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Vol. 15.—No. 31

THE MAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

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Tbe new police commiwlonersbecame •wars of their appointment bright and early late Wednesday morning—in faot «aeh one knew It long before be received any official notification. Each member of the board realizes that hli position is not a desirable one, and if the rtash for position continues as it begun, there ia a strong probability that the council will soon have to fill several vacancies. Before noon last Wednesday one commissioner bad been interviewed by about one hundred and fifty able-bodied citizens, each of whom firmly believes be should have a place on the force, and doubtless expects to get it. Petitions have been in circulation all week, and there is no member of the board who oannot produce a poeKet full at a moment's notice. It is said of one commissioner that he looks upon bis appointment as a very serious matter, and that when approached by a candidade he at once assumes a very dignified air, after which he proceeds at great tongth to discuss availability, character, tie.,

with an attitude and expression ifhich would grace a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. Of course be is a novice in politics, and after he has attended a few board meetings bo will be broken in so as to makea useful member of his party. Tte applicants for. places are too numerous to to mention. Their names would fill large volume, and in another week there will doubtless be several hundred of them swearing vengeance against the party that oould not or would not provide them with positions. It is conceded that the superintendent will be a Republican, and if Chief Vandever has »ny opposition it has thus far failed to manifest itself, and will doubtless fail to muster sufficient strength to make even a feeble contest. The second place —that of captain—goes to the Democrats for the time being, and the indications now are that Charles Lamb will be the mail. He has bad considerable parlance in police work, and haa always given good satisfaction as an officer. Of course there will be a scramble among the members of the present force as to who shall remain under the new dispen sation. Many do not posses the requisite physical qualifications, for whom there can be no hope, and a number of whom will doubtless exert their "great influence" against the powers that be at

For several daya past small red pamph lets have been judiciously distributed among the offices in the court house balldlng. They are copies of the new fee and salary bill reoently introduced in the Legislature. These billa apriug up every session. If a docen or more of them were not presented the average oounty officer would be sorely disappointed. If there is any one thing more than another which the average Hoosier statesman delights in it Is regulating tees and salaries, or pretending to do it. P«e and salary bills very seldom pass, unless they raise the fees and salaries, but they cost much money. They are bonansas to the lobbyists, and the few members whose votes are at the disposal of the highest bidder. Once every two years the county officials have to repair to the capital for self protection, and they have to come down liberally or else be treated to a bill compelling them to run their offices on starvation rates. The ery of economy, retrenchment and reform is all very good on the stump during the campaign, but when it haa to fight money in Legislative halls it is bound to go to the wall.

The soup house appears to be doing very well sines it started, and as it bsoomes better known will doobtJess oontinne to inorease its business.

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It furnishes clean and wholesome food at rates whieh enable the poor to live on a very email amount of money each day. It should enlarge ita field somewhat. Tables and seats should be provided, and arrangements ahould be made to furniah cheap meals of plain wholesome food to those who desire to g» there and eat. There are many who do not go home to dinner, who would patronize such an institution were it located in some central place. The charity organization dessries much credit for the work it has inaugurated, and it should continue to receive substantiaraid from liberal citizens

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the polls next May. .. After til the fuss, trouble and expense of organising the new police force, there will be many sore beads and troubled minds should the Legislature pass the State Metropolitan law in such a shape as to inolude Terre Haute. Such a project is on foot, aud assurance is given that it will be heard from in a few days. If the proposed amendment is offerod it will pass, and then will come the tug ol war. With tho appointment of new commissioners by the State officers, would come a change all around. The 8tate1aw requires larger men, physically, than the new ordinance, and it doubtful that any but a very few of the present force could m%et the require nanta. The klok over the changes brought about by the new ordinance will be small in comparison with tl fcreese which the State law would cause, bat then in these dull times some excitement is required to keep the world moving, and it would certainly be novelty to see the city in charge of three separate police forces within a couple of months, and that too without any ehange in the political complexion of the council.

