Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 April 1885 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND FBOPBIfiTTOB. ruBLiCAno* omncB,

?•'V JHoa. 20 and 22 Sooth Fifth Street, Printing Home Square.

TERKE HAUTE, APRIL 181886.

IKDJAKAPOUS seems to be getting back its old reputation as a newspaper field. The Times is making its way and now the evening Minute, which was started some three months ago, has just suffered a second enlargement, making it a very newsy and readable little sheet. It is sold for one cent a oopy. There is probably still room for one or two more daily papers at the State capital and am bitioas journalists should not be bash ful about shying their castors into the ring.

THE Improvement in General Grant's condition continues. For the past few days he has been gaining strength and sleeping much better than he had done before. His eyes are brighter and his voice firmer. Ex-Senator Chaffee, who is an intimate friend of the General's and has been much with him, thinks tLere may be some doubt whether the (rouble in his throat is a real cancer. If it should turn out that it is not a cancer, the General's strong constitution may yet prove sufficient to wear out the disease and restore him to comparative health. There is Utile giound, however, for such a good hope as this.

THE bill passed by the legislature reducing telephone kuIqIs to f3 per month, or fS where two or more are used by the same person, will not go into effect until the laws are published, which will hardly be before July. The com pany will than teat the constitutionality of the law in the courts. If the com pany will first give the new law a fair trial it will probably find that the increased patronage which the reduced rate will bring about will more than make up for the loss sustained. The universal opinion is that the rate now charged is exorbitant and many persons are deterred from using telephones who would be glad to have them if a reasonable price were charged. ,,

THKRE is a general belief among those who have studied the matter that we will have cholera in this country this year. It has broken out in Spain and is rapidly spreading. By the rate of progress which has usually marked its history in the past it would be due in America the coming summer. Recently there have been several deaths of children in Cleveland, Ohio, from some disease resembling Asiatic cholera. While it is not necessary or advisable to get up a scare over the matter it is of the utmost importance that every town, city and village in the country be made and kept as thoroughly clean as possible, and every citizen should constitute himself a committee of one not only to cleanse his own premises but to assist the health officers in making others do the same. ______ _«t A4 'Tj"

THK Indianapolis Minute has feen looking into the not* of the building and loan associai ions oT that city. The record is an astonishing one. There are 62 Hitch oiganirations and the number is being added to contfnuallv. Four l»ave ,a capital stock of 1500,030 e-en and the rest of $100.060. The average weSKLY lecelpts of all o? them a.ef ^nuUed lie not Ie%s than (*3,COO, making aud aggregate of savings for the year of about f.'50,000. Tb's lrrge sam represents the savihgs of the sioc^tiolders in the shape o* the weekly dues which they pay in. The bene6*s of these institutions it would be difficult to overestimate. They encourage habi's of economy and tbi'.'i, and have enabled hur dreds of people (o become owners of homes who could not have accomplished it without their aid. By paying in a dollar or two each week for several years and gelling interest upon these pay meats, a very handsome l'ltle sum is accumulated which, with the addition of a loan irom the society, enables the party to pnrchasea lot and build a house on it. The associations have been well managed and safer than any bank and are constantly growing in popularity, as they well deserve to do.

THKHK has been OR late an appalling crop of wife-murders, suicides and other domestic tragedies. The daily record of those crimes throughout the oountiy makes the cheek blush and the heart sickeu. What is the matter Generally the trouble is innate wicked' ness, marital infidelity in some cases insanity bom of an unreasonable jealousy. It is a miserable picture that would be better suppressed if such a thing were possible, but it seems that it is not. The daily journals vie with one another tn their efforts to get sach news, and nothing whets the appetite of the average reporter and correspondent like the scent, of a domestic scandal, whatever lis nature may be. And so we have a completer record of vice and crime each day from the four ends of the earth than of any otter doings among men. 44 'Us true 'tis pity. Pit* 'tis lis true." But so it is, and so we have to take it, giving our imaginations scope to fill In between tbe blurred and bloody lines of the record tbe good deeds, tbe noble and heroic actions, tbe things which make for peace and happiness for men, women and children trusting and believing (bat tbe latter far exceed and outnumber the ugly, hideous and sinful. ma

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IN a brief speech to the Cincinnati chamber of commerce the other day Senator Sherman said he believed the bead of the present administration meant to conduct the affairs of the Government honestly and on a business basis. He also ventured the suggestion that more business and less politics would be a good thing for the country and that it was the duty of businees men to see that the affairs of the National. State and City governments were con ducted with honesty and fidelity. There is nothing either new or striking in these suggestions but tbey lie at the foundation of government

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ple and for the people." When all the public business of tbe country, small and great, shall be transacted with strict honesty and fidelity, our political system will be about as nearly perfect ai it will be possible to get it. It is quite practicable to attain this and tbe people sbonld not stop short of any tbing less.

