Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 February 1883 — Page 4

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TEHEE HAUTE, FEB. 10, 1883

"VKNKOR has bit it pretty well thus far in February.

THE Kansas legislature has a sensible bill before it, proposing that the question of female suffrage be left to a vote of the women at the next election.

"GATH" refers to Terre Haute as "the ccnter of Intellectual and society power in the State." He understands the situation well for one not to the manor born.

BEAD "A Calm Man's Experience in His Coffin," printed on the second page. We very much doubt if any reader of The Mail bears to-morrow a sermon more impressive.

THK- new weather prophet, Wiggins, is a fraud. He failed to deliver that terrible storm predicted for yesterday, and now has the cheek to ask a postponement until the 11th of March.

A WEDDING party at Peru, Ills., was startled last Tuesday evening at seeing Rev. George F. Bronson, pastor of the Congregational church, fall dead at the feet of the couple he bad pronounced man and wife.

THE coroner's jury, after investigating the Newhall House fire, has returned a verdict charging the proprietor with culpable negligence. That will be the end of legal proceedings, so far as the proprietor is concerned.

MR. BLAINE'S forthcoming book, "Twenty Years of Congress—From Lincoln to Garfield," will be awaited with general interest. Whatever else the book may or may not be, it is hardly necessary to say that it will not be dull.

CINCINNATI is talking of a whole month for the nextopera festival instead of a week. That would be a large undertaking but it is not at all certain that enough people would not be attracted by such au event to make it a complete

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THE sickness of a juror stopped the -wheels of the Gongar-Mandlei' suit at Lafayette this week. The juror's illness was timely. Both sides were getting too hot for comfortable progress with the •case, and this little episode has given them time to cool off.

Music fe&shtls are becoming popular. Philadelphia is to have one in May, to consist of four evening and three matinee performance. There will be a chorus of five hundred voices and an orchestra of one hundred performers. The works to be rendered are selected from the great composers, Handel,

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JBeothoven and others.

ACCORDING to the reports which nave "been coming from the West that country must have had "the worst bliaaard ever .known" pretty much all winter. The average weekly report during the past *six weeks has not tended to inspire a mania for emigration to the "land of the

Dakotas." But they do say they have «ummer out there in its season.

I "C»A*TH" is incensed at Senator Harrison because the latter did not choose to .get up and submit to an interview after JHE had gone to bed. "Gath" thinks such jrudeness is a -sufficient evidence that Gen. Harrison is not tit to be President. It is doubtful if the people will be of Path's way of thinking. At all events •they will admire the General's independence in the matter, lie was probably tired and was frank enough to say so. •"Gath" could have called some other time.

LIEUTENANT DANENHOWKR speaks as one having authority when he deprecates polar exploration. As one of the survivors of the ill-fated Jeannette he knows whereof he speaks, and in his opinion there is nothing in these attempts upon the ice regions of the north to compensate for the expenditure of life and money, fie thinks there are many other fields ior geographical research, which, if less romantic than those of the pole, will be found much richer in the fruits they will yield.

MK. MCDONALD has come back to Indiana. He found that Washington was not a good place to work bis presidential boon. Too many reporters there who wanted to be writing about Mm, and who would write whether their victim would talk to them or not. The cheek of the interviewer is appaUing, and his persistency overwhelming. If any public man wants peace be mast go where the interviewer ceases from troubling. Mr. McDonald was wise in comUag away from Washington.

SENATOR

HARRISON was interviewed

in New York by a Commercial Gasette correspondent recently in regard to the political outlook. He said he could see no reason why the Republicans could not elect a President in ls%M as well as In 1SS0. He thought Virginia and perhaps Florida would be carried by the Republicans, and that combination a might be made which would result favorably to the Republican*, without New York. The Senator believes that with the temperance question out of politics in this

Rpjnitjilcww can carry Indiana

THE total receiptsthe Cincinnati music festival, aecordi^p, Jp°m~ mercial Gazette, were in the Ibeiinliprhood of $125,000 to 9130^00 penses did not exceed $85,000, tftua ing some $00,000 to be divided befcw the College of Music and Col. Mapleson By this showing classical music of U» highest order is not a bad investment, even from a financial standpoint..