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There is a rumor that rentsare coming down in Terre Haute. It is to be hoped the™ is good foundation for it. There is no place in the west where tents are as high as they are here, and there is no reason Why such should be the case. It has often been remarked 'hat there are fewer vacaut bouses here than in any city of the same size in the country. This to a great extent accounts for high rents, but the time has arrived when they should come down. Wages have been lowered, And the prices of the necessaries of life have materially decreased. The landlord should now come to the front and contribute his share.

A Woman's Opinions.

The visitor Indianapolis who stops at the Hotel Bates will be pleased to see the genial face of Harry Buntin, who fills in a most acceptable manner th|* position of chief clerk and extends the hospitality of the house to all, with a alight tendency to favor Terre Haute p«op!e ratha* wbr© than the avarag* travelling publia. H»vlog p*ia mv hill in full, in U. S. currency, I shall not be

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ing a wcrd of praise for thia excellent hotel which, under the present management, is not excelled by any in the weet. The proprietor, Mr. Louis Reibold, formerly of the Beckel House, Dayton, is comparatively young in years but old in experience and ability. He personally supervises every detail, and the result is a hotel almost beyond criticism. The table servioe of china, glasa and silver is a pleasant change from the ancient and battle-scarred veterans that too often adorn the hotel tables, and the napkins have a snowy whiteness quite different from those damp, gray-looking affairs that make one feel like taking them up with the tips of the fingers. The oooking is excellent and the late five o'clock dinner in the ordinary, ac companied by a band of music, is especially enjoyable. In a chat with Mr. Jewett, Speaker of the House, he said, '*1 have been In most of the hotels in this country and all over Europe and'I never have found one that seemed so much like a home." The Bates House la indeed a credit to Indiana.

My principal object in visiting the State capital was to witness the election of U. S. Senator. It is a source of regret to every Republican that thia Senator must be of the Democratic persuasion, but, since the fortune of politics so wills, it is a matter of pride that we are to be represented by so distinguished a man as D. W. Voorhees. During my recent visit in Washington, the mere mention that I was from Indiana would call out the question, "Do you know Senator Voorhees?" He ia undoubtedly one of the most popular men In th^country and is sot only admired for bis great qualltlee but loved for his good ones.

The court house at Indianapolis is very handsome building, with tiled floors, massive staircases and much fine frescoing. Here the Legislature meets until the State house shall be finished The Speaker's table is on a raised plat form at one end of a long room. In front and at his right hand are the tables of the various clerks, reporters, ete. The Speaker, Charles L. Jewett, of New Albany, presides in a most dignified snd admirable manner. As one of the members expressed it, "We all love him." He is thirty-six yetrs old, of fine presence, above the medium height, straight and well-built. He has rather a ruddy complexion, brown hair and mustache and fine eyes. He is entirely a "self-made" man, is quite wealthy and ah excellent lawyer. He was in Europe when the news of his election reached him. He was a member of the House two years ago and is a thorough parliamsntarian. Walking up to the hotel I asid to him, "How did you pick up so much knowledge of parlimentary law "I didn't pick it up," he rspUed, "I

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as it is necessary to continue the present good work. After all it seems the electric light schemes in this city are not dead. They have merely been asleep since heard from long ago, but are now evlneing signs of returning consciousness. Tne council has been petitioned for right of way for poles and wires, which will be JJ ran ted. The streets are pretty generally monopolized by the telegraph and telephone companies anvhow, and the small right yet remaining with the city might as *ell glv?n to the electric light project.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. JANUARY 24, 1885.

made a regular study of it, just as I would of any other subject that I wished to master." He has one of those frank, affectionate natures that make bim a favorite of both sexes. When General Man son came in from the Senate and aat down beside him he threw his arm around the Lieutenant-Govern-or's neck and patted his shoulder aa a mother would her child's. When I laughed at bim about it, be said, "Well, I do love the d9ar, old fellow, he baa been so good to me." Mr. Jewett ia a backelor and has charming manners in the presence of ladies, but is one of those active, ambitious men who find life so full of important work, there is scarcely time to loiter in a lady's parlor to hold her skein of worsted while she winds it or pick up her pocket handkerchief with pretty speech and expressive glance.

