Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 April 1883 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER TOR THE PEOPLE.

nmuanoK omcx,

N». 20 and 22 South Fifth 8treet, Printing Hooae Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, APRIL 7,1883

Ma. LAMTRVUYET to

for

ambition young newspaper men.

it is stated thah there are rty- ve

GKNERAI. BARNES, retired surgeon general of the United States army, who attended both the assassinated Presi dents, died in Washington, on Thursday morning, of Bright's disease.

TUB newspapers of New York and other large cities have been discussing with some vigor whether a young man can marry on a salary of $10 a week, and it has been settled that be can if the girl's mother keeps it boarding house.

C'BKTAIN

MOST if not all of the world's progress has been due tnfmen who were ahead of their times. All honor to these men, for they must often have felt like the fellow up in Michigan who got ahead of a sawlog rolling down bill. He says $10,000 In gold wouldn't hire him to try it again. _________

THK Evening Times, of Indianapolis, ceased publication last Saturday. It was not found to be profitable in connection with the morning paper, while it entailed much additional labor and' expense. The morning Times will be contiuuodon its original plan of a cheap condensation of the current news.

AH a stiuiulous to those persons who considor it their duty to discourage the game of base ball, it may be stated that that three organized Leagues will pay to their players this season, a salary list of $300,000 two other Leagues will pay $50,000. The umpires to the three chief Leagues will cost about $11,000. Vive le baao ball.

THE Cincinnati Enquirer heads the recent Democratic victory in Ohio, "King Gambrinus still reigns." Democracy acknowledges its sovereign. How would it do to strike off from the great seal of the State the sheaf of wheat and the sun rising over the hills and substitute the bloated old king, holding aloft his glass of foaming beer?

AT tho election in Cincinnati last Tuesday a desperato eflort was made by both sides to poll a large vote. In one ward an idiot was brought to the polls, and, In another, they started with ah old man over a hundred years old, but he died before they could get him into t^« hack. Neither party was dosperate enough to offer any-female votes.

AM a companion item to that of the Terre Haute school boy of German parentage who asked his teacher to let him go homo to got a glass of beer, there comes the statement that a Sunday school pupil in Portsmouth, N. H., frankly gave as an explanation of his absencc from school for two Sundays that he had to stay at home to help his father sell beer.

TUB names of nearly all the prominent lawyers in the State are being mentioned In connection with the appointment to the District Judgeship, vnottlwi by Judge Gresham, but no appointment will probably lie made for several weeks, the President having gone South to be absent for some time. There is plenty of tall timber— waiting to le struck.

CIRCULAR NO. 2, of the current series from hindquarters of of the U. S. Army has the following paragraph "The li»th of Apill 18tU, is usually held to be the date on which the war opened. The

CIOMM!on

pie

August 20, 1806, the date on

which the President issued his proclamation declaring the insurrection at an end."

THK announcement that Judge Walter Q. Greaham has been tendered the position of Postmaster General, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Howe, will

Indiana,

the appointment is a compliment and an honor to the State. Judge Greaham has long filled a position of great labor and responsibility aud Is thoroughly qua!

Hied for the wider field to which he ha* beeu so suddenly called.

INPIAX

A POUTS

furnishes a second •fe

ll art, in the person of Owrge F. Stone, aged thirty-six, and an Englishman by birth, who has been declared Insane, his lunacy originating from seeing Mrs. taangtry when she appeared in that city. Stone's mania took the form of a desire tofwnra a collection or ber autographs, and ho was about to employ legal aasistanos In carrying out hl*.purpo««e when his friends interfered and put him In the lunatic asylum. Qsbhart'a friends were not so rough on him.

more than 700

TAT,E»RDfrom.

He has probably eloped with so Hie Briti»h bar-maid.

