Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 February 1884 — Page 4
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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
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Nos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.
"P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
TKRRB HAUTE, FEB. 2, 1884
How ABB the mighty fallen! Denis Kearney is said to be selling pies at a San Francisco health report.
THEBE is a bitter reflection in the remark of Perry Manis, "I want to go to the penitentiary to get out of the way of temptation."
HENRY WARD BEECHEB declares that four-tiftbs of the inhabitants of heaven are women. Mine Gracious! won.'t that other fifth have a nice time?
THERE is always a competisatidn. Since the small-pox broke out in the jail at Indianapolis, they only arrest an average of one tramp a day. *,v
OSCAR LINBURO, of Chicago, must he what is termed a "bard drinker," for the Kews tell us he dislocated his jaw gulping down a glass of whiskey. »"f
IT is discouraging to us other fellows to think of the fact that no man who was not a lawyer or a soldier ever became president of the United States.
A TELEPHONE is talked of which shall have twenty points and enable us to talk with England. We can give our English cousins twenty points and still bold our own.
THE proper place for such a man as Perry Manisis the penitentiary, and the proper place for such a woman as Susanna Nelson, is the grave. Society is better for their removal.
DON'T put any faith in the statement that "the back-bone of winter is broken." The old fellow only has a "crick" in his back and he'll stiffen up colder than ever before we get entirely rid of him.
AN exchange says it is a great deal cheaper to move out of a house, when the pipes freeze up, than it is to hire a plumber. But what is a man to do when he owns the house—give it to the plumber?
FOURTEEN years ago, when Talmage took charge of his church, it bad only nineteen members, now it has a membership of over three thousand. It is bard to say whether it is Talmage or Christianity that offers the attraction.
IT is mentioned as one hopeful aspect of the business situation that along continuance of the downward tendency of prices,such as we are now going through, and verv low mtM of interest have never heretofore preceded an industrial
crisis. ARMOUR & Co., the great hog packers of Chicago, have sent as their representative to Washington a Mr. Brine, to certify to the character of the American hog. He should put his subject in pickle and keep it till the Committee needs it.
A CANADIAN court has decided that a man not only has the right to sleep in church but may snore if he chooses. There are only two resorts left, to arrest him as a disturber of the peace or to suggest to the minister that he make bis sermons interesting enough to keep his congregation awake.
THE Unitarian church at Clinton, Mass., has voted uuanimously to use water Instead of wine at the communion table. There is something about this that is kind of suggestive of the people being put on bread and water as a pun ishment for their sins, but whichever way you look at it, it is all right.
MR. HURD is authority for the statement that a new tariff bill will be introduced within the next ten days and he adds, We will sit on that bill till next August," That's right, keep it town, but don't get off of it till after the •lection, for the only hope of the Demorats is to keep that tariff question from bobbing up. _____
TUB drug stores, corner groceries, etc. will be pleased to loam that Postmaster General Gresham proposes to allow them twenty-four dollars per annum for selling postage stamps. Heretofore It has been a great annoyance to them, besides bring so much dead capital, but they were obliged to keep the stamps to accommodate customer*.
HARPER'S WKKKLY warns the Demo crata that if they only propose to occupy the Republican ground on the tariff question. It will be only a repetition of their tactics for the last dowm years and it is not likely to prove any more successful. When Carlisle was elected speaker, it was loudly proclaimed that a great principle had been put forward as the rallying cry of the party. The country is waiting to see whether the promise will be fulfilled. %n
AT Hackensack, the sexton of the Baptist church, a colored man, was refused burial In the city cemetery, the officers of the r-emetery giving as a rea son that "it won Id Injure the sale of lots to havo a colored man buried there." The most arrogant and disgraceful Southern prejudice could go no further than this. It would be a great comfort to such people to know there were two heavens, one for white and one for black, although they do not stand much chance to reach either of them.
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INDIANA prohibitionists who have the real cause of temperance at heart, should go slow in their plans for putting an independent ticketin the field. John Mabin, a prohibition leader in Iowa, strongly opposes the nomination of a prohibition national ticket. His argument is that since prohibition can only be secured by changes in the laws and constitutions of the several States, the most practicable course is for the prohibitionists to keep out of and above party politics. There is food for reflection in this which prohibitionists everywhere would do well to consider.
IT looks as if the telephone Would have to go unless its service is better administered. In Indianapolis the exchange is so poorly managed that the attempt to use the instruments is producing wideppread profanity and demoralization. Where the distance between points is not very great it takes longer to get the wires connected than to carry one's message on foot. And in addition to the delay there is complaint that patrons are not treated with respect by the employes of the exchange. Similar complaints are made in other cities. It is evident that the telephone service must be "reformed."
