Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 June 1883 — Page 4

THE MAIL

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

roBUCATioi* omc*,

Nos. 20 and 38 Booth Fifth Street, Printing Hoone Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, JUNE 2, 1883.

FirrBKK thousand persons were at the Bt. Louis base ball park, last Sunday As a nation, are w&elbt rather overdoing this base ball business .•*$

THE Stoddard school, of St. Louis, re ports an enrollment of 2,000 pupils and a daily attendance of 1,400, and not single case of corporal punishment dur ing the year.

THE law of compensation is tod often disheartening. Here's the lawyers in star route cases getting 100 a day for talking, while the jurors have to listen for $2.50 a day. If tb&e salaries were reversed, there wouldn't have been speeches lasting a whole week each.

THK English government is paying the informers of the Phoenix Park tnur ders various sums from $1,000 to $6,000. The infamous Careys, it is said, are to have small sums. This is too hiring men to commit murder.1

THB Youths' Companion advises young girls to write down their conversation for an hour and then read it. The result, if not pleasant, will be wholesome. The conversation of the average young girl la about as poor apiece of literature as can be found. It is equal in merit, however to that of the average young boy and if they are satisfied with one another we will forbear criticism.

AT the beginning of the theatrical season last fell two hundred and eightynine combinations started out on the road. Of these, one hundred and thirtythree fell by the way. Of all the "stars" Mrs. Langtry has netted the largest sum, but her success was phenomenal and will hardly be repeated nextyear. Each of the successful companies made from $20,000 to $75,000. Altogether it has been an unusually good theatrical season.

THB Chicago News rebukes the news papers for ridiculing the Lafayette law student who was surprised in the midet ot an Impassioned address before a sawhorse and twelve sticks of cord wood set on end. In the light of some recent verdicts, it cannot see that there was anything ridiculous In the young Hoosler's action, and adds that he couldn't possibly have invented abetter substitute for a real court and jury unless he had used another stick of cordwood in place of the saw-horse.

IT required seven men all day to count the receipts of the Brooklyn bridge for the first twenty-four hours. The number of porsons orossing was estimated at 190,000. The tolls collected for vehicles amounted to about $000. It is hardly probable that they will give to the public the receipts for Memorial Day. They were a little too anxious to take In the pennlos on that day. People In smaller planes can hardly comprehend the "madding crowd," the awful rush in large cities. Self preservation and a total disregard for everybody Is the ruling passion. It must be experienced to be understood.

THK wife of the editor of the New Orleans Timos- letnoorat has been appointed superintendent of Lafayette Square, the principal public square in the city. As her husband is worth $500,000, one of the papers makes haste to assure us that it is not the salary of the place she la seeking. Why not? We do not believe a man was ever so wealthy but that his wife would like to earn something which would be literally her own. It is a natural, inborn desire. Besides this, if a woman works she ought to expect to be paid and it Is foolish to aay she does not care for the salary.

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Sr. I*oriH, following the example of other citlss, has established a Woman's Exehauge. 8lnce women are doing all

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of work, something of this sort is very necessary in order that they may find asale. The custom is to deduct ten per cent, for expenses, which has been found to be sufficient. Every kind of woman's work, even cooking, finds a market. If our ladles of wealth and leisure would give it a start it would soon be self supporting. The women of Tferre Haute who are willing to labor for the benefit of the public are always overworked,but there are so many who have the time, if they could only be persuaded to take some interest in such philanthropic works as this. Again we call upon oar noble hearted ladles to establish a Woman's Exchange.

TUB Indianapolis Journal speaks to the point on the subject of the BellvUIe, Ills. riot, when it says: "Laboring men In tht* ooatitrr must be ItMloM 11 tholr Wftor trherev thejr I tea« ami at whatever terra* ttusjr m«vy accept. Ho man or men. of w»etety of men, has the rtatit to forWd or to InterfW* by violence or threat* of vtoleoee. Acts of «^,*aiTM*pr are un-Ateertean at cannot be tolerated.

