Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 February 1883 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER TOR THE PEOPLE.

PUBLICATION OFFICE,

No». 18 and 2® Sooth Fifth Street, Printing Hoaae Square.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, FEB. 3, 1883

THIS city is now fully snpplied with afternoon papers—two English and one 'German. .-

CHICAGO 4S to have a new National bauk with a capital stock of "$2,900,000. It will be called the "Continental," good name.

THE {Bible says the wicked stand on «lippery places. A great many hereabouts find it a yery difficult matter to do so on our streets now.

THE people of Missouri who now iiave a bar to every three hundred of population, look with much favor on a proposition to limit the number of barrooms and sell licenses to the highest bidders.

A GOOD newspaper is the poor man's library. Encourage newspaper reading «amongyour children and you will soon •discover a fondness for the family journal and a rapid improvement in manners and general intelligence.

THE Indianapolis Times expresses the opinion that prohibition has struck twelve in Indiana, and that it will never be as strong again as it has been. The Mall concurs in this opinion. Whatever may be the fact in other States, Indiana is not ready for prohibition yet, and it is likely to be along time before she will be.

THE first number of the Indianapolis Evening Times came promptly to time on Monday, presenting columns well filled with advertisements and news The paper appears to have been received with a warm welcome and will doubtless make afield for itself. A city of 85,000 people ought to be able to support two evening papers handsomely.

DELAWARE) has refused to abolish the whipping post, and it would not be surprising to see some of her sister States, which have long ridiculed her for retaining this "relic of barbarism, setting up the "relic" themselves. It is de clared to be the very best medicine for wife beaters. Jail doors may open, but the disgrace of the whipping post cannot be wiped out.

COLORADO continues the vicious custom introduced by the Western mining States of sending millionaires to Con gress. Thomas M. Bowen, the newly elected Senator from that State, is a native of Iowa, an ex-Judge, and a silver mluo millionaire. ®owen's election may, of course, be as honest AS that of any poor man, but there.will always be an atmosphere of suspicion where the election of rich men to high places is the prevailing practice.

WJNDOM was defeated for United States Senator in Minnesota, and tho choice fell at last upon D. M. Sabin, a shrewd but .quiet politician and presidout of a large car manufacturing company at Stillwater. He is the close friend of Wisdom, and his election is a practical •victory for the latter. Sabin is regarded as a good man, of fair abilities, but Is not much of a speaker. It seems a pity that so strong a man as Wiadom is should not linve continued to be the •choice of Minnesota for the most iin portant office in the gift of the State.

EAIRKKZLRMKNT appears to be the orter of the day in the South among public officers. A few weeks ago the State Treasurer of Tonnessee, ran away having converted nearly half a million dollare of the State's money to his own use, and now Isaac H. Vincent, State Treasurer of Alabama, is muwing and a defaulter to the State for more than $£06,000. Vincent's trouble i« said to be duo to speculation. Being a Southerner, ho selected cotton to deal in, and got left as badly as many a Nortbener has o« wheat, corn and pork Thus does the mania for speculating in margins continue Us slaughter among otherwise respectable business men.

THK suit of Helen M. Cougar against city Marshall Handler, for slander, is drawing Its slow and salacious length along in the Circuit court at Lafayette. It is the great sensation of the day, of course, as such salts always are everywhere, There has been some rather damaging evidence against the plaintiff, and several limes site has burst into tears. The court room is crowded, local papers are fall of the evidence and details of the trial, and it is the one absorbing topic of gossip. It seems there roust be such trials, and they are great occasions for the lawyer^ bat they are most deplorable and demoralising in their effects upon the community

IT seems thai Tipton oounty farmers are uot in favor of internal improvements in the direction of the drainage of wet lands. The ditch commissioners erf the county, having decided to straighten the channel and otherwise improve Mud creek, a very crooked and sluggish stream running through the northern pert of tl» county, and proceeded with a party of surveyors to a point near Sbarpvillo to commence work, the property owners along the line of the proposed improvement rallied, armed with the most convenient weapons at hand, and drove them back to Tiptoe. The Indiana Tile Makers Association ought to Mod lew mlvrioaaries to that section.

