Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 May 1884 — Page 4
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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
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MAY 17, 1884
PBACHES are one dollar apiece In New York. Poor people will hare to be content with potatoes.
CYRUS H. MOCOBXICK, the inventor of the Reaper, died in Chicago last Tuesday. He found a Reaper greater than his own.
A VERY readable story "The New Prodigal" contributed to this week's Mall by A. 0. Dnddleeton, who shows talent in this direction worthy of cultivation.
MAT is the month of conventions. They area sort of a mild epidemic that go over the country once a year and gradually disappear with the approach of hot weather.
RBAOBRS of Charles Reade's last story "A Perilous Secret," now running through The Mail, will be pleased to learn that that it was completed before the author's death. 1 "Z-
'THE wood cuts of Mrs. Logan that are going the rounds of the newspapers are enough to kill the Logan boom. It is said the Senator refers everything to Mrs. Logan, and from the looks of ttf picture we should judge be had to.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN and Charles O'Connor, two of the most eminent jurists the world has ever known, whose deaths have been announced this month, were both divorced from their wives on the ground of incompatibility, :V
REV. DR. WILD, of Toronto, formerly of Brooklyn, announces in a recent sermon, that the millenium will take place in 1935, and after that there will be no births. This will have a tendency to prevent—or encourage—matrimony.
THE Democrats are disappointed all aronnd. Since the defeat of the Morrison bill a number of the Democratic members are so hostile they will not speak as they pass by and some of them have even gone so far as to make faces at one another. .f ,, fl ________
OENERAL GRANT has been placed on tho retired list with a pension of 917,500, to compensate for his heavy losses by I the Marine Bank failure. This is a graceful and proper act, but Congress
should also appoint a guardian for the General to prevent his again becoming the victim of misplaoed confidence
®THH entertaining letters of Mary Olemmer have been missed for some tithe and it was supposbd she was enjoying the honeymoon with her young husband. It transpires that she is almost helpless from rheumatism. If, as it has been oharged, the young journalat married her for a speculation he will flud himself "short."
AT Delhi, New York, a Mr. Yoamans publishes the following card which we give for the consideration of that large class of business men who are not strong enough to say 'no' when asked to indose: "Within the past sixty days I have paid $2,150 for Indorsing. Notice is hereby given to the public generally that any man who asks me to Indorse his note will do well to have his life insured for the benefit of his family before making such applications." The trouble is that men never learn this lesson except by a very costly experience.
LOOANSFORT is to be congratulated upon a new paper, the Sunday Critic, edited by two ladies, Mrs. W. D. Pratt and Miss Anna J. Smith. The first number ranks among the very best of oar exchanges. In a spicy salutatory the editors say: "Desirable as the support of the Critic will be, and besieged as It will doubtless be by Republicans, Democrats and Greenbackers, It wll. for obvious reasons (ignorance being the chief) stand upon neutral ground." When the ladles have run a newspaper awhile they will learn that the masculine editor never allows himself to be restrained on account of his ignorance but •alls In and when his ideas run short he relies upon the never-failing support of the scissors and paste brush.
TKRRB will not be much sympathy wasted over the financial reverses of the Grant boys. They were getting to think that they "owned the country" and were next thing to a royal family. They are young and can earn honest livings at some honest work. Their misfortunes may in the end work good to them. But
HSflRf for General Grant then Is a real feeling ot sympathy because ot these reverses 1 coming on him at bis present age ot life.
