Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 November 1883 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

rum.JCATION ornci,

Nog. 20 and 22 South Fifth 8treet, 1 Printing House Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TKRKE HAUTE, NOV. 10, 1883

AUTUMNIS growing old rapidly. How the seasons do chase each other.

WITH New York and Indiana con ceded to tie the chief battle ground for 1884 "the older ticket" comes smilingly to the front with renewed juvenility.

THE first dally paper in Greencastle saw the light on Tuesday. F. A. Arnold is the enterprising publisher, and the first Issue looks like it deserved a liberal support.

THEY must have an odd lot of lawyers lown south—very diferent from ours here—for we see it stated that a member of the Texas bar committed suicide because bis client berated him for losing his case.

THE Express and Courier are disposed to have a war of words, which is "nuts" for the new daily. There is nothing better calculated to bring into notice a new paper than a lively newspaper controversy.

BKN. BUTLER still thinks he is the strongest Presidential candidate the Democrats can find, but unfortunately for him be is the only man in a nation of fifty millions that thinks so. Benjamin's proverbial cheek will hardly be sufficient to withstand the blow of last Tuesday. _____________1

THE secret of Mary Churchill's leaving a luxurious home to work in a laundry la explained. She was required to pound a piano four mortal hours each day, (whether including Sunday is uot stated Miss Mary made up her mind that she would rather wash and iron than do that.

SENATOR MCDONALD thinks Mr. Blaine is the strongest presidential candidate on the Republican side and says that if elected he would involve the country in a foreign

war

which would

end in the absorption of Mexico by the Unitfcd States. And the Senator apparently Indorses such a course for he says we will need Mexico, in order to own the territory ou both sides of the Isthmus that we must then cut a canal through that backbone of the continent aud we will be masters of the commerce of the world. So It seems that Mr. McDonald has brilliant plans to carry out if be is chosen to the Presidency! What has Mr. Hendricks to say to this? The country is holding its breath to hear from him.

IN a comprehensive review of the material growth of the southern States, the New Orleans Times-Demojrat shows Texas is the most prosperous of all, its assessed wealth increasing at the rate of $120,000,000 a year. Its yield of corn and cotton is enormous, while great progress is being made also in other vegetable products. The chief Interest, however, is stock raising, and remarkable iinprovment is shown in the quality of cattle produced. Of the twelve southern States, Texas is now first in the value of its assessed property, with Kentucky second, Virgluia third and Georgia fourth. In the buildings of new railroads, the South shows greater growth than any other section of the country, the increase in milage in three years being 7,789, or one-fourth the increase of the entire country. Manifestly there is a great future for the regenerated South.

No wonder Chicago growswhen all the towns and cities and country surrounding it for hundreds of miles keep pouring their money into it in a contaut stream for grain and pork margins. An Indianapolis butcher shop operator states that not less than a million and a half dollars have been contributed by that city to the Chicago margin fund since the first of January last, over and above what has been received as profits on deals. The venturers in options, he cays, come from all classes and conditions of men, some women also taking a hand. Of late the losses have been so steady that many of them haveexpreased their disgust at the business and declared that they would never have anything more to do with It. It certainly seems that a time ought to come when people would see the folly of this sort of gambling and realise that they have no possible show as against the Chicago sharpers.

INDIANAPOLIS has «superintendent of police, Major Irvln Robbms("theonly") who should be invited to step down and out very speedily. Although 4he law requires saloons to close on Sunday and at 11 o'clock at night* the superintendent, on his own motion hv given the saloou-keepers nolle© that they need not close before 12 at night and may keep their back doors opou ou Sunday. This open defiance of the law by the highest police officer In the city, and who ts swom to enforce In, it must be confessed, a curimi* ctaele in the .^1 city of iivtiatML ttl««uchtrav«*itc« on theenforteWnt of the laws as tikis ?h*t create far tV prooi *r the m-j. 1). lit v.f 'in jV^r* :u V" ift I -vfB ar.fl speaker*. It is tout f*ir let say that Mr. Robblns I* a I^ro^srat I that two of the thr(W(!#»tt«*«som' 't* a heotr.-^ hi« iff -.v.u-xtf n«a NMiuva in ofc are aL.- j-'-ua. —_ui.

