Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 April 1884 — Page 1

Vol. 14.—No. 41

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THE MAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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Town Talk.

At tbe present time the exdtibg topic •s of conversation is elections. It may be truly said that the present in a year of elections, and if there is one thing more

conducive to excitement in the average American citizen it is an election. The fight is now on. Usually the commencement of a battle is a skirmish, and it is no Indication of tbe final result. In politics, however, it is often different.

This spring there are to be elected throughout tbe State one trustee in each rWL township. Four years ago the vote on trustee was compiled by both parties, and on that subsequent campaign! wer$, fought. This year each party w*l eh

Is deavor to poll in each and every town ship in the State its full strength, and the result will be used in calClft&tiog the prospects until Ihe final struggle in November. The first test of strength will be on Monday next, when ftvol^ will $e taken on 'II. TRC8TBB.

In this township the candidates have been before tbe people for some time and doubtless each vote basdetermined $ how he will vote. So faV ait possible I test of party strength will tee obtained

This township is Republican on a painty vote, and for this reason' a determined effort has been made to secure Republi••1 can* votes for tbe Democratic candidate on personal grounds. If tbe Democrats succeeded in electing their candidate it will inspire confidence lu subsequent ^2 contests, and if they fail it will material ]y affect the State election next fail, and for thi« reason personal consit&ntions

Jvwlll be made subservient to those of **jparty, Thus far the campaign has been X^ery quiet, aud has been confined princlpally to personal work. The friends of each candidate have worked persistent* ly. Of oourse all kinds of stories have ^been set afloat in regard to the candldates. NSrcampaign would be consider ed a sttocess without them, but it J» doubtful that they w^ll materially affect the general result. booking to the future success each voter will doubtless consider party considerations and vote accordingly. Following the townsblp election about a month later will come the

CITY SliSOTlOlf.'

Next May six councilman are to be elected in this city, and upon the result l^of that election will depend the complexion of the police and fire departments for another year at least. During the administration of tbe past year tbe latter has not given general or even partial satisfaction. The chief has been changed within a month of the election, the reasons for which do not seem to be satisfactory. His successor brings with him tbe recommendation of having served successfully in the same position several years ago, but It is barely possible that he will bring his force up to the standard between the time of his election and the election next month, especially when he is allowed no voice in the selection of the men who are employed under him, and for whose actions he is held largely responsible.

THK STATS TICKST.

Some time ago it was predicted in this column that the Democratic nominee for governor would be Hon. W. 8. Holman, and the prediction holds good, provided that gentleman will accept. Gen. M. D. Mauson is making a fight for it, but he will not succeed. Senator Voorhees is not a candidate and wonld not make the race under any consideration, while Ool. Gray seems to have dropped entirely from the public view. A few weeks ago it seemed as though the Republican nominee would be Col. W. W. Dudley, but of late a strong war has been waged against him in his own county by an aspirant for another nomination on the aame ticket, and his chances are now doubtful, Calkins is again looming up, but in the event of a bitter struggle between the two men, another might carry off the prise, and in such an event Col. & W. Thompson would more than likely prove to be the dark horse. The latter has hosts of friends throaghout the State who would rejoice to see him nominated, and who would do all in their power to see him elected.

OOXORKSaiOXAU

Tbe people of this congressional district are now taking a deep interest in v«j tbe selection of a candidate on tbe repub*fjlicen side. Tbe nomination of Lamb by qfjtbe Democrats is a foregone conclusion. ff|Oh the Republican side Peirce and

Johnson seem to nave the inside track, 'with tbe chances about equally divided. Itlsclalmed as a clioching argument against Peirce that hie record as a candidate In Vigo county should defeat him (or tbe nomination this year. This is indignantly denied by bis friends, and V*»n investigation of the figures certainly "*baari them out in their views. Peirce was defeated in this county by 1,056

