Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 April 1883 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER

FOR THE

And

PEOPLE

FtrBUCATio!" omat,

Nob. 20 and 22 ctoath Fifth Street, Printing Howie Square.

P.S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR^ •yJt

TBRRE HAUTE, APRfL28, 1883.

THE weather but we will not en crouch upon Mr. Wiggins' property.

A number of lady delegates were pr *wnt at the Land League Convention io Philadelphia, this week.

"BOCK' Stout, convicted of murder, wm sentenced Tuesday evening, RookviUe, to be buog on Wednesday the 8th day of August. .,

Katk Fibld, in commenting on the dude, exclaims, "Has be one redeeming point? If be has, pray tell me, for cannot find it." Look at bis shoes Kate, and you will find two.

PATTI is considering the question whether she can afford to sing fifty nights for 1250,000. The next best thing to being a railroid king is to be an operatic warbler of the finest feather. P. 8. After due consideration, Patti has concluded that she can afford to do it

THE Chicago Inter Ocean, which held out for a long time against the publication of a Sunday paper, has finally given way and will hereafter publish a Sun day edition. It in safe to say in advance that it will be the cleanest Sunday paper issued in that city. Unlike most sevenday issues it will not save up its dirty sensations for (be Sunday paper.

THK Metropolitan Police Force at Indianapolis la about organized. Oue man was so anxious to an office holder that be resigned a position payiug bim $2.50 jer day to drive the patrol wagon day aud night for $1.75. He was finally rejected on account of near-sightedness, and now, with his ambition nipped in tbe bud, the poor man will have to go back to work at $2.50 a day.

AND now

from

tbe abode of the honest

granger comes the revelation that pure maple syiup is made from glucose, licorice aud old umple sugar. It is put up in go lion jug ), aud, to make the deception complete, each jug is corked with acorn cob. This is too much. Il we cannot have confidence that a jug corned with acorn cob is a pure country product, our faith la a to^al wreck.

PoRTAWiK paper bouse* are being mnnufacturod in England. In the near future a man may take his bouse upon his baa* and travel after the manner of a snail. We can improve upon the command to the one nick with the palsy and say, "Arise, take up thy house and walk."

what assurance has a land

lord, when he goes to collect his rent, that he will not find both tenant and house gone to parts unknown

Tiikub is danger tbat the dynamite question will be dragged Into politic*. A prominent politician of Indianapolis says, "The Democrats must Indorse the dyuamlte Communists or lose the Irish vote and theComncnnistlc element of other foreigners. The Republican National Convention will have to tako a stand u)»on this question." It is safe to say that whatever party meddles with dynamite will ond by being blown up.

It appears that Indiana is to have her usual share of politics next year. The Chicago Inter Ocean, after a careful review of tbe entire field, concludes tbat tbo Hoosier State Is again destined to be the pivotal one in the campaign of 1884. This is pretty hard, but the boys will have to try and bear it. The accompanying consolation is tbe fact tbat they can put In a strong claim for the offices when the fight is over.

«Wbr» matches were first invented there was universal prejudice against them. Tbo (tapers denounced them as "a bid for incendiarism." Merchants would not keep them for sale and tbe railroads refused to carry them. Theinvmnter, a Massachusetts man, was obliged to take them through to Boston In wagons, it Is a singular fact that many o( our most useful and important Inventions have had to contend with the ignorant prejudices of the very people thiy were intended to benefit.

T«S European report of glass manufactures say*. "Tbe people of Europe are

not

great water-drink ere, and find our water goblets altogether too large but on tbe other hand they are great beer drinkers aud complain that our beer gtaiaH are entirely too small. If it were not for these defects American glass would be ueed here." Ship them a few cargoes of our "schooners" and if they find those too small let some Yankee invent a faucet that will enable thlnty Europeans to drink their beer by the keg.

Taa Society of the Red Cross Is an international benevolent organisation for the o*r« of wounded soldiers. All nur«ee,sorgeon» sod hospital attendants oonneoted with this society sre oonaideced neutral in time of war. Almost every country on tbe globe has signed this treaty. It WM signed by President Arthur and ratified by tbe senate taH* year. It is called the treaty of Geneva and it* adoption by this country WM mainly due to the efforts of a woman, tbe well-known philanthropist. Miss .Clam Barton.