But the people of this country will not see the old General placed In straightened ciromn-rtanee*. The targe fand which was raised for him some years ago retalna htm a handsome income of some *'r 114.000 a year and the bill to put Mm on I 4 the retired list of the army, with the tank and pay of General of the Army, has already ptseed the Senate and will undoubtedly pass the House. This will add abaut #19,000 a ysw to his income, 3§ making upwards of 930,010 In aU. This *'?, is equal to eix per cent oa half a million of llara and as II will stay with him jj§ during life, it really m*.km Gen. Grant ffjj rich9MB, notwUfeilaaditig WU recent' if-'
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FAST LIVING
The panic In Wall street on Wednesday appears to have been limited to the stock speculators, although for a time it threatened to involve the banks and bring on a general disturbonce in financial circles. The prompt action of the bank managers in standing together averted what might have been a real disaster and bad the effect of rapidly restoring public confidence. So far as the specula tore and stock jobbers who have gone down are concerned there will be no sympathy wasted upon them. It would be a blessing to the country if they were all weeded out. They have done more to demoralize legitimate business business men than all other causes combined. By appearing to be successful and to amass fortunes within a few years, or even months in some instances, they create a feeling of dissatisfaction with the slow returns of ordinary busineee methods and inspire an ambition In the minds of youag men to reach a competency by some royal road to fortune. Their mode of living too is equally demoralizing. With palatial residences in the city, seaside cottages, liveried servants, carriages and grand parties, they set an example of profligacy and extravance that can not help producing an evil effect upon others. It is an age of fast living. Men and women strive to ontdo one another in the amount they can spend and the show they can make. What before the war was considered an ample fortune has dwindled into insignificance now. Millionaires have multiplied in all the large cities and sums are spent by single families in one year that in former times would have been considered sufficient for a life time.
The effect has been pernicious to the last degree. The influence of these extravagant habits has not stopped with those who practice them. It has extended clear down the social scale and infected ail classes and conditions. This is natural and could hardly be etherwise. In this country all classes are so intimately blended and so run into one another that what effects one class affects all other classes in a greater or less degree. The consequence is that there isat the present time a general tendency in the direction of what may be termed "fast living." What we mean is that there is a disposition on the part of many people, particularly young and newly married people to live fully up to if not beyond their income to have wfhat they want whether they can really afford it or not. With the generosity and ambition native to Americans, they want to do as well ss others of their class are doing, or at least to seem to be doing as well, and often-times their finances are sadly Strained in the effort. The real comfort and happiness of family life is sacrificed in vain endeavors to live in a style which their circumstances do not warrant. All this is very unfortunate and very foolish. It may appear In some people's eyes tc be grand financiering to be able to make large sums of money in grain and stock gambling, but the best financiering that ever has been or that ever will be done irthat which ehables men and women to live within their income, however small that income may be. That is the only honest living, the only safe living, and in the end, the only successful living. It is a lesson in financiering that the young poo pie of the present day have urgent need to learn, and to practice when they have learned it.
THE NEW REFORM.
Hon. Will Cumback has been taking very high ground en the temperance question. He delivered an address oa the subject at Pendleton a few nights ago in which be likened the liquor business to the slavery question of fifty years ago. He used this strong language:
The slave holder was a serious obstacle to
beginning
from one state after auother. In every state In the union the public mind is agitated and pnbllc sentimeht is advancing. It requires no gift of prophecy to see where the end will be. Revolutions never go backward.
He expressed the opinion that the only safety for the Republican party was to make a strong, aggressive fight against the Liquor League and boldly declare for the right of the people to vote on a prohibitory amendment to the constitution.
There are not wanting those who declare that Mr. Cumback to braver now on the liquor question than he waa while holding the remunerative office of Collector, which he filled for many yean. These persons Insinuate that he was willing to, "roar you as gently as a sucking dove" on the troublesome question so long as his tenure of a good office was jeopardised by its agitation. But however this may be one thing Is certain, that the temperance agitation is wide-spread and constantly growing. The development of the prohibition sentiment has been remarkable within a few years. Kansas and Iowa have been swept by It, while In other States, as Ohio, Missouri and Indiana, it numbers its adherents by tens of thousands.
A great source of strength to the new movement is the wide-spread feeling that there la no principle of real or vital importance between the old parties that their contests are mainly for the offices, and that they are willing to trim and dodge in any way that will enable then to get there. The mam of the peo pie do not enthuse greatly over the question of getting this or that man into office. It is of course a matter of much concern to the candidate, but it Is «me of comparatively little concern to the public. Not infrequently it happens ttut the opposing candidates are equally good men, so far as personal character and qualifications are concerned, atd
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would make competent and unexceptionable officers. Under the administration of either the office would be conducted in precisely (he same manner. When this state of affairs exists a great many persona care but little whether the "outs" or the "ins" succeed.
