Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 March 1883 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

FTTBUCATIOS OFTXOE,

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P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 31,1883

FEW people probably will regret that this is the last day of March. With the incoming of April wo may expect a few bursts of sunshine. vV

THE husband of the notorious Nancy Clem, of Indianapolis, who stood by her all through her trials, now sues for divorce. Nancy is now in the Woman's Reformatory. Her term of imprisonment expires in about a year.

THIS has been a good year for breach of promise suits. A New York girl has just scooped in 110,000 for shattered affections, and a San Francisco damsel has gone her $3,000 better. Young ladies who have been jilted should take notice

POSTMASTER GENERAL HOWE died rather suddenly last Sunday afternoon at Kenosha, Wisconsin, of pneumonia, He was in his sixty-eighth year. When be went to Kenosha two weeks before, he was apparently in good health, but contracted a severe cold by taking along walk in a snowstorm.

Gov. PORTER is thought to have the inside track for the vacant Postmaster Generalship. Lieutenant Governor Tom Hanna would probably not be displeased at his selection., Gov. Foster, of Ohio,i» also a prominent candidate. It is conceded that the place will go to a western man. _____________

JOHN BROWN, the Queen's faithful servant, died this week at Windsor Cas tie. Misfortunes never come singly. Here, in the short spaoe of*a few days, ia Victoria deprived of two of her oldest and best supports, her Gillie and her but then her knee will soon be well, while John Brown's body lies a mould eringin the grave.

IT has looked very much, for the last week, as if the people of New York would have to substitute the milk of human kindness for that of the gentle cow, but the milk war has at last been peaceably settled. Contrary to the old adage that "it is of no use to cry over spilled milk," one of the Creamery proprietors has sued the city for twenty cans of milk which were spilled by a committee organized for that purpose.

Gov. PORTER has appointed Gen. Win. Grose, of New Castle, Col. JrR. Gray, of Noolesville, Judge Robinson, or Spencdr, and D. J. Skinner, of Valparaiso^ as commissioners to locate the new Insane Asylums provided for by the last Legislature. It is settled that one of them will go to Evansville, and Richmond, Logansport aad FtWayne are making strong efforts to secure one of them. There will be three asylums in alL.

MRS. MEAKER was hanged at Windsor, Vermont yesterday for the murder of her niece. Although there was no doubt in regard to her guilt, she maintaiued to the last that she was innocent. She showed no sign of trembling when her limbs were tied, on the scaffold, and said: "May God forgive you all." There is something repulsive iu hanging a woman, and they seldom reach the scaffold, but this "she devil" richly deserved her fate.

A prominent religious papertakes the ground that a church has no right to buy flowers for decoration until its debts are paid. It formerly was the custom to adorn the altar with a few simple blossoms in commemoration of Easter, but each year the display becomes more and more extravagant. Every Easter a collection is taken up for some benevolent purpose but it is doubtful if this collection ever equals the amount the church itself pays out for these unnecessarily lavish decorations.

As an offset to the wholesale invasion of women into the occupation of men, coine the tidings of a Vermont man who has just pieced a quilt containing 15,37« pieces. This is a branch of industry that women can very well give over to men or idiots. When the world is so full or important work for brain and band, it seems inexcusable fur anybody to spend the precious hours sewing bits of patchwork together which, when finished, do not make half so pretty and tasteful abed coveriug aS can be bought down towu for one-fourth be cost of the tjuUU

As appparatus has been invented for fever patients which cousists, essentially, of two water beds between which the patient lies and the physician can regulate the temperature, thus avoiding the risks and discomforts of a cold bath. It is proving very successful In typhoid fever. Science seems continually progressing toward humane and merciful treatment. We can all remember when it was considered suicidal to allow a fevered patient to have plenty of cold water. like Dives, they lifted up their eyes in torment and begged for water, and the loving relatives were obliged to deny it, with breaking hearts, because it was thought to be injurious, aad many victim of fever has literally burnt up for what is now regarded aa almost ift itself an antidote tot the disease.