No decision of the United States Supreme Court has provoked so much comment and discussion as the recent one overthrowing the civil rights bill. It was a surprise to everybody and came like a clap of thunder from a clear sky. Its effect upon the colored people from one end of the country to the other has been to fill them with alarm and consternation. The decision was compared at once with the famous Dred Scott case and it may go down to history as the companion piece of that memorable opinion. The discussion of late has been much more unfavorable to the court than it was when the decision was first announced. The first impulse was to accept it as sound law out of simple deference to the nigh authority which pronounced it. But that feeling soon gave way to a critical examination of the legal merits of the decision and its probable effect upon the colored race in America, and with examination and reflection the sentiment is growing that the decision ought not to have been made. Lawyers as able as the country contains express the opinion that the law could have been found constitutional without straining the constitution unnecessarily and with theexerciseof far less ingenuity than was exhibited in reaching the conclusions announced in the Dred Scott case. If this view is correct the law ought to have been upheld. There are indications already that the late decision is having an evil influence in the Sontb. The whites apparently, at least in some quarters are more iatolerantofthe negroes, while the latter, goaded by the decision and feeling that they are now thrown upon their own resources for self protection and defence, manifest a disposition to stand for their rights as citizens, even to the shedding of blood if need oe. Ihe collision at Danville,J Virginia, in whioh four negroes were killed, aud two white men wounded, may prove but the beginning of a series of bloody riots in the South in which the two races shall be ranged on opposite sides. Doubtless the whole subject will come up for discussion in the next Congress. If so some interesting settos between Democrats and Republicans may be expected.

SAYS the Journal: "Indianapolis is making no splurge about its improvements but is moving forward in a safe way that is very assuring." During le building season now closing, about a million dollars have been put into new houses, mostly residences, varying from $1,000 to $2,500 in value. Of course there have been more expensive houses built also but this was the general average. The bouses are mostly the homes of those who build them and are either paid for or will be, out of the earnings of tjie owners. This is the kind of growth with which any city may feel satisfied, for it Is healthy and substantial, representing the ^earnings and savings of its citizens. It is the kind of growth that is now taking place in many towns and cities oi Indiana. It is witnessed hero in Terre Haute, it is seen in Evansville, In Fort Wayne, Lafayette, South Bend, Richmond, New Albany and generally throughout the better class of the county seats and smaller towns of the state. Madison, for along time thought to have been finished, has recently taken a start forward and is on the road to substantial progress. Thus it is that the gretft state of Indiana is growing and developing in a sound and healthy manner. Her lands are being drained out and made fertile, her highways improved, her stone, coal and mineral resources developed, her manufactories built upr her wealth and population increasing. She Is not bounding forward like some of the new States and Territories of the west, but she is growing probably as fast as any of the other states.

LAST Tuesday's elections show decided gains by the Republicans. In Massachusetts Butler has been beaten badly, and while his defeat has no great political significance, the contest being for the most part a perennial one, it is none the less gratifying, as"Butlerlsm" had no redeeming qualities. But in any event Massachusetts is a safe Republican State. In New York the contest was a sharp one, the Democrats having the prestige in their favur of a 200,000 majority for Cleveland last year, which, of course, was not strictly a party majority. It was generally believed, however, that the Democrats would sweep the State this year, but the Republicans have elected the head of their ticket, Gen Carr, by 16.000 majority and carried both branches of the Legislature. Pennsylvania gives a satisfactory Republican majority of 20,000. The chief interest centered in Tirginia, where the Republicans hoped for the triumph of the Mahone party. The campaign wa« hotly contested on both sides and the Democrats are happy over a victory of 30.000 majority.