The proceedings of the Legislature are interesting while -they area novelty but I imagine they must grow very tiresome repeated day after day. I was told that I would find it an inferior look ing body of men but such is not the esse. Most of the faces are thoughtful, intelligent and a"bove the average seen in public assemblies. The student of physiognomy will find all his arbitrary rules of no value. Some of the finest looking men are mere figure-beads and some Of the most ordinary In appearance are the master-minds of the legislative body. The order of exercises is about like this: the Speaker calls the House to order and a minister of the gospel goes tnrougb the absurd formula of a prayer, while the members read the news or arrange their papers. Then the roll of counties is called and each member is given a chance to ofFer a bill. As these bills are handed in, the reading clerk mounts a box and reads them in aloud and perfectly expressionless Yoice. Those members Who happen to be interested pay some attention but the rest talk, read or write as if nothing were going on. The present reading-clerk in the House is said to be one of the very best they have ever had and it is a very trying position, reading in a loud, cli voice sometimes the whole day long. **e looks like a big schoolboy with diw.^oJkis chin, who had just left his mother first time, and he will never look otherwise uafcH he lets barber" sMar oir toowj cumuy" locks! Whatever® big head of hair may have signified in the time of Samson nowadays it does not mean strength of character.

At eleven o'clock the Speaker rapped with his gavel and announced that they would now proceed to elect United States Senator and that, in accordance with the wish of ihe Democrats and of Mr. Voorhees, ^himself, Mr. Debs, of Vigo, would tiake the nomination. Eugene then sbwly unfolded his six feet two inches jnd began his maiden speech in the legislature. As a new member and anong the youngest he was listened to with the closest attention during his add real of about five minutes. He spoke withe it manuscript, lond declamation or teatrical gestures but with a ringing vice aud in a manly, straight f01 ward tanner that won universal admiratioi Mr. Debs is a Democrat strictly froi principle and every word he said in ,ise of Mr. Voorhees came from the de hs of his heart. He made a very fav ible impresaion and it was a general ri nark that he would be a power in the egislature before the close of the sessio:

The Speaker stn that he would give as many as wish* an opportunity to second the nomin Ion. There are two opportunities the average American cannot refuse, to

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take a drink. Tenty four members took advantage of lis occasion to,make a speech and the st would have followed suit, only tl it was about time to go out and take drink.

The little bandfi Republicans were then given a cham to go through the form of making nomination which was done throug William M. Copeland, of Madison, minating EX-GOT. A. O. Porter, in a llliant address, delivered with mui rhetorical flourish and display, ai ably seconded by several memtx One of the best of these speeches made by B. Wilson Smith, of Lafayett formerly pastor of Centenary church Terre Haute. The Union soldier an the late rebellion were made to plaj tielr part but they are at a disoount and as political material are wort] ss. The Republicans are routed ai though they may keep up a scattei fire they cannot hurt the enemy wl old the tort. During the exercises, antique figure of the Hon. David 8. odlng, bis swallow tails flapping in oratorical wind, wandered about lithe ancient mariner, bat not exec looking for a sals, for no money chai hands.

In the afternoon ery modi the asms programme was sd out in the Senate. There are oi hundred members in the House am ly fifty in the Senate, for a Senator apposed to be just twice as "smart" a Representative.

Here General Ma u, a soldier of two wars, wields thsvel. A. J. Kellsy sits in his old plast ths Secretary's

desk with Jacob White at his right hand. The intellectual head of David Goldman, elerk of the committee on banking, Ac, looks over his shoulder, and near by is a group of Terre Haute people who have come over to see their townsman elected. TOs handsome, kindly face of Joseph $. McDonald beams down from the platform. General Tom Browne leans Sjgainst a pillar. The talented cor respo«|||nt, Laura Ream, who seems to grow yoiuager, sits by the Secretary, and a nutabsrof other ladies are scattered amoiHftfee andience. The Representatives jlji in aud stand in groups about thsropft.