THE freight shipments east from Chicago during the past few weeks have been unprecedented, amounting in the week to more than 70,000 tons, or nearly three times what they were for the same time last year. The only ex planation given is that prices of fleur and grain in the eastern markets have been higher than shippers supposed they would remain, and hence the producers were anxious to dispose of their commodities before the decline.

A NEW political organization is being formed in New York the objects of which are "opposition to monopoly, the fostering of just and honest govern ment, the obtaining of wise and pure legislation, the securing of justice for labor and capital, and, promotion of intercourse and action among independent citizens." Officeholders are not to be eligible to membership in this new Utopia. The declaration of principles is all right and the political millennium will be reached in the new society —if they are only lived up to

GERMANY is always turning out some curious invention. One of the latest is an engine operated by gunpowder. The piston is forced to and fro in the cylinder by small quantities of powder ignited alternately on each side. The igniting of the powder is effected by means of a spirit or gas flame from the cylinder cover, drawn in through an oblique aperture by the suction force ol the piston the access being regnlated by slides. It is said the consumption of powder is comparatively small and the engine regulates itself. The invention will probably prove more curious than valuable.

THE Cincinnati Enquirer refers to the -present as the "unwedded and woeful Administration." No sooner has the gossip over Senator Tabor's marriage died away, and David Davis relieved the public by getting down off the fence on the matrimonial side, than the correspondents begin to kill off Secretary Folger with unrequited love. President Arthur hasn't looked crosseyed at a woman since be has been in Washing ton, that rumor hasn't construed it into an engagement. Our prominent men may not be so interesting after they are married, but the public mind is relieved of a great strain concerning them.

THE papers have given much space to the details of the fancy dress ball given by the Vanderbilts on Monday night and which is said to have cost 150,000. Of course the New York money aristocracy was out in grand force and full feather and the display of dress goods, laces,diamonds, et cetera was magnificent iu the superlative degree, and among the notables present were the President and attorney general Brewster and wife. But after all, the public care very little about'this sort of thing. The people are good deal more concerned to know how Vanderbilt gets his millions than how he spends them.

WHILE the perpetrators of the terrible double murder at the village of Royal ton, near Indianapolis, have not yet been found, so far as is known, some suspicious discoveries have been made, It has been ascertained that one of the sons of the old lady had recently taken out a graveyard polity of insurance for fo,000 oh her life, and apparently manifested a disposition to conceal the fact of his holding it. It i& probable that other similar policies may come to light, as it is reported that a large amount of this kind of insurance was placed in the village within a short time before the murder. Further development of a sensational character are expected.

ELDER JOHN MORGAN, one of the highest dignitaries in the Mormon church, is in Chattanooga seeking converts. He will leave in a few days with one hundred and sixty deluded creatures. He says there are ninety missionaries in the south and they expect to take away at least seven hundred converts this year. Is not the reason that the south proves such a fruitful field for this work, because so many of the women are in such a state of ignorance? And, after all, may not the solution of the Mormon question lie in the education of woman, and fitting her for earning a livelihood A woman who realizes the degradation and is able to make her own living is not so likely to accept the divided support and affections of a man as one who is ignorant, helpless and a believer in the doctrine: A whole man if possible, but if not, oh. Lord, make us truly thankful for a fraction.

A CERTAIN distinguished gentleman in St. Louis has written an elaborate article on his friend, the Devil, in which he says, "So identified has woman become with the active principle of evil, so certainly is she the inspiring cause of all the devilment in the world, that some profound thinkers hare been led to conclude that the idea of the devil is but the personification of the feminine spirit. This great truth, however, has perhaps come before the world is ready for it and its general reception as axiomotic will probably be postponed until female management of politics has fittted mankind for the belief."

Of course, in this world, the writer «f the above knows more about women than be does about the devil and he may think there is a similarity but when be goes to the next world he* will become more intimately acquainted with the devil and then be will find there is a vast difference. He and Dr. Dix, of New York, can ait down by the fire and discuss this subject together, while the women up in Heiven will play on the harp and ting them a tune.