Vies in 1882. In tbe same county, the aAt&eyear, tbe following Republicans

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defeated for the offices name^ by the majorities set opposite their names H. D. Scott, circuit judge, 1,141 voUft E. 8. Erney, Auditor, 2.441 votes Chas. I* Feltus, Recorder, 1,746 votes Fred Lee, Legislature, 1,081 votes Col. R. N. Hudson, Legislature, 1,273 votes Jackeon Stepp, Sheriff, 952 votes. Of these candidates Erney, Feltue, Hudson, Caato and Stepp were soldiers and had good records as such, while Lee was a representative young Republican, and Scott is an old and respected cj^tynn who has had the honor of representing bis district in Congress. In Vigo in 1882 the Republican candidate for Secretary of State was defeated by 887 votes. It was an ofi year, and was not a fair test of the party strength. Other districts changed even more than this. Take, foe instance, the sixth Congressional district, which is the banner Republican district,of the .State. In 1880 Gen. Brown carried it by 9,40p votes, while in 1882 his majority was cut down to 6,313—a differenceof 3,147 against him. In 1880 Peirce defeated

Hanbain this district 2,296 votes, and was defeated by Lamb 287 votes in 1882, a change of 2,583 votes. In this county Peirce ran behind theR%ublican candidate for secretary of State, in 1882,148 votes, while in Wayne county, the banner county of the State, Brown ran behind the same candidate 987 votes. In this county Hawn beat'Pei.rce 147 votes, while Lamb fell behind Myers, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, twenty four votes. Peirce's frienda also claim for him that his record in Congress clearly entitles him to anomination this year. He secured for Terre Haute an appropriation of $150,000 for a public building, while at the same time Fort Wayne with a larger population than this, got but 975,000 for the same purpose, notwithstanding strenuous efforts for a, larger sum. During his term as congressman he also secured an appropriation of 175,000 for the improvement of the Wabash river, which was double the amount ever appropriated for the same ^urpese before. With these facts in his favor, and with nothing against him as a member of Congress, it looks as though hiq chances for a nomination and election are favorable.

A WeifianV Opinions.

OUR AWKUAL CELEBRATION. f! It seemb incredible that there could be a celebration of any kind which would be participated in "by ladles only." It would naturally be supposed that there would have to be a man on hand to make the customary speech or, at least, to preside at the meeting. But the one to which we refer is conducted by women who are very often the reverse of "strong minded indeed, the less interest they take in public affairs, the more fully do they give up heart and soul to this great event. They may be the most devoted of wives but, at this time, they cannot endure to see a man, or, if one comes in sight, they look upon bim merely as a beast of burden and study how they can best utilize him. The celebration to which we refer, commemorates our emancipation from savage to civilized life and is commonly called House-cleaning.

Tbe time draws near for thia everdreaded yet ever-welcome task. Each season, after it is all completed, we think we never will want to go through -with it again but in about six months we are willing and anxious to gird on our armor and proceed to battle. After this length of time we are so tired of having each piece of furniture in a certain oorner, of seeing the curtains hang in the same ft Ids, of looking at the pictures and bric-a-brac.'all arranged In tne same manner, day after aay, that we feel as If we should go distracted if we do not get all of them out into the middle of the floor and fix them over in some new way and all of the family feel as if they should go distracted if we do tear everything topsy turvey, and so, at a fixed time, we give them notice to vacate and then we begin.

But tbe object In discussing thia unpopular subject waa to ask housekeepers, in the name of poor,suffering humanity, not to "clean house" too early in tbe season. There is only one advantage in it, you get the work all out of the way wad have plenty of time to take care of your family who will probably all be stek in consequence of your extreme thrift! nees.

When the first warm days come and we throw up the windows, some fine morning, to admit the soft spring air, all of a sudden we become conscious bow insufferably dingy and dirty is every* thing in tbe honaa. Tbe sunshine, streaming in, lights up the festoons of cobwebs, heavy with coal dost, brings up clouds of dust from the carpet, show* all the cracks and crevices to be filled with dust whichever way we turn we are confronted by dust the windows are cloudy and streaked, tbe stove is dull and red we cannot endure all this unckanlineas a single day longer.

