Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 March 1884 — Page 4
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DBAMATIO authority says there is to be DO more profanity on the stage, liven to gallery resents it. This is said to be due to a growing refinement in the audience, which controls stage, plays and actors.
AN agricultural paper declares "the grandest proJuct of the farm is the boys and girls." True, aa far as home use is concerned, but when it comes to using tbem as an article of comnorce, it would be bard to set a price on tbem that w.oald be acceptable tall parties
COL. TOM OCHILTREE has reached the distinction of a wood cut in the country papers. He has a pretty good looking countenance. There is a defective bump about the upper part of the forehead. We are not phrenologist enough to know what is .lacking but suppose it is truthfulness.
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Ci HCINNATI and Indianapolis are both in the midst of a "baby show." The Cincinnati Enquirer gives a costly diamond ring to the mother of the prettiest baby, which is supposed to be indebted to her for its beauty. At these baby shows the father cuts a very small figure ir.deed, fr&m the newspaper reports there is a vague uncertainty whether any of the infants have that important rela tive—a father.
THERE is one level-headed preacher in Chicago. B8ing interviewed on the sub ject of dancing he said he didn't think it was the province of ministers to dictate to their flocks on that question. that one could commit sin in dancing or could dance entirely without sin and that every person ought to be allowed to judge for him or herself in that matter This is a sensible view of the question and will meet with the concurrence of intelligent people generally.
DURING the recent contest for the woman suffrage constitutional amendment in the Iowa Legislature some of the ladies fought their battles with flowers. On the desk of one senator who was opposed to the amendment was a lovely bouquet bearing a card "from the an tl-suffragists." On the desk of another opponent was a basket of paper towers with the sarcastic inscription, "To Senator Gillette, from the long-haired men and short-haiqgd women of Iowa." The bill passed.
THE Methodist ministers of Indian* polls have held a meeting and adoptee resolutions In regard to Sunft^ fuse ball. The call upon the officers to enforce the laws and prevent the desecration of the Sabbath. While this action is highly commendable from a moral standpoint, it will hardly have any practical results. There is no law preventing an orderly game of base ball on Sunday, and as most of the base ballists are voters it Is not probable the officeholders will do anything to antagonize them. "t
ROBIM^ON, the Morgan county brute, who caused the death of his little stopson by such acts of cruelty as cause the .cheek to pale in thinking of, has been given, twenty-one year&' sentence in the penitentiary. After the verdict was known the murderer came near being lynched by a mob, but better counsels prevailed aud the attempt was abandoned. It is not certain, however, that such a punishment Is not worse than instant death, If carried into full execution, as it Is likely to prove a life sentence In the •nd.
THE New York Herald, in a long review of the various names mentioned in connection with the Presidential nomination, suggests that Blaine and Harrison are good friends, and that if the former finds that he canfiot get the nomination, his forces may swing round to Harrison, thus probably insuring the latter's nomination. In that event the briliant gentleman from Maine would expect to be Secretary of State in the new cabinet, as be was in Garfield's. There may be nothing Jn this and then again there may.
SOME very handsome attorney's fees have just been handed round by the U. S. court for services rendered la the Ohio A Mississippi railroad cues. The whole amount of fees was upwards of 980,000, •f which Hoadly, Johnson A Ooulson, of Cincinnati, reosived $21,000, Harrison, Hinea A Miller, of Indianapolis, $21,000, and Harry Crawford, of Chicago, $20,•09. Several other firms divided the balance comfortably. The few firms that are able to get into this extensive kind •f railroad litigation are able to weather a good deal of general dullness and stagnation In the legal business. A few fees Uke the above area great help In bridging over dull times.
TEE Massachusetts Legislators have voted to punish wife beaten by flogging on the bare back. It is in all probability the best method of punishment. If those wretches are fined, the money most be taken from their families if they are imprisoned, they are fed, sheltered and kept in idleness while their families are sulfating, For these reasons many women submit la silence, bat the whipping post will pfcae the punishment where It belongs, on the hack of the wife-beating hatband.
TEMPERANCE REFORM, Nothing worries the politician so mnd» as prohibition. Even the much vexed tariff question retires into insignificance when compared with it. The politicians, the party "workers," the men who make the wheels of the party machine go round, in vain cry "down" to it it will not down. On the contrary it rises higher and higher. It demands attention. It appeals for a hearing. Long ago it carried Maine, and later it carried Kansas and Iowa and made a wonderful fight in Republican Ohio, and Democratic Missouri.
From all this the prohibitionist gathers courage. He is fond of comparing the temperance question with the question tion of slavery and ardently -looks forward to the time when the one Bhall be as signally victorious as the other has been. He is never discouraged and "never knows when be is licked.'' It is all the same to him how one election come3 out be goes into the next campaign as jubilant and exulting as if h* bad never known defeat. He talks and works and votes for prohibition or it be cannot do that, then against the party that will not espouse his pet hobby.