THBlatent rage at fashionable parties is io paste sll tbe letter# of regret in a handsome album and exhibit it on the psrlor table. This would make in teresting reading for those of tbe guests wbo happed to know the real reason for the non-attendance of tbe senders. "An unexpected business engagement," may be translated.'"I do not want to bored "circumstances beyond my control,' means tbat sbe has nothing to wear and "a sudden indisposition" signifies that be bas not recovered ,ffom last night's spree.

It tea rather t-hrewd idea for the English government to decide that "emigre tion is tbe best and the inevitable rem edy for the distress in Ireland." It bas been the custom so long for foreign countries to send their paupers and con viets to this country tbat we are not at ail astonished at England's suggestion but it is a very severe comment uron monarchy tbat it is incapable of managing its subjects and must send them to a republic. Even the superiority of of England's navy over our own caoQQt compensate for this state of a flairs.

Fboh careful and trustworthy reports from all the wheat growing sections of the country except California, the New York Tribune is able to state tbat the outlook is good for an average crop thiyear. It says: "The reports of damage from the severe cold prove to have been unfounded in nearly all cases. Warm genial weather of the past few weeks bas turned the brown fields green, and thus dispel the gloomy forebodings which were rife a month or so ago." It appears to have been tbe old familiar croak which we bear every spring and to have been equally unfounded.

Last year tbe medical code of New York was amended so as to permit allopothists and bomeopathists to consult together. This year four hundred of the "regular"' physicians have signed a pledgo to work for the restoration of the old code. Sympathy Is with the bomeopathists, but the other physicians say it is because the public do not understand tbe importance of a rigid code. We dou't know much about the code, but we are fully educated up to the knowledge tbat a little pill is easier to take than a big one, and a drop of bella donna in a pint of water is much pleasanter tban a table spoonful of caster oil or an old-fashioned dose of calomel.

SPECULATION in Wall street is like a name of faro, there is a large and steady per cent, in favor of the dealer, and the player is bound to come out bankrupt. A man who persistently speculates turough the medium of a broker will find all his profits swallowed up io commissions and himself irretrievably ruined. But with this fact constantly before them, every day brings us news o! men who have lost in this manner, not only their own fortunes, but those which they held as a sacred trust for othecs. All that remains is flight, the penitentiary or suicide, and yet it seems useless to hope tbat men in their eager baste to be rich will be warned, even though one catne back from tbe dead to speak to tbem.

Miss WOLFK recently graduated at the medical college in Cincinnati and received two gold medals for her essays which were unusually brilliant. Dr. Hartshorn, professor of surgery, refused to return oue of the essays he had In his possession which is said to be remarkably brilllaut and original. After demanding it several times she sent an attorney for it and the doctor coolly replied tbat be had put it Into the fire. She sued him and recovered $300. Like Dr. Dix, Dr. Hartshorn evidently does not believe in tbe higher education of women aud took this method of expressing him self. Finding it so expeusive, he will probably show his disapprobation in some other manner in the future. Hartshorn What's in a name?

ABRBY and Maplesou are engaged in a spirited rivalry as to which shall "manhgn" Madame Patti next season. Abbey offeied $5,000 a sight for fifty nights, with W. H. Vanderbilt as security. He would build a special traveling car, nickel plated, with conservatory, piano, etc. Crimson cloth should always be laid from tbe oar to the carriage, and, most Important of all, a man should be sent on ahead, at each stopping place, to secure hunting and fishing grounds for Nicolini. Hearing of this offer, Mapleson threw up the sponge and Madame Patti referred Mr. Abbey to her manager. The dear people are interested in this to the extent of knowing that if they expect to hear tbe diva next winter, they must begin now to rave up money.

TRKRK is a lively kick all along the line at tbe unconscionable contract with Patti to sing in tbe United States for fifty nights at |5,000 per night. Of course the engagement means the charging of fabulous prices for admission, and is, as tbe St. Louis Republican justly observes, a reflection on tbe common sense of onr people. But after all it is only "business" on the part of Abbey, and as long as Americans are big enough fools to be gulled in this way there will not be wanting managers to gull tbem. Tbe people have the reform of*this ssosetaas extravagance in their own hands, and can remove tbe imposition in a Angle wmon by refusing to attend performances for which exorbitant prices am charged. m====

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THB Chicago Nsws tells na tbat a man op then wee given four deys in tbe bridewell last Tnerfay for load Paging because hts wife deed. There is getting to be no liberty in this coon try any mora.

