Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 August 1883 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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Hos. 20 and 22 Booth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, AUG. 18, 1888

BIR BUTLKB is bold, brave man, with all his faults. He la going to New Orleans this coming winter on a visit.

THX wife of Senator Allison, of Iowa, committed suicide by drowning herself on last Sunday afternoon. Her hoaband was absent from home at the time, making political speeches. The cause of the suicide was mental disease from which Mrs. Allison has been Buffering for several years.

HON. E. R. HAWS, ex-Secretary of State, died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Indianapolis on Tuesday night. The jloctor was a man of immense corpulence and lived, as it were, under the shadow of death, although one of the most genial and good-natured men in the entire State.

THE New York World thinks there is presidential timber in Bob Lincoln and that bis prospects for the nomination next year are better than those of Mr. Arthur. Undoubtedly there is presidential stuff In Robert, but be Is young yet, and can afford to wait awhile. He is getting exoellent training where be is.

THR Farmer's Bank, of Richmond, Ind., has suspended. What is getting the matter with the banks anyway? There is one oonsolatlon. A bank failure now-adays doesn't hurt anybody but the depositors, and we don't have to overhaul our pocket-books to know wbetber we have any notes of the broken bank, as we used to bave to do.

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ber arrival in Eagland Mrs.

Liangtry gushingly declared that all the Americans loved her and that she loved them. The secret of her love may possibly be found in the $100,000 which her tour ueited her, but as to the love on the other Hide the Lily should not confound Freddy Gebbart with "all the Americans.*' There are several besides him.

IT IS with the greatest trepidation that the following item is reprinted from the summer resort gossip oi a fashion paper: "Nothing but coral necklaces can be seen upon society belles this season." The chances are that by to-morrow morning a greater proportion of the male population of Terre Haute will be moving onward to the eastern summer resorts.

ADJUTANT GENERAL DRUM wants to find out whether the militia force of the several States is sufficient to put 200,000 mou into the field. Just what prospect of war is ahead the public is not informed, but General Drum can count pretty safely on one thing and that is that the immediate prospect of a war will make the militia force lots smaller than it is now.

TIIK large banking and stock dealing house of Ballou A Co., of New York and Boston, suspended on last Tuesday with liabilities of half a million. The failure is said to be due to the fact that customers did not respond to calls for margins. The margin business will involve the country in another panic as certainly as the sun shines if it keeps on at the rate it has been going.

THR publishers of Mr. Blaine's book, "Twenty Years in Congress," say they have already received 60,000 subscriptions for it and that they expect tosell a million copies. While the sale may not reach these enormous figures it will undoubtedly be very large, as the book will have one great advantage over too many that are sold by subscription, in that It will be a really valuable work.

POOH, plague-stricken Egypt presents spectacle of misery that entitles her to universal sympathy. To the suffering .growing out of the recent war Is added that of the cholera uow desolating her towns and cities, and to cap the climax of ber misfortunes, the river Nile, upon which ber prosperity depends to a great extent, threatens destruction to her harvests by overflow of its waters. If ever a nation was In dire woe, that one is

A KOKMKR schoolmate of Jay Gould has contributed a short sketch of the early lifo of the railway magnate, who he says, "is to-day what he was forty years ago, retiring, retioent and revengeful, but cowardly withal—a cool, crafty, long beaded and far seeing strategist, whose greatest delight it is to revel amid the fallen fortunes of his opponents." He was a dunce in school in all bis studies except arithmetic, in which be excelled. Figuring appears to be Jay's main hold still.

