Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 January 1885 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

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Wot. 20 and 22 Soath Fifth Street, Printing House Bqaare.

TERRE HAUTE, JAN.

24 1886.

4 AT $10,000 for three articles, the price 'which the Centory Magazine is reported ito have agreed to pay General Grant, -the general has a pretty good thing in •war literature.

WIIRI now are the weather-wise ionea who predicted that this would be an open winter? The theory was that 'as the past two winters had been very «cold, we had aright to expect a mild one this winter. That rule, it seems, will not do to swear by.

HON. WM. M. EVABTS had a walk .. sway in his race for the New York senatorship, receiving 6f votes in the joint mucus to 28 for Morton, and 3 for

Depew. Mr. Arthur's name jvas not .. .presented. Mr. Evarts is an able man and will make an influential senator

I THK current Century has an article on "Canada as a Winter Resort," highly illustrated with pictures of pleasure seekers on skates, sleds, snow-shoes, etc. After the experiences of the last few days in this latitude the average citicen has probably reached the conclusion that this climate is a good enough winter resort for him. 4 ,v

SBNATOR VOORHEES whose term expires the 4th of next March, was on ^Tuesday re-elected to the Senate. In his party caucus, the evening previons, the vote was unanimous for biift. Gov.

Porter was selected by the Republican cancus to receive the complimentary vote for U. S. Senatoc. An informal ballot gave Porter 26, Cumbaclf 10, Brown Sj Butler 2, Calkins 1 and Taylor 1.

THH gold and silver excitement in northern Georgia continues. The latest ^report is that a very rich vein of silver baa been found which is 1,600 feet wjde and runs clear through the mountains.

Experts and assayers pronounce richer than anything found in Colorado and It la said that twenty million dollars would not buy the mine. Persons who want to Invest will do well to discount these statements a few points. *.

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THE reported deaths of two persons in St. Louis of cholera appears to be pretty well authenticated. One was a Jew peddler and the other a colored man. The symptoms were those of genuine Asiatio cholera and death resulted within few hours from the first attack. The medical authorities took every possible precaution in disinfecting the places where the vlotims were known to have been and It la to be hoped the disease, if it was the real cholera, will be prevented from gaining a foothold in the city.

INDIANAPOLIS has anew police commissioner and hereafter what has been Iknown as "the higher law" will be abrogated. That is to say the saloons will |e required to cloee at 11 o'clock in accordance with the law. This state of things was brought about by the new

Republican commissioner and one of the Democratic commissioners agreeing on such a course. Their action has can sod Mr. Freniel, the other Democratic commissioner to resign because he could not ^have his way. He is a prominent German banker and is bringing some reproach upon his countrymen by his oourse.

IT is now thought Improbable that there will be an extra session of Congress after the 4th of Maroh. Nothing would necessitate the calling of an extra session save the failure to pass the appropriation bills, and it is admitted by members of both parties that these bills can all be passed during the regu lar session. It will be a decided relief to the country to have no extra session, as capitalists and business men will not Hhen stand in dread of legislation that !might aflteot them unfavorably and will be the more disposed to turn their attention to the interests of trade

THB New York merchants generally are now able to say with confidence that there is better tone and more activity in trade. Since the beginning of the year many mills have resumed work, some it is true at reduced wages, but the fact that they are able to resume at all marks an improvement. Most of the prominent merchants and importers who have been interviewed on the subject have expressed the belief that the present year will prove a much better one for business of all kinds than its predeceetor was. These sentiments are encouraging and help to stiffen the confidence of some who have been unnecessarily despondent.

In the trial of President Cannon at Salt Lake for polgamy his eon testified that his father had three wives, two of whom were sisters. All had bed rooms in the bouse and Cannon spent three nights in the week with one and two nights with each of the others. It was uncertain whether he was married to "Miss Hughes" or not. Tbetr conduct indicated that they were married. It is such exposures as these that will bring -s Mormoniam to its dowufall. The publie sentiment of the country will revolt at such a condition of family life and I will demand the destruction of polgamy at whatever cost.

INSTEAD of investigating the office of State Treasurer Cooper, the legislature has determined to investigate Gov. Porter as to why be had not made the investigation himself. They will not get much comfort out of such an investigation. They will find Gov. Porter abundantly able to take care of his end of the business. The governor has devoted himself earnestly and conscientiously to the duties of his office and neglected nothing that it was his duty to do.