TEHEE WATTTB SATURDAY CVWINQ MALL*

ThiSopremecourtof Iowa, after long and careful deliberation, has again decided the prohibition amendment to tb* constitution to be invalid. Tbe grouif of tbe decision is that the constitution of the State requires at least that the entries upon tbe journals of tbe general assembly shall show the terms of the amendment submitted, and this is not shown on tbe journals of either bouse. Justice Beck dissented from the decision of tbe majority of the court, giving the grounds of his dissent in an elaborate opinion.

In most of the municipal elections held in Illinois on Tuesday the temperance question was tbe principal issue Tbe result appears to have been about as follows Where tbe temperance people made a fight against any aud all li ense and in favor of prohibition they were generally defeated, only a few of the smaller towns favoring it and as between high and low license the latter won by a large majority, not more than one town in eight adopting high license. The fight over the knotty question still goes on in the Legislature.

THE impression prevails in Washington newspaper circles that Senator Harrison has recommended his law partner, Judge Hines, for the vacant United States District Judgsbip. While it is admitted tbat Judge Hines is in every respect qualified lor tbe place, the wisdom of hia appointment, regarded from a standpoint of political policy, is gravely doubted, many shrewd politicians urging tbat the place should be'given to some one outside of Indianapolis, as a number of important offices are already held by Indianapolis men. There is a good deal of force in this suggestion. Republican workers throughout the Stale have been oomplaining for some time that all the fat places were bagged by the capital

THB details of the cyclone which passed over portions of Mississippi and Georgia on Sunday show it to have been exceedingly destructive, both of life and property. Tbe two towns of Wesson snd Beauregard were converted almost instantly into amass of ruins and some fifteen or twenty people killed in each place, besides a large number wounded. Tbe usual dark funnel shaped cloud was seen to approach accompanied by a waving sound like that of an earthquake. Before any precautions for safety could be taken tbe tornado was upon tbem, dealing death and destruction in ove»*y d'recti on. A number of persons were killed or wounded in other places also and the increasing list of fatalities indicates that it may yet be swelled into the hundreds.

FREEMAN, the religious fanatic who killed his little .daughter in Pocasset, Mass., about four years ago, declaring that be had been ordered to offer her as a sacrifice to God, has been declared sane a commission of inquiry, a^d la soon to be brought to trial for the murder. It is said that from being a religious fanatic, Freeman is now fast tending to infidelity, declaring tbat he was instigated by the devil, and not inspired by God to kill his daughter. This, however, would certainly tend to indicate insanity, rather than sanity, and notwithstanding the conclusion reached by the commission it is difficult te believe tbat Freeman was a sane man when he perpetrated that dreadful act. It is also stated that his wife, who assisted in the murder of the child, has renounced the delusion that had possession of her, and feels keenly the losfc of herJlttle girl.

SMITH, a young lawyer of Anderson, Xnd., and who was reading clerk of the last State Senate, has developed into a miraculous healer of diseases, if his own testimony is to be believed. He claims to be able to cure all manner of direases simply by manipulating tbe patient with his hands. Indeed, in many cases even tbat is not necessary, as by merely waving his hands before the patient tbe disease is driven off. Mr, Smith says the motions of his hands are involuntary, he simply making himrelf an impassive instrument, resigning his will power, when tbe necessary motions are made of their own accord. He has located in Indianapolis with the expectation, donbtless, of finding his new calling much less laborious and more profitable tban the old one. The alleged miracle worker is six feet two high and tips the beam to 220 pounds. Should his anticipations as a healer not be realised it is suggested that he is the kind of man who could make a sledge hammer hum.

AT tbe trial of the dynamite conspirator* in London, Lynch, tbe informer, testified that be jm* a member of a secret society in New York, pledged to obey all orders, and was sent on a mission to London. When be arrived there be was Informed that be was to take part in a scheme to Mow np the public bnildings of tbat city with dynamite. To this extent bis story appears true, fo» it was developed that be had dealings with parties upon wboae premises explosives wm found. But from some causs tbe scheme came to nangbt, as so many similar ones have done before it, and tbe nenti of Use plotters quickly became known to tbe detectives. Tbe whole atfidr seems to have been tbe product of a few hare-brained fanatics, and wm of no alarming significance. Tbe fact tbat O'Donovan ROM, tbe great dynamite apoatla, was so quick to deny all conMotion witb

•fii '^iSM

knowledge of tbe alleged

eoaspixnsy is taken as an indication tbat tbe dynamite busioces is more a matter of wOd aad empty boasting tban of eerioosletentton to pot It into practice.

