Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 November 1883 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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Nos. 20 and 22 Booth Fifth Street, Printing Home Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TKRRE HAUTE, NOV. 24, 1888

JUDOmo from the temperature of Mahone's circular to the Readjusted" Virginia politics mast be pretty warm

"INVISIBLE blue" ia to be the regula tion color for New York policemen. We thought policemen always wore that eolor. .1

BABIES arrive in London at the rate of 2,700 a week. Yes, and in about twenty years they will all be coming over here for their bread and batter.

IT is an unequal division of the spoils to give the minister from |2 to $50 for tying the connubial knot and $26 to |500 to the lawyer for cutting it asunder.

HARRISON, "the boy preacher," has got his 1,000 seals, as usual, at Danville 111. It's a little curioas that he gets just about the same number wherever he goes.

THE Romney Rye-ot in northern In diana is quite different in plot and execution from the play of that name we have been accustomed to see upon the boards.

MODJESKA'S corsets will fce worn oat before the newspapers get through talking about them. By the way, a woman with such corsets as those sheuld wear -•. them on the outside of drees.

"OUR esteemed contemporary" is stereotyped in both the Express and Gozette offices. It ia supposed to convey more sarcasm, dislike and general illhumor than any other three, wor^s in the newspaper vocabulary.

MANITOBA, it is said, is tired of Dominion government and would like to become a part of the United States. Let her come in if she wants to. If the United States can stsnd Alaska she oughtn't to squeal at Manitoba.

HKNRY WARD BEECHKR thinks the government has as much right to tax ministers as pig Iron, wool, etc., and he does not intend the tax shall be put upon such men as Dr. Taylor and Dr. Hall. No, indeed, preachers like other church property, shall be exempt from taxation.

FASHION notes tell us that "freckles are very stylish because the princess Louise has them, and now they am produced artificially." If it could only be announced that snub noses and big feet were a sign of royalty many of our belles would not have to resort to "artificial means."

JUDOS FISCHER, of Baltimore, has decided that a man is liable in damages for slanderous words uttered by his wife, and the Baltimore husbands are having solid fences, ten feet high, erected between all the back yards to stop the gossip. It seems that women have no rights in that city.

THBRB are 2S,000 children in Philadelphia for whom there are neither schoolhouses or school teachers. Collections will be taken up in all the churches next Sunday for mission work in the foreign lands. The little heathen in Central Africa and New Zealand and jungles of India must be saved.

EXPENSIVE wedding preeenui aregoing out of style, and brides will hereafter not receive eleven pickle castors, thirteen butter disheeand seven French clocks. It is thought that people who 3 have been married some time will now be able to buy a few much needed pieces of silver and keep their for the use of their own family.

THE Art Loan exhibition of Indiana^ polls, including a magnlficient collection of pictures, proved a total failure, although supplemented with a nightly concert. Finally some prosaic soul sug-

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gested that theytserve a lunch and the oyster* and baked beans accomplished the desired effect. Where art and music failed, "victuals" brought in the cash.

MB. WATTKBSON, in an interview iaat Thursday said, "I have an Idea Mr. Tilden interests himself very little about the organisation of the House, as it does not concern htm in the least." No doubt Mr. Watterson is correct. We have an idea that the only house Mr. Tllden ia concerned about is a very small one, say three by six, and very strongly in favor of protection.

A bill has passed both Senate and House In Washington Territory giving women the ballot equally with own. Women are scarce in thoee western territories and the men are willing to make any concessions whatever to win their favor. Herein the States where we have plenty of women and some to spas*, we feel pretty independent and can afford to tefu*»4heui their lawful rights for some time yet. "MM. DRURT, of Cleveland, has staed another woman for alleo sting her hoeband's affections. She gave him "a long, gummy kind of a kiss." Well, by Gum! this is too much. We always knew If women dldnt quit shewing gum that men would have to take that kind ©f kisses. If theee gummy ktasea geti Into dreolnUon they will ettek to a mmn worse than a trade dollar. A roan will' hare no asau: «o«e If he attempts to kiss} a girl ©n the sly hot that it may be one »Of *we«viand kind, and Ust till his vftt# oomus »iih

"MAN in search of his soul during fifty thousand years, and how he found it," is the subject of one of GeVald Massey's lectures. The average woman who ever sent a man to hunt anything will be very skeptical in

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to Mr.