The be&t friends of workingmen are thoee who counsel them to adopt only lawful methods for maintaining their rights. When they resort to force and uprising again* the law, they quickly loos the sympathy and confidence of the very daseea whose good will Is meet valuable to them. The policy of preventing mm from working by mob violence will not do In this country and fat certainty not eoatteoeneed by Intelllgent workingmen.^

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concern is felt at t£e condi­

tion of Qoeen Victoria. Sojne weeks ago, it will be remembered, as the Queen was going out to ride, she fell upon the stairs of the palace and hurt her knee. Not much was said at the time, and the impression wss given out that theinjury

of trifling consequence. Itappears, however, that the wound basnet healed, but has become complicated with gout and sciatica. As the Queen is sixty-five years old and of a bgavy physique, the grayest apprehensions are felt as to her recovery. Her reign has been a remarkably long and prosperous one for England. She came to the throne in 1837, when but nineteen yean old, and has always been a faithful, just and hardworking sovereign. Her reign has been Britain's golden age. ,,,,,

THE craze in hosiery has about reached its height. Delicate silk stockings are now manufactured with the instep and ankle covered with embroidered bugs, beetles, grab worms aud caterpillars, life size. On one pair is a group of little devils, and crawling np another is striped snake. A bonnet is described with mouse nestled among the laoe A serpent is twisted around the wrist and a frog hung on the watch chain. All sorts of repulsive insects are represented in pins and clasps. An exchange pathetically asks how a man is going to make love to a girl over an immense spider resting on her bosom, and several lizards crawliug about other parts of her dress? There is no remedy for it. A girl is noc going to miss being in style just for the sake of having some fellow make love to her.

Thedty of Evansville is considerably worried over the recent decision of the Supreme court of this State which construes the thirteenth article of the con *titulion limiting the indebtedness ef cities to two per cent of the amount of their taxable property. The court held that the limitation applies to the ordinary current expenses of cities, as well as to any other expenses, and as the municipal indebtedness pf Evansville is already largely in excess of the two per cent, limit,the question is how the affairs of the city are to be run at all. The Evansville Journal says:

The enforcement of the deoislonJ^Nil quickly bring this city government «o a standstill, for it virtually outlaws every order Issued by the municipality as well as every contract that It makes, for which there is no money in the treasury to provide payment at the time it is made. It is questionable whether the city cannot be stopped from receiving its own orders in payment of taxes because ot their absolute Invalidity."

If the decision will have the effect thus indicated Evansville is certainly in a tight box, and it will require careful management by the authorities to provide for carrying on the manicipal gov ernment.

THE bridge over East river, connecting the cities of New York and Brook, lyti, which was opened last week, is regarded as the greatest of supension bridges and is one of the great engineering feats of the age. The total length of the bridge is 5,989 feet, and the width 85 feet, The walks for pedestrians accom modate 50,000 persons an hour, the d.-iveways 1,500 vehicles an hour,and the car tracks 800 cars, or 80,000 passengers an hour. All were in use on the day of the opening, putting the structure to a severe but successful test. The bridge is hung on four wire cables, each 15% inches In diameter, and the towers are 278 feet high. The cost of the bridge was' $15,000,000. Of the other great suspeu sion bridges in the world, the Cincinnati and Covington is 1,067 feet in length the Clifton, over Niagara River, 1,268 the Niagara railway bridge, 2,220 the Kieff(in Russia), 2,562 that at Pesth, 1,262 Menai, 1,050 Hunger ford, 1,350 feet. The St. Louis brige, which cost $9,000,000, is considered one of the most remarkable of the iron truss bridges and the Montreal bridge, which cost $5,000,000, as the wonder of Tubular iron bridges. The South war bridge over the Thames is the largest iron arch bridge in the world, and that at the Forth of Tay, which consists of 85 spans and is 10,612 feet in length, is the longest iron bridge.

ACCORDING to the correspondents, the people are wild with enthusiasm over the coronation of the Russian Czar, and exhibited their love for the new sovereign in bursts of spontaneous congratulation. But side by side with this must be placed the statement that for eight miles two lines of soldiers stood on either side of the street, and the people in the windows were not allowed to have oranges on their persons for fear of concealed dynamite. Putting the two things together the American reader is not profoundly impressed with the loyalty of the Russian populace towards their emperor. It Is of a kind that may do well enough while the pomp and pageantry of the royal coronation Is going on, but its staying qualities may well be mistrusted. It is quite probable that Alexander III. will find the uusinessof autocratic government as hard as his father before him foond it. If so,«the new monarch will been titled to the Sympathy ot all Christendom, for It Is well known that be did not eeek the drown, which is Indeed crown of iron to him. He has no taste for state-craft, which be would only too willingly leave to other bands, but be was the natural and lawful saconwr of his father to the throne and had to be made a Caar perforce, and take hi* chances of bring blown to atoms with dynamite, ss the penalty for being a king when he did not wish to be one— a hard fate, certainly. We manage things better bt this country. No man is obliged to aoos|* aay oflfos, even the Presidency, unless he wants it. That It one of the points of difference bctfeU an aatocracy aed a repebtie.