THE Mardi Gras foolishness New Orleans divides honors with opera fignsic in Cincinnati. The King Komus spec­

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this week attracted 25,000 visitors to the city, it is said. It is quite probable, however, that the flowers, balmy breezes and bright skies of the south cut as large a figure in the attractions as King Komus did. A great many northern people like to break into "the sunny south" after a month's experience of ice and snow in their own climate

THE amount of inventive energy that is now being manifested is simple amazing. Not a week passes that along list of new patents is not announced, in which the names of a dozen or more In dianiansare always embraced. Of course all these new things do not succeed, but they serve to show the amount of thought and effort being turned to this direction, and the results are certainly marvellous, for there never was a time when so many successful inventions were produced.

THE floods of the past week have been very destructive to property. The loss in the vicinity of Cleveland is estimated at upwards of $600,000, at Akron at $150,000, at Indianapolis the loss is in the neighborhood of $100,000, and in many otyer places heavy losses are reported. At Tftusville 500 families were compelled to abandon their homes temporarily, the waters driving them out and west of the river, at Indianapolis, many families were also drowned out. The loss of life was remarkably small, but taken throughout the country the property loss will reach into the millions.

A BiLi. is pending in the Legislature which provides for a constitutional convention to consist of fifty members, who shall receive $10 a day for their services, and whose duty it shall be to work over the present constitution of the State and make it what it should be. Taking the results accomplished by an average Legislature as a basis to reckon from the expediency of such a convention may well be questioned. It is very likely that it would be better to endure the ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of, especially at the cost of $500 per day of linked oratory long drawn out. If we could be assured that the new constitution would provide for quadrennial instead of biennial sessions of the Legislature, there would be ixuch in favor of such a convention, bdt it is hardly probable that such good work could W counted on.

THE grand opera festival in Cincinnati last week was an unqualified success in every particular. The finest singers in the world, heard in the best operas, with aplendid scenery and in a magnificent music hall, is certainly a musical event worthy of attracting, as it did, people from all the surrounding country. These grand musical festivals have already given Cincinnati a world-wide fame which will doubtless go on increas ing as the festivals are more completely developed. People who live within a hundred miles of Cincinnati may consider themselves highly favored in being able to attend these magnificent festivals at a comparatively small expense. In deed the whole country may well be proud of the musical culture and enterprise of Cincinnati, for it reflects credit upon the country at large.

THE Stinginess manifested by the lower branch of the Legislature towards the educational interest of the State is uot commendable. The appropriation for Purdue University was fixed at only $12,000, and that for the State Normal School at but $5,000. Such meagre allowances as these are not calculated to enable those institutions to accomplish the best results. The State has made large permanent investments in them and it is a poor policy, even regarded from the standpoint of dollars end cents alone, to cripple their usefulness by niggardly appropriations. The State might better afford to save in any other direction than by cutting off the reasonable appropriations for her schools. It is to be hoped that the Senate will be more generous than the House in this particular.

IN a scathing review of the novels of James and Howells the London Quarterly Review says of Mr. James' "Portrait of a Lady," that "the characters are described at enormous length by Mr. James then they describe themselves then they are described by the other characters." The writer concludes that such a performance, running through three volumes, is somewhat tedious and is not prepared to admit that this new style of novel i* an improvements upon those of Scott, Dickens and George Eliot. The writer takes occasion to compliment the steriee of Mrs. Burnett, which he regards as much more meritorious performances than those of the James aid Howells school ot art. Of this there ought to be no doubt in the minds of persons competent to judge. Mm Burnett always has a story to tell, and a story in some &nse worth the telling, while James and Howells deal with people, who, however true to life they

RICH AND POOR.

If there is any one thing of which the people of this country have been accustomed to feel proud, it is that there are here no class privileges and no castes mt that the way in life was equally open all. In a certain sense this is the case in a very important one it is ceasing be so. The growth of luxurious living !ast bringing about conditions of life similar to those that exist in the untries where class privileges have ,ted for centuries. The gulf between rich and the poor is growing trider deeper every year.

ought to be penniitjgd to end tbeir days remdy settled it in our own mind. A in the obscurity to frhlch their irtsignifi- paragrapber, as a general proposition,! cance entitles lloJa. j«d-d fool vrhothmkshels smart.