Massey's statement that he found it, even after hunting fifty thousand years

GKNERAL SHERMAN is understood to be willing if his party thinks he is the fit map to be sacrificed on the altar of his country \n 1834. The movement in his favor is assuming an active shape and clubs to farther his interests are being organized in various parte of the country "Old Tecumseh" would make a rattling campaign, especially among the soldier boys.

THE papers of Rochester, N. Y., are advocating the abolition of recess from the schools to give the teachers more time. Considering that there is scarcely any other employment where the hours of labor are so few, we advise that the teachers try to stand it awhile longer and the pupils be still allowed the fifteen minutes intermission between the hours of systematic "cramming."

IT is said there is so much jealousy in Chicago on account of having German taught in the public schools that the mayor will recommend they also teach the Irish vernacular. We think it is no more than just that a teacher of the Negro dialect be also provided. When our children graduate, provided th6y live to complete the course, let it be as accomplished linguists, whether or not they know anything else.

BBLVA A. LOCKWOOD is having considerabledifficnlty in clearing her skirts, so to speak, of the charge of pension frauds. According to the dispatches, first she did and then she didn't. Now, it seems, she is to be prosecuted. We do not believe Mrs. Lock wood is guilty,but if she has defrauded those wards of the republic, worthy pensioners, let her suffer the penalty just as if she were a man. ____________

THE Supreme court of the United States has decided that suicide committed by an insane person who holds a life insurance does not invalidate the policy. This is hard on the companies since it is thought by many that any person who commits suicide is mentally disi. Insanity pays. It relieves an individual of all responsibility for his acts during life, and assures his family of a handsome premium at his death.

UNLESS Indiana should furnish tbe head of the Republican ticket in 1884 it will be more likely than any other state to contribute the candidate for Vice President. Among tbe persons most prominently.named In that connection are Judge Gresham and Gov. Porter. In the latter the Evansville Journal sees an exceptionally strong candidate, one who would be morally certain, it thinks, to carry Indiana for the Republicans in 1884.

THE monument of Senator Morton baa arrived in Indianapolis and will be put up in the center of the circle within a couple of weeks. Col. Dick Thompson, of this city will deliver the oration at tbe unveiling of the statue. Tbe statue is of bronze nearly eight feet high, and will, with the pedestal, have a total height of about seventeen feet. It is said by those who have seen it to bean excellent pleoe of work, and one of which the city and State may well be proud.

MASSACHUSETTS will observe Thanksgiving this year by order of a proclamation of its Governor that is eminently Butlerlsh. While there is some good advice in this odd proclamation, it is on the whole a remarkable State document. It carefully avoids all reference to religious worship and the clergy, and goes in for a jolly good time at home, with a use of the Saviour's words at that deeply solemn and sacred last snpper— "Drink ye all of it"—that borders very nearly upon blasphemy. ^v\

BISHOP SPAULDINO, of Illinois, has issued an order prohibiting dancing at the church fairs and festivals given in his diocese. Dancing seems to be decidedly a minor evil compared to the wholesale lottery business that generally forms the the most prominent feature of Catholic fairs. At the fair given in this city a couple of weeks ago, about fl,300 were made in this manner, leaving a balance of about $600 made In the legitimate way. audi as is practiced the Protestant churches of the city.