This sort of politics is too dull and insipid for the old Republicans of '56 and '60. The men who cast their maiden vote for Fremont or Lincoln look back to those days of political excitement with a feeling that there was something to fight for then and long for anew contest In which principle snd not merely the offices shall be the motive power. Some of them see such a contest in the fight against the liquor traffic and are willing to cut loose from old political, associations, if need be, in order tc march under the flag of temperance reform. They would be willing to act with tbeir old parties if the old parties were brave enongbSto take a bold and open position in favor of temperance reform but if the old parties will not do this, many of them declare their conviction that it is time for anew party to be called Into life. Such a party may not be created in Indiana In a presidential year, or if it is, may not cut a very large figure at the polls, but there is rapidly being developed a public sentiment which, sooner or later,? will demand an aggressive policy on the liquor question by the old parties, and if this is refused will call anew party into existence. 4 "GRANT & WARD"
The story of the failure of "Grant and Ward" reads like a romance. Undoubtedly the fact that Gen. Grant was connected with the firm and a heavy loser in its downfall, adds lntereet to the case, but even outside of this fact there are romantic elements in the story. That man Ward, Ferdinand Ward, is a striking figure. The son of a preacher "who bad a good many children," he comes to New York, a mere boy, and enters at once Into the wild vortex of Wall street speculation. His remarkable shrewdness snd address soon put him into confidential relations with powerful business men. He marries the daughter of a bank cashier (not, so far as has been told, for any money she can bring him) and when her father dies soon after, he visits the president of the bank and makes so good an impression on him that he is able to get large loans of money from the bank.&These he pays back with good interest and the bank president is drawn farther and farther on. Presently the firm of Grant AWard is organized with a capital of |300,000 paid in and the firm apparently prospers. Gen. Grant's son does so well in it that the General himself applies for admission and puts in $50,000, which is afterwards increased to $100,00d. Mr. Fish is busy with his own bank and his other large affairs, Gen. Grant doesn't pretend to understand business, and Young Ward, the financial genius, is put in complete charge of the firm's business, with control of the books and the power to draw all the checks of the firm. As described by "Gath," "his face seemed to be that of a man of fifty while his figure and general dress Were that of person of thirty." He looked like one whose vitality had all been consumed by his devotion to business and presented the appearance of "a prematurely old boy."
The affairs ofGrant A Ward, to all outward appearance,went on swimmingly. Money was borrowed here and there in colossal sums, running up into hundreds of thousands. There were always great enterprises on foot, of a confidential character, government contracts, railroad building, or something else, in which the firm were to be let in "on the ground floor," and from which splendid profits would be realized. Ward bad suoceeded so often that even shrewd and sagacious business men come to have confidence in him and advanced liberally upon his representations. The partners in the firm of Gtrant A Ward live luxuriously and spend like princes. They seem to be making a great deal of money. But It is only seeming. It is all a delusion. In a day, in an honr, the gilded bubble bursts and it is seen that there was nothing to it. The debts of the firm are counted by millions and the property ot the partners is swept away by the creditors. Ward's $600,000 worth of real estate aud his $100,000 or $200,000 worth of furniture, horses, carriages and general fashionable equipments, are assigned for the benefit of creditors. The "prematurely old boy," who began at the foot of the ladder, Is at the foot of the ladder again and has pulled others from his giddy height down with him.
And this is life In New York, In Wall street! Of such men it may well be ask ed If life ia worth living.
QtncKir VICTORIA'S position as a censor of public morals and her reputation for being the very quintessence of personified virtue have received quite a backset by her conduct in the HesseDarmstadt esse. While the Queen was making every effort to have Parliament repeal the law which forbida a man marrying ids deceased wife's sister, in order that she might marry her last daughter, Beatrice, to the Grand Duke, her brother-in-law, the young man dipped off tod entered into a morganatic marriage with a beautiful but frail grass-widow. Instead of being highly Insulted, ss a pleblan mother-in-law would have been, the Queen takes the Duke to her bosom, fetes and caresses Mm and agrees to pardon him on condition that all Mi wedded obligations to the fair widow shall terminate with tbe marriage ceremony. To us plain American people, this would be supposed to be just the time when the obligations commenced, hut we do not understand the ways of royalty. The Duke is to be
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congratulated upon his accommodating mother-in-law but our admiration for the Queen is not increased by this compromising with vice.