THE Legislature which adjourned on Monday, after a ninety-five days' session, cost the people of the State in ronnd figures $150,000. The well settled opinion is that tbe game has not been worth tbe candle. About 175 bills were passed but most of them are of minor importance while not a few will serve only to encumber the statutes until tbey can be repealed by the next legislature. The failure of the specific appropriation bill leaves many of the State's creditors to suffer another delay of two years in tbe payment of just claims for wbicb tbey have already waited an outrageous length of time. Tbe effort to establish a court of claims, or to authorize suits to be brought against the State in the courts now existing was without success, and those whom the State owes still have no recourse but to press their claims upon one legislature after another in the hope that some one will eventually be found honest enough to pay them. The system is a vicious and disgraceful one, and ought to have been abolished long ago. There can be no good reason given why the State should not be compelled to pay her honest debts the same as any of her citizens. But the late legislature was so much occupied with schemes to advance party prospects that the weightier interests of the people were too often neg lected ________

EVANSVILLB is proposing the formation of a gentleman's literary club, similar in its main features to those of this city, Indianapolis, Chicago and other cities. Meetings will be held on each Monday night, except during the heated term and there will be essays, discussions, etc. The undertaking ought to and doubtless will succeed if it is properly managed. Tbe Indianapolis club is one of tbe most successful we know of. There has been no difficulty in keeping the membership full. The meetings are well attended and are pleasant and profitable. Once each month ladies are permitted to be present-, though only as spectators, and an annual banquet strengthens the social ties of the society. They would experience both pleasure and profit from thus meeting together for the promotion of mental and social culture. Such organizations ought to be formed and maintained wherever there are enough men, or men and women, of literary tastes to make them practicable. In Evansville, by tbe way, the ladies took tbe lead in this direction, as they have had a literary society of their own in successful operation for several years. This fact has probably tended to inspire the present effort among tbe masculine intellects of that city. ________ 'RY«IMVW'-BFIY

THERE has been no material improvement in the war prospect between Russia and England. General Kamaroff has explained that the Afghans made the first attack, and that his fighting was merely a matter af self-defense. The explanation is not satisfactory to England and both nations are pushing tbeir military preparations with vigor. Troops are being pushed forward and ships of war purchased and fitted out. Eogland professes to be waiting for full details of the recent battle from her own officers, in order thst she may determine whether or not tbe Russian version is a true one, when she has this information she will be ready for action. Meanwhile the English press is complaining that while England is waiting Russia is hastening her war preparations and is thus gaining a decided advantage.

Later news since the foregoing was printed in The Mail's first edition is of a more pacific character. The Crar has sent a dispatch to the English government expressing the hope that some simple arrangement may be agreed upon by which an amicable settlement of their difficulties may be reached, to which Mr. Gladstone responded that England, on her part, would make every proper effort for such a consumatioa. If the two countries are really sincere in these assurances it ought not to be a difficult matter to avoid a war, as the matters in dispute could easily be settled by the arbitration of some* neutral power.

WITH the death of Barrioa, affairs In Central America are resuming tbeir normal tranquility. Barrioa waa a usurper and a disturber of the peace, who met his just fate at tbe vary threshold of the war he sought to inaugurate. However desirable a federation of the States might be he had no right to undertake to force one by the sword. It might be well though for the United States to look into Central American affairs with a view of soring whether a peaceful mediation could not accomplish something

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TERKE HAUTifl SATURDAY .EVENING MAIL.

THE prospect of war in Europe gave the Chicago grain gamblers a pretext for advancing the price of wheat, and within a few days it went up ten oenta on the bushel. There was a large bustnew done in margins, and tbe alleged board of trade was the scene of a pandemonium of excitement. As a matter of course the advance made was purely fictitious. There was no greater demand for wheat and not a bushel less of wheat in the country than theie was before the advance was made. The pretext was that a war between Russia and England would cause an increased demand for American wheat, and on this possibility the gambling was based. As the European situation is now lees threatening, and the fall of rain has improved the prospects of the growing wheat, it is quite likely that the price will speedily fall again to what it was before the fictitious advance was made.

