Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 March 1885 — Page 4
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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
P. S. WESTFALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
ITTBLJCATIOL* OMCS,
Nos. 20 and 22 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing House Square.
TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 14 1886,
WHAT has become of ex-president Arthur Not a word has been heard of him since be left the White House ten days ago. __________
IT appears that Mr. Hendricks is only president of the Senate while Mr. Cleveland is president of the United States. This may seem incredible to some people but it is nevertheless true.
THB latest London advices are strongly indicative of war between Russia and England. The English government is putting its army and navy into fighting trim while the Czar is repelling all remonstrances from other powers in the interest of peace. Slight hopes are now entertained that hostilities can be avoided. _________
WORK on the pedestal for the Bartholdi statue in New York bay has been discontinued for lack of funds. The statue is expected from France in May but tbe foundation for it to rest on will not be ready. This is rather a pitiful comment on the public spirit of a great city like New York that when France has freely given ifc a statue the city is unable to supply a pedestal.
MR. E. W. HOWB, tbe new western author, whose "Story of a Country Town" brought bitn to notice in tbe literary world, explains that his stories are sad because he has to write them at at night after having worked all day ou his newspaper. Let us hope then that Mr. Howe's profits from authorship will soon be such as to permit him to give up the newspaper grind and devote the shining hours of the day time to book writing. __________
THOSE who are acquainted with the condition of Gen. Grant seem to be settled in the conviction that he cannot live much longer. His strength is slowly but steadily failing and he is gowiug weaker day by day. Th° general himself is of the opinion that his days are nearly numbered and for this reason he is exerting himself to get his war memoirs in such a shape that another hand can finish them in case he does not live to do it.
THERE are intimations that Mr. McDonald will '*hoe his own row" from this on. His plan, it is said, will be to go to tbe United States Senate two years from now. In this be will have Governor Gray and Mr. Hendricks to fight, tut be will have the powerful support of Senator Voorbees, whose influence among Indiana Democrats is well known. If this fight gets ou it will be one of the hardest that Indiana politics has witnessed for a long time. The Republicans may, however, be expected to view it with considerable complacency.
JUST at this time when there are signs of an industrial revival all along tbe line, the talk of a possible panic on account of the silver question seems singularly out of place. It is admitted that there is as much money in the country as there ever was, and that thero is nothing in the regular course of busl neas to produce a contraction, but it is feared that the distrust and lack of confidence may Induce the moneyed men to begin hoarding. But why should there beany distrust or lack of confidence? The silver dollar is just as it has been all along, no better and no worse. With business Increasing, the mills and factories running and a generally Improved commercial outlook, there ought to be no talk of a panic at this time, as there certainly Is no occasion for one.
THERE is no sympathy for Gould in the strike of the men on his system of railroads. On the contrary all the sympathy is for tbe strikers. Doubtless they have been unfairly treated and they have the right to associate themselves together for tbe redress of their grievance®. What the public demands of them, as It always demands in such cases, is that the strikers shall not resort to unlawful measure* to right their wrongs. This they do when they forcibly interfere with tbe running of train# and stop the transportation of freight and passengers. It is the old story which has beeu repeated over and over. Tbe strikers may refuse te work themselves, but they may not-prevent others from working If tbey are so minded. When the strikers exceed the limits to which the laws of nature and of right confine them they lose the sympathy and respect which would otherwise be •c:orded them.
As was anticipated Gov. Gray has called a special session of the Legislature which convened on Tuesday. His reason for doing so was the failure to pass the appropriation bills daring tbe regular session and the belief that the 'State officers have no constitutional right to pay money out of the treasury without *u appropriation by the Legislature. He is doubtless correct in this view, bat no satisfactory reason has been shown why the*e Mils should not have been p«ed at the regular session. There was ample time for it. It Is clear that lithe majority wanted to force a special session and refused to pass these bills "ifor the very purpose of bringing this /about. Their position la that sixty day*
are not enough for doing all the legislation which the interests of the State demand. It must be admitted tbat there is force in this argument. So many new measuree are presented to every Legislature that two-thirds of the session is consumed in sifting the wheat from the chaff. It often happens tbat there are some good points in a which in tbe main is not good and it necessary to draft a new bill. All this takes time sad the end of the session draws on with a great mass of legislation partly digested but which cannot be completed for the want of time, an offset to this, nowever, it must said tbst far too much time is wasted spread-eagle oratory. There should some method of limiting the length speeches. The members should be compelled to talk in a practical business-like way and say what tbey have to say in minutes instead of hours. If It were possible to shut off this flood of windy, and for the most part empty, eloquence the work of legislation could be greatly expedited.