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?\irV4 TEKBE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

A CELEBRATED CASE. For. more than three months now the slander suit of Helen M. Gougar against city Marshal Mandler has been continually in progress at Lafayette, and the end is not yet. Scores of witnesses have been examined, there have been many dramatic features, and the case will certainly be one of the "celebrated cases" in the legal history of Indiana.

Commenting on the sensational incidents of the trial a correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean gives this graphic picture "The spectacle, seen often when Mrs Gougar was on the stand, of her four lawyers rallying close about her with faces dark with suppressed excitement and eyes flashing and hands moving in imperious gesture, almost touching in their sweep the hair of the woman resting for a moment at the white heat of the hunt—she panting and confused—they bristling with the resources of msaculinity in a fight—such a spectacle would suggest an effective sketch of a woman who had so often defied and scolded men, admitting in eyes and face and attitude the possibility of occasions when men would do the work better than women."

Referring to the features in which the case differs from most scandal cases the same correspondent notices that no unbappiness or cause for unhappiness has ever been supposed to exist in either family, but on the contrary the utmost domestic tranquility and thorough loyalty between husband and wife that during the whole course of the trial there has not been produced any love letter, note or dispatch that could be construed to the disadvantage of either Captain Wallace or Mrs. Gougar. There has never been a hint of of a separation or divorce on either side, while the close friendship of the two families continues uninterrupted as it did before any charge of improper intimacy was made.

The evidence was finally closed yesterday. Owing to illness of Mr. Langdon, who was to make the first speech, the'argument will not commence until Monday. This will probably last several days more. The final verdict in this long-drawn-out and bitterly contested ease will be awaited with interest by the general public as well as by the parties now directly concerned in it.

THE POOR FARMER.

An Illinois farmer makes a caustic rejoinder to an article in the St. Louis Republican, in which it was stated that farmers as a class toil longer, that their wives and children have fewer of the goood things of life than those of other professions, less agreeable food, fewer and cheaper clothing, smaller educational facilities, have more sickness and break down earlier, and have fewer compensations at every stage of life.

To this arraignment the waiter replies that the farmer who gives the amount of attention $o systematically arrange the details of his work that is given in other pursuits will meet with more success than is commonly attained in other professions and that there is no necessity for his working an* unusual number of hours, except for short periods and in exceptional cases. He then continues: "To talk about the poor clothing that farmers' wives and daughters are compelled to wear is sheer nonsense, as is also the mistaken idea that we do not have many good things to eat good eating is what we pride ourselves on. It is also a mistaken Idea thnt our wives ami daughters sUUST- more from disease than do the painted, veneered and varnished skeletons constantly to be met with on the streets of cities and tc wns. Compare, if you please, one of the pnny, dyspeptic and bloodless, made-up-to-order city Deiles with the average farmer's daughter, whose eyes are bright, cheeks rosy and every movement and expression indicating perfect health, dressed In neat calico dress with white apron aud delicate rose nestling secure ly In a large roll of natural and glossy hair that was not purchased at a store to match a little tuft that when twisted on the head of a city "gal," could be easily btowed away in a thimble.'

There is truth in both views of the case. The agricultural classes of this country ought to be the best provided for of any part of our population, and many of them are. But it cannot be denied either that many are shiftless, unsystematic and imprudent, and for these reasons obtain but few of the comforts of life, while others in well-to-do circumstances are too avaricious for land, thus imposing menial drudgery upon their families and denying themselves many luxuries which they are perfectly able to possess, in order that acres may be added to acres and farms to farms. And after the parents have toiled and atinted through a lifetime of hardship, the children too often dissipate these dearly-bought possessions in a few wasteful years. But there has undoubtedly been a great advance in the profession of agriculture within a comparatively short time—a diminution of drudgery, and an increase of comfortable living and this improvement will go on at an accelerated pace hereafter.

IT is said that ex-Senator Tabor, the millionaire politician of Colorado, contemplates the building of a line hotel in Washington. Tabor, it is said, waqts to settlf- somewhere in the East to spend his money, and finds New York too big for him, hence his choice of Washington, which is gradually filling up with rich men, retired merchants, bankers, etc, who are building splendid mansions at the Capital. This concentration of wealth at the seat of the national government is no advantage to legislation but a serious detriment, tending as it does to give an undue influence to the money power, and to promote extravagance in many ways. Yet it appears to be the natural order of things for wealth, fashion and aristocracy to Hoar into the center from which the national life

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powerless to prevent it.