MRS. LANOTRT and Freddie might send a card of sympathy to Irving and the fair Ellen. Somehow we Americans don't seem to understand the wa^of our English cousins. New York society has scruples about receiving both Irving and Terry, and so It compromises by only inviting Irving. Society is accustomed to make this distinction. Henry Ward Beecber Invites them both and has another goose on the table. The three great Henrys, Henry the Bghth, Henry Ward Beecber and Henry Irving

JUSTICE HARLAN'S dissenting opinion on tbe civil rights act commands tbe support of the country more than the majority opinion of tbe court. It Is founded on batter reasoning and Is altogether more fair and equitable. The Supreme coart ear&aittly made a poor decision In this case one that is destined to go dewn in history as

weak and unsafe-

lafactory. *U is singular and unaccountable that the court, composed as it is, should have made such an anti-republi-can decision at a time when there was no pleasure of public opinion from any quarter in the direction which the coart took. Bat the decisions ot high courts annot^lta strange aud uoaccoant-

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

Gov. PORTER'S proclamation, issued last Monday is probably one of the shortest ever made by a Governor. It is as follows:

At the close of a year of bohntifal harvest! of general good health and of private an* public prosperity, it is becoming that tbe people of the state should publicly manifest their gratitude to God, and so icita continue anoe of his abounding goodness and mercy.

Wherefore I, Albert G. Porter, Governor of Indiana, do hereby appoint Thursday toe 29th instant, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer and do recommend to the people its general and reverent observance.

CLARA BELLE, .in her usual delicate manner, wants te know what would be the result if women were as particular about husbands having good figures as men are in regard to the shapeliness of wives. The tailor could- put in more padding and fix up the sbouldfers, but tbe legs, aye, there's the rub. Art can do nothing for them and fashion does not kindly provide a dress sihlrt. But why discuss the question? Women are not particular about anything iu selecting a husband. If they were, most of them would remain old maids.

THE clearing bouse report continues to make an unfavorable showing. The total clearings for the week ending November 10 were only 1803,301575. as against fl,107,793 the preceding week. As oompared with the corresponding week of last year the clearings show a decrease of 27.7 per cent. The transactions of tbe clearing houses constitute the business thermometer of the country, decreased volume indicating a corresponding falling off in business. Tbe open and rainy weather of the last few weeks may have been and probably was the principal cause of the sluggishness of trade. With the generally excellent crops of the past year there certainly can be little ground for supposing that the country is not in a healthy and prosperous condition.

ON last Sunday, one of the most important changes in time reckoning ever made in this country went into eflect. Instead of the varying time with every distance east or west of the Washington meridian, as heretofore, the country is divided into strips equal to the space which the sun passes over in an hour and the time throughout each strip or belt is made the same. As yon pass from one belt to another the time changes at once an entire hour. The method was in trod need by the railroads to prevent confusion in the running of trains by so many different standards, of time and is being adopted generally by the public.' In spite of all tbe objections to the new method it will be found much more convenient than the old one and when once thoroughly in operation will give general satisfaction.

THERE is a gloomy prospect ahead for the iron workers in and around Pittsburg. By the suspension of the large mills of Oliver Brothers A Philips and others, good men have been thrown out of employment and it is feared that other suspensions will follow. It appears that tbe iron trade is in a condition of unusual depression, some operators anticipating as bad a time as the fonr years succeeding the panic of 1878. With the country generally prosperous, however, and a great demand f°r *ron lQ railway building and a thousand other industrial avenues, this opinion must certainly be wide of the mark. The trouble appears to be that the facilities for production have exceeded the present demand but this inequality may be expected to regnlate Itself within a reasonable time. Singularly inconsistent with the above statement is that of Secretary Martin, of the Amalgamated Association, who says that while some mills are compelled to close down, others will run double turn. This would indicate that some mills are able to largely discount others in the cheapness of production. The spectacle of thousands of working-men being thrown out of employment on the very threshhold of winter Is a most distressing one, as it means untold suffering not only to themselves, bnt to their wives and children. It is to be hoped that the situation at Pittsburg will not prove so bad as has been indicated.