TbalaQmination was very appropriately nuli^ tqr Senator Philip Schloss, of Vigo. -His speech was highly creditable both to himself and his constituents, clear, abscise and to the point, with no attempl at "spread eagle" oratory but well-delivered and well-received. Mr. Scblos#is one of the most influential membti§s of the Legislature and I heard it frequently remarked ihat if there were more capable, energetic, level-headed businSps men like him in the Senate they wsould accomplish a much greater amouqt of of important work.

The domination was seconded by Sentor Willard, of Bedford, who has already established a reputation for eloquence. He is, perhaps, the orator of the Senate and speaks well whenever he speaks at all. His wife always accompanies him to the Senate Chamber and sits by bis side, a pretty picture of matrimonial devotion, but one wonders if sometimes, after the manner of men, "Jim" does not long to break loose and get out from under restraint. With fiery zeal be pitched the polioal castor into the ring and said to the unfortunate Republican minority "To the youngest man within the sound of my voice I declare, your hair shall be white as silver, vouryprit lagging and infiriq, and your nflrtjjjitottering Ott the bfin^of^he grav|^When power shall again %e wrestldRrom the giant grasp of JXteiocracy." If the Prohibitionists recover their senses by the next dfecthjja,

Willard may hear something. 'One Senator,only wished to live till he Bright vote for Mr. Voorhees for Presiwhich would give him a lease on that ought to satisfy any mail, ither 'would vote for D. W. Voorhees the jwtfn tn^'ty'. a system of "Anting"H^at Is a little in advance even of the present lax condition of politics. After the Demoorats had covered themselves with glory, the Republicans brought up the rear. Hon. Albert G. Porter was put in nomination by Senator Winter, of Indianapolis, in one of the best speeches of the occasion. He was followed by a number of Senators in brief but excellent remarks, among them Hon. J. W. Youche, of Crown Point, who made a short, pithy address on Republican principles. I remembered him as a beardless boy at College, for whom we all prophesied a bright future. And leaning against the wall, an Interested spectator, I noticed another old schoolmate, W. D. Bynum, the last Speaker of the House and now a member of Congress. In a cosy little talk, after adjournment, we recalled bygone times and each entertained the other with a graphic account of the number and merits of his sons and daughters. Thus perishes the romance of youth

The Legislature is in full blast, with the Republicans occupying aback seat. The Third House is thoroughly organised and (equipped. The saloons are doing a thriving business. And the honest and guileless constituency slumber peacefully at home with the calm consciousness of having done their duty and saved the country.

IDA A. HARPBR.

GBO. W*. CURTIS suggests as to woman's rights" that "there is one right of woman which the most unreasonable conssrvatism will not deny, and that is the right of esrning her own living by her own industry and skill." This is apropos of the women's exhibit st New Orleans, whieh he discusses in the Harper's Magasine for February.

IT is somewhat remarkable that the religious papers and the theater managers are, for onoe, in accord. They both agree that roller skating rinks are dedemoralizing to the community. The managers, especially in the eities, complain because tbey keep people away from the tbeateia the religious papers and the clergymen because in the country they keep people awsy from the prayer-meetings. The New York Christian Advocate says that the "erase is a direct antagonist of sll religious efforts, a foe to genuine social life and literary pursuits. In one congregation twelve young ladies have lost all interest in religion, and formed associations very grievous to iheir parents* It wants "young people who mean to be Christians" to keep away or go very little.

Ths Rev. J. H. Vincent, the "Bishop of Chautauqua," urges his brethren in the Methodist Church to more vigorously protest sgainst ths danss, ths theater, and the card-table.

WOMEN'S WAYS.

A Boston lady has patented a bathiog garment. Mrs. Belva Lockwood should be officially informed that ste has ceased to be funny.

Taking trie World over, 40 000,000 people die every year, and we know one or two women who are real sad because they can't pttend all the funerals.