THE MOHMON PROBLEM. A correspondent writing from Salt Lake, concerning tbe Mormon problem, says tbe Edmonds law, from wblfb much was expected, has proved an utter failure and bas not prevented a single polygamous marriage or punished a solitary poly gam 1st. Instead of waning, the Mormon church is constantly increasing in numbers and power. Mormon missionaries are sent abroad for recruits, which are found among the poor whites of tbe Soutb and 'tLe most ignorant of European peasantry. Among tbe latter class, so it is said, young girls are decoyed from their homes, and in some cases young wives from their husbands, and their passage paid to Utah, where they become the wives of Mormon elders whether they will or not. Tbus they are practically bought and carried away into captivity, in many cates without the knowledge of their parents or friends. Says the correspondent: "The officers of the anti-polygamy society,and tbeeditorsof tbe non-Mormon papers in this city, receive most heartrendending letters from fathers and mothers whose young daughters have been stolen from their homes, entreating thpm to try and fipd out where tbey are, but tbe Mormon hierarchy is all powerful in Utah, and neither the disinterested efforts of Christian men and women nor the large rewards offered by distressed parents can bring back tbe girls, who perhaps have already been consigned to a fate worse tban death,"

One instance Is related of two young married women, sisters, each with a babe in arms, wbo had been decoycd from their homes by tbe Mormon missionaries, going to a neighboring seaport town on the pretence of visiting another sister aud there embarking for America. The cost of these importations is paid out to a regular fund provided for tbat purpose. The working force of Mormon missionaries in the field is not allowed to diminish but is rather increased by theconstant sending out of new ones. At the semi-annual conference recently held about 300 missionaries were appointed.

Thus thin upas tree of Mormonism goes on increasing in size, and throwing out its leprous roots into tbe adiacent Territories in spite of the laws passed by Congress, and tbe question is, what is the goverment going to do about It It would seem to be about time to answer the question, for it is not easy to see what will be gained by waiting until tbe monster waxes still stronger tban it is now. The United States ought to deal with Mormonism emphatically and once for all, taiking whatever step may be necessary, even to the marching of an army into Utah, to crush polygamy out of existence. If heroic measures are necessary, let heroic measures be applied.

PERSONS who have visited New Mexico and Texas with a view of embarking in the business of stock raising report that tbe available grazing lands are being rapidly taken up by combinations of capitalists who are able to buy and bold thousands of acres of land, and to stock their immense ranches with thousands of cattle. These men monopolize the business and render it extremely difficult for a person of limited means to obtain a foothold or to engage in tbe stock business sucessfully. As a matter of course these large operators are able to combine together and fix the price? of cattle very much to their own advantage. This kind of monopoly, is tbe growing evil of our country. It i«» to be seeuon all sides and in every lineof business. It gets into tbe balls of legislation by Interesting senators and representatives in monopolies of various kinds In all sections of the country and thus rich men and corporations have an undue influence in shaping the legislation of the nation. It is as true now as it was in the days of Solomon that "tbe destruction of the poor is their poverty." It handicaps tbem at every turn. The rich man buys his coal in summer and gels it at a b«ndsome discount. He is able to buy things in large quantities and thus gets another discount. He is able to take advantage of the market and lay in his stores at the lowest prices. On the other band the. poor man is obliged to buy in small quantities, and from day to day, and so buys at the high water mark always. He loses in all the ways in which bis rich neighbor gains. It is not easy. It is true, to see how many of the poor man's burden's are to be lightened, and perbape It is impossible to remove some of the disadvantages under which he labors, since they are as old as tbe time of Solomon yet it does seem possible and even practicable to restrain by proper laws the monopolizing tendencies of the money power, and tbe body of tbe people have the right toexpect and demand tbat this will be done.

JAY GOULD'S manager bas iasoed orders to the employes on tbe Missouri Pacific railroad to abstain from liquor both when on and off doty. A big pork packing firm in ITisnsas city baa iasoed ^mtit orders to its several bandied employes and bas also forbidden tbem Io visit gambling booses. Some of the western papers arc questioning tbe rights of employers to interfere with tbe private af&irs of tboee who serve tbem. As far ss these private habits affect tbe business interests of the employer, be would certainly seem to have that right. No talltoad corporation and no business firm would IM safe to trust Important matten to men wbo drank and gambled. 8ocb men are not competent to attend to their own aflhirs and cannot expect tbe confidence of employers or of tbe gsoeral public. It is weakly senti-

Which would find fault witfe

•oek interference.