THE AMENDMENTS

Are no more. They died, as it were, a bornin'. The Senate killed them last Monday with its little legal hatchet, declaring by a vote of twenty-five to twenty-three that they were not constitutionally pending in the present legislature. Three Republican, namely, Van Vorhis, Biscfeowsky and Tonche voted with the majority, and five Democrats, Ernest, Morvin, Mcintosh, Magee and Hoover, voted with the minority. Thus the responsibility for the result is divided between the two parties. If the Republicans had solidly favored the mend men ts they could have carried them if the Democrats had solidly opposed they could have defeated them without any Republican votes

Doubtless there were a few senators who voted on principle and conscience in the matter but this could hardly be said of the majority on either side. Both parties acted evasively on the temper ance question with the hope of party success, and both are probably glad that the troublesome question is now out of politics, if it is out. But it probably is not. The prohibition people have no mind to lose the battle in such a fashion They will muster their forces for & new charge. They will hardly be convinced that absolute prohibition is not the best thing and they will fight on that issue What the attitude of the two parties hereafter will be remains to be seen. Undoubtedly the general feeling is that a high license law well enforeed would serve the cause of temperance in the present state of public sentiment far better than pretended prohibition—for it wonld be but a pretense if such a law were enacted. Public sentiment would not support it and nothing has been better demonstrated than the fact that a law can not be enforced by a minority of the people, no matter how earnest and diligent the minority may be in their efforts.

The House will not vote on the amendments until Tuesday next, but whatever its action may be the result will not be ohanged. The Senate will stand by its action, and without the con currence of that body the agreement of the House to the amendments would amount to nothing.

THE Legislature has now been in session for thirty days and has certainly earned the reputation of being one of the most worthless ones that has ever sat. The time has been consumed squabbling over petty, partisan questions to the utter neglect of the business of the people. Not a single measure of public utility has been passed, and very few are. The chief concern appears to be how to get and hold as many offices as possible, from doorkeepers and spit-toon-cleaners to trustees of the benevo lent institutions. The climax of this contemptible business was reached, let it hoped, on Wednesday, when the Senate passed the Brown bill, which takes the appointment of the trustees of benevolent institutions from the Gov ernor and puts them in the hands of tbe. Legislature. In referring to this act the Indianapolis News does not speak a whit too emphatically when it says: "It is a barefaced movement to prostitute those institutions to the needs of party hang-ers-on as political rewards. There is not a single consideration of the good of the institutions or the interests of the people involved in this change, but solely the manipulation of public trusts as party spoile, and it deserves the righteous condemnation of overy honest man in the State." The bill was the work of Jason Brown, the most complete and thoroughly contemptible political trickster in this or any other State, and was op posed in caucus by several of the more decent Democrats in the Legislature, but without avail. The present Legislature is certainly making a poor record for tho campaign of I884.

COMMKSTINO on the low wages paid to Euglish shipbuilders, |7.50.a week for skilled and less than $2.50 a week for unskilled laborers, the Indianapolis News draws the figures of the census to prove that wages are not so very much better in this country, as is generally supposed. The average rate paid to workingmen engaged in manufacturing throughout the country, says the News, was |346 a year, or about $6.65 a week. In Indiana the average was only $313 a year, or about $6.00 a week. It must be confessed that this lather a surprising showing. It is to be remembered, however, that of the whole number of persons estimated in Indiana, to-wit, 69,508, there were 3,821 who were boys under rixtoen and girls under fifteen years of age. As a matter of course the wages paid to some of these were very email, and when put into the general average cause a large reduction on the whole. This is hardly a fair way of getting at the matter. It would be exceedingly interesting to know, if the fact could be ascertained, what is the average amount of wages paid in Indiana aud in this eouatry to men capable of doing a fnll day's work. The News should pursue its investigations in this direction a littie further.

