Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 March 1885 — Page 4

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1JH EMAIL

A PAPER

PEOPLE.

FOR THE

P.S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PXTBLICATIOIt OFFICE,

Nos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

TKRRE HAUTE, MARCH 7 18*5.

THE OLD AND THE NEW. Wednesday witnessed the triumphant entry of the Democratic party into the national capital after the absence of twenty-four years. On March 4, 1861, that party went out of power under circumstance* which are familiar to most readers and to which it is unnecessary to more than allude. The Republican party held control of the national power through six successive presidencies. It bad its fault*, it was guilty of sins it did not always do the best or wisest thing (what party ever did, in any nation or in any time?) but taking it all in all the period L-om 1861 to 1885 was a most glorious one in the history of the Republic. It crushed the greatest rebellion ever witnessed in the annals of nations. It freed the slaves. It made the nation one and indivisible. It gave the people a wise and safe financial system. It provided successfully for the payment of a great national debt. It was a momentous period in the nation's history and the Republican party was equal to it.

But at the end of almost a quarter of a century of power, it retires and the Ancient and venerable Democracy comes in with a pomp and splendor seldom if «ver before witnensed in the history of the Ropublic. How long it will retain the national power will depend upon the wisdom and honesty with which it wields it. The inaugural address of the new President is a sensible and moderate declaration. On the important sub ject of the civil service it is emphatic It declares in unmistakable terms in favor of an honest currency. It presses a foreign policy that shall avoid .all entangling alliances. It counsels •economy in the public expenditures to vthe end that taxation may be kept as '.low AS practicable.

There is promise in the inaugural and 'in the man that Mr. Cleveland will give •the country a safe and conservative ad ministration, unless be is foiled by the conduct of the lower House of Congress.

Already it has been shown that the house and the president are not in accord on the silver question. There will doubtless also be opposition to the enforcement of the civil service rules. The Democratic party in its mass is not in favor of civil service reform. The masses of that party want all the offices they can get, which means that they want all the offices. But Mr. Cleveland is a man of great self-will, and it will *not be easy to bend him from any purpose which he has fully formed. He •may break with his party rather than be broken by it. The Senate will remaiu Republican, and will be able to render the president material assistance in carrying out a policy in which to some •extent they may concur.

The Mail hopes that the new administration may be peaceful and prosperous, redounding to the welfare of the entire country.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has selected as his Cabinet officers the following: Secretary of state, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware Secretary of the Tiyasury, Daniel Manning, of New York Store tary of War, William C. Endlcott, ot Massachusetts Secretary ot the Navy William C. Whitney, of New York .Secretary of the Iuterior, L. Q. C.

Lamar, of Mississippi Postmaster General, Will. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin Attorney General, A. H. Garland, of Arkansas. in several respects this cabinet is a surprise as well as a disappointment. In some quarters it is severely criticised. The taking of two members from New York, the President being also from that State, savors strongly of sectional favoritism. The east and the south have .all the places but one. Wiscousin gets the postoffice portfolio in the person of

Mr. Vilas. The great west, north and pacific States are substantially ignored. Considering the unprecedented growth and development of the*e sections of the country, and the great future which lies before them, there is abundant cause for criticism and complaint in this. With four cabinet places in the possession of the East, there is ground for suspicion that Wall street will have an undue influence in the administration. Again, most of the members of the cabinet are inexperienled in public affairs, as is the president himself

far

as national politic* are concerned. It is not by any means a great cabinet, and whether or not it will prove a practical *od successful one remains to be seen.

EUROPEAN advices bring the startling information of probable war between England and Russia, growing ontof the Matter's persistent efforts to push into .Afghanistan. England, or to speak more accurately, some prominent Englishmen think that British supremacy In India is threatened by Russia, and there is nothing England will fight so quick for as her Indian possessions. It would seem that a European war is nearly due now and if it is to come Russia and England are likely combatants, fioth powers are very strong and they «ooid make a great war of it. ..v ..

HONEST Joe McDonald can stand bis defeat and will bear it without a whimper. He is the ablest Democrat the State has to-day, and he ought and doubtless would have been asked into the cabinet but for Mr. Hendricks' opposition. He, has received nothiug but treachery from that gentleman in return for his faithful and self-sacrificing service to him. Joe McDonald can stand this treatment if the Democracy of Indiaua can stand it, but there is likely to be a good deal of bad blood engendered in the party by this kind of manage ment. McDonald is a good lawyer and ijas a lucrative practice. He can enjoy life in bis law office and his home better than he could in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet. Personally be is a gainer rather than a looser by Mr. Hendricks' jealous opposition to his political prospects. But all the same it is very shabby, treacherous and insincere conduct on the part of the vice president.