The statement was recently made by a New York journal that it costs |S0,000 a year to live in the fashionable quarters of that city in anything like "style." Such a sum represents the earnings of from 100 to 150 average laborers, #or the cencus returns show that the average earnings per year of American working men in the various branches of manufactures does not exceed from $300 to $400. Of such a condition of things it can be truthfully said that "it implies dependence, hardship and often degradation among laboring people. The greater the number of those who may thus use the muscle and brawn of their socalled fellow-citizens the less there will be of the fruits of toil for those who produce."

And how are these great fortunes, which mak^ such princely expenditure by their owners possible, obtained Many of them are the result of but a few years' operations under industrial conditions which cannot help being detrimented to the general good. "Corporate privileges combine and perpetuate an amount of wealth and power which far surpasses in efficacy all the devices of the rich in other lands, which have taken the form of class legislation."

What the remedy is it may be difficult to say, but there ought to be a remedy. There is getting to be too much for the rich man, and too little for the poor man in this country, there can be no question about that. Something must be done or America will soon have little to boast of as "the poor man^s country."

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ROBERT D. LAYTON, grand secretary of £he Knights of Labor, has been testifying before the Senate committee, on relation to American industries. Mr. ajton contended that labor organizations ale the only means workingmen have of maintaining themselves* stating that a nickle from each member would carry any branch of industry through be longest strike they have yet had. 31 has been the fashion to decry these labor organizations, or "trade unions," as they are called. It is a mistake to do so. Capital combines and consolidates in a thousand shapes and forms until its monster monopolies get beyond the power of even the laws to control. They crush and grind to the earth everything that comes in their way. Thp rights of labor demand intelligent organization, too, and such societies as the Knights of Labor are to be encouraged and approved. Let the workingmen of the country place themselves shoulder to shoulder to resist t^e tyranny of capital and secure fair wages for their labor. It is their right and privilege, a$| it is their only safety. ,» ,u

JUDGE MORAN, of the Circuit court in Chicago, has ruled that the. telegraph companies are not bound to furnish market quotations to bucket shops. The decision was on a test case in which all the "bucket shop managers had united. The judge declared the business to be not only illegal, but demoralizing and pernicious, and said no court of equity could give its help "to any one who came with unclean hands" to ask aid to pursue a business against public policy. "A Daniel come to judgment," surely. Now if the bucket shops can only be made to obey the law it will be a good thing. But the danger is that they will discover some ingenious method of slipping around the decision, or of carrying on their business in the absence of the "tickers." The bucket shoprbusiness is too profitable for the managers to stop for one black eye.

A MYSTERIO US DISEASE. It has gotso now that when a man dies whose ailings were somewhat shrouded in a mystery, it is not neeessary to say that he died of malaria, or pneumonia, or nervous prostration, but of cirrhosis of the liver, and then half the people of the country will be just as badly befuddled over it as ever. Cirrhosis is a new disease that is said vo get into a man's system who drinks to excess of fiery liqnors, and is said to knock his liver all out of shape and it is no good thereafter. Cirrhosis will fill a want I«ng felt as a disease for m$n to die of whose friends don't want it made public that he indulged too freely in the flowing bowl.

PEOPLE who delight to recall that Lincoln was a rail-splitter and Garfield a canal boy, are busily engaged in impressing upon the public that Governor Cleveland once sold newspapers Governor Pattison was an errand boy, the Governor of Texas began life as a hostler the Governor of Kansas originally drove oxen, .and Governor Stoneman, o! California, who had been a sailor, swept out a board.

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A A A A E Louisville Sunday Argus.' A simple minded country editor says that one of the important questions to

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

Colonel James Coulter, a member of the Tennessee legislature, wears his hair like a woman, bangs and all.

Dr. Thomas Taylor, of Washington, has made some investigations which convince him that the common house fly, aside from being an annoying pest, is possessed of the capacity of transmitting disease bjj carrying the germs from place to place.

Mrs. Ryan, of Philadelphia, has brought up her sons in a correct knowledge of pronouns, and so, upon hearing somebody open the window in the night and replying to her question, "Who's there "It's me, mother," she kuew that the intruder was none of her offspring. She gave an alarm,and the ungrammatical burglar was captured.^

At a playing party at Findlay, Ohio, Jesse Taylor was invited to sit down between two ladies who sat on chairs quite close together. Justxas he was in the act of taking the proffered seat they moved away, causing him to sit down so hard that he broke his neck, which broke up the party. Now one of the girls is so crazy that it is feared she will have to be taken to the insane asylum.