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Norma the self-helpiog efforts of women for members of their own sex at the present time, a prominent female writer and worker says our girls have 4 far better chance than their mothers had. Old barriers have been swept away and new and larger opportunities opened up to them. During the past year the New York Society of Decorative Art has paid more than $22,000 to women whose

These are only specimens of similar kinds of work elsewhere, and they show that however much prejudice there may be in certain quarters against women who speak, write and work for the en largement of woman's sphere of labor, a vast amount of real aud practical good is being accomplished by their efforts, More and more women are taking their places side by side with men in stores, counting rooms, telegraph offices, and a hundred other places, and doing their work to the entire satisfaction of their employers earning an honest and independent living for themselves and feel ing contented and happy in the achievement. Nor have the dire results propbe sled of such a change as yet been witnessed, nor are tbey likely to be, Men are not crowded out of places women are as modest as they ever were and a sufficient number can yet be in duced to enter into wedlock when suitable opportunities present themselves One result will undoubtedly follow in due time, namely, that by their Increased independence and ability to take care of themselves, women will be less disposed to enter luto unsuitable marriages, and a vast amount of the keenest misery known to humanity will be obviated Such a change as this should be heartily welcomed on all sides.

THB panic on the New York and Brooklyn bridge on Wednesday, in which some dozen or more people lost their lives snd a large number of others were badly injured,appears to have been one of those unaccountable tragedies which every now and then surprise and shock the world withthorror. The French proverb says it is the unexpected which happens, and certainly it could hardly have been foreseen that people in pass ing through a wide, free passage on bridge would crowd together wid crush one another to death without any apparent cause. And yet, now that the accident did happen, there are not wanting those who glibly assert that the thing was just what might have been expected with such amass of people crowding upon the bridge. This only shows that hind sight is much better than foresight. Certainly the affair is a most sorrowful one and might have been prevented if it could have been foreseen, but that is just the rule. It was one of those things that could not be foreseen. It is a pitiable commentary on human nature, how ever, showing as it does the lengths to which an idle curiosrty will carry people. Here while men, women and children are being crushed and trampled to death by the resistless pressure of the dense mass around them, others are wedging their way forward in a relentless tide of death and destruction simply to see what is going on at the center of excitement. This vulgar curiosity has been the death tf many people in cases of panic, when, instead of retreating from the nucleus of the excitement, and thus giving those in peril an opportunity of escape, the mob rushes the other way to increase the terror and cuts off the only avenue of escape

THB Chicago Inter Ocean denies that protection is a class measure, benefitting either manufacturers or wage workers more than other classes of the community. The true theory is, it says, that the benefits of protection are equally diffused among all classes, and that all have an equal interest in maintaining it. It thinks that If the cause shall die of anything it will be from having too many manufacturers in its councils and giving them too much influence. "It will be suffocsted under the burden of appearing to be controlled by private interests." That is exsctly the complaint which the free trader makes, that there are too many great manufacturing corporations and capitalists lobbying in Congress whenever any question of revising or reducing the tariff is before that body. Tbeee men may be sincere in the efforts which they make to protect the protection cause, bat their personal interests naturally throw a strong suspicion upon the sincerity of their motives. As the Inter Ocean suggests, It would be well for them to step aside and leave the question to be decided by

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voters of the country whose Interests are simply those of avenge American producers and consumers.

Artificial flowers have certainly attained their height of perfection now, and women seem to have learned exactly what blossom best aocords with their style. Formerly the milliner sold the bonnet she wasted to be rid of most to her timid customer, who confidently left the choice to the saleswoman now the homeiest woman In tftwn knows her own business bsst and bays what she

Tins horriblemnrder of John Walton, a well-to-do farmer, living near St. Paul, Decatur county, Ind., about a year ago, is not likely to have faded out of the remembrance of our readers. Walton was killed by a shot fired through the window, as he was sitting in his own house in the evening. A negro named Aaron Fnurier confessed to having fired the shot and implicated Walton's wife and a

work has been sold in its rooms. In neighboring farmer, named Garrett, in Chicago, the Woman's Christian AJSSO-,

moderate rates for young girls, a free dispensary for the medical treatment of poor women and children, and a transient home for needy women. In Hartford, Conn., there are maintained a sewing school for girls, a girls' reading room, a training school in cooking and housework, a circulating library, flower mission, a system of friendly visiting, an employment agency which fnrnishes sewing to needy women, and a supply of garments for women and babies, such as are usually furnished by maternity societies. ^v|f

the murder. Garrett, to the astonish-

elation maintains an employment bu- menfc of everybody, including the judge rrau, a comfortable hoarding house with before whom he was tried, was acquitted

by a jury and was afterwards hung by a mob. Mainly on the testimony of the negro, Mrs. Walton was convicted and sentenced for life. A new chapter has suddenly been added to the supposedly finished tragedy by the confession of the negro (who is also serving a life sen tence in the penitentiary), that his former testimony wss false, and that Mrs. Walton had nothing to do with the murder. He says he implicated her un der the belief that it was necessary lo save his own life, and at the instigation of Garrett. Mrs.. Walton's attorneys will now apply to the governor for her pardon, but the latter will thoroughly sift the matter before he grants it.