DR. RICHARDSON, of Washington, D. e., appears to be sincere in his purpose of swimming over Niagara Fklis. He believes hia silkea gasbag appendage will save him and declares that the experiment will be made only In the interest of science and not for lucre or notoriety. Just how science or anything eb*. is to be benefited by a man's tumbling over the falls, even be be lucky enough to escape with his life, is what Dr. Richardson ought to explain. To the ordinary unscientific mind the matter is not luminous*

THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA The London correspondent of the tar Ocean cables thai paper that English landowners are in a high stateof ment over the proposed agitation in country against Britiah invert men ta American lands. It appears that investments are much larger than people generally bave an idea of. some years Engliah land-holdings made their owners poorer rather richer by the meagre returns which have given, and so the English landed aristocracy have been pouring their money like water into American lands. These facts are now coming out, the American National League, at recent meeting in New York, is understood to have appointed secret committees who are to ascertain how many titles to land in the United States held by foreign subjects, with a view creating such a public sentiment on subject as will lead to the enactment laws by the several Statea prohibiting snch ownership. Some of the English papers affect to make light of the effort, but the Pall Mall Gazette has the courage and good sense to remark that if the United States shall conclude that whatever land in the United States is taken up by aliens is that much nationality withdrawn from the total amount pos sessed by the country for the development of American wealth, and so much taken away from the total poesible American tenantry, they will put a stop to it in their own way and for their own reasons, and that they will be doing nothing that England or any other government properly conserving its welfare would not do that it would be foolish to expect that the Americans would allow any large body of foreigners to become owners of American land and remain at the same time subjects of foreign powers that no Belf-governing or selfrespecting people could be expected to permit such a state of things tp exist and grow within their country.

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It is evident that the question is an important one for the American people to consider and that suitable laws should be enacted to shut out the gobbling propensities of the British landowner. America for Americans, should be the motto of the United States, to the the extent at least that the land should belong to the citizens of the country. We don't want any duplication of Ireland in this country even to a limited extent, nor do we want to pay tribute to English landlords for the rich productions of the soil which is ours by right and which we are in no wise bound, morally or legally, to sell to citizens of foreign countries.

THK failure of the Indiana Banking Company, of Indianapolis, turns out to be a bad one. Its affairs have been placed in the hands of a receiver, numerous suits have been commented by depositors, and the outlook is anything but assuring. The

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"the bucket-shop bank," having accommodated, it is said, a large number of men engaged in the margin business. The first National will be reorganized by a syndicate composed of Wra. H. English, W. C. DePauw, and one or two other large capitalists, and will be of undoubted solidity, though the method of accomplishing the reorganization has been criticized in some quarters as a "freeze-out" of the smaller stockholders. Altogether the Indianapolis banks have not made a red-letter record during the last few years. Among the bad failures have been John Ray's Savings bank, Woollen A Webb's bank, the Central bank, and now the Indiana Banking company, with a temporary suspension of the First National. And we are not sure that this list is complete.

FIQURKS obtained from the general land office show that during the year ending June 30,1883, the entries of public lands in the several States and territories were far in excess of any previous year. Dakota of course took the lead. In that Territory the number of homestead entries increased from 14,156 during the previous year, covering 2,208,268 acres, to 22,491, covering 3,267,227 acres. The number of timber-culture entries ran up from 9,368. covering 1,466,532 acres, to 11,566, covering 1,765,2S9 acres, and the cash sales increased from 673,388

little muddy village of 600 inhabitant*, while St. Louis then h*d 15,000 people, Cincinnati, 20,000 Philadelphia, 96,000, and New York 250,000. Chicago bas ahni ahead until she now bas 000,000 souls, gaining in fifty years a population equal to that which New York bad 200 years after ita first settlement. Is Chicago destined to be the real rival o! New York on the western continent?

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

THK editor of the New York 8un has been suggested as a possible Democratic dark horse in the presidential race next year, and this talk has brought out column editorial from him on the subject, which doses as follows: "But finally, our candid advice to every news, paper man is under no circumstances to entertain the idea of running for President. It must tend to distract the mind from higher meditations." Coming fom such a source these words of wisdom will tend to relieve the minds of great many newspaper men who may have had designs on the presidency.