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As to the present session, while some of tbe members have given assurances tbat is shall not last more than two weeks, tbe general belief is that it will continue for at least thirty days, if not for the full period of forty.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND gives promise of greatlj disappointing his party in the distribution of the spoils. It is given out, apparently on good authority, that as a general
rule
appointments will
not be made until tbe expiration of the terms of present incumbents and that new men will not be given offices solely as the reward of party services. Up to this time but few changes have been made and the slowness of tbe new administration is seriously embarrassing hundreds of pror fellows who rushed to Washington to get offices, but who now find therfiselves rapidly stranding on the financial beach of the expensive capital. Curses end criticism are to be beard on every hand from these disgusted patriots. But "the man of destiny" is impenetrable and immovable. He will go ou In his own way, not adopting tbe Hendrickslan theory that at least 60,000 office holders should be turned -put at once and their warm places given to shivering Democrats. If this keeps on long there will be some office-seeking crank wanting to "remove" the President. But Guiteau's fate will serve as an effectual warning.
COMMENTING on the Iniquitous apportionment made by the present Legislature the Lafayette Sunday Times, Democratic, says the Democrats are in power to-day mainly through a desire of the people to inaugurate more decent methods in politics and that such outrages always work to the injury of the party perpetrating them. The Times predicts that the expected result of keeping the State legislature continually under Democratic control will not be accomplished. ltls certainly encouraging to see Democratic papers taking such strong grounds against tbe wrong-doings of their party. It augurs well for the growing independence of the presseven the party press, which has been too prone to stand by the acts of its party however unjust or vicious. When the party organs'shall give to their readers fair, honest, truthful views of the political matters there will be some bope that the people will not be deceived by demagogues and tricksters.
EUROPEAN advices show a growing indication of hostilities between England and Russia. The Russian troops are steadily advancing toward the Afghan territory and a collision appears to be imminent. England is not at all enthusiastic over the prospect for war, especially as she has the Egyptain business on her bands at present, but it compelled to fight she will give the polar bear a vigorous dose of lion's claws. While in commercial sense a foreign war would work to the advantage of this country in enlarging the demand for our goods abroad, Americans will sincerely hope that the threatened hostilities between these great powers may be avoided. In this era of Christian light and civilization the controversy which threatens tbe peace of Europe ought to be settled without a resort to arms. But the chances are at present againa| a peaceful solution of the difficulty.
THERE is a wide difference of opinion In the editorial mind on the mooted Oklahoma question. The Chicago News is of the opinion that the entire business is a grand railroad scheme and tbat the misguided squatters, who are so determined to have the land, have spent time and energy enough to have made them the owners of farms in better localities. On tbe contrary the Chicago Tribune thinks it Is tbe bight of absurd Ity that a Territory as large as the whole State of Illinois should be held by a few Indians, and tbat the Territory should be opened up to settlement. Unquestionably there is much more land in the Territory than Is required for tbe use of the Indiana residing there and it might be well for the Government to adopt some equitable method of extinguishing the title of tbe Indians to such part of the land as Is not required for their use wad pot tbe rest upon the market. But until this is done it must not be forgotten that all the bund belongs to tbe Indians and that the Government Is as much bound to protect It ftom the raids of the "boomers" as it Is to protect the white settlers In my part of tbe country from like Invasions. There should and can be no sympathy tor the misquided men who insist upon taking land to which they have no possible right aad tbe Government la but doing its daty In driving them off.
TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY JBJVTEN'ING MAIL.