Hera is where we make tbe mistake. Nobody wonld be injured In tbe alight* est degree if it ted to beendnred another month. Vainly you plead with Unde

termined housekeeper to expend her energy-on the cellar, the attic and thj "spare" bedroom. The family sitting room is the dirtiest in the house ands is bound to renovate it. So that may not'bsve to clean it theseoond she takes down the stove and shuts the grate. Then, in Order that have the hard work all done befo weather, she takes the blankets the beds, washes them and packs away. When this is all completed, family wakes up some morning finds it snowing. No blankets, fires, tbe house is fre&zingly clean. father andiMKgunt up a warm com in a saloon TmSSaughtera stay at ho and shiver and lay ^the found tions for an interesting but fatal declin tbe mother hovers around the kitche fire and congratulates herself that she ahead of all her neighbors in house.

This picture is not exag the same time we add a Sixteenth amendment to the Constitution, allow ing women to'vote, let Us have a Seventeenth, giving the first day of Miiy as the e&rtiest date for house cleaning—with* u! .emergency clause and, a penaltyM) tached.

In this connection w6 are reminded several items on this subject, (wom,^ not housekeeping,) that have appealed, in the papers during the past week. In consideration of the prominent part taken by tbe women of Indiana,, at the late National Convention held at Washington, it has been decided to hold the Woman's Congress in Indianapolis, next October. This Congress is entirely separa$from the

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 5,1884.

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Suffrage Conventions, and

is convened for the purpose of considering the general interests of woman, the laws relating to her welfare, the occupations in which she is engaged, various social questions pertaining to this sex and to society at large. At the next meeting, Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, President of the Chicago Schoo^of Cookery, will read a paper "Our Kitchen Interests." Three years ago this Congress was held in Washington, two years ago, in Omaha, and one yeaj ago, in Chicago. It had beeii intended this year to hold it in the South, and the change of plans is quite a compliment to Indiana. Thia is tbe best opportunity, one can have*©

It will be remembered that at the recent Convention In Washington, the ladies addressed the Judiciary Committee of the Sonate and also the House, in favor of a Sixteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote. The Senate Committee will report favorably on the question. This Committee stood foar to three, Palmer of Michigan, Anthony of Rhode Island, Blair of New Hampshire and Lapham of New York were in favor Cockrell of Missouri, Brown of Georgia and Fair of California were opposed. It will be observed that the opponents are from the south and from California where the advancement of women has been the slowest. The dispatches in regard to the House Committee seem to conflict but tbe latest indicate that they will report favorably. Browne of Indiana, is a warm advocate of equal rights. It is impossible to understand how any Indiana Representative could be otherwise, after the brilliant record made by the women of this State.

On the 25th, of March, John W. Hoyt, ex-governor of Wyoming, in New York on business, sent a letter to a leading member of the N. Y. Legislature, strongly recommended Woman Suffrage onj account of his -official experience in it« practical workings in Wyoming, and saying that if business allowed, h# would visit Albany and urge the Legislature to enact it. The very next day the Connecticut Legislature overwhelm^ingly defeated the bill giving women the right to vote on the license questien. They also rejected a bill allowing them to vote in school meeting. The spirit of the Blue Laws still reigns in Connecticut. It is perfectly safe to say that that the average Legislature will prevent women from voting on tbe liquor question just ss long as they possibly can, and if they need money for this purpose, the liquor League will gladly furnish it. There are many persons who deny the statement that man holds authority over woman, and who insist that she is as free and untrammeled as is the man and yet if all tbe women in the country should wish to regulate the whiskey traffic and direct educational matters, they could not do so until they received the gracious permission of the mm of the country. Men, as a class, can. at any time aay to womsn, ss a class, "thus fay fthalt thou go, and no farther." Woman holds all ber rights by courtesy, and if she is unfairly trusted she Ins no weapon of defense. She ranks with tbe Chinese in this respect. Tbe Insh, the negroes, all classes of foreigners, til grades of workingmsn can, at tbe ballot

E, protect their interests. The insane idiots are cared for by the State, i, alone, must depend upon in ^support, or, attempting to care f, must do without that which, anything else, gives strength ity to the laboring man, vis, tbe

tonati Enquirer, which is in Jskey, Sunday amusements )aw, and opposed to equal editorially: "Tbe fact that' Inia girl has gone crazy over |nlltis abundant proof that it I jeopardizing some of the finin this country to give womjjht of suffrage." Would it not |he advisable to give the feminine