A BOSTON woman, reading some aooounts of men as housekeepers, relates her own experience. She married a man, kind, good looking, but with no trade or profession, and not able to make $500 a year. She opened a milliner shop and now makes $2,500 per annum. As they did not like to board, and she bad to be away from home, she put him into the kitchen. Hecooks, washes, irons, scrubs and gives perfect satisfaction. In conclusion, she says, "I may be an isolated case but I think the time has now come when women who have husband* to support should make them do the housework otherwise, they are luxuries we must do without." This is a novel view of thecase but we cannot deny that the logic Is correct.^,

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A SPECIAL from Pierre, Dakota, a few days ago, ran as follows: "Great activity prevails here in real estate. The city Is filled with capitalists and landbuyers, and the sales of city lots in the past two days have aggregated upward of 981,000. Colonel Ordway commenced tne sales of lots in the fifth railway addition, selling 106 lots in two days, netting Sct8,000 cash down. The Boston addition at eighty acres was Bold yesterday for *#,003 cash. It was purchased last September for $1,200. Other scattering

esterday for $#,003 cas _ist September for $1,21 sales about the city have netted $26,C.3,'

This is perhaps a somewhat aggravated instance of a Dakota "boom" but it serves to indicate the drift of things in that rapidly developing Territory.

Now that it is the fashion to wear very tight sleeves, with little or no trimming round the hands, almost every one seeks to be in the extreme of this fashion few people apparently notice that it enhances the size of the hand. Auy little fall of lace or frill or drapery of any sort around the wrist tends to make the hand look smaller.

8A YINQ8 AND DOINGS.

The errand boy of the future will go by electricity. The register of the Treasury, Mr. Bruce, who is a colored man, is said to be worth $200,000.

The Chicago Inter Ocean says: The editors continue tocriiicise the preachers, and tho preachers continue to criticise the editors. If the preachers were 1 or on the newspapers and the editor&lhe pnlplts we do not believe the people would be half as well satisfied as tbey are now but wholesome criticism is good for both.

Massachusetts druggists, in their State convention, queried whether it would be well to print the composition of patent medicines on the wrappers. One man thought it would stop their sale to a large extent, and another hinted that their curative powers would be destroyed if the mystery now attaching to them was removed.-,

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Before cutting a man's head off in China, the authorities considerately make him: drunk and occasionally a rich convict who has been sentenced to death will hire, or rather buy, a coolie to take his place. The coolie leads a riotous life for some little time beforehand, and at last, in state of besotted helplessness meets death without spparent suffering.

A San Francisco professor spells pots to as follows: '-Ghoughphtheightteeau,' and declsres it to be correct according to the following rule: "Gh stands for p, as you will find from the last letters in hiccough. Ough stands for o, ss in dough. PLth stands for t, ss in phthisis. Eigh stands for a, ss in neighbor. Tte stands for t, as in Gasette and eau i^ands for o, as in beau/' He can go to the head.

Referring to the publication of the Garlyle letters and their revelation of personal and domestic infelicity, the poet Wbittier says: "So strongly have tbey affected myself that I have set to work snd destroyed the major part of my correspondence, covering a period of over fifty years, lest It should be published after my death and bring suffering to any." He wishes that all of the letters that he has written could be treated by bis friends in the same manpr.

Tbe Baltimore Methodist, ins sarcastic editorial on tbe circus which recently exhibited in that city, says: "Or course no Methodists wen there. No Methodist preacher peeped in with one eye, and around with the other to see If snybody knew him I No Methodist serried his children at one o'clock to see the animals and stayed till two o'clock to *es tbe peruana* of the tbe ring Oh,no! All of comse saved their money to malm liberal contributions to the mMoaary csoss sad to battel new churches

r~ WAR! A. Z. Foster, this morning marked his entire stock of best dollar Ingrain Carpets down to 85c, and offers to make them up free of charge. This makes the price sbout 80c, which is lower than they were ever before sold except a few days during 1879.