FRANK JAMES, the noted Missouri bandit, lies dying at the house of his wife. Hunted down for his crimes, he will find the grave his only door of escape from along term in prison and the disgrace of the felon's garb. For years he has been hunted down by the officers of the law and his life has been one long terror of the avenging Nemesis that was sure to take him sooner or later. If the silly youth who have been accustomed to look upon him as a hero could see him as he is now and know the real story of his wretched life, they would understand that the way of the transgressor is hard and that the wages of sin is death. There is no romance in the death of the broken-down, homeless criminal.
IN 1882, the W. 0. T. U.,of Mass., held amass meeting at which President Seeleye, of Amherst College presided. Mrs. Livermore raised twelve hundred dollars on the spot, and the women of the Union secured 55,000 names to the petitions for the General Assembly. This year, a resolution was introduced recognizing the equality of women and recommending that women endeavor to secure the ballot for themselves that they may help the temperance cause. The men of the convention voted this down. Thereupon Mrs. Livermore and the more prominent ladies withdrew their names aud assistance. The temperanoe cause without the aid of women would accomplish practically nothing, and it is decidedly contemptible for temperance men to question their equality.
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nothing for dear little puppies. It is said the dog dress-makers are kept busy all the time. For shopping costumes, dark blue or green cloth is used, lined with a contrasting color. For moreelegant dresses, silk, satin and sealskin are employed. These garments are decorated with embroiderery and hand painting. A young woman who would Indulge In such folly as this should be withdrawn from society, placed in the hands of a physician, and ir necessary, put Into a straight jacket. If she is not insane, but simply a fool, there is no remedy but to twat her with the contempt she deserves. There Is too muoh work In the world for women to do, to tolerate any such idiocy
POOR Mme. Gerster! She has been terribly deceived, maltreated Jand abused. She was to get fl,000 a night for singing and she warbled sixteen times and only received |6,000! At that rate of course the poor woman would have starved if she had kept on, but she did not keep on. She bade Col. Mapleson afar from affectionate farewell and left bis company forever. What hurt Gerster most, so at least she said, was that that little French vixen Patti was getting all the money. True, polite manager explained didn't get her pay promptly she would quit and that they only made money on the Patti nights, but this was not balm to the wounded heart of the German prima donna and she could not be prevailed upon to stay. It's a burning shame that these gifted singing women can't be paid a reasonable compensation for their services.
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THE Kokomo Gazette is of the opinion that there is getting to be too much clap trap about Washington fociety, and says: I&. "Out rulers *houM aet down to plain living and simple plain hatS*, and the people who sent them there. As it is, thev naend about one third ••f their time in ^la^^pattoii. "This Is ^Republican form of government in which the people are the •overeiirns and the officers the servants of the people. The people dont want any imitations of English irlsocracy. They waut plainness and simplicity." "Imitations of English aristocracy, however, are not limited to Washington They have their worst exhibitions in New York and other large cities. In his "House of a Merchant Prince," W.
H. Bishop happily shows up this aping of foreigners by our wealthy classes. It to disgusting in the extreme to men and women of genuine culture, and national notions of life. But it will of coarse continue among clean who measure life simply from a money stand-point. There is probably no core for it bat there is the consolation of knowing that these people are not to be envied by anybody* The real, true and thorough enjoyment of life will alwsys be found in the middlo classes.
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY .EVENING MAIL.
MORE LEGAL HAIR SPLITTING. Discussion of the technical disdsions of the Supreme court continues. Says the Crawfordsville Journal: "Courts have been thought to be above criticism, but they are institutions of the people, and when judges, to the hindrance of Justice, engage in dividing hairs merely to show their acumen, they may expect to be criticized like all other public servants who become unmindful of their duties."
But all the same, the Supreme court doesn't seem to take the criticism much to heart. Only last week it made a couple of about as technical decisions as any that have been heretofore criticised. One of the cases was where two men were prosecuted for conspiracy to feloniously break and enter a dwelling house in the night time with intent to "steal," as the affidavit expressed it, the property of the owner, and the court, speaking through Judge Niblack, held that the word "steal" had several different shades of meaning, depending upon the connection and circumstances in which it is used, and that it is not sufficient to charge a larceny unless preceded by the word "feloniously." Yet Webster, in defining this familiar and honest anglosaxon word, gives as its first definition "To take and carry away feloniously, as the personal goods of another to take without right or leave," citing in sup port of the definition an authority no less august than Blackstone! Thus It appears that the word "steal" Implies of itself a felonious taking. But the Supreme court grants a convicted burglar a new trial because forsooth he "was only charged with intending to steal instead of to feloniously steal! Is this the kind of law which Coke or Bacon, or some other ancient worthy, declared was the perfection of human reasoning?