Have a Home of Your Own. Buy a lot of Joseph H. Bl&ke, 225 Ohio Street, on 10 years time, 6 per cent, interest.
Verdict of the People.
After jears ef experience in the use Lown Mowers is thai the old Philadelphia Lawn Mowers beats them all. A G. Austin A Co. guarantee them to drive to the shade all competition. Now if "you're lucky like. Grant," you will catch on.
Lost.
LOST.—$75
LOST—$25.00of
Real Estate worth from 2 to 5 times the loan. tflOO on good farm. $2,000 on first crass city property. »1,700 on extra good farm. 9600 on dwelling, city. 8 per cent inteiest, semi-annually. Titles perfect, no expense to lender.
O A E PART FIRST.
1. Overture Apollo Orchestra 2. Address Ool. R. W. Thompson 8. Quartete Davis Family 4. Solo Mr. John B. Aikmnn 6. Solo Miss May McEwan 6. Violin Duet Mr. and Mrs. David Goldman 7. Solo "The Springtime and Bobbins have come" Frank Howard
Tom Davis.
8. Recitation '"The Fate of Virginia" Macduiy Alice Fischer 9. Solo........."The Mariner's Song" Ranberger
Allyn Adams.
10. Solo Lucia De Lammermor Donizetti .Helen Jeffera. .*\ PART SECOND 1. Overture .. ..Apollo Orchestra 2. Farce .....— "D^adShot"
With the following cast:
Louisa Miss Alice Fischer Chatter.............. MlsalKate Fischer OaptaiaOtimion Mr. Will Morgan Mr. H&stdl- Timid Mr. John Hager Wr. Wisetnan ..-Mr.<p></p>Ball®
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Reward.—DIAMOND RINGS.
On or about April 25, two diamond rings, somewhere on Sixth street, between Doming and Main streets. One ring a large solltarie. the other, two diamonds and one ruby in set, A reward of seventy-five dollars will be paid on their return to 630 Swan street.
REWARD—Lady's gold
watcb, (name engraved on case) between corner Seventh and Mulberry streets, and Richardson & Vanvalsahto dental rooms. Finder will leave it at the National 8tate bank and receive the above reward.
Wanted.
WANTED—MONEY—On
first mortgage
T. H. RIDDLE, Loan Broker, Oorner 6th and Main.
For Sale.
FOR
SALE.—TWO story dwelling, No. 923 North Fifth street: six rooms and all necessary outjiousesand conveniences. Apply to W. W. OLIVER, 631 Main street.
FOR
SALE—Desirable suburban residence two-and-one-half acres of ground attached, with grapes, apples, cherries and other fruits located corner Sixteenth and Franklin ave. Address Mrs. A. A. Morrill, 1523 south First street.
OR SALE—2 Jersey Bull Calves, atfarmoi Plymouth Kock and ambrirg FowlsT" T. HULMAN, Sen. 3-5t near Providence Hospital.
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To Loan.
MONEYtime.LOAN—at
TO lowest rates on
long Good Collateral required. Call on or address EDWARD BARTON, 624 Main street.
x\musements.
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BENEFIT CONCERT
1 TENDERED TO THE
Dick Thompson Zouaves
AT THE OPERA HOUSE
Wednesday Eye. May 21.
Geo. Mahare
Base
Frederick Thornton ........Mr. Ira Calder
,, AT THE PARK.
Sunday, May 18th.
TIEBKIRIE: -VS.— PEOEIA8
Game called at 230.
May »Oth, Slat and 28d—PEORiAS. May 34th—ST. PAUU3. Games during week called at 830.
Ladies Day-THIJKSDAY.
ADMISSION Cento.
PRANK PRATT
DKAXJKRIIV
Italian Marble and all kinds of AauHrl* oait and Foreign Granite
MONUMENTS
CORNER FIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS TERRE HAUTE,!ND.