TH BRS to a time in almost every young man's life when he contemplates suicide on account of unrequited affection. He lives in ^.ramlnoi's smile, and when that becomes totally eclipsed the fearful night ia filled witbg hosts and hobgoblins A little arsenic is close at band, but somehow be doesnt take it, for it has a busioe&s-like look which seems to wy it cant be trifled with, and so be goes about his matter of fact affairs for one day more, and is surprised that be gets along so well without his first love and has become so much interested in his second. W. M. Praad has sung the his-" tory of the episode so well that we all "i)gol*® it as a part of our own biography:—

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TERRS HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

THE CAMPAIGN OF 1884. The result of last Tuesday's elections makes it evident that the Presidential contest of 1884 is to be one of the hardest fought and most exciting for several years. The elections of last year in several of the States, notably in New York and Massachusetts, coupled with the defeat of the Republicans in Ohio this year, gave the Democrats great hope of winning the next national contest and correspondingly depressed the Republicans. With Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Connecticut again in the

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lican line, and with New York fairly debatable giound, the Republicans feel a good deal encouraged,while it is evident that the Democrats have suffered something of a disappointment. The Republicans, however, are disappointed in Virginia, which still remains with the Democrats in spite of 'ne Mahone movement.

In a word the two great parties stand, on the threshold of 1884, as nearly evenly matched as it would be possible for them to be, with about even chances of success on either side. Much will therefore depend upon their oouduct during the coming winter. The Democrats have a good working majority in Congress, but the opposition contains many able and experienced men who will be quick to take advantage of every blunder the Democrats {nay make. Under these circumstances the approaching session will no doubt be devoted largely to the furthering of partisan ends on both sides, and as both parties are girding themselves for the national fight, epch will strenuously endeavor to get through such legislation as will be thought likely to gain favor with the country at large. The session gives promise of being more than commonly interesting.

Already the call has gone gorth for a meeting of the national Republican committee at Washington early in December, for the purpose of fixing up a time and place for holding the next national convention. This fact with others shows that the Republicans are fully awake to the importance of the conflict before them and are determined to be equal to the emergency if possible. They are full of fight and eager for the fray. The Democrats are equally so and the great campaign of 1880 will be paralleled by that of 1884. And Especially will this be so in Indiana, which, except New York, will again be the hottest battle ground in the union. This fact is likely to push into exceptional prominence, as it has done in the past, the pubftc men of Indiana as desirable material for a national ticket. Hendricks and McDonald among the Democrats, and Harrison, Porter and Gresham among the Republicans, are thus rendered more or less liable to, the presidential, electricity.

SA YINQ8 AND DOINGS.

Babies with big eyes begin to talk soonest. The literal meaning of the word ''husband" is a "house boor."

Whittier now regrets that he never married. Most batcbelors do. An Indianapolis minister believes that base ball increases the loafer crop.

Egypt, type and gypsy are the most awkard words in the language for a penman to use/

A merchant in Jacksonville, Fla., has sold sixty pianofortes aud organs to colored families this year. The buyers pay in monthly installments.

Who knows but that two or three generations hence they will tap the deep earth and receive heat for ail the purposes for which we now use wood and coal.

Miss Bertha Crowley, of Deposit, N. Y., dreamed three nights in succession of her uncle's death in Texas. Impressed with her dreams, she addressed a letter to him. The letter fell into the hands of his lawyers, who notified her last week that she bad fallen heir to $50,000 by her uncle's death.

If young married couples would follow the domostic plan laid down by Senator Vance, of North Carolina, t&ere would be less contention in households, and, perhaps, fewer divorces in courts. He said to his second wife shortly after marriage: "My dear, I'm a stubborn fellow, and you may anticipate trouble. Now, in the beginning, while I am submissive,! want to give you one piece of advice. If yon follow it, we'll get on mighty well. It is this: Make me do just as I darned please."

At the last meeting of the English Congregational Union, the 'Rev. Mr. Hurdall read a paper urging the abolition of sermons. He held that the sermon as a part of divine service is "unscriptural," and that it is a powerful agent in keeping people away from church. He pointed out the fact that the Salvation Army leaders do not preach, and are therefore able to attract crowds of peoples to the Salvation Army meetings, and he insisted that if all religious bodies were to imitate the Salvationists in discarding sermons, both ministers and people would be the better for it.

Kissing goes by favor, and is very often quite costly in the long run. Hie value of a kiss has more than once been made the subject of judicial deliberation. The time has come, for the exercise of reason in this as iu all other matters. A jury in Northampton County, Pa., has just broken Ice in this busines, and ^r-'-ed that kisses are worth a cent

A young lady who testtde din a

breach of-promise suit that she bad been kissed by her recreant lover 100,009 tiaMBWB prsiinptly $1,000.