The other instance to which we allude was one where two cases, being founded on the same cause of action, were consolidated and tried together. They of course went together to the Supreme court, and the attorneys on both sides agreed that the bill of exceptions in the one case might be also used in the other, since the evidence was the same on both. But, behold! the Supreme court refused to consider the evidence as in the second case at all, explaining that the agreement of counsel was sufficient to authorize the clerk of the court below to copy the bill of exceptions into the record in the second case, but did not require the court to hunt through the record in the first case for the evidence. Yet both cases were considered by the same judge (Hammond), at the same time and decided on the same day! Manifestly nothing would have been gained, not even the lightening of the labors of the judge by copying the evidence into the second record, yet this expensive requirement is made of the appellant In order to have his case considered by the court of last resort.
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decisions like these appear in the light of mere burlesques on the much vaulted science of the law andjejt^nne$i^ki j^J&liffnto contempt. It may be said that the judges are not at fault that tbey are bound by precedents and former rullmgs from which tbey cannot break away. Well, then, the system which is built upon such senseless technicalities, is a monstrous humbug and delusion and must be pulled down, aid system founded on common sens reason and justice, be erected in its plac And this the people will demand,
THE proposed investigation of tl charges against Colonel French,.of tl mall service, by a board composed three or four post masters, cannot hel being a farce, in the light of all that he transpired. It is given out in advam that Mr. French has been thoroughl investigated by the Postoffice Depart ment and found to be "a model officer" ii every respect, and that the purpose the coming inquiry is merely to silenc all clamor against him in other words that the board is to apply a first daa coat of whitewash to Mr. French. Aftei the severe criticisms which have been made by the press upon such an investigation the honorable gentlemen to whom the unpleasant duty has been egated would do well to ask the
Department to excuse them from the performance of the task. Colonel French himself ought not to desire the proceedings to go any farther. The favorable report of such a committee would be no vindication for him.
OLD TECUMP'S head is level in not wanting to occupy the White House, with his sixty-four years on his back, but it looks as if "he doth protest too much." If the old veteran isn't careful be will talk himself into the Preeidency yet, much as be doesn't want to go there. There is an old cooplet about first enduring, then pitying and finally embracing, to which his attention ought to be called. Gen! Sherman would better keep away from Washington and the correspondents if he wants to be safe.
THE Democratic members of the Sen ate sat silent under the speeches of Sherman and Mahone on the resolutions to Investigate the Danville riot and the killing of Matthews, in Mississippi, and allowed the resolutions to pass without protest. Tbey hoped in this way to take the wind out of the sails of the Republicans and perhaps their course was wise. A long and hot debate on the subject would have been apt to draw from some of the Southern members remarks which it wonld be best to leave unsaid.
As THE new year rolls on the political drama depens and candidates for the various offices are c.»ming to the front frojn all quarters of the State. As both parties profess to be confident of victory the men who get the nominations on fftw ticket ought to be happy fellows.
RUSSIA will explode some of these these days with a force that will scatter the fragments of tyranical government throughout Christendom. The people are holding their breath, politically speaking, and they can't hold their breath always. The report of another bomb will come from that direction before long. The feeling that the Czar and czarism must go will continue to increase until these relics of barbarous government have actually become a thing of the past.
THE latest political gossip of special interest to Indianians is that Judge Drummond will soon resign and that Judge Gresham will succeed him. But it is said the change will not take place until after the Chicago convention probably in order that the Postmaster General's chances for Presidential lightnight may not be interfered with.
8A YINGS AND DOINGS.
Mrs. R. B. Hayes owns and personally superintends, at her home in Fremont, O., one of the best poultry yards in the United States.
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Jane Gray Swisshelm says James Nutt was "the avenger of blood," and that, as a true Presbyterian, he could not have done less than kill Dukes.
Gath, after writing for nasty newspapers for many years, now says: "The age is going forward to purer taste he is no journalist who does not go with it."
Mr. Beecher has been preaching on the subject of divine love. He says: "I read Johathan Edwards' horrible ser mons about hell. They were made for bell, and ought to be sent to bell.