Worthier oocupation There is [much in tbe whole political situdjrive a woman crazy as there is tconstruction of one crazy quilt, many years women have exheir energies in patchwork and talk which accompanies it. has no need of this kind of

A woman may take it up for but should not make a busiIf yon will take the statistics l^women in the insane asylums, ai find they are, for the most part, fifera' wives, ladies of fashion or those

Were always intellectually weak, pvrill not find one of the class comcalled "strong-minded."

E. Willard announces her rein from the lecture field after ten of continuous and most successful

She will devote herself to the Of her aged mother and to literary ir, This is contrary to the commonixpressed opinion that if women once get a taste of public life they will never, never be content to settle down to the privacy of home.

In reference to the resignation of Rev. lhomas Bacon, pastor of the Congregational church in-New Haven, it is stated that' several members held a meeting and wrote bim a letter aaying that he Was "too intellectual for bis hearers." One deacon said "The men could understand him, of course, but women and children could not, and it is the women ihd children who are to be most consldiredin church."

vu« w»v ujijiuimuivj. wmb vwm w..»jtgives a minister no chance to seeing the representative women of the ^nake4 reputation when,»e4(f,*g^^tbi^k country and judging of their ability, as brfng hls sermons down to the compretbe programme- includes the most tal en ted speakers in tbe United States. Arrangements will probably be made for a special party of ladies and gentlemen to visit the Congress from Terra Haute. 1.

Now this is positively

brfng his sermons down to the comprehen&ion ol "women and children." But couldn't they hold special service for these weaker vessels, where Mr. Bacon could simplify his sermons, tell them little Bible stories, etc.? If the matter cannot be settled in any other way, let the minister come beck to the west, where the same sermon will answer for both. We do not know how it is in Connecticut, but in Indiana we claim that the women are fully as "smart" as the men, if not a little—but we forbear.

It seems a |pity to spoil the story that is going tbe rounds in regard to the lady who told Miss Anthony she had "just met her son," referring to Senator Anthony who is older than Susan B. What the lady really did say was that she had just met Miss Anthony's husband, the Senator, but the reporter thought it would be cute to say "her son." It isalso quite heartless to explode the very modest story, that is having such a run, about Miss Anthony's dog, "which lay curled up in her lap all through the Convention and from which she is never separated," but Miss A. herself declares* "I never owned a dog In my lHe and never spoke to one." It is the nice, sappy young reporters who manufacture these delicious bits of information.

The Indianapolis Journal Is authority for the statement that "Women are never the worse for being kept waiting in fact their hearts get softer with time." We know some women who, according to thi% mnst hsve hearts about the con sistency of jelly, for they have spent their whole lives waiting for their husbands to come to meals, waiting for them to coma home at night, waiting for the time when they shall have a little income of their own, waiting for tbe work to be all finished, so they can rest swhile—well, it would be impossible to do justice to this subject in less than a column. Entirely too much space has been given to the ladies, this week for, whatever may be its faults, its weaknesses and its short comings, it shall never be said that, in this department of The Mail, the gentlemen are neglected.

IDA A. HABPWU

WAN18 HIM TO COME AO ATS. EDITOR MAIL Judging from that part of Rambler's article in regard to slanderers in your issue of lsst week, be must have Rambled through the Klfth ward within tbe last few days. Send him ont again. Tartu WARD.

WB take great pains in mailing Tbe Mkil to tfiaiant subscribers, but occasion ally a copy fails to reach its destination, and we get soda note ss this from Chss.

Batsman. Chicago -The Mail failed to makeconnectiooatmy House this week, and a peaeafol home wal most broken op. Please send it atoPj fcy"* benefit of a man "as knows the wally of peace and qaleC

WE ARE NOT MISSJCD,

If you or I To-day shoutd die

The birds would sing the same to-morrow The vernal Spring Her flowers would bring, And few would think of va with sorrow.

Yes, he is dead, Would then be said.