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ROSS & BALUE,

Real Eitate Brokers.

521 Ohio Ntreet, Terre Haute.

Take pleasure In calling the attention of those who may wish to nmke good investment, or who desire to purchase Home cheap, to a few of the many pieces of property in their hands for sale. Our list of property for sale is so large and has such great number of Bargains, that we will shortly issue a Bulletin, in which wo oan do full Justice to ul I parties who have placed property la our hands. vi 1. A four story Brick Store Rootn, No 519 Main street. 2. A desirable Residence, No. 1029 south Seventh street. Lot 100xlH8—a .julet and ploasant location. 3. Business Lot, southeast corner of Sixth and Elm. 75x140. 4.

Undivled one-holf of 2% acres on south Sixth street. 5. Two vacant lots on northeast corner of Sixth and Co lege.

The above property will be offered for sal«» for a short time on favorable terms. 6. Three Residence lots, N. W. corner Seventh and Linton, known os the Old Brewer* property, having 148 feet on Seventh ntreet. Can make the nirs of the lots to suit the purchaser. 7. Northeast corner of Eighth and Mulberry, Lot 100x140. Owner wants to dlwposo of it Immediately. Largo hou e, good home and No. 1 location as a residence for a business man. 8. a beautiful and convenient Home, No. 1008 south Seventh stroet, H. W. corner of Heventh and Farrlngton, Lot lOOxlflK, is offered on unusually favorable terms. Price 14,500. 9. A large, well improved and In every way charming residence property, No. 1288 south Third street lot, lfl8x«00 house In good order, twelve rooms, two storJe#, »i good barn, two cisterns, good fruit one of the prettiest homes In this city of beautiful homes must be seen in the summer to be fully appreciated. Price, 18,500. 10. No. 1 vacant lot on south Sixth street 70x168, will be *old cheap for cash. 11. Five acres on Lafayette avenne, neer the city llrails good ground for subdivision. 12.

House of four room*, small lot, but very cheap, on north Ninth street, 9000. House and lot 59x140, north Third street,

14. Four desirable vacant lots, on high ground, ea*t of Nail Works. Will sell all for CMh.lffiO. 1A, a vacant lot opposite Female College, on south Sixth, 43x140, for 11,250. 14. Vacant lot. next to residence of M. W. Wflllailis, Esq., on south Sixth lot, 66xlW. 17. Vacant lot on east Main.

I|. A valuable tract of ground on south Sixth street, suitable for an add it ion to the city:,tbe especial attention of capitalists la caUetTto this tract. 19. Twelve acres on south Seventh street win be sold on easy terms bargain. 20. Tract of land known as the "Fera prooertv." adjoining the residence of William £&ial,^, nn north Sixth rtrwt. *7 feet front, together with Engine and Boiler and other machinery, and a small corner on lafayette avenue, very cheap for Cash. 21. Three lots on south Third street, very cheap and on long time. 22. Two houses and lotsoiwwutb Thirteenth end Half street, ground 7S feef front houses three rooms eacb will sell both on easy term* forll^OO. 28. Vacant lot* In Jewett's addition, very cheap and on long time. 24. Vacant lota in Toell and Usbar's addition. cheap for cash have four 1/lng toother,

two being corner lots, which can be

bsd at a bargain.

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MMISSIONER'S SALE.

undersigned will aril 4»fet off south 4deof Lot Nal7 la Chancy Rose's snbdivision of 47 «M00 warn to ibe cltj of Tctt* .• Haute led, (N. W. corner lWh «nd Eagle .. I re a at iv at a we 25tb days of May, MS8, at his office Ohio Areetln said rity, or at public sal® oo tb. auhdayof May »%. at tbe Court Hou* door of Vlao County Ind„ bat If not *o »°ld, then priWteMle sny time thereafter, upon tte fetfowli terms and condition*:

One fourth of the purchase paid down,and thebal*n*lnthr«equal Bailments doe In (. 12 snd W msntl» fron dar of sale, the purrhaser execuUng hia 4 note for the f«erurod UmA from date, with attorney*fees,secured «lhoat fllrf.

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