IT is stated that dnring the present century more than €re hundred theaters have been burned involving the loss of more than 4000 lives, The loss oy fire in 1882 was exceptionally large.'the number of theaters destroyed being 17 in the United State*, and seven in England, five in Rnssta, four in Germany, two each in France and Spain, and one each In Belgium, Bulgaria, Ron mania and Sweden. During the hot half century the efforts to secure new effects in illumination and decoration have ineseased the number sf fires four fold*

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

THE failure of Mohr A Mohr, the arge and well known liquor house, of Cincinnati, it is feared may be only the beginning of failures among liquor dealers, and that a "number of banks which have made large advances jon whisky in bond may also be seriously involved through the inability of the dealers to meet their obligations to the government as they come due. The cause of the trouble is said to be the delay of congress to extent the time for the payment of taxes 6n whisky in bond. The threatened danger may now stimulate congress to give the proper relief.

THE very complete and comprehen sive report of Capt. Connor, chief of the bureau of statistics, makes some suggestive comparisons, indicating the growth of Indiana ance 1850. During that period the wheat production has increased from six to twenty-three bushels per capita, and the valued manufactured articles from $18,000,000 to $107,000,000. The value of the principal agricultural products during the year 1882 is put at not less than $225,000,000. A gratifying showing is that there were neatly 900 more real estate owners in 1882 than there were in 1881, showing that the land is not being possesed by the few, but that the process of subdivision among the many is constantly going on.

AJ^BRCB war is raging in Evansville over the question of lighting me city with the electric light. According to the Journal, Senator Rahna, who is a stockholder in the electric light company, has introduced a bill in the Legislature, which, while ostensibly applying to all towns and cities in the State, is really intended to legalize the contract of the city council of EvansvflW with the electric light company. The company proceeding to erect iron towers 250 feet high for lighting purposes, and one of the objections urged by citizens is the danger to life and property from these structures being blown down by storms, It is said that in Denver two such towors have been blown down in less than as msny months, and, as may easily be imagined, property owners in theimme diate vicinity of the proposed towers are somewhat stirred up and are making every effort in their power to defeat the the electric light job. There is a strong lobby working in favor of Kahm's bill, and the fight will be a hot one before it

THE report, sedulously circulated, of course by the enemies of Indiana, that its delegation in Congress voted solid ly to place quinine on the freelist, i$ calculated to do the lloosier State an in jus tice. The design of the circulators of the report is to give out the impression that the ohief article of diet in Indiana is quinine, aud that in this particular our climate has not rriateiially improved from what it was fifty years ago, when its reputation for chills and fever caused the Hoosier State to gain an unenviable reputation throughout the world. How far this is from the truth is shown by the recent report of the State board of health, wherein it is stated that there is less ague now in Indiana than in Michigan, and doubtless the same might be said of several other States, east and west. But it is the old adage, "give a dog a bad name and hang him." The reputation for ague aud quinine has become fastened upon Indiana, and, as is always the case, the reputation will last long after the reason for it has ceased to be. Byt a State that can build 500 miles of new railroad a year can probably standjsucb an injustice.

qUESTIONS FOR WOMEN.

A lady roadeu. ijaks that The "Mail propound the ^following questions bearing on womgn'sights:

Is it a man's duty or a woman's to quiet across baby at midnight? If a wotnau casts her first ballot at twonty-one will it be possible for her to conceal her age after?

Could any twelve woman on a jury agree on a verdict?^ Could a woman keep professional secrets?

Could any man get an office if his mother-in-law took a hand in politics? Could a woman-physican prescribe for a handsome man without falling in love with him?

Could a wo man-preacher hope to touch the hearts of her fellow-sistsrs in the audience if her winter bonnet were prettier than theirs?

If women are to be the bretia winners and salary-earners of the familv how much pin-money ought they allow to husbands?

If womanhood is to be elevated to the dignity of manhood, could women get along without kissing each other as well as men do?

When woman is put on a footing with man, won't it be perfectly proper for her to foot the bill* for ice-cream, theatre-tickets, oyster-suppers, etc., for herself and partner.