KENTUCKY ought to be a good field

—..w. ,r XAA lM7|/Uwuv*tM« PWHUVJO| «uu -w-r—

Tuesday In Evan8viUe

lssue wag

druggist in this city has

sont out a large lot of samples of face powder with circulars which especially recommend it for its "suave and aristocratic perfume." Happy thought There is nothing an ambitious woman so desires as to have an "aristocratic smell." __________

"repudiation or honest pay-

ment of the city.g

vtnntiM in that State in which no .. .. counties in that State newspaper is published.

ment of the city's debt, ana ,ne

son being elected in Chicago by 10,000

music in a national campaign.

IT used to be thought that any food in the stomach at night would murder sleep as effectually as Macbeth did. The world has become wiser, and the discovery has recentty been made that many people cannot sleep because they are actually in need of nourishment in other words that the faBt is too long which continues from six in the evening until the next morning, and physicians who used to prescribe bromide of soda for sleepless ness, now urge ther patients to take beef tea. A writer in the Christian Union who was troubled in this way tried the new method of treatment, using it with a little light bread or biscuit, and afterwards adopting milk just scalded instead of the beef tea, with good results. To facilitate matters it is recommended that a pocket stove with an alcohol lamp or an arrangement for the gas fixture be at hand.

ON Wednesday ef last week a a remarkable deputation waited upon the magistrates of Manchester, England. It was beaded by an Episcopal and a Catholic Bishop and was composed of anum ber of ministers and distinguished men. Their object was to ask the magistrates to purify the city from the disorderly houses by which it is disgraced. A lady, Miss Ellice Hopkins, has been visiting the northern counties of England, urging that measures be taken for the suppression of immorality. She has met with much success. At Oxford, Cambridge and mauy other places, large organizations of young men have been formed under the name of the White t?rote Army, the object of which is the promotion of purity. The principal pledge is "to maintain the law of purity as equally binding on men and women." Who has the courage to start a branch of this organization in Terre Haute?

THK Illinois Supreme court has decided that the Pullman Palace car company is a common carrier and is bound to furnish berths in its sleeping cars when the price is tendered. The suit was for the refusal of the company to permit the plaintiff to occupy a sleeping berth assigned to him and for which he offered to pay, and the court below decided that it was optional on the part of the part of tho company to furnish the accomodations or not. Reversing this ruling the Supreme Court holds that the running of sleepers has become a business of social necessity, and in this view tho law can impose obligations on the company the same as railway ferrymen and inn-keepers. The plaintiff was :,.uko Nevin, of Bloomiugton, 111., who recovered $5,000 for himself, and a like sum for his wife for having bean refused berths in a sleeping car on the Illinois Central. He has now instituted a third suit in behalf of his niece, who was also refused a berth. Mr. Nevin isevidently good litigant and proposes to maintain his rights and those of his family to the bitter end. rloN. W. P. FISH

BACK

miles along the river close appication to business, become

o*n lanrfiTwr*. He rich man

with him, and will send to the points name green for many generations. most in need of help by cheek from New His life is one of that happy and auc York Taking altogether the Herald's cessfnl kind

^m.gDl4MnUy.

which

c*t.,. npmenUng repud-'loD, Bat It did not wit

the city. The Democrats also elected their candidates for mayor in Chicago,

Cleveland and Cincinnati, Carter Harn- 125

is writing a Se

ries of "opeu l6tters" to Congressman Peelle.of the Indianapolis District, on the subject of the tariff bill passed by the late Congress, in which he argues that tho reduction of the tariff, what little it is reduced by the bill, is all in the in-

SHpreme t'ourt of the United States has of the manufacturers, monopo- principles of our govern ment. decided that th* war of the rebellion

llts Rnd wealthy corporations

advocacy

the Uborew who are

"Pink"

mmm TERRE "H A TTTE SATFRD A JEVENIJSTG MAIL.

