Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 November 1883 — Page 4

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fcTHE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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NOB. 20 and 22 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing Home Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TKRRE HAUTE, NOV. 3, 1888

TKM thousand men are poshing the work of excavatiug for the Panama •anal and, satisfactory progress is reported. The work will proceed with much greater rapidity daring the tine season which opens in December.

THE Democrats are already talking aboat Alexander Mitchell, the Milwaukee millionaire, for Secretary of the Treasury under the Democratic administration which is to come in March 4, 1885. Is not this a trifle premature

How small things count up in the ag gregate is well illustrated by the money order bureaa of the postoffice department. Daring the year ending June 3, 1883, over 1125,000,000 was handled by the department, the fees from which amounted to more than one and a quarter millions of dollars.

JUDOB NOONAN of the St. Louis criminal court, lias decided that poker is a game of chance and not of science, as was claimed by its votaries. The decision, it is thought, will result in closing up all the poker rooms in the city which were running in face of the Johnson law against games of chance, under the impression that poker was a game of science.

IT is said that Senator Fair, of Nevada, and ex-Senator Tabor, of Colorado, in connection with eastern capitalists, have in hand a project to build another broad-gauge railroad across the continent from New York to San Francisco. Then there is the Peoples' Railway of America which proposes to build a nar-row-gauge road between thepame points. Really, is there not some danger of this transcontinental railroad business being overdone? ^.1

ELLA WHEKLER writes: "Sho touches my cheek, and I quiver—I tremble with exquisite pains She sighs—like an overcharged river, My blood rushes on through my veins She smiles—and in mad tiger-fashion, As a she-tiger fondles her own, I olasp her with fierceness and passion, And kiss her with shudder and groan." Great Jehosophat! Don't let her touch our cheek if it affects a fellow that way.

HKNKY IRVING, the great English •Ctor, who recently arrived inthiscountry and has commenced his tour in New York, is forty-five years old and has won his fame i^much the same way Barrets has doiX. He was intended for the career of a merchant, but had so strong a passion for the stage that he ran away and connected himself with a theatrical company when eighteen years of age. His first efforts were not suggestive of the eminence he was destined to attain, but he persisted in studying and acting in spite of all his discouragements and gradually making bis way higher in the profession. At twenty-eight his great talents were fully recognized, and from that time bis advancement was steady. Since 1878 be has been manager of the Lyceum Theatre, Lendou, one of the finest of dramatic temples. 'J

HON. WILL CUMBACK is out in a letter to the Republican party in which he argues the liquor question and demands that his party oome out boldly for prohibition, and thus compel the Democrats to take aides with the liquor sellers. He is tired of half-hearted measures and blowing hot and cold on the temperance question, and is satisfied that if the Republicans take the high ground of total prohibition they will win the battle. The probabilities are that Mr. Cumback is over sanguine in this prediction, but the faet that old politicians like him are willing to come out openly and squarely for prohibition shows that the prohibition sentiment is making remarkable progress. It is not likely, however, that the rank and file of the Republican party. In Indiana will be ready to go so far as to indorse the prohibition idea In the next campaign. The experience of their Ohio brethren in that direction is not espedelly enoouragi ng.

THkRK IS good sense In the suggestion of the Louisville Commercial that ''The negro as an independent farmer, as a small manufacturer, and as a rival of the white tradesman, must precede any real success of the negro in politics." Hitherto, it mtwt be confessed, the colored people have given little indication of ability or desire to rise in the social or badness scale. For the most part the mea are barbers, hostlers or common laborers, white the women devote themselves to kitchen and laundry work. These employments are all useful and in a sense honorable, bat they are dependent, and the fact that the colored people follow them so exclusively argues a feeling of dependence in them—a lack of strength and ambition to strike oat for themselves. To make themselves independent factors in the bodv politic must be their own work, aud most spring from an Inward desire to reach socha stage of development. Legislation cannot help, nor the lack of It hinder them In acoomplifthinfr tM» Viewed from this standpoint it is possible that the recent decision of the supreme court may prove a real benefit to the colored race, by knocking away a aappaned prop and throwing them more completely upon their own resoarew.^-

THE wild, hilly and thinly populated section of country extending through Pike, Dubois and Warrick counties in southern Indiana, has been the scene of extensive counterfeiting operations for years past, the business being engaged in by a number of desperate characters whom the local authorities have been afraid to arrest. For nearly a year past, however, government detectives have been on the track of these men, and by working into their confidence ascertained their methods of operating and the parties who were connected with the business, and preparations were made for capturing the criminals. On last Wednesday a strong posse of deputy marshals went quietly to Booneville, iu Warrick county, where, by previous arrangement, several of the counterfeiters had agreed to meet at a certain house, and the whole party were arrested, except one who succeeded in making his escape. The desperadoes made a stubborn resistance, and a number of shots were fired on both sides. One of the men was killed and another badly wounded, while one of the officers received a ball in his wrist. A number of other arrests were then quietly made, and it is believed that the gang of desperate characters which has in tested that region of country so long has been effectually broken up. The case was skillfully managed by the officers, who are to be complimented on the result. Detectives Hobbs aud Killian, who, in the role of pretended counterfeiters, wormed themselves into the confidence of the men and maintained friendly relations with them, found themselves several times in very critical condition from which their courage and coolness alone extricated them.