Said a fellow traveller the other day to a correspondent of the Cincinnati En quirer: "Women are not so polite as men in public. I have often seen ex hibitions of rudeness and selfishness on the part of women that a man would not be guilty of. There is a case in point right across the isle. That woman has but a small valise, and no one is in the seat with her, and every other seat is occupied. Awhile ago a little girl passed by in search of some place to sit. She looked wistfully at the vacant place, and the woman stared at her but she never budged. The little girl is now at the other end of the car, standing up. The majority of women lolks are no doubt sweet and agreeable at home, but as soon as they get into a street or railroad carriage their good manners seem to leave them."

Two policemen in uniform recently called at the house of a Boston geutieman who was giving a fancy dress ball, and insisted that the company must separate. "Not at all," said the host "this is a private house." "Very well, sir," said one of the policemen, "here are my orders, and I must take the names of all who are present." "Do so," responded the host. The policemen went to work and put down all the names, making everybody supremely uncomfortable. Directly they had done so, one of them walked up to a table and poured himself out a glass of champagne. "What right have you to drink my wine?" roared the host. "I supposed when I was invited," responded the policeman,"that refreshments were included and, amidst a roar_of laughter, he showed his card. Both the men were simply guests.

A St. Louis man of wealth, befog about to undergo a dangerous surgical operation, sent for a lawyer to draw a will. He coolly and carefully explained that his only relatives were nieces, who had firmlj convinced him that they cared nothing for him aside from his money, and that he had long before decided to leave them nothing. His reason for previously making no will was that he had not decided whom to enrich, or whether he should let his estate go to charities. In view of a possibly fatal result of the surgeon's work, however, he would devise everything to his landlady, who had taken excellent care of him and was a deserving woman. It was clear that, in case he recovered, he meant to destroy the document. Nevertheless it was drawn with legal care, witnessed by the ^several physicians, and signed by the testator. He died within an hourWills are contested before juries in Missouri, and the nieces won a verdict against the will but the Court of Appeals decides that there was no reason for believing that it was made under any undue influence or fraud, and therefore it must stand.

GIVE THEM A CHANCE. If the thousands and tens of thousands of weak and weary sufferers throughout the land, who, in spite of care and skill, are steaaily driftin downwards, could have the benefit oi that subtile and singularly vitalizing agent which is called Compound Oxygen, the help, and ease and cemfort it would bring to wasting bodies and depressed spirits would be blessings beyond price. If, reader, you have an invalid wife, or mother, or daughter, or sister, or any one who is under your care and dependent upon you, and to whom life haa become a burden through weakness and pain, consider seriously whether you are not bound, in both love and duty, to give this sufferer a chance of recovery, or, at least, the blessing of ease from pain. You are offered the amplest means of information in regard t« this new Treatment. If you caw examine testimony without prejudice, and can weigh evidences with judgement and discrimination, you can hardly fail to see that in Compound Oxygen there is a healing power tnat is simply wonderful. Let, then, the rick and suffering whom you care for and love, and foi_ whom you have not been able to get relief,have a trial .of this new remedy. It can do them no harm and, seeing what it has done and is doing in so many thousands of cases, all the probabilities are in favor of its doing them good. Send to DRS. STARKKV FC PALEX, 1100 and 1111 Girard street, Philadelphia, for their "Treatise on Compound Oxygen, its Nature Action and Results," and learn all about the remarkable cures which are being made by this tew agent. The Treatise will be *cnt free.

Choice Buckwheat Flour and Maple Syrup at XIJ JOE MILLER'S.

OLD papers, the best and cheapest for patting antler carpets, for sale at The office.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. W. T.

Leggett the veteran excursion

agent, who has from this city taken 157 excursions west, during the past five years, and who has always given great satisfaction and lowest rates, will take his next chair car excursions on Feb. 20th, and March 6th and continue during 1883 to give a cheap excursion every two weeks for the lowest rates. Call on or address him at his up town office, corner of Fourth and Ohio streets.