THJC New York Herald's flood relief fund reached nearly $53,000, of which $33,000 was sent to the various relief committees while the flood was at its height. About three weeks ago the Herald sent ont as its special commissioner Mr. George F. Williams, who took with him $22,000 and made a person traveling indoniubtewiU, —U*r .nd UowouM ha,.

and

the

which

THE Republicans got a black eye, sev- gtancas, and young Cooper first learned

,, eral black even in fact, in the elections that trade. Then his father become

the main

hrt,w„r AnA tha

This venerable man, one cf the most sociation at Indianapolis this week was remarkable of New York's citizens In a little rash in passing a resolution exin pressing confidence in Mrs. Helen M. the 93d year of his age. He began life Gougar. She is entitled to the benefit without money and without education, of every doubt, but it must be confessed even such a limited

4one

district school now affords, and by his damaging character. The general phb-

founder of a

25 wbc will ke«p

read like a romance

His father was a hatterjay trade, with large family and in very narrow ciroum-

i«d. with that facili

brewer, and the lad, with that facility

characterized everything he un

debt, and the Demo dertook, learned the brewing business

dertook,

learned the brewing oosinew.

himself apprentice to a carriage'maker, working four years for- his board and

worklDg foar

year, lor rns ooara am.

year to clothe himself with. He

wanted

an education, but there were no

majority. But then it is the "off year" free schools in those early days,and not majority. oui iunu »us iree scnoou tuuMi osn uBjrB,auu uw promise of marriage has been introduced in politics and the Republicans never night school in the whole city of New in the English Parliament. The bill, if show up well in off years. There will York, and the determined boy hired a *»:ii oiii-mr a.iUo »nv be something more interesting in the teacher^to give him some rudimentary actual monetary ions, uut is im«uueu tussle which will come off next year, instruction. It was at this time that he abolish the principle of allowing damwhen both parties will have to face the is

said

have formed

His irarriage was so happy a one that it is thought by bis relatives that a harsh word never passed between the couple during the fifty-five years they lived together. When tho first baby came and they needed a cradle, the ingenious father invented a machine to rock it, and made and sold a number of the mar chines. The first locomotive that ran on a railroad in the United States was made at his iron works in Baltimore.

Meantime bis possessions were increasing and he was buying, little by little, the block of ground upon which was to be erected the great

is holding a very fat office under the INASMUCH as Indiana has in the presgovernment, but that does not prevent ent administration the Post Master him from saying whatever bethinks General, Assistant Secretary of tbe and thinking whatever he pleases, even Treasury, Commission of Pensions, the

of free-trade doctines in Fifth Auditor of the the Treasury, Min

to opposition to the long established policy ister to Spain, and a great numbet of of his party. His argument is that pro- subordinate positions in the various

vacant iv tne oeatn ot air. now*, wm manufacturer* does not help departments, the Courier Journal thinks give the greatest satisfaction to the peo-

irrespective of party, as all the same, tariffor no tariff. It for, and should stop howUng for "mora." not hard to make a very plausible ar- it may strike an outsider so, but Indiana is gumant on that side of the case but there

paid the minimum the Hoosier State fa pretty well cared

(institute

which was the dream of his life. When he first projected it there was not a night school of auy kind in the city, but years afterwards, when he was able to put his plan into execution, there were free day and night schools in every ward and he then concluded to make it an institute similar in general

purpoEe

to the great polytechnic school of Paris, designed for the education of the youth of ooth sexes in all the mechanical art? sciences. Tbe Cooper Institute, as fiually realized by its founder, is*a vast structure of brick, stone and iron, six stories high, and costing $700,000. Tbe lower hall is much used for political conventionsand public meetings of various kinds while other parts of the building are devoted to reading and school rooms and still others »re rented out, producing an income of many thousands of dollars annually, which is used for maintaining and carrying on the institute. It is perfectly free in every department to all who choose to receive its benefits.

It is not often that a man accomplishes, more or worthier work in life than was accomplished by Peter Cooper.