Kid stockings are the latest wrinkle. They fit like a glove and do away with the need of agarter

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THE New York Herald still leads the world of journalism in point of dimensions and grows larger with the growth of the great metropolis in which it is published. Its issue of last Sunday con sisted of thirty-two pages, being the largest paper ever issued from the office, and probably from any other.) Of its 192 columns 120 were filled with advertisements. Commenting upon the event the Herald editorially said "This combination of over five single sheet papers filled with advertisements and three filled with the news, all published in one day and sold at the price of one paper. Is something hitherto unknown in the history of journalism in this country, and we doubt if it' has ever been equalled in any other conn try."

In some respects the Herald stands without a rival and fills the field of its choice beyond the possibility of sucessful competition. Its strength is in its news columns rather than in the expression of editorial opinion, and as a creator of public sentiment it has no such name and fame as the Tribune. But viewed merely from the [standpoint of successful journalism and adventurous enterprise the Herald easily leaves ail its competitors behind.

The remarkable feat has been accomplished of talking through a telephone between New York and Chicago. The distance is a thousand miles, and yet the voices were heard as distinctly as if only a few squares apart. What can this mean but that the old system of telegraphy has seen its day and is to be succeeded in the near future entirely by the telephone. The change will be in the direction of economy and a much cheaper method of communication between widely separated places, a smaller force being required to man the telephone than to manipnlate the telegraph. By the old method one operator is required to send the message and another to receive it, while with the new, the parties can communicate directly. The new system is at once less cumbersome and more expeditious. In a word, long writing is to give place to long talking, with all that such a change implies.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

The latest thing in gentlemen's hose is clean feet The murders in the United States list year averaged two a day, the executions two a week.

A Rhode Islander says: "It is a crime to be politically honest in any part of New England."

L. W. Pond used to be worth $1,000,000 and owu car shops at Worcester, Mass. He is now working in those shops at $3 per day.

The jury that acquitted Dukes were all Democrats, all married men, and all fathers, and three of them have grownup daughters.

Two classes of men are disfranchised from holding office in this country: The pure men who will not buy office, and the poor men who can not buy.

Mr. Vanderbilt is not satisfied with his new house, but is now building on an addition in the shpae of a conservatory which will cost $100,000. Some men are hard to please.

An agnostic, says the N. Y. Observer, is one who asserts that it is impossible for us to know anything with certainty If he knows that, then he knows some thing. And if he knows something, be is not an agnostic.

It took a certain young clerk all aback when, at the opera house the other even ing, he whispered to his girl that he guessed he would step out a moment to

"It is very oppressive, George I'll go out with you." It is rather a remarkable fact \bat within the last year four men havo died who held the position of postmaster general, namely: Maynard, of Tennessee Dennison, of Ohio Jewell, of Connecticut, and Howe, of Wisconsin.

The lawyer who has been trying to secure the pardon of Sergeant Mason now proposes to rob "Betty and the baby" of the money benevolent people contributed for their welfare. He wants $3,500 for his services, which to. very clear he ought not to have.

A whisky-seller at Whitehall, N. Y., is in a bad mess. He has been found guilty of selling liquor illegally to 457 persons, and has been sentenced to pay a fine of $9,000 and stay in jail until it is paid. If he prefers to vfotk out his fine he can do so by going to the Bridewell for eighty years.

Some Washington correspondents are endeavoring to make sport of Secretary Chandler because be goes to a dairy every noon for lunch where he drinks a glass of milk and eats a doughnut, which costs him 7 cents. If he went to some whisky saloon, it wouldn't be so funny, of course.

Col. Richard M. Johnston, his friend and biographer, relates a curious dream which he bad on the very night of Mr. Stephens' death. He dreamed that be and Mr. Stephens were riding in a buggy to no particular place, as be could remember, when a small sheet ef water appeared before them. They drove on, but the water kept growing higher and higher about the carriage, until it appeared as if about to engulf them. At last came one huge wave, and Mr. Stephens, rising with the water about his waist, cried out: -'I am gone this time," and Immediately disappeared. ...