THS broker poet E. C. Stead man, of New York, has failed. Steadman'stsste was for literature and be has written many fine things in pross and verse, but be soon found that literature was not safe dependence for a living and went into the stock market where he has operated for nearly twenty years. He was supposed to bave succeeded in this line of business fairly, but the announcement of his failure would appear to indicate the contrary. His son, aged twenty-three, was in partnersnip with him, and the failure is partly attributed to speculations wbich the latter made on hia own account with the firm's money.

MRS. STOWB says the copyright of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" still pays her more than all the rest of her books put together. When the book was ready for publication Mrs. Stowe's husband took the manuscript to the publisher and wis~hed to sell it for a small sum in cash intimating that if his wife could get a good black silk dress for it he thought she ought to take it. It was agreed, however, to publish it on a percentage and they soon received a check for 10, 000 for their part of the profits, which was afterwards supplemented by another for the same amount. For some years Mrs. Stowe bas owned the copyright herself.

Now that they have found the remains of Noah's ark on Mount Ararat the wonder is that somebody didn't think of looking there for it long ago. And this reminds us that the stone tablets which Moses brought down from Mount Sinai and broke before the multitude must be lying round there somewhere. It would be well enough to look them up too, as they would be something of a curiosity. And by the way, whatever became of the rod with wbich Moses smote the rocks during the journey through the wilderness These old articles ought all to be looked up before they get lost, for some day they will be interesting keepsakes for our posterity.

SAYS the Indianapolis Times: "Up to this time not a single member of the City Council or Board of Aldermen who voted against the new street car ordinance has been renominated by either party, and should any such person be nominated, no matter by what nprt.v. he will be defeated at the polls." The Indianapolis people bave made up their minds that one "piuch-gut" street railroad (as the late George Harding dubbed It) is not adequate to the wants of that spreading city, and they don't propose to give the Johnson family the monopoly of hauling people any longer. It is safe to say that the new city legislature will be overwhelmingly for the new railroad. _______

A WESTERN exchange tmnxs mat Utah can be reclaimed from Mormonism in the same way that Kansas was saved from slavery, by immigration, and says: "Let the preachers call upon their flocks to furnish recruits, and if the feeling against polygamy is as deep as its utterance is loud an army of peaceful invaders can be poured into the territory within a year tbat will outvote the Mormons and fill all the office? with Christian statesmen." The plan appears feasible, astbefaot becomes more evident every day tbat the government, with the means at present employed, is utterly unable to cope with this great wrong. Let us have *a bureau of Utah immigration I '5^

IN St. Louis the fight of the authorities to enforce the Sunday closing law is still going on vigorously, and the saloon men are gradually yielding to the foroe of public opinion. On last Sunday the saloons was much number of open saloons was

acres at $997,242 to 1,518,091 acres at |3,- "mailer than on the Sunday previous 109 887. The growth of Dakota Is not The proeecutions against the street car paralleled by the history of any other companies have been dismissed under a State or Territory. Minnesota, Wash- decision of the court that in order to iuston Territory and some others show convict the officers for running their cars large increases, while a notable fact is on Sunday the State must prove that that the long neglected public lands In

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the southern States are rapidly being ingofthelaw. This decbdon is against the saloon men who tried the usual dodge of compelling the enforcement of

IT will »ud thrill of loteo.lty U» Uw ^ln« .wy lorm «I loduWy throughout lb. public puis, to know tb.t Oscar—Oscar Wilde—bas come back to testimony before the Senate us, and the thrill will give way to a feeling jabor committee, master workman John

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of soulful joy when it is known that the disciple of astbetidsm has bad his flowing locks trimmed, snd given up his knee breches. He comes over to superintend the production of his play, "Vera, the Nihilist," which is to be brought out at the Union Square theater next Monday. Fortunately Oscar will not tarry with us long, but leaves immediately innHwagnst tbeir business had for England at the conclusion of the