G. HENRY SHAW,Representativefrom tbe Thirty-fourth Illinois Legislative District, Beardstown, Cass County, was found dead in his room at the Palace Hotel, Springfield, last Sunday noon. He had been dead several hours, and heart disease is supposed to have been the cause. This makes the third death during tbe session, and another vacancy on tbe Democratic side.

THE statue of Edgsr A. Poe, recently completed at Florence, Italy, will be unveiled in New York on May 4th

THE TREASURY GIRiJS. [Ciiicago H« a'il.5 The female rascals have been ba flag ibings aU their own way a so. A 1 as«,.y investigation by Sec-eta'y Manning convinced him that someib'og was ong wl«b the idea of duty entertained bv tbe lady clerks, sod he looted io tbe matte? more carefully. Fe found ibat uni'er the ulesaU 'bee'erksshould be at the'r posts at 9 o'clock, but under a dec'sion oi one o* the chiefs tbe girls remained away until 10 o'clock. T'ois ruling was made with great 'df-maliiy when a pretty g'rl came in late one morning, and, on apolot,-:ing to tbe chief, was chucked under tbe cbin by hat official and informed that it was 9 o'clock until it was 10. Thereafter no body came to work until 10 o'c'ock.

Mr. Manning has marled that chief Tor sudden death as soon as tuo eyes of tbe country are centered somewhere else, and be has restored tbe rule that 9 o'clock is 9 o'clock and will remain so. If any o? the young lady Republicans who have long fattened at the public crib do not like this uprising of JacLtonian Democracy in the iaterest of rereuebment and reform tbey will have '.o go. Rulings to be made in tbe treasury department hereafter will not be delivered wi'Ii a chuck under the chin, but with a pine slab whittled down a» o0e end so that Manning can get a good ,ilp on it. _____________

HOME STAGE PECULIARITIES. [Brooklyn Eagle.] There is often more amusement in a theater than is confined to stage performances. Diplomacy is revived at Wallack's, and most of the audience, on the first night, seemed to be well enough entertained by tbe acting but my own attention was distracted from the marital complications of the play to the actual spouses of the players. Osmond Tearle was tbe hugger and huggee of tbe suffering heroine in mim'cry but in an orchestra chair, with her eyes missing none of those mock demonstrations, sat his wife, formerly the Minnie Conway of theai ricals, and still a beautiful woman. Annie Robe was the simulator of dramatic agony, tbe recipient of kisses and emoraces which had tbe seeming heartiness of reality, as slim as Savah Bernhardt, and equally varied in her sinuous poses of passion but a burly British husband stcod at the rear of the parquet, a close watcher of it all. Her-

Kelcy figuied in the piece as a reted lover, while his wile, Caroline 'Elill, used an opera glass the more distinctly to see bis doings. Young Buckstone, a son of the famous London manager, had a small role, and bis youthful bride, Adele Measor, solicitiously ga^ed from a chair twenty feet away. Ard the veteran Wallak, wigged and rouged to look reasonably like a gallant dramatic hero, was confronted Dy his matronly wife and several daughters and son-in-law in a proscenium box. All these artistic feats of tbeir several partners, and tbey did their enthusiastic share of the applauding but I woader if there wasn't just a little of jealous concern as to the pretended relationship on tbe stage before tbem.

LEAVE OUT RELIGION.

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[New Tcite C' ppec.]

Jt is about ume ibav a pro'est baenteied against the ini.ioduu ton of rel'gious characters into comic plays. Maoy of tbe foreign plays here produced ate uo'edfoi UHS ill-advised disrespect tor religious conv'ctions and feelings. In liol ta'8 "Nitoucne" thei^ is uiucb in his -espect to offend. A chorus of gr]s snging with the sisters in a convent dung the butfoone of some of tbe other charao ers is by no means a sat isvingsight, even to not over-particu'ar uioiials. And the use of the word "tl_—n!" tbe perpetration of broad re-njct-ks and tbe introduction of "di onk" business, all in tbe presence off he lady soneiiorto a convent, are not at all the taste of a majority of our playgoers. This too frequent practice is all the more to be condemned since it would be so slight a matter to make alterations tbat would in no wise detract from tbe si! tratious. ltt the case above referred to a strictlv conducted female seminaty, in stead of a convent, would have been every way as good, "in a dramatic point of view, to illustrate an institution wherein propriety and decorum were supposed to be the characteristics of tbe young ladies belonging thereto. Tbe simple robe of a nun or a sister of charily is a dearly loved picture in the majority of our bearta, and, however, moch it may embrace certain situations in pieces of serious and solemn character, (here can be no excuse for its introduction in plays where it Is saetilegioas} associated with clownish antcs and fascial lines. ______________