AT this writing it looks as if a special session of the State Legislature was determined upon by the Democrats. While there is a great mass of legislation before the body little has been completed, and the work is moving along bu* slowly. The House has steadily re fused during this week to take up and consider the appropriation bills, and tonight at twelve o'clock the time within which bills may be passed expires. There is a general sentiment among the members, particularly in the House, that the session ought to be lengthened in order that important measures may beaded upon. It is serni-offlcially understood that Gov. Gray will feel com pelled to call an extra session if the appropriation bills are not passed at the regular session, and there seems little probability that they will be. An extra session, therefore, seems reasonably assured.

THIS is the last working week of the Legislature. It has accomplished little good and not much harm, so far as now known, with the exception of the political gerrymander. The injustice of that measure is simply infamous. It should cause the defeat of the Democrats in the next election although designed to increase their majority. The time for the enacting of such la«vs in Indiana ought to be past. It is no excuse or palliation for the wrong to say that in 1869 and in 1873 the Republicans made bad apportionments. They never made any so unjust as this and if they had, a party which came into power on the cry of "reform" shows its insincerity and hypocrisy when it selects no higher standard for its guidance than the worst acts of its appouent. This thing is likely to worry the Democrats before they get through with it.

THE news of General Grant's fatal illness, announced for the first time on last Sunday, came with a painful surprise to the nation. It had been known that he was in poor health and that he was gradually failing, but the public was not prepared for the authoritative announcement of his physicians, that he is slowly dying from cancer poison, and that his remaining days may be few. Since the first report the General has been resting with tolerable comfort, md has been able to devote a portion of his time to the completion of his book, but there appears to be no grwund for hope of any permanent improvement. The poison is, working throughout his system, and it is only a question of time when the inevitable end will come, .f

GKN. GRANT is on the retired list after all. In the expiring boars of Congress the Mil went through like a flash, president Arthur promptly named Gen. Grant for the place and bis nomination was as promptly confirmed by the Senate. Hie news seemed to bring the old hero much pleasure and he has felt better ever since. It was a fitting finals of the Republican administration. The whole nation, and indeed the entire world has come to have a kind regard for the great general, whose fame will undoubtedly stand as that of the greatest soldier of his time. The spectacle would have been« pitiable one, and this congress would have shamed itself had It

THIERS is probably the greatest crowd THK tobacco habit is libely to receive a of office-seekers now in Washington black eye from the cancerous illness of that the national capital has ever con- Gen. Grant and the information arising tained. Prom the four quarters of the therefrom. If nicotine poison, resultland they have swarmed in earnestly ing from excessive smoking* was the clamoring for those official loaves and cause of the General's tongue cancer, fishes which they understood belonged and if the pressure upon a pipe stem or to the victors. Thousands*will be dis- cigar frequently induces lip cancer, as appointed of course because there will the doctors tell ns Is thfe case, it will be be a score of applicants for every posi- in order for smokers to stop and contion. One of the phenomenal aspects of sider whither their vicious habit leads this grand scramble for office is the fact and whether the enjoyment they receive that so many business men are seen from the poisonous luxury is worth the

among the place-seekers. What inducement they caii find in political office %0 draw them aside from the current of trade and business it is hard to imagine. Few men who have forsaken their profession or business to bold office but realized that they had made a grave mistake. As a general rule little or nothing is saved out of the official salary and at the end of his term, be it short or long, the ex-offioe-holder finds himself out of business, an older and wiser but not a richer man. He has to begin anew and build up again and he is tormented by the feeling that some of the best years of bis life have been wasted. The tew who get office under the new administration will be glad for the time being and the many who "get left" will be sad, but it is altogether probable that is the end those who are disappointed now will be the ones to be congratulated after while.

risks they take.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVETS TNG MALL

A MEMBER of the Century Company is quoted as saying that Gen. Grant's forth coming book, his memoirs of the war, ought to realize for him $100,000. The book will undoubtedly have a great sale but the reward of his fame and labor is not likely to do him much good, exoept in so far as it will provide a leg acy for his children. There is every indications that the old soldier is near his end.

THE city council of Indianapolis have offered the Olivers forty acres of ground rent free for twenty years if they will remove their plow works to that city. At the end of the twenty years the land is to be appraised and the Olivers given the option of its purchase. This is certainly a fair offer but the Olivers, it is said, have reconsidered tbei ermin atiou to leave South Bend and may yet decide to remain where tbey are.

8A YJNQS AND D0INQ8.

Senator Frye wears clothes spun and made up at bis own woolen mill at Lewiston, Me.

A Toledo lawyer, on trial for kissing a young lady in an elevator, has entered a plea of insanity.

Cbang, the Chinese giant, is to be married to an American girl who lives in Kansas City. He will open a tea store in St. Louis after his marriage.