A Virginia tramp assaulted a woman who was carrying a lantern, and she broke it ov6r his head, set his clothes on fire, and blistered and burned bim until he was in bed for three months.

Mrs. Jane Swissholm says: "The things we call fashionable women are simply smtill packages -of aches and pains, done up in velvet and lace and topped out with ostrich plumbs."

A woman in town, says the Boston Journal, became so interested in a poetical calendar for the new year that she tore off all the leaves to read the sentiments expressed thereou. That of J)ec. 31, 1885, has the proverb, quite aprropriate in her case: "Haste makes waste."

Boucicault says that he never goes into a dry goods store where handsome girls are employed as forms on which to display garments without realizing that they are better actresses, in the matter of beauty, style, and grace, than those whom he finds on the stage.

An old lady who had lived many years very happily with her husband accounted for it by saying: "You see I always feed him well. When I was young 1 won his heart, and now I am old I have won his stomach so he is never cross, and therefore we live happily together."

The most expert detectives of counter feit money are the woman in the Treasury Department at Washington. A counterfeit whioh runs through the hands of experts Of the leading banks stands no chance when it reaches, the United States Treasury. ^In addition to being more expert in handling money as well as detecting counterfeits, no single case of defalcation has charged up to women employes.

SCRAPS OF STYLA

Numerous made over gowns donote a prevailing thrift in New York society. ANew Y©*it aaciatgr „bellt! has mauve satin slippers and flesh-colorooi stockings.

Very large silk handkerchiefs are used for aprons they are gathered and set in a belt of ribbon.

A fashionable newspaper records that the most fashionable evening costume is a bracelet of violets worn above the elbow. It is understood to be confined to charity balls. -S

The practical Boston women wear bright or light-colored basques with an ordinary dark walking-skirt, to the opera. The wear and tear to a complete evening dress is thus avoided.

Apropos to the growing tendency to late hours in social entertainments, the suggestion is made that it would not be a bad idea to go to bed at six o'clock, on a ball evening, sleep till eleven or twelve and then dance till morning.

The days of much cut up, much looped, and elaborately draped dresses are gone by. Full pleated or gathered skirts falling in straight lines from the hips to the hem, short jackets or pointed bodices and trimmings put on in long lines or solid masses, not in many detached, cut up points, and a general simplicity of detail are the features of incoming styles.

There is no doubt about it. Sealskin cloaks must go. For years doctors have inveighed against them as being unsanitary, but so long as they were scarce they held their sway notwithstanding. Now tbey are voted common by the fashionable dame, and the seslskin plushes are helping her to drive them to the wall. What will take their place in my lady's wardrobe is not so clear, but certain it is to the much-hunted seal is coming a season of immunity from untimely death at the hands of the fur hunters., "GATH" writes very feelingly of the seal-skin sacque, a congenial theme for these days. The reason why, upon its introduetior, it became af once so popular, he thinks, is because it undoubtedly increased the beauty of the women who wore it. The rich, soft, 4qual tone of the fur had an influence to round the figure, bringing out the female form with the plumpness of the house cat, snd the skin peemed to get tone from it, snd a cap of it worn above the hair seemed like another hesd of hair of a dark auburn brown. Then the little hands covered with kids coming out from beneath the sleeve of the sacque seemed only half as large ss before. If it was made long enough the little feet had the same exaggerated smallness. Common women became attractive in the seslskin sscque. Fatigued husbands saw new splendors in their wives with this article of apparel on. There is something in man and in woman too of oar progenitors, the animals, and we are always looking for the soft or shaggy furs they wore.

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ACTORS' ACTIONS.

Modj eska's favorite pet is said to be a

black cat. .. Mary Anderson is said to chatter l^aby talk to a pair of pet canariesl

Madame Patti wrote in,a Boston album the other day: "Go to strangers for charity, acquaintances for advioe, and to relatives for nothing, and you will always have a supply." "i,4-

A Chicago paper says: "Joe Emmet" is now the very pldture of health, and^',r", all his old time grace of manner seems to be coming,back to him. He was always the handsomest man on the~,t American stage.