THE murder of J. P. Matthews at Hadehurst, Miss., on election day, assumes a more ugly aspect the more it Is looked into. The plain, unvarnished truth appeals to be that Matthews, who was a man of wealth and social standing and chairman of the Republican committee of the oounty, was warned not to vote at the election on penalty of death. Matthews was courageous enough to defy the threat and to test the question whether or not it was worth a man's life __ rote at astate election in Mississippi. He went publicly to the polls and cast his ballot, in an orderly and decent manner so tar Is known, and was instantshot dead by the Democratic peace officer of the precinct. So far as these facts are concered there seems to be no dispute about them. Tbe murderer made BO concealment or attempt at concealment of his dime, hat openly admitted

It is stated also that tor a week prior tbe election armed bodies of men rode night through tbe precinct, firing inhooses, whipping and terrifying the negroes and producing a reign of tenror generally. Matthews was killed in obedience to an order Issued by this body of "regulatore," as they styled themselves.

In the face of facts like these can it be pretended that a free suffrage exists ia Mississippi? The blood of the murdered Matthews will rise up from the ground to condemn the men and the party which employs tbe shot-gun method of carrying electfous. Undoubtedly this murder, coupled with tbe slaughter of negroes at Danville, Vs., will produce a profound sensation throughout the north Mid Is likely to pitch the key-note of the next campaign.

DWIGHT L. MOODY, the famous evangilist, who is now making a second tour of England with great suxess. is a native of Massachusetts and is 46 years old. He went to Chicago soon after bis conversion, when he was about 17 and has made that place his home ever since. He took a position in a boot and shoe store but gave much attention to Sunday school work, establishing schools and missions wherever he saw an opening. As a young convert he was irrepressible in the prayer meetings, so much so that he was frequently admonished that be had better try to serve Gcd in some other wsy than by public exhortation and prayer. Subsequent events however, show that he was building wiser than his critics knew and was acquiring that facility in public speaking which has since enabled him to accomplish a great religious work. Mr. Sankey, the singer, has beea with him since 1871.

ALTHOUGH EBgland is always considered as solid for free trade and is appealed to as instancing the value of free trade as a governmental policy, there are indications that a change of faith is now going on in that country. The Earl of Dunraven is making earnest efforts in behalf of protection and is attracting wide attention thereby. He points to this country as showing the excellent results of a protective policy and urges the English authorities to adopt a similar course. There is a strong and growing sentiment among the working classes in favor of protection, for the reason that tbey are beginning to realize that their mean condition and increasing poverty are largely due to tbe free trade policy which has prevailed in England for some years past. With this kind of work going on in Eogland it is hardly probably that the United States will lie persuaded into abandoning its present conservative protection policy for some time at least. There are, however, certain changes in the present tariff laws which are urgently demanded tlnd which ought to be made by Congress at its forthcoming session.

MRS. HELEN P. JENKINS condemns the nude in art upon the grounds of indelicacy and immorality. As to the first she reasons that what is indelicate in actual life is not less so when reproduced in art. She says, "if the artist must paint the nude let him paint bis own 'sex or paint children. He has no right to snatch from women the covering that civilization and decency have ordained they must wear." As to the question of morality Mrs. Jenkins believes that it shonid be the work of art to paint such pictures as will tend to draw the soul upwsrd and that the contemplation by men of the naked female fignre does not do this. There is good sense and reason in the arguments whioh fcb« writer advances against the growing tendency towards tbe cade in art, and her brave outcry against it should be taken up by intelligent, sensitive women everywhere and made so.loud and far reaching that a reaction in public sentiment on this question would be produced. By tbe way, does not the fact that Bouguereau's notorious painting, containing tbe figures of half a dozen nude women, has found a permanent home in Stokes' drinking saloon in New York City, forcibly argue the impurity of such pictures? All things naturally seek their level snd such surroundings as belong to them. This picture of monstrous nudity goes, not to the cultured home where wife and children are, but to tbe place where men congregate to drink. Does the fact reoommend this kind of art? _____________

MOB LAW AGAIN.