SEVERAL Iowa towns, through their officials, have declared that the prohibition law, in its practical workings, is a failure. These were strongly in favor of prohibition but now they are obliged to admit that it does not work out as they expected. Facts like these will give the prohibition cause a decided set back, and the real friends of temperance reform will look to some other method than constitutional or statutory probibibition for the advancement of their oherished ideas. Astringent and well enforced license law would seem to be the most practicable method of dealing with the liquor question in the present state of public sentiment.

WITH a falling off of about 20 per cent intheacerageof winter wheat in some of the principal wheat growing States, and fbe growing crop badly damaged by the severe cold weather, with the prospect too of a limited area- of spring sowing, the price of the wheat ought to show some advance. The fact is that wheat raising has been overdone of late and farmers are turning their attention more to other crops in which there is a better profit. This will result in bringing the price of wheat up to the level of a fair compensation for the cost of producing it. And this is where it ought to be, for while "cheap bread" is desirable, consumers ought not to want it for a price that does not give a just reward to the laborer who produced it.

THERE is something rather stsrtling in the announcement of the House committee on public lands that "certain noblemen in Europe, principally Englishmen," have acquired the ownership of a hundred million acres of land in the United States. The committee comment upon the fact as follows: "The a ien, non-resident ownership will, In coarse of time, ieftd to a system of landlordism lmcompatible with the best interests «nd free institutions of the United State.*. The foundation for sach a stem is tielng laid broadly in the Western States and Territories. A considerable number of imrniIran's annually arriving in this country ore become tenants andiierdsmen on the vast xissessions of those foreign lands, under conracts made and entered Into before they sail for our shores."

As this alien acquisition of land will go on at an increasing ratio unless something is done to prevent it, Congress ought to lose no time in enacting a rigorous statute on the subject.

IT is reported that the preachers (some of them) are disposed to kick because certain railroads have raised th.eir fare irom a half to a two-thirds rate, as heretofore* TherBLgftpld seem to be nothing in this to complain about. The fact is, as the Indianapolis Times remarks, that (he clergymen to-day are paid about as liberally for their work as*any other class of men. It is true that many of them in small places receive meagre salaries, but others in the larger towns and cities are paid handsomely by the churches over which they preside, besides getting a good deal in the way of marriage fees, etc. Averaging the profession as a whole it is probably true now that the clergymen are aB well paid as the majority of people and therefore as able to pay full fare on the railroads. If they get a third or a half off the regular rate they are just that much ahead of other travelers.

ALLEN county and the city of Fort Wayne are likely to have a bill of damages to pay on account of the losses occasioned there in the recent raihoad strike. The Pennsylvania company has given notice that it would hold them liable for the damages, on the theory that the authorities were abundantly able to have dispersed the rioters if they had manifested a little pluok and energy. Instead of doing so they permitted the strikers to interfere with the regular running of the trains. This method of proceeding by strikes will not be tolerated by public sentiment in any community, and whenever it is attempted the civil authorities will be sustained in their efforts to disperse the mob. While the rights of workingmen are conceded in their greatest fulness it is not admitted they have any right to prohibit other men from working for whatever wages they please to accept. Whenever they undertake to do this, as at South Bend and Fort Wayne, they overstep the limit of their rights and become treepassers and wrongdoers.

IN his article on the battle of Shiloh, published in the February number of the Century, Gen. Grant alludes to the much mooted matter of Gen. Lew Wal lace's movements on that occasion. He says he does not see why it was nee easary to specify by what route he should join Gen. Grant's army, since his command knew the direct road per fectly well, and oommenting on Wal lace's explanation that the order deliv ered to him was simply to join the right of the army, and that the road he had taken would have accomplished that, Gen. Grant says: "Even if he were correct as to the wording of the order, it was still a very unmiiitary proceeding to Join the right of the army from the flank instead of from the base." He adds that later in the war General Wallace would not have made such a mistake. The reader who hi interested in sach matters must take the statements of Grant and Wallace and teeondie them in the best way he can.