A hotel man told an interviewer he preferred American guests to any others because "they never give us any trouble." Yes, it has come to be univer sally known that Americans will tolerate more imposition than people of any other nation.
Dr. L. H. Washington says that when pneumonia attacks the steady, square drinker, one who carries regularly his pint to a quart of whiskey daily, the treatment comes exclusively under the domain of the undertaker, as the first case of recovery has yet to be reported.
Probably the longest loverft' quarrel on record came to an end the other day in Branford, Conn., when Miss Jennie Durand and James O. Smith were married. They quarreled in 1825, and did not meet again for fifty-eight years. The groom is 80 and the bride 77.
The elasticity of the price of gas is illustrated In Sunbury, Pa., where it has been reduced from 93 to seventy-five cents a thousand feet, and in St. Louis, where on one side of Washington avenue the price is $2.50, and on the other Bide of the avenue $2.50 a thousand feet.
Sunday, and of course there was
a fool handy to shout fire and start panic. The person who hasn't brains enough to keep from crying fire every time anything happens in a crowded room ought to be carefully put away on ice in solitary confinement.
ANew York man seeks a divorce on the strong ground that his wife's breath is BO bad he cannot kiss her. But suppose women should begin to ask divorces for similar reasons, what a prolonged howl would go up from many lips Btained with tobacco juice and breath poisoned with beer, sour mash, and old cheese. "1
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A Nashville merchant, speaking of women who will not buy goods on Friday, told a Banner reporter also of a man whose home is not far from Nashville, who, if he meets a red-headed man when he starts for his business in in the morn'ng immediately goes back to his home and takes a fresh start.
Ex-Govenor John M. Palmer was in jarly life a clock peddler. Arriving at Carthage, 111., late one night he was put the landlord in a room with Stephen
Douglas. Douglas liked him and dvised him to quit selling clocks and udy law. Palmer did as requested, id so far as is known has never had icasion to regret the change. Under Mississippi law a woman is tble to indictment for assault if she kesher husband but the man is not ble for assaulting the woman if he a switch no larger than his le finger in doing so. It is now posed to so amend the statutes as to the wife the same immunity that husband enjoys: lonel R. G. Ingersoll in a recent irviewsaid: "We are now living in the portion of our National history. 11 men are at the head and helm, and iocrity is at a premium." The nel expresses himself as unable to hesy in regard to the coming canfor President. He was of the on that small, unknown men
Id be nominated, and the smaller of would win the day.
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Southdown Mutton and Lamb. Southeast Corner Fourth and Ohio.
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The underslghed has opened a Receiving Room, No. 13 south Second street, where he is prepared to receive Rough Tallow and Urease of any kind, Pork and Beef Cracklinns, Dry and Green Bones, for which be will pay the Highest Cash Prices. Ho will also buy Dead Hogs by single or car load. Hogs received at the Factory, Southwest ol the City on the Island. Office No. 13 Boutb Second street, Terre Haute, Ind.
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wishes to kiss, "presses her nose Inst a face and snifib." Now, you go to Burmah, and a girl op in the street, and presses her against 'your face and sniffs, oiler Police! Murder! but simher and tell her that the people
Haute are unanimous in the that the best meat in this city had at J. H. Pinnell's, 27 north street.
Kern, ml 607 Main street, has stock of Spectacles to be the city, and he is selling a Alarm Clock for |2.50. Give watch for repairs.
HARRISON SMITH, Terre Haute, Ind*
Now is the Time
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JAMES T. MOORE'S. 657 Main Street. Particular attention given to
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Eye Infirmary.
Dr. R.D. Halfy.of New York, late o: Irenton, Mo. and Dr. J. E. Dunbar, of St. Louis, late of Winchf ster, Propriet'rs
will treat all diseases of the Eye, 10 days, free of charge, it ample satisfaction Is not given Office and rooms, 129 south 8d street, opportte 8t. Charles Hotel, where one of us can be consulted at all hours during the day. City references: J.T. Mustek, druggist, next door to dealer in agricul |UON and Main.
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Baby shoes, 10 to 35cta Men's Rubbers 55 to 75 cents. Men's Buckle Arctics $L35 wcrth $2 Ladies' Self Acting Alaska, 65c worth $125. I Ladies' Buckle Arctics 90c worth $1.50. ,* &)*
Call early and obtain a bargain the largest portion of these goods are of the very best makes and will be sold at half their value to dispose of them at once as we .must have. room for spnng goods. .|p
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