THE Boston Herald Is not able to see anything specially meritorious in Mr. Cleveland's fixing 8 o'clock as the breakfast hour at tb« White House. It thinks that it is not the hour at which one eats but tbe manner in which he spends his time between meals that is mainly to be considered, and suggests that a President who studies State papers until 3 o'clock in the morning might well be excised if he did not breakfust until noon. This is not to be disputed and yet there is something commendable in tbe new arrangement, in this, that it indicates tbe purpose of Mr. Cleveland to do his work during the dsy so he can sleep at night. This of itself, we say is commendable. The habit which is coming too mnch into vogue of staying up most of tbe night and then sleeping half the next day, is reversing the course of nature, and this is never profitable la the long run. There is no good reason why tbe President should not have his regular hours for work daring tbe day, in which his work shall be done, so that "the quiet hours of the night," of which tbe Herald speaks, may be devoted to rest. This is tbe natural and the American way and it is a commendable way.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS,
Men who roller skate much get a peculiar gait. There are three Williams In the Cabinet. Mr. Cleveland may get them mixed.
President Cleveland gives an illustratiou of Jeffersonian simplicity by shaving himself.
Tbe latest point in obituary notices is the request of the deceased to relatives not to wear mourning.
A barber who eats onions and has a death cold hand, is not a cheerful person to fool around a man's face.
The Board of Health of Nashville, Tenn., has ordered that all the mulberry trees in the city be cut down.
In Georgia an incendiary has been sentenced to death. The laws of tbat State provide the death penalty for arson.
Somebody has made the astonishing and highly important discovery that big oysters and big turkeys are never the best.
A Clearfield County (Pa.) man considerately boards-at a hotel in order tbat his wife can have time to attend a skatiugrink.
Hugh Conway's "Dark Days" has now reached a circulation in England of nearly 200,000 copies—surpassing that of
Called Back." Health and Home recommends sleepless people to court the sun, which it declares to be the very best specific, and adds that "he whose skin is tawny seldom requires a pill."
An innovation in the hanging of murderer is reported from Philadelphia, where one the other day fell, not in the old-fashioned way, but "with a thud, mingled with a deep-sounding crash that shattered the nerves of probably a hundred men." •...
Ohio convicts are compelled by regulation to write monthly original essays. Several of these essays are models of the philosophy of virtue and logically lead to the condition in theory at least, tbat there is more vlr$ji$ in prison than there is without.
The New York Sun welcomes President Arthur back to New York as "an honored citizen, and honorable not because of tbe office he has held, but because of what he is and what he has done nor do we doubt that he will always remain a commanding figure in our society and our politics."
Some valuable bints to those who contemplate a tour South, and who want to duly impress the natives of tbat part of the country, are given by the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal: All persons going South this winter should learn to pronounce r-o-u-t*e "roote." The Southern people, in making up their estimate of their visitors, are said to draw their line at roote. If you wish to be taken for a Kentuckian or a Virginian, always take occasion to say Arkansaw in a broad tone.
IN A RELIGIOUS TRANCE. Viola McDermot, of Hartford City, Ind., is one of the converts of the sister who throws her converts into a religious trance. She thus describee her sensations "I know as well as anything when the trante is coming on, for I have been in one four times. The darkness begins at tbe edges of tbe room and comes toward me from all sides, growing cloeer and closer. I get icy stiff, and then my sight is gone. I cant talk. 1 am in both worlds in this, because I can bear everything tbat is said around, and in tbe other, because there are habitations, as yon call them, which rise up on each side, glorious and magnificent. The light Is not white, but radient and bright. I got there in two ways—one with nothing on my ttriud, and all te happiness the other, when I have a sin ner to save and am appealing for him. Tbat is hard work, and I sutler. My coming back Is Just the same as my gogoing. I am always very tired after-
HUMORISTS AND THEIR WORK. [Philadelphia Press.] James Whitcomb Riley, tbe poet of Hooeierdom, thinks tbat Jyceum entertainments are not so popular in the east as tbey formerly were. *4ln the west, however," said sir. Riley, "lectures are growing in popularity. One who has to appear oefore audiences in many parts of the country observes great differences in them." "Whom do you consider the writer of tbe moat artistic dialect fiction?" "Joel Chandler Harris stands it the bead of tbe list. He is faithful to nature in his sketches and be sbows ftne powers of discrimination. He ft a true artist. What is gross and crude Is rejected, and only that which is sweet ana beautiful
appears in his pages. George W. Cable is, I think, to be assigned tbe place next to Harris. Of newspaper humorists, it seems to me that R. J. Burdette is turning out work which is less ephemeral than most current comic writiug." "In Chicago," said Mr. Riley, "I recently, saw a humorist with a sad heart. Ten "E.vck White, tbe author of the
Lakeside Musings" in tbe Chicago Tribune. He was sent, once, to visit tbe Wisconsin poet, Miss Fannie Driscoll, and secure all of ber contributions for the Tribune. He not only bought up all of the lady's writings, but he won ber heart as well, and married ber. She died in less than a year after she was made a bride, and Mr. White, ever since ber death, has lived apart from men, so far as possible. He is reserved, melancholy, lonely, and seldom laughs or talks. He toils and makes others merry, but is himself a stranger to mirth."