THE spirit of intolerance still exists. The Mayor of New York continues to fight the Passion Play. A performance was arranged for last Tuesday night and, after waiting till an immense audience was assomblfed, an iujunction was served restraining the play. The proceeds, which were to be given to the Home for Poor Children, were refunded and Mr. Morse will have to try some other plan. When one considers the opera bouffe, the can-can, the saloon concerts and the hundreds of disreputable entertainments that are nightly tolerated in New York City, the warfare on the Passion Play becomes religious persecution, which is contrary to the fundamental

Republicans are disposed to get all they

Is a good deal that can be said on tbe can, and think their deserts will lie none other ride also. In fact the tariff que» too highly rewarded then. tion is to politics what free will and foreordination are to religious contro- A cCRiotrs story comes from

3»*j»

Law-

versy. You eau talk all day on either reoce, MSJWL, of a man who placed himiiide, free trade or protection, and not self under tbe treatment of one Anna know much more about it when you Mor»e, wbo professes to ^£Ti£«ld7n With the'mal quit than when you began. Every tarifi by faith. After g*«ng Intently in his tltude of k«r test, nhorfweight,alam measure that is pMsedis in tbe nature of face for six hours the man died and tbe

a compromise, the different sections of physicians who exanlned him afterthe country combining and log-rolling wards said he died "from exhaustion vnpp RROWW each t« secure or to preserve the proteo censed by tbe protracted agony in which

tion of such articles as will be profitable the woman had kept kept him for six te their particular locality. This Is tbe hours.M Looking Into a woman's fees chief reason why oar tariff laws ere so le not si ways followed by such dire renniformly utisstisfaclory. Nor Is it eults but tbeie is a difference In women -y

lb*

THE State Christian Temperance As

as the county that some of the evidence is of rather a

a resolution ex

pressing greater confidence in the C. T.

bene^o- A. if it bad been a little more conserva-

THK Slate board of relief for tbe flood sufferers has made a final distribution of the money remaining on hand to the places found to be most in need of assistance. It is gratifying and complimentary* to the people of the State to be able to say that the contributions of private citizens have been so generous that the State board did not need to use

of riated

th/£^ls,l.tarealter

noHftnoi mmniiiffn. finally consummated many years after, a bill would receive unanimous support of building a free school for the educa- in this country from everybody except tion, of evenings, of working people the lawyers. A maiden's feelings that who had 'no other opportunity for ac- can stand the coarse publicity of the

quiring knowledge. He did not follow carriage making on his own account, but set up in the grocery business on a small scale. When the war of 1812 broke out it caused a great demand foi woolen goods, and young Cooper invented a machine for shearing the nap off of such goods, which worked Jso well that he began the manufacture and sale of the machines and found a ready market for all he could make. He bought a glue factory which had not done well, and carried it on successfully for thirty years, being his own bookkeeper, salesman and glue boiler, aud lighting the fires in the factory every 'morning at dawn. His glue attained a wide fame and brought him an ample income.

BILL

court room are not susceptible of any serious damage, and a wounded heart which can be healed by a plaster of greenbacks need not draw very largely upon our sympathies.

SUIT

for breach of promise is now

in progress in New York where tbe plaintiff is a youug man. A large package of letters written by the young lady are produced in evidence in all of which she refers to herself and signs herself "Baby." For preferring some other cradle to the one he offers her, he asks $10,000. Such suits are of rare occurrence, as a damaged 3'oung man is not an object which calls for much pity. It may not be generally known that we have.in this city, a lady of the highest social standing, who was a defendant in a breach of promise case and obliged to pay about$2,500 to the injured youth.

THE significant and not reassuring fact is noted of Connecticut, that while the State is gradually increasing in population the gain is confined entire to the eities and manufacturing towns, while tbe population of the agricultural districts has fallen off for fifty years past many of the more enterprising young farmers going West, and others drifting into the towns to engage in some other kind of industry. Yetit is said that the excellent quality of the soil in many communities, the convenience to market and the demand for all kinds of farm products should make agriculture exceptionally profitable. The tendency in New England seems to be the merging of small farms into large ones and the ownership of tbe land by wealthy manufacturers, merchants and capitalists,— a tendency not pleasant to contemplate.