HENRY WARD BEECHER has ideas upon all public questions and a courage equal to bis convictions, so that he is never afraid to express bis opinions. Of the liquor question he says that when the national constitution is so amended as to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors he will have been iu heaven so long that he will have forgotten the subject. He has no faith in prohibition laws unless they are sustained by a public sentiment that is up to their level and denies that prohibitory legislation has worked beneficially in Kansas and Iowa. Ib Maine the results have been somewhat more satisfactory, but even in that State, which does not contain so mixed and diverse a population as most of the others, he says that liquor can be obtained whenever it is wanted. Mr. Beecher is a believer in restrictive or regulative legislation until public sentiment is equal to something better. This is undoubtedly the philosophical view of the question, aud is the one held by a vast majority of the ablest thinkers of this and other countries. To suppose that the mere enactment of laws will create a public sentiment that will support their enforcement is to attempt the impossible feat of standing the pyramid on its small end. From time immemorial it has been said that laws are but the crystallization of the general sentiments of the people and that whenever the fountain tries to rise higher than its source, it fails of performance, If anyone is disposed to deny this proposition he should be able to support his denial with strong proofs.

IT may be news to some of our readers that there is still one unexplored region within the United States, and that, too, in one of the oldest States, Florida. The vast tract of country known as the Everglades,, let that State, has never been explored, and the Times Democrat,

New Orleans, sn enterprising southern newspaper, has sent out an expedition at its own expense for the purpose of making a thorough exploration of the Everglades and finding out just what that terra incognita contains. The country is in possession of the Seminole Indians, supposed to number some 800, who refuse to recognize the sovereignty of the United States, and in spite of treaties with the tribe, claim the land as their own. They also hold slaves, notwithstanding the great proclamation, who are in total ignorance of the fact that by law they have aright to their freedom, and the first knowledge of such a law will be conveyed to them by these explorers, provided they succeed in reaching them. The Everglades comprise a beautiful and fertile tract of country which is surrounded, however, by an impenetrable wall of "saw grass," growing to the height of 18 to 20 feet, and which has hitherto resisted all efforts to break through it. As the Indians are armed with the best weapons and are experts in their use, the expedition may find some difficulty in accomplishing their work, should the savages think proper to display a hostile attitude.

THK Indianapolis Journal has been looking into the operations of the mutual assessment insurance companies organised and doing business in tills State, and the exposure Is a startling one. Of the fourteen companies that have repented toJthe.Auditor of State, the membership runs as follows: Number of insured between the ages of 90 and 30, 60% between 30 and 40,888 40and50.961 and 80. 1,873 00 and 70,1,?2B 70 and 80,4,389 90 and 90,1,634. These figures show that the work of these companies Is virtually that of graveyard insurance, as the number of Insured over the age of «0 years to more than twice the whole number from 20 up to00years! Figures like theee ought to damn the whole business and keep anyone with even a modicum of sense from having anything to do with these swindling concerns,

THB President ha*set apart Thursday, November 29th, as the national Thanksgiving Day.

TERRK HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

THB retirement of Gen. Sherman from the position of general-in-chief of the United States, which took place on the 1st instant, draws attention anew to the career of one of the great soldiers of modern times. He was 63 years old last February and retires on full pay and in the full enjoyment of unimpaired health and faculties. His life has been a varied and eventful one. He became a West Point cadet at sixteen and graduated at twenty. He served in the Florida war -in 1842, and in the war with Mexico and was variously employed in the work of the army until 1853, when he resigned and was in the banking business in San Francisco, for four years. In 1858-9 he practiced law at Leavenworth, Kan., and during the next two years was president of the State Seminary and Military Academy of Louisiana. At the breaking out of the war he promptly tendered his services to the country, and his career during the terrible scenes which followed is more or less familiar to all. The general is a brother of Senator John Sherman of Ohio, and is prominently mentioned as a presidential candidate next year. In many respects he would make a strong candidate and would arouse great enthusiasm especially among the soldier element of the country, but it is probable that a distinctively army man will not be selected for a standard bearer in 1884, the sentiment of the great commercial and momentary interest of the country being somewhat distrustful of a purely military man in the presidential chair.