THERE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

THB New Orleans fair has fallen Into financial gtraits which do not augur well for its success. Among the amusing incidents in connection with it was the notice that a sham bull fight and a sacred concert would be included in the entertainment for last Sunday. What could better proclaim the fact that the show is being held in New Orleans! Then it is proposed to resort to a lottery scheme to raise financee for the exhibition. Would ever auch a thing be heard of in connection with a world's fair held in Boston, New York or Chicago! The truth is the dtiiens of New Orleans hsve been decidedly niggardly in contributing to the fair. They have given but $260,000. Any one of the large northern cities would have been far more liberal. The wealthy business men of New Orleans, of whom there are quite a number, have displayed a very shabby disposition in their trestment of the xpo sition. It looks bad to have to resert to lottery scheme to help out a world's air in America and we trust such a necessity will yet be avoided. There will doubtless be a larger attendanae at the fair with the approach of spring. The weather has been unfavorable and many persons have deferred their intended visit until the show should be in a final state of completeness.

THB Democrats in the Legislature have practically refuse* to order an investigation of State Treasurer Cooper in order to find out whether he has been loaning the funds of the State and receiving interest on such loans, and the Republican papers are raising a great hullabaloo about it. Now as it is admitted that all Mr. Cooper's predecessors did the same thing, it is a trifle, bard to see why Mr. Cooper should be singled out for censare in this respect. The treasurer is held responsible for the safe keeping of the State's money, but is not provided with any safe place in which to keep it. His salary is not commensurate with the heavy responsibility of his trust. The Legislature has known for years that he loaned the money and by passing over the practice in silence in effect countenanced it. Under these circumstances we do not see how Mr. Cooper can be blamed for following in the beaten path of former State treasurers. What the Legislature ought to do is to furnish the officer with a safe vault, give him a proper salary and then prohibit him from loaning the money and receiving any interest on the funds in his hands.

SBNATOB HILLIOASS S Congressional apportionment bill is thought to have been drawn mainly in the interest of himself and John E. Lamb, of this district. By throwing Sullivan oounty into the Eighth district it is made irretrievably Democratic and Mr. Lamb could carry the district against any opponent. The Eleventh district is also made reliably Democratic, which would indicate that Mr. Hilligass himself has Congressional aspirations. The bill^however, is not likely to paeTCh its present shape. Some of the most influential Democrats aie not satisfied with the manner in whieh it cuts up the State and will demand that it be very materially ohanged.

SAYINQSAND BOINQS.

Railways are about to Invito the Holy l4nd in several directions. No young man is safe from adversity who is not master of a trade*

Somebody says the average stie of American families has decreased onetenth since 1870.

They are enforcing tie Sunday law in the saloons in New YOrk City. It is getting to be the fashion.

A great many people who started the New Year with a diary and good resolutions, still keep the diary.

The most successful journalists are those who never "went through college" but "worked their way up." "Miss Nettie Smith looks graceful in a tight fitting ufoter." That's the kind of personsls they publish. in Philadelphia.

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An exchange says that President Ar thur began life ass teacher. Those present at the precise time the President be gan life tell a different story.

A commerdsl sidesman says that more cigars and tobacco are used in Washington in proportion to population than in any other dty in the country.

A Quincy debating sodety has dedded that there is more pleasure in seeing a BIMI thread a needle than in watching a woman's attempts to drive a nail.

The New York World says the "Chicago Anarchist is a gentleman who was too busy during the late political cam paign to lay in winter supplies. His proper name is tramp."

An alarming prevalence of lung diseases among the "sodety" people of Washington is curiously attributed by local medical authorities to a constant insuffldency of substantial food.

St. Louis has been looking into dceti tntion complaints, and has discovered that in four cases out of five the head of the family is a drunkard and a loafer, and wouldn't reform if. he was paid for it.

Sergeant Bates the flag carrier hss finally brought up in the poor-house. A mmn who wll spend his time toting a flag over the country when thousands of cords of wood ache to be sawed, can't expect to eat turtle soup in his old age.

A great many men have asserted that their wives were worth their weight in gold, but as far as recorded the late George Gardner, the Boston millionaire, ts the only man who has given it practi-

his wife shall receive annually her weight in gold. Many people under these oircumstances could comfortably stand a large amount of flesh, and antifat would be a most unpopular decootiou.

It is said of Cartwright that, when a oertain woman who bad more tongue than religion at a class-meeting said it she had one more feather she could fly to heaven, he prayed: "Lord, stick in the feather and let her go."

The roller-skate dates back to 1861. The patents ran for seventeen years. Not until the patent rights ran out did it become popular. Now there are some 1,500 legitimste rinks through the North, and it is the universal and popular craze.