A sentence containing every letter in the. English alphabet, and a favorite with writing teachers, is: "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

The average salary of Congregational ministers in Connecticut, he great stronghold of the denomination,isfl,300^ The highest is $6,000 and the lowest $400,

Twenty years ago very few men wore rubber overshoes except as a protection against dampuess. They are now quite generally worn in the cities during the winter months to facilitate walking and guard against falls on icy pavements.

Among the men arrested at a poker party in Atlanta a few evenings ago were a Sheriff, a County Judge, two members of the Legislature, a man who was to be married the next day, and the minister who was to perform the ceremony.

Rev. Dr. Parker, of the City lemple, London, has unique way of announcing the collection. When he concludes bis sermon he says: "The offering will now be taken from those who care for these things, and from no others." As a rule, every one present gives something. 1

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The'tobacco cure'is one of the latest marvels. A leaf of pure dried tobacco is soaked in water and laid on the affected part, and a wet cotton bandage is placed over all. Then the patient may go to sleep in child-like confidence. By this great remedy of nature, says the enthusiastic discoverer, anything from a bunion to a sore head may be cured in a very short space of period.

One by one the hidden facts of the past are coming to light. It is now said positively that President Harrison died from eating too much dinner. He had ordered his cook to get him up nregular old-fashioned Indiana dinner. At that time this meant cabbage, pickled pork, fresh mast pork, peas, cucumbers and sweet potatoes, with corn meal fritters for dessert. He was never well after eating thnt dinner, and in a few weeks he was dead.

Anciently, in many parts of France, when a sale of land took place it was the custom to have twelve witnesses, accompanied by twelve little boys and when

the

Later, when a criminal was being executed, parents whipped their children, so that they might take warning by the example and keep in the path of virtue.

*4* "8WEETHEARTINQ." 'Sweethearts,'" says a late French writer, "is the name for two young people who have declared their love and have mutually accepted each other as betrothed, with or without the oonseot of their relations. The English word had a kind of a rustic perfume in it and corresponds to our expression 'bon ami' ana'bonneamis.' Sweet hearting could not exisit in France, where the best engaged lovers may only rehearse their vows of love in the presence of a future mother-in-law. To sweetheart in England means to pay court openly, to take ones betrothed among one's friends, to concerts, to balls, to go to sentimental walks, more or less solitary, in her company to take many little becoming liberties with her—in a word, it means playing all the comedy of love, only leaving out the fifth act. "It is a very strange sight in a conntry where reserve, prudery and decency are driven to desperation, to see the cooples of lovers walking at nightfall, holding each other's hands, waists or necks, and, in some little frequent roads, forming veritable processions. The couples walk along slowly, looking laughingly at one another and without speaking a word. As you pass by and look at them they seem to say: 'Yon (know what we are doing. Yon have through the same thing, sir, gens through tbe same intng, sir,

adjourned refusing to restore the hero haveat you Ws really need notemof tbe Rebellion to the rolls of tbe army. harass sach other.'n

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DEFINITIONS.

Jealousy:—The homage paid by inferiority to merit. Charity:—A servioe that tbe receiver should remember and the giver forget.

Forgiveness:—Tbe gift that only you car bestow upon your enemies. Money:—To the wise a convenience: to the fool a necessity.

Sleep:—The thief that robs us of our time, giving us health in exchange. or day :—The dead.

Carefulness:—The core of econ jmy. Clouds:—Toe curtains of light, as sorrows are of joy.

Temptation :—The test of soul. Conversation

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price of tb6 land was paid, and

its surrender took place, the ears of the boys were pulled and they were severely beaten, so that the pain thus indicted should make an impression upon their memory, and, if required afterward, they might bear witness to the

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SALE OR TRADF—For desirable city property, a small farm one mile roith Mattoon. Enquire at 318 north 5th street, city. 25-tf.

FOR

SALE-SECOND HAND SCHOOL BOOKS of all kinds, for City and Higl Schools, for sale cheap, at W. F. SIBLEY'S, 1109 Main Street.

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FOR

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MILLS—At half past five o'clock yesterday evening, Henry B. Mills, in his seventyseventh year.

Funeral services, at the residence of his son Leonard Mills, 411 north 18th street, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

nOR SALE-THREE CITY LOTS-Cor-

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Having purchased *t a^lgnee^s sa last fall the stock of H. Traquair, will offer all th»t is left of tbe same at exceeding low prices.

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Saturday, "'"March: ^6.

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Admission 50c. Reserved Seats 75a» Commences at 8. Carriages at 10:10. The 8tile of reserved seats commenced this morning.

Librettos, containing words of opera, synopsis ahd descriptive readings, price W cents, may be procured from the uahers.

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^Thursday EveS March 12th. "The Laughable Hit!"J., "GRAB IT QUICK!"

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the Highest Cash Prices. He will also Dead Hufts by single or ear load. Hogs received at tbe Factory, Southwest of the (Sty on the Iftland. Office No. 13 south Has* ood street, T«rre Haute, Ind.

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