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graphers, said that since 1870 the salaries of operators bad been cut down from 35 to 40 per cent., so that their wages in many instances were lower than those of common day laborers. Meantime the telegraph companies by means of new inventions bad for greater facilities for

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quintupled in amount and there bad been no reduction in rates. Tbecom-

THB wonderful growth of New York psnies, be ssid, pay large dividends to is not so wonderful as that if Chicago, their stockholders and are able to pay after all. Fifty years ago Chicago was a better wages to their men. The stride was to compel a restoration ef the former wages. Mr. Campbell makes a good case. The only trouble is tbat the brotherhood was not as strong as their case. Evidently a good deal of healthy competition in the telegraph business would be a good thing for the country, and it is probable public sentiment will yet compel the government to take a band in the telegraph service. «.£-

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TBKRS is probably no other city in the country in as bad a way, financially, as Jersey City, where the tax rate has recently been fixed at 93.28 on each 9100 of taxable property. And with thiaal moat unparalleled rate of taxation, the authorities are unable to provide school accommodations tor mors than 14,000 of the 50,000 children entitled to school privileges, and that, too, where education by law is msde compulsory. It is ssid that fully 14,000 receive instruction in private schools, while the remainder are growing up in dense ignorance, lbe board of education realise that the schools are grossly inadequate, but are unable to find any remedy for the evil. The rate of taxation cannot be increased, and the amount appropriated to pay the debt and interest thereon far exceeds the running expenses of the city government. It is indeed, a sad state of aflkirs,' and exhibits an alarming recklessness on the part of the city government in contracting such an snormous debt, that forever keeps the tax payers bound down, and then, too, deprives their children of tbeir school privileges

LOOK out for "the Peoples' Railway of America." The alick-tongued talkers are abroad in the land solldting subscriptions to the stock. Don't get taken in. Don't want any of the stock and don't have any of it. Don't take it as a gift. Don't look at it and don't hear of it even. Don't let-the solidtors for-it come inside of yonr gate. It is a fraud, delusion, a snare. It is a gigantic scheme to fleece the dear people out of their toil-earned money. Give the Peoples'Railway a wide berth. ,5

RAMBLING REMARKS.

I took in a Sunday excursion not very long aince, and returning at midnight I was very much disgusted with the spectacle afforded by a man and woman occupying a seat in my immediate vidnity. The man was reoently the hero of a scandal, in which be succeeded in ruining two happy families, causing a wife to desert her husband, and he himself deserting a faithful little woman, who had clung to blm through reverses, and loved him far more than a man of his shallow character conld appreciate. And then after all this, he had the assurance to return to this city, with the open boast tbat he intended to live the scandal down. And this while his wife and baby are dependent on his father-in-law, within a stone's throw of his own home. But to return to the Sunday excursion. This fine specimen of manhood was on the excursion with the wife of another man—a friend of bis—who would probably have had something to say If he could bave witnessed the actions of the couple. They conducted themselves very peaceably as long as it was daylight, but when night came, she laid her head as coolly on his shoulder

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placed bis arm around her waist, and in that confiding position they came home. I don't kuow what became of them after the train rolled into the depot—I could guess, probably—but on the train 1 felt an almost irresistible temptation to kick the man—kick him hard, too. But he was a larger man than so I contented myself with moving into another car. It is surprising what control one can have over his feelings, when by giving way to them he renders himself liable to a severe trouncing,

Talking about the misery of married people, what do two-thirds of the young persons who unite their destinies know of the solemn obligations and duties of wedded life I have in my mind an instance in which the parties are well known, which is but one of the many that are happening in our midst every day. A young man barely out of his teens, was married to a girl of immature years—for love, presumably. He knew nothing of the responsibilities he was assuming, and she knew—well, about as much as girls of sixteen generally do. The suurise of their new life was beautiful. The bright rays of the morning sun lighted up the gilded spires of the dty of Future, and all nature seemed to rejoice with them in their new found joy. But old weather prophets who bad witnessed several snch scenes, discovered rings around the sun and propbeded rain before night. In less than a year these children, who bad been playing at make-believe marriage, found they could not agree—found this out after the baby had