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STAGE KISSING.

NOT ALWAYS WHAT IT SEEMS.

There are some actresses who play parts where they have to be kissed all the time ou tbe stage, bat who would resent it as an insult if the actor lover of the play kissed them in reality. There are other actresses who rather like being kissed, for they say it inspires them with the reality of the scene. The knack of kissing in appearance bat not in reality, is one of ihe essential qualifications of a good society actor. Charles Coghlan, who has just arrived from England, never kissed but one woman in his life on the stage. He was carried away by the emotions of the scene, and is Bald to have actually kissed Miss Sara Jewett. Mr. Coghlan hastened to apologize when tbe play was over.

Miss Clara Morris is the most realistic actress we have, and she sometimes gets so worked up on the stage, that she forgets it is only simulated. On occasions like this, especially when she was younger, she would sometimes kiss in reality. But it is not on record that any actor ever complained to the management that he was kissed. She still simulates kissing very well, but will permit no familiarity of any sort. Mr. George Clark, who has been playing Armand to her Camilie in New York, says that he had to be very caieful, as her acting almost made him believe the play was a reality.

Madame Modjeska is a hugger, but a non-kisser. She hugs so hard that one might believe her to be in earnest. Mr. Maurice Barryraore, her. leading man, plays all the love scenes with her, but be has to be very careful, all tbe more so that tbe Count Bozenta is always IOOKing on from the wines advising moderation. Madame Modjeska kisses invariably while her back is turned to the audience, so that they cannot really see bow little in earnest she is. The charming abandon is all slmulalld.

Mrs. Agnes Booth is another lady who has of late years had very strict notions of propriety on this point. She had some trouble in courting the impetuous Mr. Bryton in the Russian Honeymoon,but kissing on the stage is breaking one of tbe rules of the theater. They are posted up in the greenroom, or, more truthfully speaking, upon tbe walls of the stage, and to break this par icular rule costs an actor

$5.

Mr. Bryton thought that as

her husband in the play, the love scenes would lose much of their charm if not played warmly. So thought Mrs. Booth, but she stopped him at the kissing point, thougn it may have flattered her to think he was willing to lose

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for the privilege. Miss Maud Granger is said to be a real kisser. She believes that to hesitate abont 8o small a matter destroys the interest of the play to the audience, who can ih variably tell whether it Is a real kiss or a bogus one that is given. Site makes the distinction that she will not kiss at rehearsal.

Miss Rose Coghlan kisses in reality at times, but it is nearly always the same man, Mr. Osmond Tearle, who invariably plays the opposite parts to her. Of course where people have been in one theater so long, aud know each other so well, it seems of less consequence and has no flavor of promiscuous kissing about it. The other actors in the theater are permitted no more than to kios Miss Coghlan on the forehead. This she considers to be quite enough for fathers or brothers. Little Miss Measor's kissing scenes in tbe same theater are generally with her husband, .dr. Buokstone, so that really it is perfectly proper she should kiss in reality as often as the necessities of the case may require.

Mi*s Gerard, John Stetson's new leading lady, is said to be very fine in kissing scenes, and as long as tbe actor is not personally disagreeable to her, she can wee no reason why stage kissing should not be a reality of tbe moment. Sbe does not think, however, that she is compelled by politeness even to speak to the gentleman, off the stage, whom she has Kissed on it perhaps half an hour before. These are philosophic subtleties of osculation, so that it may be said that Miss Gerard's is not really a physical kiss, but an art kiss, for it is given purely in the interests of art, and no more.

French actors, those in opera bouffe, at any rate, always give real kisses. Kissing, indeed, is one of their comic effects very often. Mile. Aimee always gives a good sounding smack when she kis&98, and it is hearty and honest, and sodo tbe other members of the Maurice Grau's Opera Bouflfe company. They do not pretend anythin and are united by that sort of a spirit of camaraderie that makes the act entirely innocent and playful. There is much more friendliness among the French companies than among our own American troypes.