The corn would floss, the grass yield hay, And cattle low, And Summed go, And few would heed us pass away.

How soon we pass! !HOTT ftlftfl

Remember those who turn to mouldy Whose faces fade With Autumn's shade Beneath the sodden churchyard cold!

Yes, it is so— We oome and go!

hail our birth, ihey mourn US dead. A day or more. Hie winter'so'er, Another takes our place instead.

ihey'

Printed in this paper by special arrmngement with the author.

SEALED UNTO HIM

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A STORY OF THE EARLY DAYS OFMORMONISM.

BY JOAQUIN MILLER, /.'

AUTHOR OF "SONGS OF THK SIERRAS," "THE BAHITES," "MEMORIK AND 1UME," ETC,

CHAPTER IV. A DAY OF SUSPENSE

It was doubtful from the first how the men sent to execute "judgment"on this poor girl would proceed, as they rode slowly down the hill into the camp. There was no doubt in any one's mind what they would do in the end. Bat how and by what tortuous roads of cruelty and delay and dismay would they proceed By what cruel cat-and-mouse means would they proceed ^to teach their terrible lesson of the vengeance and the power of Dan, "a serpent by tbe way," "an adder in the path'.'

When tbe sun shines hot and clear, a photograph is taken almost instantly which will endure a long, long time.

And so it is in and with scenes llkto this. The blood wss at fever heat. The imagination was like flame. Terror pt what was to happen fastened ^1 tbi there firmly as if the world stood forever, The heart after a little time most ceased to beat. .jBs&we vts to ^fes gleamed the great sea of salf

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sun. A green island of trees where a thousand csttle fed, the property of the Mormon church, lay far away toward tbe otber side. It was dimly visible, yet beautiful, peaceful In its fax tranquillity as a picture of Paradise.

As the eyes strained and swept across tbe gleaming sea of salt aud rested on this beautiful island, tbey peemed to want to remain there. You could not turn your head away or withdraw your gaze. There was a fierce fascination that kept the strained eyes looking down and out steadily toward that dim and distant isle of peace and beauty, which was visible. The tired eyes wanted to rest there forever. Or did the eyes so desire to remain there, far away in fields of beauty and of peace, to escape the threatened scene of blood and peril at our feet?

Beyond the broad and gleaming levels of this sea of salt, still beyond the verdant reetful isle, and right above and over the few scattered fields and farmhouses on the near shore, shot the snow topped towers of the Wshsatch. These magnificent mountains drew an impassable wall, a crescent to the east and north, around the incipient Mormon city. These mighty towers of snow, this strange new people, mad on the subject of religion, called tbelr "towers of strength." They likened them to white towers that wer« above the mighty walls of Jerusalem of old. Everywhere, In all things around them, they read the fulfllmentof prophecies, Bible traditions snd Bible truths. The deserte and the wells in tbe deserts, tbe balm-of-gilead trees, even tbe locusts thst sometimes devoured the land—in all these tbey read, imagined, believed implicitly, that tbey bad here, thousand of miles away from all the world, found anew Jerusalem thst they were indeed the children of the lost tribes-^.the children of Dan indeed, that should judge the people of earth as tbey passed, snd be ss "a serpent by the way," "an adder in tbe path."

To the eaat of this remnant of a driedup sea, and close upon the salt-white shore of it, there gushed from the rocky hillside a little river of boiling water which sent forth its stream in tbe early morning In a perpetual drift of snowy clouds. These beautiful white clouds rote to the mountain-top to the esst, snd there rested lazily in *he sun or cradled to and fro above tbe Mormon dty.

Beneath these cradled clouds, far below them, and yet far above tbe dty, and to tbe east and to the north, and above our own camp, there was drawn in a precise level the definite and unmistakable shore and surf-line of a great dried up sea. Hundreds of feet above tbe black and heavy wVter* of Salt Lake, yon can see wbere the surf roared in storm and tempest when tbe world was

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young, tore the rocks to splinters, fashioned caverns, and washed a pebbled strand. These marks will remain while the mountains remain. All around, high up on the hill-top, you pick up seawashed pebbles, petrified sea-fish of a forgotten age, stones with sea-moss and sea shells encased in them, and endless evidence that the ships of Solomon might have sailed these mountain-tops, seeking the land of Ophir.