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other soul had been brought into this vale of suffering and of tears. A petty quarrel between them brought in the wife's mother,who called upon the child mother to chooee between the husband and herself—and she chose the latter Think of that, will yon The husband, who was the more sincere of the two, told ber tbat it was no longer child's play, she must decide once for all. She clung to her mother, and now be has gone away—for his health, it is said—but more likely to deaden whatever affection be may bave once felt for his wife.

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story that will bear re-telling is told on a prominent citizen of this place, a fpan worth thousands, aye, hundreds of thousands of dollars, that shows the inmeanness of some men who bave grown rich, This man is interested in a manufacturing concern, Mid reoently be asked one of his subordinates if be could give employment to a friend of his, a foreigner who had recently come here, and who was unable to speak the English language. A favorable answer was given, and a day was fixed for the new to begin work. He did not put in an appearance, however, until several days after, and then did not seem suited to the hard work at wbiehbe was placed. For two days be struggled manfully

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One of our most charming young ladles is soon to wed a young business man of one of the reading cities on the Pacific coast. It is a shame that outsiders should be allowed to come In and carry off our girls, but in this case we bave the consolation of knowing that if at present the young man in question is an outsider,. he was formerly a Terre Haute

A TRAIN BOY TALKS. "Do I throw my literatoor 'round, hit or miss Well I should rather say not," said the train boy. "It's just as much an art sellin' magazines and papers on the cars as 'tis ruunin' the engine." 'Then you select a certain class of publications for certain men "I do, every time! When I come into a car to distribute my papers and books and magazines, I size up every man, woman and child in it before I give out anything. It all has to be done at one look, and 'taint no easy Job neither. I've been on three years now, and I ain't got It down as fine as some fellers, but I can geserally tell whether the passenger wants to read the 'Adventures of the Red-Headed Club,' or Is longing to while away bis time on the 'Substrata of the Carboniferous Period.'" "Doyou ever made mistakes?" "Well, sometimes. Extreme cases are easy enough to tell, but there are the intermediate folks that ain't oue thing nor the other—you can't place them for sure, never. I saw an old chap the other day with a white choker and a bald head. He bad an awful go-to-meetin' look on, and his mouth was all puckered up as if he was sayin' prune* and prims. I threw a 'Commentary on the Pilgrim's Progress' into his seat, and when 1 came back after it be swore at me like a pirate and bought a ten-cent songster." "Which do you find it the bard'st to •size up,' as you say—the women or the men "Ob, the men. You can most alwa strike It right as regards the women, and if you are In any doubt, a cheap edition of one of Black's novels will catch 'em all." 'Suppose you should strike a man who could not read, what would you give him?" "Isuppose you think I'd give him an illustrated paper, and lots of pictures in it, but I wouldn't. I don't very often run across people who can't read, but if

I do see a man pick up the book or paper I've thrown in bis seat and hold it up side down, I watch him pretty close, and if I'm pretty sure he can't read, I go and offer blm some publication tbat bas a good deal of reading in It and a picture every two or three pages. This pleases him and he buys every time. You see there are not enough pictures to give the id»a tbat be bought it for tbose alone, and yet enough to keep him from going to sleep. So long."

A PARADISE FOR OIRL8. The Sllverton (Col.) Herald makes this pathetic statement: "It is true tbat the win Juan is in need of more girls. In the New England States there are eleven women to one man, while In San Joan there are eighteen men to one woman. There are thousands of young men in the San Juan to-day just dying to get within the reach of a Puritan beauty, whose smiles are seasoned with sweetness and whose disposition is as mild as an Italian lamb. As a rule the girls and old maids of this country are too far advanced and too well posted. Instead of any more Puritan males coming into the west, let Providence send ns several car loads of Puritan beauties. They will find homes here and will go at readily as watermelons—just now."