An Instantaneous Light. Such in word is the unique apparatus on exhibition at the rooms of the Portable Electric Light Co., 22 Water street, Boston. It occupies the space of only five square inches and weighs but five

Bounds,

aons,

and can be carried with ease.

be light, or more properly lighter, re-

uirc.s no extra power, wires or connecand is so constructed that any part can be replaced at a small cost. The chemicals are placed in a glass retort a carbon aud zinc apparatus, with a spiral platinum attachment, is then adjusted so as to form a battery, and the light is ready. Tbe pressure on a little knob produces an electric current by which the spiral of platinujn is heated to incandescence. The Portable Electric Light Co. was recently incorporated, with a capital of $100,000, under tbe laws of Massachusetts. The usefulness of the apparatus, and the low price ($5), will no doubt result in its general adoption. Some of the prominent business men of the State are identified with this enterprise. In addition to its use as a lighter, tbe apparatus can also be used In connection with a burglar-alarm and galvanic battery.—Boston Transcript, December 30.

t'C/V?

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

Thir powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and whoiesamene*. More economical than tbe ordinary kinds, and

Id In competition with the multcst, short weight, alum or ptoos-

0017111

niniT cV)d only in cans.

ITORAXuvn BAKI!*O

POWDKR (V..

'a*

thr

*-5

the firet appropria-

tion of $40,000. The latter sum was ex

no Qf former

to abolish actions for breach of

the plan which he ages for disappointment or grief. Such

10« WIIT' N.Y

ALKAAJJlJfcK & UKUnH

IXVTTK A CALL. FOR

BOOTS and SHOES,*

SIS Main street. arriving fma Xassfbctsren. '"ivm 'Si#!!!

JOHN

vj&a

-H0BER(T, root & CO.

*4* MAIN STREET. ,* }%1

Carry the Day on Low Prices!

Our )ur immense sales the past week justify us to put greater hopes in

the

f^ure.

THIS WEEK

i, New Summer Silks, 50c, 60c, 75c, 82$c. Satin Bhadames, Black and Colors, at 1.25 worth 1.60.

BLACK BROCADES

In elegant Silk and Satin effects, 90c, 1.00, 1.25 and 1.50 jer yard. All 20 per cent below value. Please Examine.

SPECIAL1 OPENING

-f TO-DAY OF

PARASOL S.

Patrons and Friends:

Having refitted my store by putting in a large new sky-light in the center, thus making my room as light as day, preferring always to show good goods in the light than shoddy goods in the dark. I want every patron to see that I keep the best goods in the market.

MY SPRING PURCHASE

Is now complete and I can say without boasting, I have the best stock of Men's, Youths', Boys' and Children's Clothing ever opened out in this market They are both handsome and very cheap. Plain figures tell our prices. No jockeying or baffling. I invite your inspection.

It. hTmiller,

522 Main street, North side near Sixth.

New Spring

DRESS GOODS,

In all the New and Fashionable Shades, at Very Low Prices.

Black Cashmeres, Drap d'ete, Henrietta and Jersey Cloth,

Of the best French makes, Very Cheap.

ANTOINE GUINET'S CELEBRATED

BLA0K SIT^KS,

20 per cent less tban those of any other hounr.

A BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT

SUMMEB SILKS.

J. Rothschild & Co.

422 Main Street. Terre Haute, lud.

-FOR-

BOOTS & SHOES.

Ladies' Best French Kid Side Lace, $3.50. Reduced from $4.50. Ladies' Bent Goat Side Lace 2.60. 3.25. Ladies'Goat Side Lace 2.00. 2.75. Ladies' Kid Button Boots 1»85 2.25. Ladies'Kid Button Boots 2.50 3.25. Misses' Shoes $1.00 to $2.00, worth $L50 and $2.50. Child's Goat and Kid Shoes 85c. to $1.00, worth $L00 to $L35. Boys' shoes $1.25 worth $L75. Men's Calf Button Shoes $L50 to 2.00, worth 2.50 to $&50. These goods are First Class, but I must reduce stock, and v, offer these bargains. Heavy Boots and Shoes at Actual Cost.

""in

407 Main Street.

*31^is.