And from all this fuss and furment it is easy to see that the prohibition sentiment is steadily growing throughout the country. Here and there are "temperance revivals," which are very similar in their characteristics to revivals of religion. They had one of these in Tipton, in Eokomo, in Marion and there is one now going on in Richmond, Ind. Men get wild on the subject and sign the pledge of total abstinence by the hundreds. The large halls where these meetings are held are crowded from night to night and hundreds of women sit with radiant laces watching their husbands, brothers and fathers sign the pledge, or helping to induce them to do so. It is thought these revivals do a great deal of good and it is said that many who take the pledge thereafter lead reformed lives. It is to he hoped that such is the fact.
What this temperance sentiment will do in politics can not be foretold. It may do nothing. It may see that its wisest course is neither to a\ly itself with one party nor to antagonize the other, but to work, as it has worked in the places mentioned, as a non-political element altogether working in, upon and through the mass of citizens with out reference to whether they are Re publicans, Democrats, Greenbacker, Woman-Suffragists, or what not. But it threatens to go into politics here in Indiana, as it has in Kansas, Iowa, an 1 Missouri. There is plain talk of a third party if neither Md ones see fit to help the Prohibitionists on to victory. The Democrats are willing to encounter such a movement, well knowing that it would hurt their opponents far more than themselves. The Republicans Jp not want to see a Prohibition party lit the field and are disposed to go aajifar W in safety they think they can lit the direction of temperance reform in order to hold their prohibition voters. Thta is shown by the tone of many mt the Republi&ff Tbus tie Indianapolis Journal, in a recent vigorous article on the Liquoi League, uses this emphatic language: "The attack is right, and mnst be made. If no existing party will make it, some party will grow out of the necessities of the hour that will make it, and profit by its boldness. The Journal, we repeat, is not in favor of prohibition—the Republican party is not— but we are In favor of such a confronting of this political organization as its dangerous attitude calls for and if the madness of the league should load it to such extremes that the people shall demolish it,root and branch the fault shall be theirs, not ours., What we may favor In the future we do not pretend to foretell. We only record hero that thecourse of the traffic is breeding a spirit that will cast It out of American politics, neck and heels. It must take its business out of politics, or the business will be kicked out, without much respect to the question of salvage."
When the leading Republican journal in the State speaks out in such vigorous woids as these, it is very evident that the temperature sentiment in Indiana is increasing.
THE Inter Ocean says, "The question is settled, Samuel J. Tilden will be nominated for the Presidency by the July convention, and that by acclamation." It would be a queer spectacle, a campaign for a President who was not even able to sh£w himself to the people. Mr. Tilden could easily set at rest all the conflicting stories about his health by simply appearing in public, but since he did not even attend the funeral of a beloved brother, people are forced to believe his condition is fully as bad as represented. The Democracy could not exhe would ever act as president. Their only hope would be through his name to carry the election, and thus place the Democratic party in power.
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spite of the threats of certain prominent Republican newspapers it Is greatly to be hoped that the President will not veto the Fits John Porter bill. A Democratic House and a Republican Senate have passed upon the facts as to General Porter's disobedience of the orders of his superior officer twenty years ago and have voted that the stigna of cowardly or teasonable conduct ahould be removed from his name. There is an opportunity to end the all-but-endless quarrel and it Is perhaps the best endtag that could be made. Let Fits John Porter be restored and let the country bear no more about a matter of which all the people, exeept a few amy man, are thoroughly tired.
THERE are nmrtj two thousand children in the charity Kindergartens at Indianapolis* These schools will give these children a little glimpse of a brighter life which they will never forget through all tbe sin and poverty and anhappiness that awaits thega ia along, hard existence.
THREE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL
REV. CHAS. P. CROFT
INDICATES HIS LINE OP CHUBCH WORK,
AND ANNOUNCES A SERIES OF SENSATIONAL SERMONS.
EDITOR MAXL: Yonr implied charge of inconsistency in my objecting to having the subjects of my sermons published, while yet allowing a programme of the music published, calls for my attention. The criticism is not unfair. The same thing had, of course occurred to me. The explanation is I neither allow nor disallow the choir to publish their programme. The leader is called upon and furnishes It by request (so I understand.) do not meddle with choir matters—so Ion as we have peace and harmony and goo music I waive any personal right in directing the singers. The publication of the music is not Dy my request or knowledge, neither in accord with my taste and judgment.
Bo far as advertising the subjects of sermons is concerned I see no permanent good resulting from such a course—bnt quite the contrary. People who look at the newspapers to decide where they shall go to churcn ure not very useful to any church, and publishing captivating themes only help* such in their irregular habits. I am speaking for myself as the matter seems to me. To my brethren it may seem otherwise. Each man mnst be a l:iw unto himself.