—W. T. Leggett goes west with his next excursion next Tuesday, also September 4th and 18tb. He is tbe oldest experienced agent in tbe State, if you are going west, you should call on him fora ticket.

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with it, and then gave up in despair. After be bad gone it was learned that the yonng man was a nephew of the capitalist, who had come here for employment for which he was fitted—and then bad been set to shoveling coal at a dollar and a quarter a day!

The street car company has offered prises to the drivers on each of the different lines taking the largest number of fares in a sped tied time. The present management Is so far ahead of the recent one that it is running where the latter crawled, and can aflord to show its generosity in a better manner than this, and that is, by giving the drivers stools. They'll appreciate them more thau any number of prizes, too.

The statement is made that the next grand jury will make an effort to clean out some of the notorious resorts on Gallatin street. If the coming grand jury is no better than the last one it can well devote the greater part of its time to cleaning out itself.

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Take pleasure In calling the attention of those who may wish to make a good investment, or who desire to purohaso Home cli.-up, to a few of the many pieces of property iu their hands for sale. Our list of property for sale is so large and hits such a great number of Bargains, that we will shortly issue a Bulletin, in which we can do full justice to ail parties who have placed property lu our lmuds. 1. A four story Brick Store Room, No 519 Main street. 2. A desirable Residence, No. 1029 south Seventh street. Lot 100x188—a ^ulet and pleasant location. 3. Business Lot, Houtliea&t comer of Sixth and Elru. 75x140. 4. Undlvied one-half of 2% acres on south Sixth street. 5. Two vacant lots on northeast corner of Sixth and Co lege.

The above property will be ofltered for sale for a short time on favorable terms. 0. Three Residence lots, N. W. corner Seventh and Linton, known as the Old Brewery property, having L4& feet on feventh street. Can make the slxe of the lots to suit tho purchaser. 7. Northeast corner of Eighth and Mulberry, Lot 100x140. Owner wants to dispose of it immediately. Large hou e, good home and No. 1 location as a residence for a business man. 8. A beautiful and convenient Home, No. 1003 south Seventh street, S. W. corner of seventh and Farringtou, Lot 100xl(8, is otlbred on unusually favorable terras. Price AUilM). 9. A large, well improved and in every way charming residence property, No. 1288 south Third street lot, 18Hx800 house in good order, twelve rooms,.two stories, a good barn, two cisterns, good fruit one of the prettiest homes in this city of beautiful homos must be seen in the summer to be fully appreciated. Price, 98,600. 10. No. 1 vacant lot on south Sixth Htreet 70x108, will be "-old cheap for cash. 11. Five acres on Lafayetto avenue, near theclty limiis good ground for subdivision. 12. House of four rooms, small lot, but very cheap, ou north Ninth street, 9900. 18. House »ud lot 59&140, north Third street' WOO. 14. Four dt'sirab^ yaennt lots, on high ground, east of Nail

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Cash, $850. 16 A vacant lot opposite lfe»»-Me College, on south Sixth, 43x140, for 91,250. 16. Vacant lot. next to residence of Si. yt, Williams, Esq.,on south Slxih lot, 50x108. 17. Vacant lot on oast Main. 18. A valuable tract of ground on south Sixth street, suitable for an additiou to the city the especial attention of capitalists is called to this tract. 1C. Twelve acres on south Seventh street will be sold on easy terras a bargain. 20. Tract of land known as the "Fera proerty," adjoining the residence of William »•'. Schaal, Esq., on north Sixth street, 87 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 lots on south Thirteenth and Half street, groond 75 feef front houses three rooms each will sell both on easy terms for 91,900. 28. Vacant lots in Jewett's addition, very cheap and on long time. 24. Vacant lots in Tuell and Usher's addition, cheap for cash have four lying together, two being corner lots, which can be had at a bargain.

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