THE PROPER CAPER IN LIFTING THE HAT. ,^4* -hipfcl Society Jtaraa!.,-* ".WlV'.Vf

The proper caper for the bower now when he meets a lady is to lift his hat from his howl, turn it forward until the the plane of the rim is vertical, and while in this position bring it down so that the front just escapes the wearer's nose then look into it'while yon count three quickly, elevate it in the same position, place it on the head ierenely, and when one rod beyond the point of passage, to look back and observe the effect of the operation. The elbow should be kept close to the side during the above salutation. Half an hour's practice will make an apt learner quite proficient in the new mode.

Not long since Lily, a little girl of five after saying her evening pavers, to indulge In an original petition own, varying it according to her moods. She was aware that she bad not been particularly good on a certain day, and her evening prayers were thus supplemented "I pray the Lord to make I Lily a good little girl, and if at first yon dont sqcoeed, try, try again,**

The New Yoak deaf mutes have had a ball. xThey danced by watching the taps of a drum.

Dr. Beard, who has just died, was a great believer in ^he efficacy of fresh air as a remedy, and used to say that it was the best stimulant a weak man could use.

The surgeon of the New Haven Register says that when "Dr. Bliss received the $6,000 offered instead of the $£5,000 demanded, his respiration was slow, his pulse rapid an his pus cavity^distended with bile."

Boston Corbett, the man who killed assassin Booth, is living in Kansas, engaged in the cattle busines. He has become a religious enthusiast, and in a recent letter to a friend he says that be had been directed by God to inflict daily corporal punishment upon himself as a penance for having taken human life.

Robert Collyer says that one way to be young at 80 is to keep faith in the common manhood and womanhood, and in the ever-advancing progress of the day. "Never say that the past was better than to-day is read the new books, understand all the new ideas keep to your faith in God and in man, and in the victory of good over evil."

One of the surviving "Forty niners,1 Levi Farnsworth, of Jonesboro, Me, returned to his old home a few days ago after an absence of thirty-three years. He sailed for the Pacific coast in November, 1849, leaving behind bim his wife and six children, all of whom were living to greet him on his return except one daughter, who died twenty years ago. V,',.

A Toronto man named Hall treated another named Hiscock, who was sick, on what Hall called the principles of vital science. This consisted of heating bim to a profuse perspiration and then cooling him off with cold water. But the patient hadn't vitality enough to withstand these vital principles and succumbed. The doctor insisted that he was not dead, propped him up in a chair beside a hot stove for three days, ate oranges, fruit, and other good things which the dead man's wife provided under the assurance that tho doctor's eating them would nourish her husband, until at the end of three days, the sign of decease were too unmistakable to deceive anybody whatsoever. Before the man died his screams could be heard far beyond the house, but nobody interfered with the proceedings.

James Guthrie, a rich youqg farmer near Halifax, Va., was married on Friday evening of last week to Miss Hulda Martin at the residence of the bride's father. Owing to the bad weather the guests remained at the mansion all night. J^ext morning, when they assembled ^Ct the breakfast table, it was remarked that the bride and groom were late in coming. Suddenly the shriek of a woman was heard, and the startled guests rushed into the hall, where they met the bride of a night, who cried: "My husband! oh, my husband!" When she awoke in the morning the young lady found her husband dead by her side. She is almost a maniac with grief. His funeral took place on Sunday from the house in which he was married, Ms four groomsmen acting as pall bearers, and the minister who married him performing the funeral ceremony. ,f

PREACHER, CLOWN AND LIAR.

A LIVELY TIME IN A BAPTIST CHURCH BETWEEN THE PASTOR AND A TRUSTEE.

Troy (N. Y.) Special.