"LET your beans simmer in warm water slowly, with molasses and mustard then put in the pork and tfake a long time. A small green onion adds a delicious flavor." This is the latest reed pe for Boston "baked beans." Don't forget the little green onion.

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FANTASIES OF FASHION. The new lineu lawns are printed in the satteen designs of the season.

The new sunshades have very long sticks, and can be seen "half a mile up street." atrawberry buttons, imitating the fruit in shape and color, are used for trimming red dresses.

White bonnets are not worn on the street and are considered rather conspicuous at the theater. Light colored velvet, lace, and beaded bonnets are in better style. &. A

The Connaught Jersey is in preparation for a spring costumes. This is made of ribbed wool cloth or net of light quality in dark atyliah colors, and is trimmed across the front with wide black braid in hussar stripes.

Among the practical and most attractive new spring goods are smooth-fin-ished wool stuffs like tamise cloth, in solid colors of every kind, in plaids, blocks, checks, and stripes to match the plain goods, and intended for combination costumes.

Out-of-doors jackets, in the chasseur style are more fashionable than ever, and will be worn this spring by all young ladies, whether married or unmarried only the former wearit for undress toilet, and the latter scarcely adopt any other model, unless it is the long redingote.

Young ladies with low, well-shaped foreheads turn the hair back all around in loose waves, with here and there a curl they may also wear side parting. If the hair grows prettily on the nape of the neck it is carried up high and wound around in Psyche form and fastened by a small ornamental cofnb of Rhine stones or of shell.

TWO KINDS OF FACES. A barber said: "Everything depends upon the ahape of the faoe and the stiffness of the beard. Why, sir, you give me a young, ministerial looking chap with a long, smooth, lantern jaw and a receding chin, and I'll fix him out right away. A down stroke for each cheek, a few flourishes around the chin and mouth, a little bay rum, and you've got him. But when an old, wrinkle-faced man comes in 1 make up my mind for a long and hard job. It is like mowing in a rofcky pasture that is full of cradle knolls keep your razor as sharp as you can, you've got a hard task and one that makes you earn your monej^ all of it."

CIGARETTES

Anew fact that has come to light connected with cigarettes, that one would think would assist the'growing practice of smoking them, especially by women! The finer sensibilities of women have hitherto been sufficient to prevent the general use of tobacco in any form by them. But there are women to-day who use cigarettes aqd the u$e tender to a degeneration altogether* bevdnd what comes of being a slave to the Vile weed. It is now known that oM castaway cigar stumps are used in the manufacture of cigarettes. Boys are employed to gather them from hotels,bar-rooms, side-walks from wherever they are thrown. Collectors buy them of the boys, and send them to the manufactories by the barrel. No matter how disgusting the spot from whence they are picked whether from the spittoon with its dangerous saliva,or the gutter with its filth, the foul refuse finas its way into the mouth and nostrils of the cigarette smoker. But this is not all. Many a smoker throws away the stump of his cigar because be does not like the flavor of it. He does not know why the flavor is unpleasant to him, but It is caused by nicotine, th# active principle of tobacco, and a violent poison. This accumulates in the base of the cigar with every draught of the

smoke, and the man, noticing theun-

take the air, and she quickly responded:* pleasant flavor, throws the stump away,

I'his reservoir of nicotine finds its way into the cigarette, and the person who smokes it, gets,in a condensed form, the poison which so often works mischief on the brain of habitual smokers. But even this is not the worst of it. These cigar stumps have been in the mouths of all sorts of men—drunkards, fast yonng men, rotten old

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or touch or even the pencil they have held in their mouths, might communicate the foulest and most fearful disease that comes to a human being.

Things are coming to a pretty pass in Kentucky, says the Christian at Work, when a preacher has his salary docked for time lost on a trip to fight a duel in a distant part of the State.

Several prominent Philadelphia preachers read their prayers from manuscripts.

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