A POLITE RACE, (Beecber.J

There is not a politer race of people on the earth than toe negroes. Have you ever noticed their manners to each other when they are doing the polite? What bwws, what grace and deference of manner tbey show to eech other! Why, one would declare that tbey most be the grandchildren of Frenchmen.-—

DISCARDING CORSETS,

A lady correspondent of the South Bend Tribune, writing from Chicago, says:

What will my lady, friends say to abolishing corsets? 'At the Haverly theatre last night—ove Chicago folks do not take kindly to the name, "Colun bia,"—between one of tbe acts of "William Tell," a young lady in front of me arose and removed her seal skin wrap. I heard her whisper to her elderly companion "Auntie, I have quit wearing corse: s." "Why, Alice!" wass?id in a reproving tone by her companion. "1 don't care what you are going to say, I shall not wear them agatn until light skirts and summer dresses come in. I care more for my health and bodiiy comfort than I do for appearances, ana wearing a corset with heavy clo'h or velvetd-esses made me, Oh, so tired!" and the young lady gave a sigh of relief at what she was escaping, and settled down in her opera chair as comfortably as if she were cuddled on a sofa at home in her Mother Hubbaid.

I looked the young lady over. She was perhaps twenty years old a ia'1, alender blonde, broad at tbe hips, smail waisted, with around chest. By this I mean she would measure as much from breast to bick as she would from armpit to arm-pit. I thought to mysel* fh.s girl shows good sense in seeking bodilv comfort in preference to fashion and m'serv inflicted by tight co-sett, and when she afterwards ventured the remark, as ?f to condone her fashionable offense, that "half the girls in our set dou't wear corsets," I said to myse1! there are more sensible ones among my sex thau we get credit for. If I were a man it seems to me I would rather think of a woman in easy fitting garments wh'ch touch the skin as lightly as lover's first 1. iss, thsn to imagine tiK-t' when she was undressed there are the imprints of corset steels down her chejt, of corset laces criss-crossed on tbe flesh of her back and pointed with eyelet indentations, of garter marks around her leg and a scarlet-hued belt line creasing ber waist. Of course there are some of my sex, who, though fair are fat, and must wear corsets, but they are phyct cally able to endure the inquisition. The willpwy slender girl is not.

WILL WISH THEY HADN'T, Bhelbyviile Republican. A number of men who were so cra^y to move to Kansas this spring will think before fall that Indiana is a garden spot, and will be breaking their necks to get back before tbe cold weather and poverty catches them.

A BAKING POWDER TRICK,

All kinds of schemes and tricks are resorted to by unprincipled persons to obtain unfair advantages over their neighbors. The latest and most dishonest of these that has come to our notice is one by which certain manufacturers of baking powder have sought to prejudice consumers against the use of other brands tbat have an established reputation as the best and purest in tbe market, for the purpose of iutroducing their own. Their method we are informed, is to beat a eaq of baking powder of a well-known brand over a lamp or stove, when, if there is a gas given off having the oflor of ammonia the powder is condemned as being made of ammonia and unfit for use. The prejudice of the unsuspecting are thus excited against the baking powder submitted to tbe so-called test, and tbe grocer who has a quantity of it on hand suffers a serious loss in consequence.

If the intelligent consumer will stop a moment to think, she will readily perceive tbat this "test," if successful, proves nothing but the superiority of the baking powder tested. The aim of all baking powder makers is to produce an article that shall most readily, under use, give off Its leavening gas. The powder tbat does this with a moderate heat, at the same time evolving the largest quantity, is scientifically the best.

There is probably not an article prepared fcr food that cannot be manipulated to prove tbat something is wrong about it and when a person goes into a kitchen or before a housekeeper who is not to be presumed to understand chemical relations, and performs an experiment of even tbe simplest character, it is not difficult to Impress one that something awful is the matter. As to baking powders, we could suggest a dozen tests that would be as ridiculous in giving a fair idea of tbeir relative merits to an uninstructed mind as the one here mentioned^ -ir ^~"y

The true domestic valuei of a baking powder consists in its purity, wholesomeness and leavening power. It is only the chemist with his chemical ap pliances, who can determine these qualities, scientifically and exactly. Aside from this, tbe best test for a baking powder is to try it in making bread, and see which makes the most and the best. To this practical test all tbe established brands have been put, and housekeepers have very generally made up their minds which they prefer, and the tricksters will find ultimately that a brand that has been a household favorite for years will not be displaced by reason of any tricks which they may show.