And yet here was pitiful man, in the heart of all this mystery, in the presence of ever-patient and industrious Nature as she tried to fashion a home for bim glorious and beautiful, cutting bis fel-low-man's throat before he had yet fairly sat down to the possession of it all. Was there not sorrow enough here?

Why, these Mormons had been riding, racing, dashing about for days and days to find a single victim to murder. And now they had found their victim. She must die. She was already in some sense dead.

Some one had seen tbe hand of tbe giant shoot high and straight and perpendicular in the air as the Danites rode down from the hill. They answered with the same emphatic and silent sign. What did it mean As they approached' the camp, he also approached. He came with a heavy, massive, and deliberate tread, as if be owned the earth. He* took possession of the place. They entered the camp together. The mem looked at' the giant for their orders. Hemotioned them to dismount. T^hey did. so, and stood a little apart, holding their hungry and tired horses by long rawhide tethers as they bent their sleek necks to the ground, rattled their steel bits in their teeth, and ate of the green and abundant grass as if it never had been or should be stained with blood,

I know you are clutching your handt here with ferocity toward the one party,' and shame and pity for tbe otber. Yon would have fought, died then and there* or destroyed these destroying angels, would you? .. .,,

Not so. Braver men were known than the, pioneera elthecie^ys. But there somehow fell a f*saitvstl6n on all and always^ from these swift and eut.i44§iatic8— the fascination of the |jprjsqt whfen it lo^ts in a bird's eyes—•

Efaralyaed the worn and weary pil—

se§«h tlMJ gbronicles in vain for on* single act' Of successful defence. Not oner of a thousand thurdersever met with any real resistance.

Some believed that this new rellgfonr would cover the earth. Men who abhorred it had seen its audacity and power* so suddenly and wonderfully developed here in these mountains of Mexico that no wonder tbey were appalled and silent before its executioners. It had its. believers, too, In every camp. No one dared to complain to bis neighbor, not even to his own brother, or build up plans of escape, punishment or revenge* A man did not trust his own wife. There was but one course to take—bear all In silence.

Our party had already unyoked tBefir oxen and the large-eyed, patient cattle,* glad to be let loose once more, weremouthing the sweetest grass alongthe green banks of the willow-lined^ stream. The weary men gradually sank, down on the grass in groups thechil* dren clung to tbeir mothers' skirts in silent awe. No one spoke to-the terrified girl. The large, hollowed-eyed'' leader looked at ber a moment: their eyes met. She knew bim then. He wan ber husband. She was an apostate wife, all had been so judged by Dan, Tbe story of tbe terrible fate of an apostate wife was fsmlliar even to the children who looked on in silent terror.

He froze her blood with a cold stare,, and then made a motion with bis largeleft hand, in which he still held a book,, to the men with the borses. Tbey took off tbeir bridles from their hungry horses snd hung tbem over tbe pommels of tbeir Spanish saddles. Then they loosened ^tbe slncbes of their saddles leisurely, snd coming forward tbey gathered about the elder. Tbey sat down, still holding to their tethers. Then the elder or missionary began to talk calmly of the beauties of tbe book of Mormon, and to read and to preach. He beckoned all to draw near, and all drew near, obedient and breathless With a gesture he bade tbe pale and terrified girl sit close before bim in tbe gathering circle, and she did so her great ssd eyes lifting to his eyes as the eyes of a bird might lift helplessly to tbe fasdnating eyes of tbe serpent that Is to destroy her. [To be con tinned In The Mall next week.J/

"CLEAR TBE TRACK." The Interior. », Our Ysnkee girls, with clear beadsand' steady bands, will mount tbe engine of some one of two hundred independent callings, pull out tbe. throttle, and shouting to the masculine drones, who are Inmberlng op the way, "Clear tbe track," drive on to tbe dignity of a useful life.

AVER WISE, MAN, Commercial Gazette.

It is a wise man who knows the proper time to shed his flannel*

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