Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 February 1883 — Page 4

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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

ITER RE HAUTE, FEB. 24, 1883

IF Jason Brown wants to run for Congress next year, his recent disgraceful con act in the Senate would seem to be a poor recommendation to his constituency. But perhaps Jason knows his constituency best, and is governing himself accordingly.

THE number of lives lost in the flooded coal mines at Braidwood, til., is reported to be eighty-one, by whose death fifty women are made widows and about hundred children rendered fatherless. Shocking as the disaster was it is pleasant to be able to say that a liberal relief fund is being raised for those thus deprived of their natural means of support. The history of the past few months is one of continued tragedy and disaster.

THE horror of the weak was furnished by New York, on Tuesday afternoon, when afire in a Catholic school resulted iu the death of fourteen children from aeven to twelve years of age. The fire was really insignificant but the children became panic-stricken and uncontrollable aud crowded upon the stairways until the railings gave way precipitating the children in amass to the floor below. In addition to those killed outright a great number were badly injured.

THERE have been several large failures in Chicago during the past week. On Wednosday the large grocery house •of Allen & Co. made an assignment with liabilities of $400,000. The house had been in business for thirty years, and -was considered strong financially. The reason fcr the failure as given by the senior partner is that for some time past the profits of the house had been stolen by some one occupying a position of trust in the house.

THE new five cent coin is not received with an outburst of enthusiasm. The general opinion seems to be that it it not an improvement upon the old familiar nickel. But the government is disposed to put the new coin in circulation notwithstanding the protest of the people. By the way, it must be a hard matter to design a really pretty coin, judging from the specimens the government mints have been turning out of late. The buzzard dollar is certainly not "a thing of beauty."

IN view of the great destruction of property and immense losses from the closing of faotories and business houses by the flood, the peoplo of Cincinnati are talking about the feasibility of raising the river side of the city until it .shall be above high water mark. This could be done by raising the streets to the required grade by filling and then lifting the buildings up to the higher level. Of course It would entail a vast expense but nothing like the sum -which Chicago expended in working up out of the prairie mud. And In the end it would almost certainly be much cheaporthan to continue to be subject to these tremendous overflows which are liable to come at any time. The problem is one with which all the over­

river towns will have to deal.

THE Indianapolis Times calls attention to the fact that cholera followed in the "wake of the great floods of 1832 and 1847, suggosta that the terrible visitant may again put In an appearance the present year, aud recommends that the house bo put In order in anticipation of such a calamity. Whether the sickness takes the form of the plague or not it can scarcely be otherwise than that there will be a vast increase of disease as the rosult of the present flood. When the summer sun pours its heat upon the miles and miles of slime and mud deposited by the overflow there will be a vast amount of malaria geneiated which -will poison the atmosphere and superinduce diseases of various kiuds. The conditions will certainly Vie favorable for the plaguo to obtain a foothold in the event of its coming.

IN vetoing the Brown bill for the government of the State benevolent Institutions Gov. Porter did an act which should meet the approval of every good citizen without n»spect to party. The reasons given by the Governor for his action are that tho Legislature has enough to do in enacting proper laws and ought not to bo disturbed by the Inisiuessof dispensing patronage: that when it undertakes this kind of business farty spirit is aroused to the detriment of the public good. This fact was so rfnlly realixed in 1879 that it was the vtnain reason for putting the appointments of these offices in the hands of •the Governor, iustead of having them elective by the Legislature. This was a wise measure, in the direction of true civil service reform. It was satisfactory to the Democrats so long as there was a

Democratic governor to make the appointments, but now that the governor is a Republican it is proposed to tarn right buck to the old vicious system which had been abandoned. The Democrats have passed the bill over the Governor's veto, and it will surely furnish their opponents with excellent capital in the next campaign. Unless we mistake the signs of the tiroes the people src about done with the "spoils system."

THE trial of the Phoenix Park murderers is another illustration of the certainty with which punishment follows crime in Great Britain. For a long time the horrible murder of Lord Cavendish and Barke seemed to be involved in impenetrable mystery, but the police pressed the trail with so much skill and pertinacity that the whole plot is now being revealed by some of the conspirators who have turned states evidence, and there is little doubt but some at least of the guilty parties will shortly find themselves at the rope's end.