A few hab:tual listeners who came from rignt principles and pure motive*— worship and spiritual growth—are far preferable to a throng of listless, curiosity seekers. I regret
that my own congregation do not all agree w\£h me about church attendance, for many of them are habitually absent on Sunday evening, and a few follow the crowd wherever that may bring up. Such things reveal a failure on my part to bold my own people, as may be the case,or it shows a lack of genuine purpose in religious things. Church going must be a matter of principle. When my sensitiveness is overcome and my hide toughened a little, I have a series of subjects to carry out. Granted, the object is a crowd. I shall hope to succeed much better than now, and instead of a sparsely filled church, every seat occupied, yes, "chairs in the aisles." I take the number seven because it is scriptural and will give a religious flavor to the theme. The sermons will be praotically illustrated at the closa of each by home specimens. Here are the seven ?uhje 1. Meven fat women of tbe Bible, to be 11lu* rated by seven fat women of Terre Haute 2. Seven handsome women and to be illustrated at close sermon by seven handsome ladies of the city. 8. Seven homeliest men in town, and illustrated as before. 4. Seven meanest men in town and illas6. Seven women who want to get married with illustrations. 6. Seven widowers who want wives, illustrated as before. 7. Seven dudes in town, with specimens.
You will see that there are many most excellent pointi to this programme. It will call in from the streets many who never go to church and will facilitate business In many respects. 1 am not so sure about the soul saving scheme, but we shall get what we are after. My Trustees are pretty conservative and 1 fear they may object—but those who are continually buutlng something new .will be highly pleased, and so the thing will be balanced.
Somebody will say that this sarcasm is born out of jealousy, but I can assure you to tbe contrary. I am used to these audiences and yet/quite contented. A plain gospel in a plain way at our house is the rule, we wel come all who come, but we have no great change in our bill of fare.
This is rather a lengthy reply to your crltl clsm, but it indicates my liue of church work —nothing can substitute for earnest, protracted labor—fixedness of character is the thing to aim at. I offer no criticism upon the course of my brethren in the ministry itnd whom I highly esteem. I would not be so discourteous as to offer dissenting views that would seem to put me in opposition to them. This is a matter'of personal feeling with The newspapers have treated me fairly, and when I have had anything worth publishing, in their minds, they have asked me for it and I have endeavored to serrp them—so we shall still jog on in our easy way with plenty of room at our command. What that choir wU do about publishing their Sunday music is purely their own business, nqtmine.
CHAS. P. CROFT
MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following marriage licenses have tfoentasued since our last report:
Morgan W. Davis and Sarah E. Beggarly. Ernest Jacobi and Lena Molter. Wm. P. Aultman and Pauline Tew. Garret C. Memering and Clara Rossbacker.
Have a Home of Vour Own. Buy a lot of Joseph H. Blake, 225 Ohio Street, on 10 years time, 6 per cent, interest.
One important feature of tbe Christian Church Concert next Tuesday evening, is that several of the best new productions will be reudered. Dan Davis will sing the popular tenor solo entitled
Still Far from Thee" recently dedicated to the Davis family by Frauk Howard "Sounds from Home" a beautiful violin duett will be rendered by Prof, and Mrs. Goldman, The Serenade by Gounod, voice, violin and Piano by Miss Taenuer and Prof's. Goldman and Leibing. Still ether new features of surpassing interest will be introduced.
Public Sale of Land.
I will sell at publio sale, on Tuesday, March 25th, 1884, at my residence northeast of tbe city, MT FARM, consisting of 160 acres, being the southwest quarter of Section 11, in Harrison Township Tbe above land is desirably located for suburban residences, lying within 200 rods of the city limits, and especially adapted to raising early vegetables Terms of payment one-third cash, onethird in one year and one-third in two years, with Interest at 7 per cent, per annum on deferred payments. The above land will- be sold in 5,10 and 20 acre pieces to suit purchasers. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock a. m. aad eentinue fromday today until all is solr*.
W. R. MERCER.
-BARGAINS in Real Estate all parts of dtj RIDDLE, HAMILTON A Co.
W. T. Leggett has the Cheapest Excursion of the season, on March 25th, for Kansas and Missouri.
MILLER'S MEN
Are all Ov»r Town Delivering Groceries From the Well Known and Well Kept
Chestnut street Grocery.
MAPLE 8YRUP, HEW VEGETABLES, BUCKWHEAT FLOUR,
TURKEYS, CHICKENS,
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Wanted.
Dressmaking, call on Misses Fagan & Osborne, over Mrs. Cronin*s Millinery Store, South 4th street.
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Amusements.
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QPERA HOUSE,
Special return enga^pihent!