IN a recent convention of carriage makers, at New Haven, Conn., Mr. Pritton, of New York, said: "One of the serious w^nts of this country and of our trade is good boys. Our boys are deteriorating as are our men. The greatest difficulty we experience in New York is that of getting boys who have brains and are willing to learn a trade thoroughly. The example of men who have made millions in^ a few years is held up before our boys in school, and the boj become inflamed with the notion that they must make their millions and be able to found cross-road colleges before they die. So they eschew trades and become poor professionals,"

Ihe press of the country has for some time past exerted itself to impress upon the minds ot parents and boys the importance of learning a good trade. Even as a mere matter of jnoney making there is no surer road to success. The great majority of the successful business men, merchants and manufacturers of the country have come up through the various departments from the lowest round of the ladder and it is next thing to certain that a sharp, ambitious boy, with a fair education and a good trade can be a prominent man in his line of business within a few years and receivings handsome income while other men of equal talents will be starving in the various professions around him.

CONSIDERABLE interest in'political circles attaches to the November elections which occur on next Tuesday, particularly in the States of New York, Msssachusetts, Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Republicans hope to get back Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New York, and talk of carrying Maryland, owibg to Democratic quarrels. They have hope also in Virginia, where the result will be especially interesting as showing the strength of the Mahone movement. Since the Ohio election predictions are not made with much confidence, shrewd politicians preferring to wait and see what the outcome will be, rather than to hazard guessing upon the uncertainties of "off year" elections.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

The two largest funerals in New York this year were those of James Elliott, the prise fighter, and John S. Walsh, the burglar.

The Rev. Dr. E. E. Hale's latest text was, "For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, .he deceiveth bimsel f."

Professor Swing doesn't care for a horse that goes it in less than three minutes. He says: "A racehorse is of no value except for betting purposes."

Chicago drinking water has been analysed again. They have managed to find twenty-two different kinds of animal life In It this time. It ought to make first class soup.

A correspondent asks us "if it is right to kiss a young lady on the eve of her departure?" Certainly not. Kiss her on the mouth, not on the eve of her departure, even though she be your cousin.

Fifteen years ago an Alabama man killed a peddler. Ever since that time his wife has held the crime over him as a whip, obliging him to splU the wood, build the fires snd rock the baby. Rendered desperate by her treatment be has given himself up to be hung.

The Rev. Robert Collyer expresses the opinion that neither church discipline nor law can effectually deal with the divorce evil. He places his faith on the more careful trainings of the rising generation. The sacredness of the marriage relation should he deeply instilled into the mind of the young. He denounces as "legalised free love** the present styles of getting divorces for inauffldent causes, and then remarrylog.

New Progress Caramels, Tafl^s, Chocolates Creams, &<% California, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Coco&iints, Ac, of choicest quality at EISEB'8,9th and Main.

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

Thlf powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeneas. More economical man the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multll ode of low test .short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only In cans. ROYAL BAKING POWTJKB GO.,106IWallrtN.Y

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WHERE IT IS SOLD.

TERRE HAUTE.

E. L. Godecke Opera House S. R. Biker ........... .P. O. Lobby Grove P. Crafts... Terre Haute House News Stand National House Clarence Hart.....— South of Postoffice Walsh & Smith 661 Main Street Mrs. Elizabeth McCutcheon, 1184 E. Poplar St.

ILLINOIS.

Areola, Ills^& Harry Moore Casey, Ills B. F. Miller Chrisman, Ills McKee Bros Ferret I, Ills Elmer Hitch Hut^onville, Ills Harry Adams Marshall. Ills V.L. Cole Martinsville, Ills J. H. Ramsay Mattoon, Ills J. W. Hanna Paris, Ills W. B. Sheriff 3e Co Robinson, Ills .. —John M. Harper Scott Land, Ills L. O. Jinkins Toledo, Ills Edmuud E. Park Vermi lion. Ills .. J. W. Boyer Westfleld, Ills Bird Barlow

INDIANA.

Annapolis, Ind Foster M. Maris Atherton, Ind Geo. H. Denny Armlesburg, Ind A. E. Boyd oomingdale, Ind ....Oscar McCoy Brazil, Ind T. M. Robertson Bowling Green, Ind Robert Bohannon Brldgeton, Ind W. J. Duree Clay City. Ind .......P. T. Jett Carlisle, Ind

M. Warner

Cloverland, Ind H. D. Falls Clinton, Ind Edwin Cunningham Catlin, Ind..... Joseph A. Wright Coal Bluff, Ind ~..E. Davis Coffee, Ind -J. H. Curry Dana, Ind Chas. Hutchinson Engene, Ind

Fontanett, lad Ed. C. High Greouoaatle, Ind .....J. K. Langdon Harmony, Ind SJr°n8 Lewis, Ina

3. T. PATTON & CO.,

DEALERS IN J-

CHOICE MEATS.