CAREFUL estimates of the actual property losses of the Indiana towns and country by the recent flood are as follows Jeffersonville, $925,000 New Albany, 1730,000 Madison, §200,000 Aurora, |150,000 Lawrenceburg, $850,000 intervening county, $300,000. Total $3,155,000. This estimate does not include the losses yet to come from the suspension of business. It is thought that 24,000 poo pie have been rendered homeless in the whole district. This is an appalling calamity and must seriously cripple business in those towns for some time to come.

THE bill reducing letter postage to two cents, which has passed the House and will likely pass the Senate, makes a material reduction in the salaries of postmasters, some of them being cut as much as $500. The salary of the Greencastle postoffice is reduced from $2,100 to $1,600 and that at Brazil from $1,690 to $1,300. The Terre Haute office is reduced from $3,000 to $2,800. The change will doubtless cause some swearing among postoffice officials, but it will hardly cause a strike. And if it should there is reasonable certainty that new men could be obtained without serious trouble to take their placos.

IT has been continually represented during the present winter that the stock has not suffered seriously in the West from the intense cold weather, but the information gathered by a special correspondent of the Chicago Tribune from points in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and Idaho point to a different conclusion. It is said that the heavy snow storms have completely covered the grass, the intense cold has froaen the streams, and the cattle are stampeding for the southern mountain ranges in search of food, water, and shelter. Weakened by cold and hunger, many of the herds are unable to make much progress southward, and unless a thaw soon occurs the losses during the next thirty days must foot up several millions of dollars. The losses so far sustained are estimated at $2,000,000.

INSTEAD of building one large asylum for the incurably insane, the Legislature has decided to erect three smaller structures to be located at different points in the State, Evansvllle having been selected as one of them. This is what is known as the cottage system and there is much to be said in its favor. A smaller asylum can be made more cheerful and pleasant for the inmates than one three or four times as largo, and the necessities of tho unfortunates are more likely to be properly ministered to. If the inmates are gathered as far as may be from the territory surrounding each asylum their friends will have more convenient access to them than would be the case if there were but one asylum. When additional room is needed a new asylum can be erected in some other section of the State. _____________

PROFESSOR SUMNER, of Yale, gives the figures obtained from an ex-stock-holder to show that in 1882 the Willi mantlc Linen Company paid 90 per cent. In dividends to its stockholders. The capital invested in the company was $1,500,006 and the profits paid were $1,350,000. On this basis the Professor reckons that every woman yho earns fifty cents a day and uses one spool of thread per day, works fifteen minutes a day to support the above named company. We do not know what wages the Willlmantlc company pays Its employes, but if its pay-roll is as niggardly as those of other New England factories—and the presumption is that it is hot any more generous—poor women and children toil from morning till night for a pittance hardly sufficient to hold soul and body together in order th it these enormous dividends may be paid to voracious capitalistss. It is about time for this iniquitous business to cease, and a great many people besides the factory girls and underpaid laborers of bloated corporations are beginning to think so. "Fair wages for working men and women" is a motto which is likely to push to the front «n the coming political struggles in this country.

THE manner in which the people of this and other States opened their hearts and purses for the relief of the unfortunate people of the flooded districts is simply another illustration of the generous instincts of our population. The work of organized relief, promptly liegun by the trade associations of the cities, was taken up by the various charitable organizations, churches, town corporations, worklngmen in factories, and so on along the whole line, until money, food, medicine and clothing, accumulated in great abundance for the relief of the distressed, come flowing in from every quarter. We have called this generosity an instinct. Perhaps habit would be the better word, for as one of the ministers in his sermon said, the people of this country have been educated in the habit of giving. Their schooling began with the war, and the habit then formed of sending supplies of all kinds to the soldiers, especially after every great battle, has been kept

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alive, so that whenever a great fire comes, or the plague, or flood, or tornado brings want and suffering to thousands of homes, the heart of the .nation is touched at once, and there is no lack of money or supplies until the season of distress

ended. Nothing is more ad­

mirable than the spirit with which men for the time being neglect their own affairs and give their time, labor and money for the relief of their distressed brethren. It is the very flower of our modern civilization, which, however hard it may appear in some of its aspects, is sweet and beautiful in this.

SA YINOS AND DOINGS.

An inventor has patented a burglarproof grave. The Boston advertiser suggests that a fire-proof grave would have more customers.

