the prominent pMe men of

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Mackey, $30,000,600 FM 925,000,000 tion. The other dav hi* Keene. $30,000,000 Esj ^of Thomas Scott, $20,000,000 Garref®,000,000."

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Tfl« district Cincinnati af-1 firming the judgmel the .Superior court, has decided tip® damn' is profane, and vulrfd

THE good old times must have been pleasant to live in. Bergh was un known, and instead of reformatories and women jailers tbey had tariffs of fees like this:' The executioner's tariff

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boiling a criminal in oil at twenty-four florins if tbe wretch was burned alive the fee was fourteen florins, and ten for hanging. To break a man on the wheel cost six florins the fee for the rack was fire, and the same sum was charged for branding on the shoulder or forehead or for cutting off tbe nose and ears.

THE ORDER OF NATURE. It you shake up a basket of fruit or of

the times were Generals ^beloff and I gravel, the smaller portions will go toGaribaldl, in Europe, andneral Hul- ward the top. This is the order of hurt and Warren, Adnf Bodgers, I nature. There is no way of evading It. Senator Ben. Hill, and Hde Maynard, I And the same order prevails in the basin America. I ketof human life. The world's shaking

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fortunes: "Vanderbllt#260 000,000 bUme for this. The smaller ones have Gould, $100,000,000 Htufgton, $100,-1 no right to complain oi it. It is the 000,000 Crocker, $0O,OWh Mrs. Hop- slaking that does the business. kins, $50,000,000: Sad $40,000,000

TBKBB is a six-year-old boy in Aubnrn who is wonderful in spelling and definition. The other day his tescbeKaxked him to spell matrimony. "M-a-t-r-i-m-o-n-y," uid the youngster promptly. "Now define it," said the teacher. "I don't exactly know what it means, but I know my mother has got enoogh of it!"

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FASHIONS LATEST AGONY.

WOMEN WHO IN HANDSHAKING TURN THEMSELVES INTO A SORT OF ELECTRIC BATTERY.

New York Star."

"Do you know the latest agony among the first families asked a friend with whom|I|was recently chatting. Of course I professed both ignorance and anxiety for enlightenment in this respect, and my frieud, with the observant eve and glib tongue went on to say "This erase is called the 'Langtry expression' and handshake, because it was introduced to America by the Jersey Lily a few weeks ago. It is never practiced among intimate friends, for it is positively dangerous to a warm friendship. It is adapted to ladies alone, and its workings are decidedly shocking. By way of illustration, you are introduced to Miss Smith. Tbe young lady acknowledges tbe introduction with a bored and careworn air, and her eyes take on a been-out-over-nigbt look. Just as you are wishing yourself in another country Miss Smith braces up and steps forward as if desirous of making amends for ber cruelty. She extends her left hand, grasps your right, and tben, contracting tbe muscles other arm, pulls down with so much vivacity that the poor victim is in dangerof being doubled up like a jack knife. Miss says nothing, but before releasing vou permits a tremor to go through her ?rame, which leaves you doubt as to whether she would like to know you better or Is ouly joking. Mauy ladies, I understand, take lessons In this new social acquirement every afternoon."

A CARD.

A correction to the statement published in the Express of the 13th, in regard to my being overcome with artesian gas is desired. I have been bathing at the well for general debility and skin disease. For a few days previous to this bath I was quite ill, and feeling vory weak on the day in question. I walked down to the bath house and took both tub and vapor bath, and being much fatigued, I faiuted while dressing.

Mrs. Gutin, the female attendaut (and not Mr. Owen, as per Express), saw me faint, and called C. Washington, tho male attendant, to assist me to the lounge. I immediately regained consciousness, and was going to walk home, but Mr. Conant kindly offered me the service of his carriage, which I accepted. Dr. Grubb, my physician, was at tho bath house at

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fainting was due to mere exhaustion. In my case these waters have almost wrought a miracle for general debllitv and impurities of the blood. I think they have no equal. I cm improving rapidly and I would say to suffering humanity, don't despair, but try these baths ana be cured.

MARY S. SULLITAN.

A GOOD Baptist clergyman of Bergen N. Y., a strong temperanoe man, suffered with a kidney troublo, neuralgia, and dlzzlnoss almost to blindness, over two years after he was told that Hop Bitters would cure him, because he was afraid Of and prejudiced against "Bitters." Since his cure be says none need fear but trust In Hop Bitters.

Will be sold at a sacrifice—A ot of fine MATS and BUGS special styles for Holiday Trade, delayed en route. Jost opened. Tour inspection invited. A rare opportunity for SELECT BABGAINS.

ON DEMAND bestow upon reader

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HAPPINESS.

Just Arrived!

Tuesday, January 2nd.

Hoberg, Root & Co.

Will place on sale tbe largest and most elegaf stock of new TABLE LINENS, CRASHES,

NAPKINS, BED SPREADS, TOWELS, SHEETINGS, AND OTHER WHITE GOODS, At prices never before quoted in Terre Haute

Come and convince yourself of what we saj Our prices will speak for themselves. Remember TUESDAY, January 2nd at *1

Hoberg, Root & Co.

Sixty-Five

HAPPY DAYS,

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AT HALF PRIC

25 HANDSOME, ALL WOOL

DOLMANS

Until to-day sold at fl2.00, $15.00 $18.00, now reduced one half.

EIGHT SATIN RHADAM

DOLMANS

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Quilted linings, heretofore sold at $ $15.00, $20.00 aud $25.00 reduced one

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Black Siuilian,a Satin Outside, thoh somest garments of the kind evorsh here.

2 at $19.00 former price $28.' 35.00 45.00 52.00

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SEAL SACQUEL

Perfect garments aud fashionable lonfc —will be be sold very choap to close A rare chance to, securo a Seal 25 cent under price.

H0BERG, ROOT &

518 and 520 Main street.

Happy 1STew Year*!

NOTICEI

This is tbe time of the year for otf Annual Invoice and balancing of Book! All parties indebted to me, or who ma, have claims upon me, will plesse call my office promptly for settlement of counts.

TERRE IIAUTE CARPET HALL.

TEBRE HAUTE, IKD., JANTABY 1ST. 1883.

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