CHANCE FOR TEACHERS. There will be BO vacation this summer at tbe Terre Haute Commercial College. Tbe school will continue through tbe summer to accommodate teachers.

BABY CARRIAGES.

As yon pass by tbe Central Bookstore take a peep at those pretty baby carriages. With a sweet baby and one of these carriages tbe happiness of any woman ought to be complete.

Speaking of the Central Bookstore it should be added tbat its supply of good reading was never more complete than now, and as Is well known It Is headquarters for commercial stationery and blank books of every description*

Glad Thmy Uaad It.

WabaA Scratches, Heabtos or Iteh eared ta SO minutes, with O M. Quick Curative for Iteh. For aale by all Dnsggtts. Tbe tnsto Sapptted by Odok BdL

ABDILL& BROWN

WILL MOVE NEXT MONDAY.

Abdill A Brown, the dry goods dealers, will begin on Monday moving from the corner of Fourth and Ohio streets, to the'r new quarters, No. 506 Main street, second door east of Hulman's. In order to get everything in good shape they will suspend business until about Thursday, when they will, with their new goods make an attractive display of Spring novelties. By keeping the best goods and selling at the lowest possible prlcea, they have established a very extensive trade, and now in their new and elegant qoarfors, in the very center of business and with extra efforts to please they hope to add largely to their patronage. Give tbem a call on Thursday.

A Word.1

We will not ask one cas ome.- 90 cen's, another customer 85 rents and another 80 cents

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is "one price," and it wJi always be tbe lowest price, that other con« ns caa be bea'ea down to. We have fo-day malted our entire slock of be^i tU wool Capes 75 cen's. Now we doa!t mean a fews y'es, but the ffhole lioe of oeat all Wool Carpe-s 75 ceaH. Eest Loweli Carpe*s 75 cents. Best Harl'o.-d Ca.pet 75 cants. Remember we hold nothing back, but put in ali dol'^r Iag ain Carpe 3 at 75 cents. Good Wool Carpets 50 cents. We wish it diiec.'ly undeis'ood that tbe^e paces a. only for tbe present. The time to make your purchase 1b NOW! at FOSTER'S.

Sale of Pe:souat Properly. I.

422 Main St.

There will be a sale of peuonal property of Albert W. Johnson, deceased, at his late residence in Otter Creek Township, Saturday, April 25i.h, 1835. Sale begins at 10 o'clock a. m.

JAMES H. EVANS, Adm'r.

POWDER

Absolutely Par*

TMf powder never varies. A marvel erf purity, strength and wholesemeneas. More economical than tbe ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. ROT

ALL BAKING POWDXR Co., Wall *t. N.Y.

CLOTHING STORE,--

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Is being crowded to its utmost capacity with the product of our factory, and we do not vary from the fact when we say that our exhibit will discount any previous effort we have made i'or outfitting the ad ad it us

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Prices, as usual, lower that any other house

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Silks, Dress Goods, Wash Goods, Domestics, Corsets and Hosiery,

Which willlfe marked at prices, that cannot fail to interest, all economical buy«* ore. All prices markeJ in plain figures.

GE0BGE F. RIPLEY, Manager,

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518 and 520 Main Street.

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FANCY and DftY GOODS

ESTABLISHMENT.

LADIES

We call special aUeation to our magnifi cent assoi meat of

BLACK and COLORED

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Swrabs, Rhadames, Jerseys, TrecoL and Gros Grains In all the newest Spring Colorings.

'Elegant line of"

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For Overdresses Dress Fronts and Dn»peiy. Tue cooib'aation of colors •. I are exquisite and the band-, somest ever shown.

Extraordinary Values

$ BLACK SILKS

Of the following celebrated makes:. An-. debert, Bellon, u:uet, Simons andCbene.v Bros., at 75c., 92Xc, fl.00, 1.2&, 1.85, 1.50, 1,63.

SILKS, '.

Immense Stock at 87'^c, 45c, C0c, 55c, 60c 65c and 7uc. Bead Dress Fronts, Bead Laoes, Fringes, Braids, Trimmings, and Buttons In great variety.

Inspection Invited.

dOBERG, KflOt* tvCOMPANY

518 and 520 Main Street.

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