Southdown Mutton and Lamb. Southeast Corner Fourth and Ohle.

HAT & BONNET

Blfsshcry as« •ssnlMtsm of PLASTER BLOCKS. Ladies' and children's hats ef aU kinds shaped to look as well as new.

MILLINER'S WORK

Seliottod at three deltas per dees*. M. OATT, 2M 3d st. Terre Hast* Bad.

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R. ARTISTS' SUPPLIES,

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PICTURES, FRAMAFL, MOULDING*

Pictare

Frames

Hade to Oriei

MeKeen's Block, No. 646 Main stmt between 0th and 7th.

ft. CLIFT. J» H. Wn-LIAHI, J. V.

She's a Daisy!

jgALL'S STOVE STORE, 808 Main Street

BAT.T.

sells the Gold Coin Square, base heater.

BAT.T,land.

B£

handles all the leading stoves in the

AT.T. sells the Allgator oook, wood and a at....

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sells the Boom oook, (something

gALL gives more stove for less money than anybody.

BALL

has tbe finest Stock of Mantels and Grates.

gALL will not be undersold by any dealer

j^ALL invites you to call before you buy.

BALLCooks

has tbe largest and finest line ef In town.

BALL

has the greatest variety of heaters in town.

jgALL sells the beet furnace in the world.

BALL

has been in the Stove trade forty years.

gALL Is bawllngto sell yon a good stove.

gALL will guarantee all tbe goods he sells.

gALL is Round but still on the Square.

BAT.T.

will keep the ball In motion, at 308 Main street, Terre Haute, Ind.

Oysters

NOW IN SEASON.

Gallon, Quart or Dish,

WILL WHITE'S, 525 Main Street.

PRANK PRATT,

A.Conaway

& Bryan

Merom, Ind .«.A. B. Cot per Montezuma, Ind Chas. E. Hunt New Lebanon, Ind .„.Lee Burnett Newport, Ind .. Bird Davis Praireton, Ind ..^T. L.Jones Pimento, Ind —W. T. French Perrysville, Ind ~.J. E. Sinks Rockville, Ind A. C. Bates Rosedale, Ind .»W. Bucher Sullivan, Ind W. S.8mith Sanford, Ind May St. Marys, Ind M. Curley Shelburn, Ind Chas. Froment

Wanted Ladles to Know

the most desirable place in the city for Hair Trimming, Shampooing, or Children's Haircutting, is the Fifth 8treet Barber Shop, as it is the only private Tonsorial Parlor in the city. 6-6t.

Chart

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KA ircr ACTtTSKBS Of

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LUMBER, LATH* 8HIHGLJB8 ULA88, PAINTS, OILS and BUILDERS' HARDWARE

Wnl berry street. Corner Ninth, TORBJE.il A UTS. I1/

SAVE YOUR EYES.

Terre Urate Eye Infirmary.

3, E. DUNBAR, of St. Loafe,

R. D. HALEY, of New York, tote of Trenton. Mo. late of Wincbester.

PEOI

IPBIKTOEKT

will trcataU of

(». etudes ttrttel, wbereooe of •ulted at all boom daring tbe day. City refferenees: JT.T. Mustek, druggM, neact foor to pastoflteew N. H. McFerrtn^deiWin agrtealinrsl tmnlements, west rid* public *qn*ra Hiram Foolts, grooerman, corner 1st and

Importer and Dealer lit

ITALIAN MARBLE AND QRA 9 r#

MONUMENTS, Statuary, Yase*, &c. &

OOR. FIFTH AND WALNUT STr TERRE HAUTE. I NX).

GOODS

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Main Street

Novelties of the Season

CHOICE GOODS. LOW PRICES. It is the interest ot every lady buying a Dress, TO SEE OUB STOCK.

TO PRICE OUR GOODS.

Elegant American and Foreign Fabrics,

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save from 10 to 25 per cent, by buying Winter Clothing and Gents' Furnishings direct from the Manufacturer and Jobber, at ».5 .?*, I Wholesale Prices, at

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508 and 510 Main Street. $*•

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Black Cashmeres

Our popular "Centniy Goods"! acknowledged the best ever offer-1 ed at the price—50, 60, 65, 70,

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NEW STYLES.

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522 Main Street, North Side, Near 6tk

HOBERGf^V

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