Stock of all grades is full and complete. Mr. Foster desires us to say that the wholesale pride of Carpets is just as high as it was three months sinoe. Healso wishes us to say that this terrific cut in prices may last but a short time and he urges carpet buyers to take advantage of it propapily.

Remember! All best Ingrains, such as Lowell, Hlggen's, Auburn's, Dobson's, etc., in the newest snd choloest styles, were $1.00, are now 85c, made up free of charge

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You can get a stylish Suit of Clothes made to order for $30.00, at J. P. BRENNAN, 651 Main street, ."

JOE MILLER

—AT THB—

CHESTNUT STREET GROCERY

-HAS—

Spring Chickens,

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Gooseberries, Ripe Tomatoes, tring Beans,

Ripe Peaches, Peas, Cucumber, 'j Turnips, Asparagus,

Radial ihea,

Beets, New Potatoes, Lettuce, Kale, Bermuda Onions

New Cabbage, Splnace. Dressed Poultry,

Creamery and *Freah Country Butter*.

rtjw*. tip# R0YALMWDL|

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

Thir powder never varies. A marvel parity, strength and whoiesomeness. economical than the ordinary kinds, a_ cannot be sold in competition wilh the rrntii tltude of low test, short weiglUTaRBS °t phc?phate powders. Sold onljnficansr ROYAL BAKING Pownwrob., ioe Wnll pt N.Y

-6ULICK & CO., DRUGGISTS,

TAKE NOTICE!

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Another Purchase

OF

BLACK

DRESS SILKS,

That will interest careful buyers.

TEN QUALITIES (each one a bargain) of

Bellon's, Gurnet, Simons,

Cashmere Orientals.

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And other splendid wearing Silks, at $1, 1.40, 1.15, 1.25, 1.35, 1.40, 1.50, 1.60, 1.75, 1.90, and 2.00 per yard.

Every one of these grades are from 10 to 25 per cent under early prices.

We shall only sell pattern to a customer in order to give all a chance they oannot be replaced at theqa prices.

OUR

BLACK SATIN DUCHESSE,

At $1.25 i^ardA is a bargain never before offer Terre Haute.

Our friends at a distance r»re requested to send in their ord^Vs. Goods cheerfully taken ba^k if not satisfactory. Sampler free by mail.

H0BERG, ROOT ft CO. Main Street.

OTS FOB SALE.

*7T^e following va»ut lots/j^n gold on reasonable terms, or iow for caah: LOT 1 in Prwtonjiubdivlqfon

eclnesciay, «7 line 0 th

Will be sold Six miles South of the City, on the Prairieton Road, the following property Fifty acres of Wheat in the ground, one Twine Binder, one span of Mules, six head of Horses and Colts, two two-horse wagons, one Spring-Wagon, one Top Buggy, two sets double Harness, one set single Harness, two Cassady Riding Plows, general farming utensils, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and other articles to numerous to mention. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock a. m. To be sold without reserve. Terms made known on day of sale. ijL

MARTHA CKANDELL.

OUR BUSINESS

For the months of

MARCH, AlPRIL and MAY

2 Of this year, shows the following increase over same months last year: March 34 per cent. April 40 per cent. May (up to the present time) ^60 per cent. We attribute this immense increase to the fact that people appreciate

%GOOD HONEST GOODS

*, AT LOW PRICES, ind that they will patronize the house where the best values are to be had. We are stimulated and encouraged by thin yery marked evidence of growing public £av4r, to do all we can to merit it. We are pleased to have an opportunity to show goods and quote prices.

Call and look at our White Goods, our Black Goods, our Silks, our Drees Goods, our Hosiery, our Hamburg, Swiss and Irish Print Embroideries, Laces, Bibbons, Gloves, Corsets, and in short look through generally and satisfy yourselves, whether that which we claim is true or not, viz: that the lowest prices are found at the»

BUCKEYE CASH STORE,

6th & Main st. Terre Haute, Ind.

of lot No. 6

fronting Oak,«treet.

LOT 00 feet, front. fm Oak street, in Welch's subdivision^, LOT 40 feet front, sout^ 15th street in Oookerly's HubdlvialoTi. LOT

frontln« Llb"

LOT i£ A^klnsAulxil vision, fronting Sootl street and Sixth street. For further particulars call at

AND DEALERS IN

Glass, Paints, Oils, Brashes, Perfumery, Chamois, Trusses. &c. S. W. cor. ]\J[ain and Fourth street.

PUBLIC SALE!

L.KUHHNERW MUHIC Htore, 2180hlo Street.

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