In the Baptist Church at Hartford, a village near Troy, there were some very exciting scenes yesterday afternoon. A meeting of tho congregation was in progress and among those present were the pastor, the Rev. A. A. Watson, and Ephraim Northrup, atrustee. The question of paying the church debt was under consideration when Northrup sudden ly exclaimed "If I subscribe anything it will be for tho support of a Baptist minister." The pastor immediately inquired "What do you call nie? A Methodist minister Northrup replied "I call you no minister at all. You do not conduct yourself like one. If I want to see a clown I will go to a circus." Watson angrily shouted, "You can see a good clown any day by facing a looking-glass." The meeting was in an uproar, and the disorder was intensified by Northrup saying, "When Watson is taken from that pulpit I will bear my share of the expense. A man who takes another man's wife out riding after dark Idon't want to hear preach/' The congregation was dismissed, and Watson and Northrup continued the altercation in the church. Northrup called Watson a liar,Mid Watson called Nortbrup a liar. Both proceeded to the door of the edifice, shaking tbeir fists in each others faces. Just as blows were about to be dealt the men were separated. It is alleged that both used the vilest of language aud the commanity is indignant.

£20.00 Biblical Reward. The publishers of- liutlcdge1$ Month*,# offer twelve valuable rewards in their Monthly for February, among which is tbe following:

We will give $20.00 in gold to tbe peiaon telling ns which is the middle verse in tbe Old Testament 8cripturee by February 10th, 1883. 8bould two or more correct answers be received, tbe reward will be divided. The money will be forwarded to the winner February 15th, 1888. Persons trying for tbe reward must send 20 cents in silver (no postage stamps taken) with tbeir answer, for which they will receive tbe March Monthly,in which the name and address of tbe wlpner of tbe reward and the correct answer will be published. This mav be worth $20j00 to yon cut it oot. Add real RCTLJU»Q£ Pt/ui.ISHI?*a COJIPAXY, Easton, Peona.

-Mrs. Roach, in the HcKeen Block, baa lota of nice millinery goods, which she is selling at cost, to n%ke room for Spring goods. Orders fdr Dress and Cloak making given prompi and careful attention.

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SIMPLE REMEDIES EAS1L APPLIED. Good. Cheer. Milk and lime water are said to prove beneficial in dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach. The way to make the lime water is simply to procure a few lumps of unslacked lime, put the lime in a fruit can, add water until it is slacked and of the consistency of thin cream the lime settles and leaves the pure and clear lime water at the top. A goblet of cow's milk may have six or eight teaspoonfuls of lime wafer added with good effect. Great care should be taken not to get the lime water too strong poor off without disturbing the precipitated lime. Sickness

the stomach is promptly relieved by a teacupfnl of warm water with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it. It brings the offending matter up all the better.

Treat flesh wounds in the following manner. Close the lips of the wound with the hands, hold them firmly together to check the flow of blood until several stitches can be taken and a bandage applied then bathe the wound for a long time in cold water. Should it be painful, take a pan of burning coals and' sprinkle upon them common brown sugar and hold the wounded part in the smoke. sneezing plug the nostrils

taneous. Pains in the side are most promptly relieved by the application of mustard.

If an artery is severed, tie a small cord or handkerchief tightly above it until a physician arrives.

Broken limbs should be placed in a natural position and the patient kept quiet until help arrives.

One of the simplest and best remedies to be given to children troubled with worms is poplar bark. Physicians use It with marked success. It can be bought at any drug store. Take a little pinch of the bark—as much as you can hole* on the point of a penknife—and give it before breakfast. It has a clean, bitter taste, and any child will take it.

GOOD ADVICE T6 FARMERS. Stop at the Dry Goods Store on Poplar street, between Eighth and Niuth, if you wish bargains. We say that it is the cheapest place in Terre Haute. New goods arriving daily.

—HOT BED SASH, with vr without glass, at No. 930 Main street. G. W. SHAFFER.

OLD papers, the best and cheapest for nutting under carpets, for sale at The Mail office.

(GEO. Fairman, conductor P. C. A St. R. R., says: "Brown's Iron Bitters has no equal as a remedy for indigestion aud debility.

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A fine real Mink boa for 5(1 and other furs in proportion.

Goods from Cloak Stock 5C| 25 cts. on the dollar.

Kid Gloves, Winter Glove cts on the dollar.

Dress Remnant for anything that sells them.

Lace Goods and Laces, half-price.

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There are Remnants, Job Odds and Ends, in every stc To be Closed Out.

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