Silk underwear is said to be a protection against lightning, and a preservative against rheumatism. Now if it could only be warranted as a fire-escape in a burning hotel or a life-preserver in a sinking steamer, silk underwear would take the cake.

There was rather a singular suicide at Peekskill, N. Y., Saturday. A. Benshon, a barber, while shaving a customer, suddenly stopped, withdrew into a closet, and effectually cut his own throat. Whether the patron proved to be a superior talker or had a beard that turned the edge of a boasted razor is unknown, no cause for the rash act being assigned.

An editor who seems to have more faith in or familiarity with Hoyle than Shakespeare,divides life into four stages, namely: Childhood's best cards are hearts diamonds win youth middle age is won with a club, and old age is raked in by a spade. This is aH very well, but leaves still unsettled the gr«.at dispute, which is the proper form of the question so often asked by poor players, "What aie trumps?" or "What is trumps

The spook#of Tennessee are trying to make themselves useful. There is one that appears at a house in Hamilton county of that Sate regularly every evening, and rocks the cradle whenever the infant cries. The parents of the child were very much alarmed at first, but have now lost all fear, aud anticipate the nightly arrival of the shadowy nurse with unalloyed satisfaction. There are some families up here that would welcome such guests with pleasure.

A member of Congress was recently invited to dinner in Washington. He says: "There wasn't anything on the table when I got there but some forks and spoons and bricky-brac. Presently thoy brought in some soup. As I didn't see nothin' else, I thought I'd eat all the soup I could, though soup is a mighty poor dinner to invite a feller to. Sol was helped four times and then come ou the finest dinner I ever see, and there I set," groaned he, "chock full of soup!"

THE New York Sun tells of half, a dozen ministers, assembled arouud asocial dinner table,who were discussing whether it was right or wrong for ministers to goto see the Passion Play. One remarked that he had seen it at Ober-Am-mergau, and would go again if he had a chance, but that he would feel like, pulling his hat over his eyes if he went in this country. Another said that he had been to many shows and entertainments both in this country and in Europe, but never felt ashamed, and never pulled his hat over his face to hide himself. Another remarked that ministers ought to go to more theatres and other shows than they do, and be able to mark the difference between the good and the bad. A fourth said that all theatrical performances were bad and blasphemous, especially the Passion Play, which he had not seen, and did not intend to see. Brother number five said he did not go to any of these places, but that bis children went to them, and he did not know what he should do about it. The sixth clergyman said he believed the brethren did not know half enough of what is going on in the world. He made it his rule as an educator of the public to go to everything he chose to see, and to study all he saw. Thus he was enabled to pick up many lessons about human nature which he would otherwise miss. Sometimes he went to the Stock Exchange, sometimes to the dime museums,sometimes to the pigeon-shooting matches. Once he went to see a man hung, having procured admission for the purpose in the capacity of a deputy sheriff. The other brethren shuddered a little at this, bat believed there was something in it when they heard that, after witnessing this hangiug, he preached to young men the most solemn and effective sermon he ever delivered in his life.

"A WOMAN'S OPINIONS." Marshall Herald. Mrs. Ida M. Harper writes a most interesting and pointed letter to the Terre Haute Mail, in reply to a number of insinuations that women would be unfit for the exercise of political suffrage, with its attendant obligations .and careeWere all women as abundantly qualified to take care of themselves as Mrs. Harper proves herself to be, the rights of women would soon be recognised. IIGT letters have always been interesting, but this particular on* is far above its fellows in wit, irony and sound sense.

CORN MEAL AS A DIET, New York Herald. Three Americana quite famous for extravagant fondness for food made from corn meal were George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. lae. The world admits that there was something unusual in the mental organization of these men could it have been merely corn-meal madneas^^|

A lady. Miss S. C. Clark, has been appointed treasurer of a savings bank iEx«

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The Madison (Wis.) Journal is responsible for the statement that Miss Ella Wheeler, the poet, is engaged, but will not be married until after two years, devoting herself in the meantime to literary work.

At a late wedding the bride couldn't get her glove off when it was time for the ring feature of the ceremony, and so she asked "her bridegroopi" for his penknife and deliberately cut it off. Women, as a rule, are equal to any social emergency.

Miss Kate Kane, of Milwaukee, appeared as attorney for the defendant in a recent murder trial in that city, and conducted her case very creditably. Her client was a colored man who had fatally weunded another colored man in an altercation. He was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree, which is almost equivalent to deciding that he acted in self defense.

Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, went up to Montreal to the Mardi Gras festival, and tells in his paper how Canadian girls dress. He says: "I must tell you how these girls dress. First, they start with flannel from head to foot —and such flannel! Why, it's an eighth of an inch thick. Then they put on more skirts, and usually a quilted one that's as warm as a wood fire. Then they put on a dress, and over that a chamois jacket that fits like a shoe in the mud. Then they »ut ribbed woolen stocsings over their stockings, and arctics over their shoes. They don't care any more about the looks of their feet than the St. Louis women do. Then they put on knit wristlets, then gloves, then a fur or cloth dolman, then a fur cap, and finally cpil of worsted comforters. When they are dressed, if they are hurled at a speed of a mile a minute from a toboggan, they are unhurt. If they fail through the ice, they are not wet. If the thermometer drops to fifteen below, they read of it next day, and wish they had known it at the time."

FANTASIES OF FASHION.

Bonnets are less large this season. Long redingotes will again be worn. Shapes of round hats are varied as ever. Children's collarettes grow larger and larger.

Black dresses are again in high favor in Paris. Trimmings of spring bonnets Will be massed in clusters on the top.

To dress well requires thought and experience even more than money. Large open fireplaces for halls, with high carved mantels, are quite the rage in the East.

Padding, wadding, and corsets are avoided by fashionable girls of good form, as it is the style now to have the figure look as natural and supple as possible.

A cunningly-shaped little poke bonnet is a novel design for breastpins. It is made of tinted gold, and blue or red enamel is arranged like a ribbon around the miniature crown.

Ribbons are more in fashion than ever as a cheap and tasteful addition to almost any toilet. Narrow ribbons are to rule this spring in millinery. At the reception given by Mrs. McGregor Adams, of Chicago, a fortnight ago great banks of flowers, roses, hyacinths, and lilies of the valley were placed everywhere throughout the house in artistic profusion.

A novelty in household goods is a sham pillow of stiff pasteboard, concave underneath for the real pillow to remain in while the pillow sham of lace or embroidered or ruffled muslin is placed on the upper side of the sham pillow, which covered with pink, blue, or red silesi'a or silk. These sham pillows greatly facilitate the work of dressing the bed in the morning and undressing it at night.

Girls should learn to consider not so much "the style" as its adaptability to their own face and form. A short girl should never load her skirts with flounces, nor a tall one strive to make herself too attenuated by lack of them. Red-haired girls ought to free themselves from the superstition that makes frights of them in pale blue, and only blonde-haired, dark-eyed damsels can afford to affect black to the extent which certain society belles have been doing this winter. Black is rather dismal at best for party wear, and if a dark-baired girl adopts it she ought to wear particularly bright flowers by way of enlivening her somberuess.

Prairie Block Grocery. JOK MILLER has to-day sweet potatoes, onions, pars nips, turnips, beets, cabbage, oyster plant, apples, celery, cranberries, oysters, honey, maple syrup, buckwheat flour oranges, lemons, and a full line of first-class canned goods, jellies, jams, dried fruit of all kinds. Telephone connection Orders promptly filled.

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CANDY KANUFACTOBY —AND— ,krk BAKERY.

A. B. Mewhiimey & Go.

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The great weakness of most people lies in the fact that their neighbors know them better than they-know themselves.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passion, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

There are three modes of bearing the ills ot life by indiflerence, which is the most common by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious, and by religion, which is the most effectual. life is a succession of lesions Which must be lived to be understood. All is a riddle, and the key to the riddle is another riddle. There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow storm. We wake from one dream into another re am

SWEARING is, of course, says the London World, a silly, senseless and pernicious habit the same may be said of smokin^-with which, indeed, swearing was often illiteratively bracketed—and snuff taking. At the tame time there is not much prospect of its ever being wholly superseded. The truth is—if upon such a subject the truth may be spoken—the expletive which begins with the fourth letter of the alphabet is a compendious form of expression, for which no exact equivalent can be found. It comprises a complete group of emotions and sensations within the limits of a single syllable. It is very wrong, but very convenient. It is an idiotic expedient for the relief of the overwrought mind but, for all that, it administers relief iu a sensible degree.

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Thir powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical uian the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 Wall st N.Y

Died.