Of the little favorite the, '*Llttle E.ectric Battory."^
LIZZIE EVANS
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
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Monday March 24th.
C. E. Callahan's romantic and Picturesque Comedy.Drama, as produced in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and all the leading cities.
Fogg's Ferry
Miss Lizzie Evaus in her sparkling character Chip, the Ferry Girl. With original
in the original production at the Park Theatre, New York. SYNOPSIS: ACT I—The Ferry-house on Rocky Point.
The Farewell.
ACT II—Norwood Gardens. Disgrace. ACT Iil-Macomb's Mill. TheTorpedo, ACT IV—Norwood Parlors. Denouement.
QPERA HOUSE. Tuesday, March 25th.
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
"With Mirth and Laughter let old Wrinkles come."—Shakespeare.
Mr. and Mr?. Harry Watson's .T. COMEDY COMPANY,
Under the management of L. C. Behman presenting the extremely humorous Comedy entitled
l.boo 1,000
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l.OOO 1,000 Undoubtedly the Funniest of all funny Oomedl68*
Comprising Paroxisms of Spontaneous Mirth! Comic Situations,
Sparkling Music. Laughable Effects.
Harry Watson, is without doubt, the funniest Dutchman in the world.
QPERA HOUSE. Wednesday, March 26th
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MRS.
LANGTRY
Supported by Her Own Company. Mr.C. A. Mendum Acting Manager. She will apprar in th#» charming comedy, in 3 acts by W.8. Gilbert.
Pygmalion
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Galatea
Prices all lower floor $1.50 Family circle $1,•(),admission 75c. Gallery, 50 cts. Sale of reserved seats begins Monday .March 21th at 0 a. m. at Button's.
GREAT ATTRACTIONS!
FUNSKINK,
Saturday Evening, March 22nL Greased Pig & Barrel Race!
CONCERT
AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Tuesday Evening, March 25
PROGRAMME. FAST I.
Piano Solo.. form Tannhaueser Liszt Hermann Leibing. 1 Quartette ........... „...
Davis Family.
5. Baritone 8olo Non E' Ver„. Mattel Wallace Austin. Violin Cavatlna——— Raff
Mr. and Mrs. David Goldman.
6. Tenor t*ok.J3till far from Me„.F. Howard Dan Davis. ft. Daet (Sop. and Tenor) Moonlight on the
Rhine Kewland. Mrs. Bertha Hoberg and Dan Davis. 7. Sop. Solo with Violin obligate—Serenade
Piano Solo {&§£&!
Gounod
Miss Mathilda Taenser and David Goldman. PART it. a. Caprioe,....^.—..^Kowalskl b. Hondo Weber
Hermann Leibing.
2. 8op.9oto_.Ab Whence oomes this (Var) Mrs. Bertha Hoberg. 5. Comic Bong—Jonathan Joseph Jeremiah
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4. Duct for Violins Sounds tram Home Mr. and Mrs. D. Goldman and MiaaDelpbine Franko.
Sop. Solo A Maid of Keut-~«~te.Diehl Ml* May McKwan. 6. Daet (tenor and baritone) from Martha
FTotow
Wallace Austin and Press SterreCL t. Bass Hofcx_ Bed ooln IxrreBong-~~Pinsoti Gfco. F. Hughes. 8. Quartette
Davis Family.
Admission, Cent*.
Concert will commence at 8 o*dock sharp.
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Our Hosiery Stock is one of the great attractions at tti is time. Our low prices make it so and increased sales are result. Oue lot of Ladies' Genuine Lisle Thread Hose, at 42% ota a tir, worth 75 cents, all colors. Oue lot of Ladies' Plain Ingrain Cotton Hose at S3 oenta, a pair, worth 50 cents. All colors.
One lot of Ladies' Regular made extra quality and extra length at 25 cents a pair never sold under 35 cents before. One lot of Ladies' Striped Hose, regular made at 25 cents, worth 85 cents.
One lot of Unbleached Bulgrlggan Hose, 29 cents a pair, worth .17 cents. Ladles' Fancy Lisle Thread and Silk Hose in all colors. Ladies'Cotton Hose at 5, 8, 10, 12%, and 15 cents a pair. Children's Fancy Hosiery, Silk, Lisle and Cotton in variety unsurpassed. Men's Half Hose, Silk, Lisle and Cotton, including a full line of the celebrated Shaw Knit goods at 20,25,80 and 35 cents a pair. ..tteatlemen can save money by buying tUelr socks from us.
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Have taken to-day into partnership, Mr. L. CANB, formerly of New York City. -The firm name will re- 'Ci main unchanged.
OUR SPRING STOCK
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To any other in the city: It will be our study to make ours the
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Our Senior p^tner resides in New York, which enables him by constant watching the market, to pick up bargains, entirely beyond the reach of oth- |f er parties going to New York only occasionally.
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