W. T. LEGGETT, Agent TERRE HAUTE IND.

LENT IS HERE!

AND SO IS ED. ROACH,

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The old reliable fish dealer of north Fourth street, who has a good supply of lake aHd ocean fish, including California Salmon, Herring, Haddock, Smelts, Steak, Cod Fish, Cat Fish, Lobsters, White Trout, Pickerel, Pike, Perch, Sun Fish and Bass, all of wich is fresh and good. Orders by telephone attended to promptly.

Choice dressed Turkeys and Chickens at PRAIRIE BLOCK GROCERY.

GOOD EATING, hmoked Halibut, Smoked Herring, Smoked Tongue, Dried Fish, Dressed Turkeys, Geese, Chickens, Rabbits, Choice Celer), Cranberries, Elgin Creamery, Warren Park and Choice Country Butter, Cabbage, Turnips, Parsnips, Carrots, Kale, Beets, Spanish and Northern onions, oysters. Florida Oranges, Apples, Lemons, Prunelles, Raisins, Citron, Candies, nuts, Frank Siddal's Soap, fcc.

P. J. KAUFMAN.

—MONEY TO LOAN tp Farmers OD the best of terms. RIDDLE, HAMILTON A

POWDER

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Thir powder never varies. A marvel of parity, strength and wholeaomenees. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the mal-

Mary Stuart Face Powder

This Powder contain* no Araenic. Lime or WliiU? J^cad Not beinu poisonous [It may be used by the most delicate lady wit ho .it fear. It will not roughen the skin, and will remove Krecklesand Tan, and allay irritation. Artiste who are obliged to use a cosmetic, recomimend Mary Stuart Face Power as the

raostfharmlem. A distinguished special i«t on skin diseases says: "If ladles must use cosmetics. I recomend Mary Stuart Face Powder as the simplest ana most harncless. Flesh or White. Price 86 cents per bo*. Agent for Terre Haute, Ind.,

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Our Very Low Prices

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THE SALE OF

"LAST THINGS."

Prices Often Ridiculous

FOR INSTANCE:

A fine real Mink boa for 50 cte, and other furs in proportion.

Goods from Cloak Stock 50 cte, 25 cfcs. on the dollar.

Kid Gloves, Winter Glove«, 10 cte on the dollar.

Dress Remnant for a songanything that sells them.

Lace Goods and Laces, exactly half-price.

ABOVE ARE EXAMPLES.

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

This is the most genuine reduction sale ever conducted in this city.

THIS IS BONA FIDE

So much so that many goods are are almost a free gift.

flOME AND SEE.

H0BERG, ROOT & CO.

MILLERS HOTEL,

NOH. 37,39, & 41, West Twenty-Sixth Street,

NEW YOHK CITY,

Between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, nnar Madison Park.

A quiet, healthy location, oonvenient by stages, horse cars. &"•<! the elcpated roads to all parts of the olty.

In thecenter of retail tr^de,plaeiso amusements, and the principal Hotels and churahes PERMANENT OR TRANSIENT GUESTS

RATBS:—92.60 to W.00 per day 10.00 to 125.00 I per week, according to size and location of rooms. Special rates for famlies or by the year.

Turkish, Keetrle, and Roman Baths Connected with the hotel at reduced rates to guests.

Dr. B. P. MILLER, Proprietor. C. H. HAYNES, Business Manager.

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ANNOUNCE SOME VERY LOW PRICES.,

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EAR MUFFS 86, cost at other places, 15 and 20 cents. STOUT HALF HOSE, 5 and 10c. cost at other places, 10 and 20c FANCY HALF HOSE, 10,15 and 25c. cost at other places, 20, 30 and 40 cents. UNDERSHIRTS and DRAWERS, 20, 25 and 50 cents, cost a other houses, 35, 40 and 75 cents. OVERALLS, 25, 40 and 50c, cost at other places, 40, 50 and 75c. WORKING SHIRTS, 30c, to $1.00, cost at other places, 40c to $1.5 JEANS PANTS from 75c to $2.00. Cost at other places $1. to $2.50. ALL WOOL PANTS from $3.00 to 4.00. Cost other places $4

MEN'S BUSINESS SUITS $5.00 to 12. Cost other places 8. to 16 These and all others goods found on our tables are marked

plain figures and sold at one price.

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