1068. 1884,
TEBBD HJLtTTE
ICE
COMPACT.
yotwitlotandtng the high river and no toe harvest at Tm* Haute we will aa usual have a foil supply for ail demands both local and foreign. We will Mil the
Best Lake Ice
Solid and pore. Order* given to driven or left at the promptly attended to.
L. F. PERDUE,
Proprietor and Manager,
No.
26
north
6th
901 to
Street.
HOBEBGv ROOT & CO. Our Great Silk Sale
Is*afctracting the attention ot all the ladies and close buyers of Silks. Do not ask where we get them or why we are selling them so Cheap.
We consider them the biggest bargains offered.
CENTS CENTS
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XnnCl For a Colored Ottoman Silk, ,• vyJlrfi-i JL Worth $2.00 a yard.
518 and 520 Main Street.
J. T. PATTON & CO.,
DEALERS IN
CHOICE MEATS.
Southdown Mutton aud Lamb. Southeast Corner Fourth and Ohio.
SEED CORN.
Having carefully selected the best oorn from that raised on the high grounds of the prairie around Terre Haute, planted early and gathered before the cold weather, kept lnnariowand well ventilated oribs. I can furnish the best of White, Yellow and Bloody Butcher. Address G. W. BEVI8, n. w* cor. Fourth and Walnut Terre Haute Ind.
IVORCE.
A TROUPE OF GENUINE INDIANS
From the Pawnee, Sioux,.Winnebago and Omaha Tribes Arizona Cow-Boys, Herds of Wild Horses, Steers and Elks!
The Original Dead wood Stage Coach!
GRAND SHAM BATTLE between he Scouts, headed by Dr. Carver, snd Indians, repre* sen ting the attack made bv the Indians upon the stage coach In 1870. THE PONY EXPRESS, Breaking Wild Horses, Running up a Herd of Wild Texas fitcew* to the Indians on the Warpath. A MARVELOUS EXHIBITION of Shot-gun and Rifle Shooting, on foot and on horse* back, by DR. CARVER, the Champion AU-Round-Shot of the World.
A re a a Wednesday, Thursday & Friday May 21st, 22nd and 23rd.
Commencing at 4 p. m.—Afternoons only—Street Prrade Wednesday morping. Gcite* opened at 1 p. m. ADMISSION SO cents, Children 85 cents.
PARASOLS!
LACE TRIMMED PARASOLS, LACE COVERED PARASOLS, EMBROIDERED PARASOLS,
SATIN SUN UMBRELLAS, SILK SUN UMBRELLAS,
15 cents to SBIO.OO.
FAN S.!
SILK PANS, SATIN FANS, FEATHER TIPPED FANS,
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For a Heavy Black Silk," /J Worth $1.75 a yard. For a Colored Brocade Silk^
Worth $1.50 a yard.
Warranted All Silk—-Inspection Invited.
HOBERU. ROOT & CO.
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Faris & Hamtll, Attorneys,' tu Office, 818% Ohio street,
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State of Indiana, County of Vigo, in theSuperior Court of Vigo County, March term, 1884
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No. 1225. Mahala Bryant vs. John M. Bryant—in Divorce. Be it known, that on the 3d day of May, 1884, It was ordered by the Court that the Clerk notify by publication said defendant as non-resident defendant ot the pendency of this action
Said defendant is therefore hereby notified of the peudency of said action against him and that the same will star for trial June 23d, 1884, the same being Juno term of said Court in the year 1884. La
DR.:CAEYER,
CHAMPION SHOT OF THE WORLD, AND HIS
GREAT WILD WEST .SHOW!'
MKHRILL N. SMITH, Clerk.
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WHITE FANS, PAINTED FANS,
BLACK FANS, PALM FANS, BIG FANS AND LITTLE FANS.
BUCKEYE CASH STORE.
6th and Main. Terre^ Haute, Ind.
KstabiiahN ISM. lacerjMrstMi
Phffluix Foundry and Machine Works,
KAANNRACTUMS ASV DIAL or AXX XXKM OF
Machinery and Machinery-Users Supplies.
Flour Mill Work Our Specialty.
Repair aa* iobktni Work glfea «p*«ial attention.: Write or call on
CM
and eee or yonwelve*.
Jferth Ifftntli street* near
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Union
Depot.
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