Once more has Indiana been disgraced by the execution of a murderer by a mob. Jacob Nelling, tbe confessed murderer of the girl Ada Atkinson,near Oxford, Benton oounty, was banged on Sunday night by a band of disguised citizens of tbe county, who forced their way into the jail by battering down the iron doors in their wsy. So far as the murderer himself is concerned he undoubtedly got his justdeserts, for be had oonfossod his guilt and only offered the thin excuse that he was overcome by a sudden msnia to commit the deed. And doubtless tbe men who wreaked summary vengeance upon him honestly felt that this was the surest way to prevent his escape from the punishment he deserved. They feared the result of a tedious trial in tbe courts upon a plea of temporary insanity urged by skillful and ingenious lawyers. "i"

Yet all tbe same the mob method of administering justice cannot be approved, or even tolerated. It is tbe method of barbarism. It is turning the wheels of civilisation backwards many centuries. If this is tbe best way to deal with criminals, better abolish our courts altogether, and save the expense of administering the laws by an enlightened method. For centuries past it has been one of the fundamental principles of every Mil of rights that no man's life or liberty should be taken save by a trial hy a jury of his peers. When, therefore, men take it upon themselves to execute the laws without trial or judgment of a court tbey are guilty of striking down, so far as it Is in their power do so, tbe very bulwark of human rights and liberty. Tbey become, to all intents and purposes, revolutionists.

Manifestly the thing to do is to enforce tbe laws, not by mob violence, bat according to legal forms. If criminals escape just punishment who is to blame for It? Where lies the fsult? Evidently with the jurors themselves who try them. And the jury is made up from the body of citizens—is selected from just such men as formed tbe mob that hung Nelling. The trouble Is that men in a mob and the same men in a jury-box set

very differently. It is hazarding very little to say that some of the very men who executed Nelling as a mob would have acquitted or pronounced light sentence upon him as a jury. What we want is to have our citizens so educated to the enforcement law that they will not be swerved from their plain duty by the ingenious and sophisticated arguments of unscrupulous or over zealous lawyers. When men will do in the jury box, under the forms and sanctities of the law, what they are ready to do as a mob, the necessity, or apparent necessity, for lynchlngs will have ceased. This is the altitude we must endeavor to get up to, rather than descend to the.meth ods of the uncivilised savage. '.

Nothing succeeds like success and the people of Terre Haute and vicinity have for the last two weeks succeeded in getting good boots and shoes at low prices at the Bankrupt Sale of Alexander & Brown, 513 Main street. There are more left. "Sportingmen's Supplies."

The new Parker Top Snap, Colts English and German Breech and Muzzle Loading Guns American Wood, Ditt* mar and Dupont's Sporting Powder Paper and Brass Shot Shells Concentrators and Black and Pink-Edge Wads. Shells loaded carefully to order, at No. 22 north 4th.

R. R. TEEL & BRO. The rush lias been great for those fine shoes at the Bankrupt Sale of Alexander & Brown, 513 Main street. People contemplating purchasing good goods at low prices, should not wait until Saturday's sale, as we expect another rush like last Saturday,and when it comes, we are not able-to wait on customers as we would like to, owing to the crowd being too la

Adams, the Photographer isMly prepared for a large Holiday business. His styles are beautiful, and stock of frames complete. Call early.

The Fifth Annual Ball of the Cigar Makers Union will be at Dowling Hall, Thanksgiving Eve, Nov. 28. Admission $1. Music by Ringgold Band.

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Wild Ducks, Dressed Rabbits, Oyster Plants,

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Comb Honey, Preserves.

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Tbe anderslghed tuu opened a B«oelvin« Boom, No. lS«outb Seoond street where he 1* prepared to receive Boogh Grease ot any kind, Pwk and Beef Cracklings, Dry and Oram Bone%for which be wflFpaythe Highest dSaTPrleefc HewtU also boy Dead Hogs by ringle or IOJKL

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