People who are anxious to make a European trip can now cross the Atlantlo for 914—in the steerage. An emigrant can go from Hamburg, Germany, to Portland, Oregon-nearly half around the worll—for |60—if he has the fifty.

A Londoner made abet that he would invent a question to which fifty people would all give tne same answer. He won the bet. The question was, Hsve you heard tbat Smith has committed suicide?" and the answer in every case was, "What Smith?"

A Philadelphia jury has plsced the penalty for kissing a woman against her will at six month's imprisonment. That is the price Mr. John O'Brien was adjudged to pay recently. Kissing goes by favor, and in Mr. O'Brien's oase it wss a very costly experiment.

Robert Bonner, proprietor of the New York Ledger, says he has an imaginary censor in an old country lady who reads the paper aloud to her children, and objects to finding a word in a story which she need hesitate about explaining to her little grandchildren when they ask what it means.

To get even with their doctors, two families in Atlanta recently ornamented the graves of their dead children with bottles containing what remained of the medicines prescribed by the attending pbysidans. The bottles bore the druggists' labels, the prescriptions, and the names of the physicians.

Pastor Newman's flock has signified its willingness to forgive him if be will return to New York, but the reverend gentleman seems to have struck a soft thing in Cslifornia, and is in no mood to do so. He was recently given $10,000 for a funeral oration over a railroad king's deceased son, and he will probably stick to the Psciflc coast as long as he can get jobs of this kind.

LITTLE SERMONS.

Enthusiasm oils the wheels of genius. Small sins are the polka dots of character.

The man who is disliked by children is sure to be shunned by old people. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy neoessariefc

The man who cheats himself is the very worst victim of misplaced oonidence.

Honor is the guardian of morality, although fame may cause immorality to rise above it.

A wise man reflects before he speaks a fool speaks and, then reflects on what he has uttered.

He who is moet slow in making a promise is the moet faithful in the performance of it.

Choose the company of your superiors, whenever yon ean have it. That is the right and true pride.

When men grow virtuous ill their old age they are merely making a sacrifice te God of the devil's leavings.

PBOBABLT you do not know why it Is that kerosene oil barrel^ are painted blue. We acknowledge that we did not'know until the other day when wecame across the following in aa exchange, it being the revelations of bootblack who was oiling a pair of boots and was questioned as to why water was first put on the leather—the bootblsok replying: "1 was oiling a man up one day and he asked the same question \ou did. When I explained the reason he said tbatwason the same principle astbst of psinting kerosene oil-barrels. 1 told him I thought they were psinted blue just to look nict. He said it was to

f»ngvent

re the barrels from leaking. Duralong voyage or a long journey by ran scmetime8 half a barrel of oil would leak through the pores of the wood and eva stu He first pain outside and then filled it with water and allowed it to stand until it bad staked up all it would. Then the oil wss put in. The water kept the oil from soaking into the wood, and the paint on the outside kept the water from coming out. He got a patent on bis discovery and now be sts in his office and draws his royalty of 1 cent on every barrel made to hold kerosene old for shi He's got a mighty soft barrels."

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THE BEST MAN A OED RAILROAD [Oath Correspondence.] "Which railroad in the country is generally considered be the best managed?" "The Pennsylvania, because the third generation of men brrngbt up in tbat railroad is now operating it. The men who built that toad sod were its employes In Its infancy now hsve their

grandchildren on the the. Consequenttbat system has a precision, a «elfunderatanding and alaoet a hereditary bold which it will tak« years and years for later roads to acq tire. The Pennsylvania railroad is planted on the beads and pockets of ten«of kondredsof thousands of stockholder*, 4 is not like other properties, held in helps and boarded by mirers. While it in its management highly concentrated, in its ownership it is the mrat drniocratic road In in the country. PbiicWpbia. Pittebnrg, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Iiinoi# own with a oertiie fqnalty in iteiiock., It is about the only railroad we pcteose which has a national ownership. Ym find it^ stock-

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WEDD1NQ CHIMES.

All the back counties have not been beard from, but they don't need to be so fsr as activity and variety in the matrimonial market are concerned. Ihere elopements are innumerable, and weddings of every sort calculated to auit the taste of everybody.

A young woman in Central New York has just married a man she didn't mean to marry. It came about very much as in the case of the young woman at sea who was plagued almost to death by three lovers. She appealed to the ship's captain, and he advised her to jump into .the water and marry the one who came to her rescue. She did so, and two jumped after her. Sbe was just as much puzsled ss ever when the captain settled it by advising her to'*takethedryone."