For Sale.
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SALE—The property at the northwest corner of 4th and Poplar sts belonging to trustees of Asbury Methodist Episcopal church Bids for purchase of same including church building and parsonage, will be received and considered until April 1st. By order of the Board £. M. WALMSLEY
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SALE-THREE CITY LOTS-Cor-uer of Sixthteenth and Chestnut. Price 8475, S500 and 650. Terms easy. Street* graded Chestnut street front. One square from street car line. Call on CHAS. O. No. 10 5th street.
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SALE—40 ACRE FARM—Two miles of Deeatur, Ills. Pays ten per cent on investment. Sale: part cash, balance on time. See CHAS. O. EBEL. 10 s5tb 7-tf. NOB SALE OB TRADE—For desirable city property, a small farm one mile noitb of Mattoon. Enquire at 318 north 5th street, city. 25-tf.
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SALE-SECOND HAND SCHOOL BOOKS of all kinds, for City and High Schools, for sale cheap, at W. F. SIBLEY®, 1100 Main Street.
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Tuesday March 17.
RECITAL BEGINS AT 8 P. M.
Mr. W. H. Clarke, organist of Plymouth Church, Indianapolis, formerly of Tremont Temple, Boston,.has few psers and no superiors as an organist.
Tickets and programme's at Button's. Reserved Beats, 50 cts admission, 36 cts.
PERA HOUSE.
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BENT—.J DESIRABLE ROOVIS Second floor, 507 Main st, over American Express Office. In good condition with water, gas, and modern conveniences.
Enquire of J. O. JONES.
BENT.—NEW HOITSE of 7 rooms, with well and cistern, corner of 12th and Mulberry streets. Apply at 683 Poplar street.
Amusements.
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Hon. GEORGE R.
Engagement of the Renowned,
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Abbott, Bellini, Annandale, Hindle. Castle, Fabrlni, Tagliapetra, Connell, Broderick, Allen, Ward, GuJ*e, Tomasl, and the company'* own
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Con) prising over fifty persons.
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Standard Brands Tomatoes 3 lbs each.
Green Eio Coffee, $1.00
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Extra Fine Syrup, per gallon 50 cents.
REMEMBER, that all the above quoted goods are as represented and
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State of Indlana.Coanty of Vigo. In the Vigo Circuit Court, February Term 1885. No. 18882. Albert J. Kelly. Administrator of
Estate of Bridget G. CFReil et al., vs. Minnie Grubbs et al. ftutet TitleBeit known that on the 28th day of Febraary 1886 it was ordered by the Court that the Clerk notify by publication said Minnie Grubbs *nd James B. Grubbs and Tillie Fremont as no'-resident Defendants of the pencleucy of tbi* action against them and that tte same will stand for trial at May Term ef said Court in the year 1886.
MEKKILL N. SMITH, Clerk.
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Tbe undersigned has opened a Receiving Boom, No. 13 south Second street, whereibe i-. la prepared to receive Hou^li Tallow and Grease of any kind. Pork and Btef Cmc*lings. Dry or Green Bone*, for which he will paythe Highest Cash Prices. He *1" Boy Dead Hc*s by iringle or ^r load. Hog. received at the 'Factory,
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