It may horribly interest a number of

Anna Dickinson has abaudoned politics, dropped such characters as Claude Melnotte" and "Hamlet" on the stage,. has resumed her old position on the leo-' ture platform, and is now enjoying reasonable success in some of tbe New England towns.

One of the most popular plays on the road just now is "Called Back." The-' atrical people are supposed to understand this joke. To anxious seekers- *. after knowledge a diagram will be furnished on receipt of two ten cent stamps as a guarantee of good faith.

Haverly intends to come to -the front, -A again next season with a great rush. He is already organizing a big minstrel' company which is understood to be something entirely new in this line of entertainment. Billy Emerson Is al-yj realy engaged (or the entire season. It"' is Haverly's proposition to go personally with this company wherever it may"^

play, and give it his individed attsntlon. This is certainly the only chance he bas^'V^

to recover tbe ground hs has lost within^

organizations tbe right to employ his title. One of the most effective bits of business Lawrence Barrett performs as pj "Shylook" is that of testing the 6dge of

his knWe. He always d»ee this hplding bis knits in the left hand and feeling the blade with his right. This has occasioned comment more than once, and caused him to be called a left handed^. "Shyloek:" yet the action is perfectly" natural. It is Instinctive with men who handle edged tools to test them thus, and when John A. Elder, the wellknown historical and portrait painter of Richmond, Vs., painted his fine figura of "Shyloek" be represented him in this action. Barrett saw the picture and^MV criticised it, saying: "But, my deaf E a band." Tbe artist banded him a razor* 5 and said: "Try the edge of this, my' ^f dear Barrett." The actor, by an instinct^ he was till then unaware of, tosted it as^v the figure in the picture did, and thence-^^i forth he made the correction which the*/1

palnter's shrewd eye had suggested to him.

NUMBERS ON A WATCH FACE. A group of travelling men were gathered at the National the other evening/', when one of them startled his fellows by saying: ''I do not believe that one '»j of you can tell what kind of numerals a a a a you can I will bet the cigars for the party that not a man here can write r' them down as they are on bis watch." "I'll take the bet," .said one who-1' prided himself on bis close observation. "I look at my watch at least ten times

a day, and I know I can do it." "All right begin," remarked he who had made the proposition. 'C, ,, "Do you want them in a circle?" "No, along the line will do." "Well, here goes,'' and be began putting down I, II, III, until be got to four when he hesitated. First he put down IV, and then glancing at the clock in tbe room, changed it to II1I, and proceeding made V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, fl'.* XI, XII. "There?" he said, exulting,

I think I have won the cigars for tne cn-wd." "I will lust bet you apenny you haven't," repliedthe other. "Well,I will go you," at tbe same time pulling out bis watch. "1 "Well, show me Vlonvourwatchand I will settle everything," remarked the i* proposer of the bet.

All crowded around and gave the^'* smart msn tbe laugh, when he opened bis watch, and showed a little second hand traveling around the lower part of tbe face of the watch where tbe hour ot VI would naturally be. Now readers.. ibefore you open your watch, try and see if yon can write down the numbers ss V", they appear on its face, without making any mistake.

Mamma—Was she very much overcome? Young lady—Not apparently. Mrs. B. is too well bred to display emotion. Bnt the richness of her toilet surpsssed anything

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our show-goiug people who were fascinated with Ida Mulle, the pretty plump little "Cupid" of the Rice Surprise 1 Party, here recently, to know that she is thirty-Bix years old and lias been married twice.

the past two or three years. There "was-1 |/H a time when Haverly's name was afc^Ai5 tower of strength, but he frittered his opportunities away by selling to cheap

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HER EXPRESSION OF ORIEF. .! New York Son. Young lady (Inst returned from •"/sfes attending a funeral)—Such a crowd as there was at the bouse, mama a! And flowers! Why, tbe parlors were 00mpletely filled with them. It wss plain that no expense bsd been spsred. And poor, dear Mrs. B., in rich deep mournIng, looked so besrtbroken aod superb.