The New York young woman was in like dilemma, or rather trilemma, and agreed to marry the one who would hit the center of a target. Two of them touched the "bull's eye." whereupon she turned about and married the one who missed.

A Georgia girl made an appointment with her lover to meet her at the railroad station and elope with her. Sbe was there promptly on time. So was the train. But In place of the lover came a messenger from him, to the effect tbat he was afraid to run away with her. The indignant girl at once made arrangements with the conductor, who carried her off in bis train and married her at the end of bis "ran."

Another Georgia girl, mnch underage, ran off with ber lover, but the clergyman refused to unite them on account of the penalty for marrying a minor. No time was to be lost, as the angry father and brother were on their tracks. The quick-witted girl immediately proposed an adjournment to afield about half a mile away where three counties joined, and so at midnight, with his feet astride of the boundaries, so as to confuse the jurisdiction of the counties, the accommodating clergytBMQ-, who wanted his fee, made them one.

A plump and pretty hired girl out in Colorado1, having read all about the coacbmen's weddings, passed herself off on the newly-hired coachman as the daughter of the house. He was captured at once, stood under her window and received her in his arms, ran away and got married. The employer followed ihem to find out what had become ot some harness. When the girl saw him sbe threw herself at him, crying, "My father! My fathir!" "Go to ," said the surprised man. "What is all tbis I want my harness." The coachman has a wife whom he will dispose of on the most favorable terms.

Not so amusing was a wedding in Kentucky, where aome tobacco growers were invited to be presentand who came to it drunk. Tip fun began by kicking over a card table and ended after two or or three had been shot or stabbed.

In Missouri a bride and groom were about to undergo the ceremony wben the husband of one ot the guests came in, the worse for liquor, and ordered her home. She was about complying, but ber husband, evidently not having got as much "fun" out cf the affair as ne thought it capable of yielding, began to abuse the company. The gentleman of the house asked b'.m to deaist. This Impertinent interference with his amusement provoked him into drawing a pistol and shooting the gentleman. The wounded man was carried into the next room, where his wife lay very ill. She at once went into convulsions and both lives were despaired' of. These little preliminary settled,- the wedding ceremony went, on, hut they drew the line somewhere, and after tbat the guests went away, leaving the feast untouched.

After a wedding, in Ulster county, New York, the other night, some of the people Indulged in what is known aa an "ola-fasbioned skimelton." It was 8 o'clock and the marriage ceremony waa not finished when a crowd outside blew their horns, fired shot-guns and thew stones on the roof. The honse was riddled with buckshot, cannon were fired, a musket wss pointed at the head of the bride's father, the bride was insulted and the road filled up with beevy timber which the bridegroom had to go out and cut away with an ax before the minister could go home. The genial souls who made things so lively for the young couple and welcomed them so heartily to the ranks of the blessed, were tried for it. But as their performance was decided to be only "an ordinary country skimelton," they were acquitted by a jury of their countrymen."

At a Tennessee wedding the bride wss not only pretty well advanced in years bat deaf at tbat. Her new husband kissed her so loud and long, after the ceremony that something "gave way" inside ber head, and she heaid for the first timein thirty years. Sbe recovered so completely tbat sbe wss able to hear the fidale and danced all night to celebrate her recovery. It made her happier than her rrarriage.

James M. Dishon and no other Goes forth in haste With bills and paste, And proclaims to all creation,

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No. 1645, "Guinet" Blaek Silk, sow $1.00 former price. Sl.lfi. No. 17, Bellon Blaek Silk, now WX former price $1.48. No. 114x, Qninet Blaek Silk, BOW 91.35 former price 91.50. No. 1132, Stewart Blxck Silk, new 91.60 former price S1.7&.. No. 2248, Bonnet Black Silk, BOW 91.15 former price 91.86. No. 1825. Stewarts Black Silk, now 91.75 per yard former price 9200. No. 1872, Stewarts Black Silk, now 92 00 former price 92.25. No. 1170 Stewarts Back Silk, now 92.26 former price $2.85. No, 1342, Stewarts Black Silk, new 9859 for-

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can save buying a new suit by taking MB old elothlng to Nelgen and have him to clean, dye and repair it. Ladies can do t* same with their dresses by having thsee^.,. cleaned and dyed.

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