A CHEAP GYMNASIUM. Baltimore tiun. The cheapest and best gymnasium in the world—one that will exercise every bone and muscle in tbe body—is a flat piece of steel, uotched in one side, fitted tightly into a wooden frame, and after being greased on both sides with a bacon rind, rubbed into a stick of wood lengthwise on a sawbuck.

There are 240combinations on the road this season, of which 169*are dramatic, 30 variety, 15 operatic, 11 minstrel, 8#circus, and 7 concert troupes.

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MAIL NEWS BOYS!

NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.

On the Saturday following the 1st of January next, the publisher of The Saturda Evening Mail will give his Newsboys the fol lowing

Cash Prises.

To the boy selling the greatest number Mails, $5.00 in Gold. Boy selling next highest number $3.00

Silver.

The next, $8.50 in Gold. The next, $8.00 in Silver. The contest will begin next Saturday, Nov. 3rd,and end on Saturday Jan. 5th—10 weeks. The winners of the above prizes will be excluded from the following

Cash Premiums:

Every boy selling during the ten weeks 00 or more Mails—an average of 40 each week—will be given $2.00. Every boy selling 300 and less thau40fr—an average of 30 Mails each week—will be given $1.50. Every boy selling 200 and less than 300—an

Average of 20 each week—will be given $1.00. Every boy selling 100 Mails in the ten weeks —an average of 10 each week—will be given 50 cents.

Erich boy must buy for himself, and any one detected in buying for other* and applying on his account will forfeit right to any of the above premiums. A record will be kept, and the premiums paid in cash on Saturday afternoon an. 5th, 1884.

Now boys, go to work. You will be surprised at the result of a little ettort in your immediate neighborhood. Ask your friends and neighbors to take The Mail and assist you in getting some of the above prises.

SOME OTHER DA Y.

Bdfore enclosing your new home, step in at A. G. Austin A Co's and see the Bronze Hardware, of Japanese design, selected by Mr. Willard Kidder for his modern and beautiful residence.

GRAND OPENING

At Mrs. Mary A. Roach's Millinery store. The newest things in bonnets and fall millinery are now to be seen at her parlors. The location is 426 Main street.

IT IS HERE!

The Fall season is here, and you will .want to put your house in order for the coming winter. Among other things .there will be papering to be done, and you will find a suitable stock to select from at J. W. Roberts & Co's elegant establishment, corner of Sixth und Ohio streets. Their business has grown immensely the past year, on account of reasonable charges, and the artistic style of work under Mr. Roberts' direction. With large experience and the display pf delicate taste he directs the corps of paper hangers In his employ in producing prettiest effects in perfect harmony with tbe surroundings.

Although there is no old stock on hand, Mr. Roberts desires to make a complete cleanout before next Spring, and in order to do so will for awhile make an inducement in very low prices.''

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Look—A 21 inch heavy Gros Graiu Dress Silk only 85 cts, worth $1.25. An elegant line of Colored Dress Silks, very wide and heavy, at $1.00 per yard, never sold before for less than $1/25.

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Casliriie'res In Black and Colors, at 50c., 58c., 65c., 70c., 85c., 00c., and $1.00 per yard acknowledged to be the handsomest and best for wear of any

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LATEST STYLES

Children's Cloaks

From 4 to 16 years, just received, which we offer at lower prices than any yet sold

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'our Ladies' Misses' aud Childlen's^ Wraps are going off rapidly. Our Dress Goods—Silks, Plushes and Velvets, are going out fast. Our sales in every de''i partment areconstantly increasing. All .v goods in our stores are marked with a setling price—and in all cases it is thai price or none. This is not an idle boast, but

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of men, for but few are expert enough to detect clever imitations of honest goods offered by unscrupulous

There is one certain way to avoid being swindled—^ I and that is to deal with a bouse who base tbei repotstion and soccers on keeping onlyboneat reliable goods who aim to secure continuous patronage by supplying their customers with goods which shall invaribly prove satisfactory. We are determined that your purchases^, shall be just right every time. AH our clothing ex-

and lasting qualities. We use the best of materials, and insist that thorough work shall be put on every article even to tbe minutest detail.

You will find our clothing all that conid be desired, and eqnal to tbe b»t tailor-rode garment. 1 ry us, and we will guarantiee perfect satisfaction.

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