SCOTT—At 6:80 o'clock this, Saturday, morning, Feb'y 24, 1883, Mary,wife of Samuel C. Scott, aged 41 years, 8 months and 15 days.

The funeral will take place from her late residence, 654% Main street, McKeen block, on Monday, at 10 o'clock, a. m= Friends are invited to attend without furteer notice.

Wanted.

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ANTED—EVERYBODY TO KNOW that great Reduction Sale of Boots and at coiitidues at A. H. BOEGEMAN E GO'S, No. 104 south Fourth street.

WANTED-MONEYlongLOAN.money

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who wish to borrow or loan on best terms for short or time, to call ou RIDDLE, HAMILTON CO. Southeast corner of 6th and Main streets up-stalra.

For Rent.

IOR RENT—My Heuse, on south Sixth street. Also rooms ior rent in Marble Jlock, suitable for office or Jodging rooms Inquire of M. A. Raridon, No.

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)R RENT- TWO NICE ROOMS, for gen tleman and wife. Water, water closets and coal bins handy, iu Koopman'a Block. None but respectable parties need apply, cor 6th and Cherry. Also storage room at reasonable rates. B. W. KOOPMAN.

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property for sale, containing

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thirty acres, W of a mile south of Hulraan street. Favor ftblv located for a suburban residence. Soil equal to the be«t in the Wabash valley. Building good. Farm well stocked with fruit, apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, grapes, currants, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, serviceberries, etc. Will sell all together, or in two lots. For farther particulars call at the premises, or address the undersigned at Terre Haute.

A. T. BOOR.

riOB 8ALE—CORN MEAL MILL, at a I? great bargain. Good reasons for selling. Address thin office. tf.

HEIFERS of good butter making record. le have made 12 ar One with young calf.

Some have made 12 and l^poundsg«rweelt

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SALE—A desirable Home, with two vacant lots, corner of noith Seventh and Elm streets. For in'winirtJwawriu to

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following vacant lot* will be sold on

reasonable terms, or iow forcash:

LOT 1 in Preston subdivision ot tot No. 6, fronting Oak street. LOT feet, front on Oak street, In Welch's subdivision. „. LOT 40 feet front, south 13th street In Cook* erly's subdivision. LOT 172In Burn am'* addition, fronting Lib10X f^^^kfas^snbdlvision, fronting Scott street and Sixth street. rot SEES

Music Store, 21$ Ohio Street,

Always to the Front!

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

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Having completed tlieir annual Inventory begin another year (tho 27th,) with cheerful hearts and confident hopes. At the close of a most successful business year we would publicly extend our thanks to our many friends and patrons for the liberal custom given us and to assure them that we shall spare no efforts to continue to merit their confidence and support, and to be in the future as in the past "ALWAYS TO THE FRONT" with the choicest goods, the newest styles and the lowest prices. "We mean to offer inducements to close cash buyers and to maintain the best class of trade both in and out of the city.

NOW OPEN!

A NEW AND VERY CHOICE LINE —OF—

RICH PRINTED, NEAT CHECK, PLAIN COLORED

FRENCH SATTINES,

At 30c, S5c, 40c and 45c per yard.

CHOICE NEW ASSORTMENTS

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PRINTED CAMBRICS, PRINTED FOULARDS, At 9c, 10c, 12Hc, 15c and 20c per yard

NEW SPRING COLORINGS

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FRENCH FOULE'S, FRENCH CASHMERES, At 50c, 80c, 65cand 75c per yard.

PLEASE EXAMINE!

HOBERG, ROOT & CO.

Main Street, bet. Fifth and Sixth.

GULICK & CO.

Druggists,

HAVE A FULL LINE OF

Patent Medicines,

INCLUDING:

Sandford's Catarrh Cure Popham's Asthma Remedy, Hall's Catarrh Cure.

Ely's Cream Balm. Shilo's C. Cure.

Warner's Safe & Cure Hunt's Kidney Remedy. Simmon's Regulator.

Kidney Wort. S. S. S.

Dr. King's New Discovery Boschee's German Syrup Allen's Lung Balsam

Warner's Tar Syrup Cutler's Balsam

Wistar's BHUORI of Wild Cherry Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup. Crook's AVine of Tar.

Brown's Iron Bitters Wayne's Elixir.

AT THE OLD DRUG STAND

Corner of Fourth and Main Sts.

GrULICK & CO.

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